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Newspaper Page TextFRANK JENKINS Idllor . MALCOLM EP1-EV Managing editor 4 I tntortd aecona claaa mattar at tha noatofflca of Klamath fll7 Ora.. on August So. 1006. undar act ol Coweta. t March I. J879 t Today's Roundup l By MALCOLM EPLEY O, even after the tips and downs of the a potato situation, the 1946 agricultural in eome for the Klamath basin hit a new high exceeding tne into usure oy If .),VJUU,UUU1 tuun iiiiva story and a table showing fi 1j County Agent Charles A. 1 Henderson's figures elsewhere -it t ' 1--aJi In today's paper. i Tl, iol fimirma for the last year will come as some what of a surprise to most people, because it was known that potatoes had not done quite so well as in the past, when they have customarily led the upward trend. rm r-v R,,t hnrlpv. livestock and small seeds boomed ahead in 1946. The income from all grain, in fact, mounted near to that lor potatoes. It is significant that in a year in which financial returns from potatoes showed k decline, still the total agricultural income of the basin produced a substantial increase. It emphasizes certainly that this is not a one-crop country, and it indicates progress toward a more balanced situation than has existed through the period of rapid ascendancy of King Spud. r Potato Problems THERE are encouraging evidences that Klam ath's potato growers are aware of the new problems that have arisen in their industry as It has passed out of its bonanza youth into adult hoodin just about 21 years, incidentally. I The reputation of the Klamath potato was built through those early years by sound prac tices in culture, grading, storing and so on. At the same time, the industry had the advantage bf new land, where pests and insects had not yet become entrenched. " In recent years, two conditions have developed (hat tended to lower the quality of potatoes. Increase of pest and disease problems, inevitable as the industry grew older, has come right along with a period of exceptionally good market conditions. When almost anything produced ean find a market and a good price, there is a natural tendency to lower standards. That weakening of standards came right at a time Jwhen pests and disease opened up an attack. But Klamath growers, as indicated by the leadership of the grower organizations in this county and the Tulelake area, are preparing to ineet the problems thus presented. There is a drive on to tighten standards and return to the practices that made the Klamath potato 'famous on the metropolitan markets. Con structive programs are being designed to meet jUie disease issue. The Klamath country has impressively demon strated its ability to grow fine potatoes for the great metropolitan markets close by. All the indications are that it will continue doing that in a big way. Soil, water, climate, markets -and MEN will do the job. ! ' News Behind The News ! By PAUL MALLON !"UR TOWN. .USA., April 11 Some of the i papers here say Mr. Truman is really deep jly "disturbed about prices now not merely , from the personal standpoint of proving he was right about OPA when congress overruled J him, and not from the political standpoint of chiding republicans. Someone around him said ; something about actually doing something, say, t perhaps putting an excess profits tax on profits again. That would not do any good around here, maybe a little, but it does not even reach toward a basic understanding of our local prob lems, as the people are telling how they face it in our clubs and social gatherings and such. A husband and wife here, for instance, who were well known have been compelled to move to a cheaper apartment because she simply could not meet her increasing budget costs, although both had received good raises. No one is charging anyone with gouging around here at least not publicly but the money just seems to flow in larger and larger quantities every time you turn around and the promise that everything would work out when production was acquired simply has not proved true. For one thing we don't have production yet. One of our largest retailers thought he found a flaw in the production-price theory when he started to build an annex for post war expansion. He had to take a cost plus contract in order to get the work done fast. No one would guarantee anything on material prices and labor. The work has dragged on twice the allotted time and the cost has been run up from two to four times the original estimate (he confesses the bite increased within those estimates but will not say how much.) a a Reason For Price Boosts THE reason for this price increase may be found in another specific instance our peo ple are talking about and this incident explains why an excess profits tax or even the shortage of materials has nothing to do with the troubje. The steel workers agreed to work Saturday in order to push the job through, and with their time and a half or double time that day, they got $32. You might think this enough to pay rather high prices. But on Monday they all failed to show up. In short, they earned double time working a holiday and then took off the day of normal pay. The bricklayers on the same job disappeared one day. No one seemed to know for sure where they had gone but it was reported they ran off to the city for a day to get a premium wage of S22 on a special job. Now an excess profits tax might be justifiable, our people say, on some of those big concerns if they have any excess in general but you can not talk along that line to the restaurant man who got one third less trade this year on Easter Sunday than last, and says he served 200 less dinners over the Easter period. Nor can you talk that way to the main street mer chant who is not getting his stocks moved because people are not buying as they formerly did. . This is a nation of small towns for the most part and these true conditions of a small town are the ones Mr. Truman and his economists will have to face, not statistics. No one here believes you can cure prices by pressing a button, but we certainly might have produc tion, a market saturating production this far after the war. That is what our people say. a a a Excess Profits NOW I do not wish to report from these hustings that we hear nothing of excess profits. One fellow bought a piece of real estate for $2500, for which our best judge of real estate had offered $500. Others have paid $17,500 for small houses with bedrooms so tiny there was just room enough for a bed and for you to get into it. In fact there was one particular excess profit case which caused police to search for the profiteer. A couple wanted to buy a house, saw an ad in the paper, actually met the owner, went through the house, then met him on a street corner and paid him $500 down. When they tried to move into the house, they found it long had been occupied. A trickster had suc ceeded in getting a key impression, thus ad mitted with a key the prospective purchasers, while the occupants were out of town. You can see there are all kinds of things going on in Our Town,' no doubt somewhat like yours, prices and profit conditions are of primary interest to nearly all the people, but in a confusing sort of way, if you know what I mean. Bus Accident Leads To Safety Recommendations SEATTLE, April 11 JP In stallation of emergency exits on 'tops of all public service passenger-carrying vehicles was .recommended yesterday by a coroner's jury after completing 'its inquiry into the Monday .'night collision of a North Coast 'Lines bus and an oil truck. '. Nine persons were killed in the crash, eight of them pas 'sengers of the bus which plung Jed into the Duwamish river and ivirtually submerged. ! The jury also recommended that: Public carriers be required i to carry "such other equipment as will enable passengers to 'handle emergencies." ' Seattle and King county 'equip and man a vehicle with apparatus and tools suitable to take care of highway emergen cies for the future protection of the traveling public." Death of the truck driver. Talfred Smithee, was attributed by the jury to- Smithee's own actions. "Contributing factor" to the other eight deaths, the jury said, was the "inattention to the road" of Melvin D. Long, of Olympia, driver of the heavi ly loaded bus. Long was absolved of all blame by Capt. C. E. Spencer, state patrol vehicle safety in spector, who testified the im pact of the crash had jammed the steering gear so the driver had no control over the bus' movements. Long testified he might not have' seen the truck cross his path n time to avoid hitting it because he had been checking traffic in his rear vision mirror at the time. Elks Inaugural Ball Saturday Elks will dance in honor of their new officers at the Elks lodge Saturday night in the an nual inaugural ball. Past Exalted Ruler Robert A. Thompson is chairman of the dance committee, and special features are planned honoring Exalted Ruler Charles Seavey and his staff of new officers. All Elks are invited, and there will be no admission charge. Pappy Gordon's band will fur nish music. Classified Ads Bring Results. SIDE GLANCES L cowi. iaT av mca aiavicc. mc T. n- fro- w. a. fat, orr "I can't imagine why the bills are so high this month, unless it could be that new pair of shoes you bought!" The Word Today By D.WITT MicKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Anslyat RADIO PROGRAMS 6:00 6:1.. (i:S3 6:30 6:4 A 6:35 7:00 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:1 ft H:.1U 8:00 0:1. t :31l 0:43 10:00 10:30 11:00 1 1 :0.. 11:15 11:30 11:45 FRIDAY EVE. KFLW feature Sporti Lineup Home Town New World Newt Summary Tha Sheriff ABC Champion Roll Call ABO Gillette Fi(htsABC Submarlnr Anniversary Music by Bovcro ABC Tbli 1i Tmmr FBI ABC Break the Bank ABC Bob Willi Play Boys- Stardust Melodln Freddy Marlln Orch". 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Senator Tom Connolly, rank ing democratic member of the senate foreign relations commit tee, left nothing to imagination in his forthright declaration yes terday in urging the senate to pass the bill implementing President Truman's proposal to extend financial and limited military aid to Greece and Tur key. The Texan described Russian aims with a bluntness which most administration officials have avoided thus far. Said he: "Soviet Russia by her system of spreading creeping paralysis among smaller and weaker na tions, hopes to bring about world domination and to con trol the destiny of Europe . . . There is no denial that one of the purposes of this bill is to enable Greece and Turkey to re sist the encroachments of Soviet Russia and her satellite states . . . We should make that pur pose clear , , . We should make it plain that as a nation and a people, we shall resist this ef lort to destroy the independence and integrity of free peoples." And from Lake Success, N. Y., came an echo. Greek Ambas sador Dendramis charged before the UN security council that Russia and her sattellites were encouraging and strengthening disloyal Greek minorities in el forts to bring his country under a "communist dictatorship." Pepper Sees War But there is a school which holds that the president's pro gram spells trouble, and Senator Pepper, Florida democrat, is of that view. He told the senate that this aid to Greece and Tur key would "subject this nation to the serious accusation of aspiring to become the new Rome or the old Britain and risn lor the American people a war which may destroy civilization." Pepper charged that this pro gram would sabotage the United Nations and destroy any hope of conciliation with Russia, lie de clared "it would launch us on an unprecedented policy of in tervention and ally us with re-j actionary and corrupt regimes. The senator contends that aid should be through the United Nations. Senator Connally took the position that America wants only peace, and he said Russia could gain the friendship of the United States by (1) ceasing to infiltrate other countries: (2) ceasing to employ her armies as a threat to her neighbors; ta) respecting the sovereignty and integrity of other nations, and (4) performing her obligations to the United Nations to promote peace and peaceful settlements. Last Monday Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko made a bitter attack on the United States in the UN security council, charging that the Truman admin istration by-passed, weakened and undermined the UN in pro posing direct aid to Greece and Turkey. He agreed that the Greeks should have aid but proposed that it be administered under a security council commis sion. He rejected any aid to Turkey, saying tluit nation cninc into the war too lute to be of assistance. Gromyko Answered Senator Connally replied to Gromyko yesterday. The sen ator said there was no hope of obtaining an equitable settle ment of the Greco-Turkish prob lem from the' UN, adding: "If a proposal should be made to the United Nations orKanizu tion to supply the aid carried in this bill, Mr. Gromyko as a representative of Soviet Russia would, according to my belief, promptly interpose a veto." Great men in many countries are trying to find the answer to the grave and growing difficul ties between the two blocs. Thus far wo haven't seen a trial of the idea which a lot of observers have thought worth considera- Forest Service Timber Up PORTLAND, April 11 (,V The average price of Pacific northwest forent service timber is up to a new high of $8.13 a thousand board feet. The forest service said Ihe mark was reached In the Jtuui-ary-Mureh quarter this year. The previous high was the 1IHU average of $!V31. Tile avcrugc bid in the stale of Washington was even higher In the last quarter, reaching $!.fiH. Oregon's was SU.IIti. The forest service said sales totaled 4l)3,U0B.imi) board feel In the north Pacific region for $:UIU.(itil, compared with 54. 104.000 feet und $314,642 for the sumo period lust yeur. Two nioro auction sales on timber are scheduled soon lit Eugene May 12 and 13. The first will offer 105,200.000 feel ap praised at $713,81)2, and the other 67.243,000 feet uppralsetl at $4111.600. The timber is in the Willamette national forest, Seattle Armory Building Burns SEATTLE, April 11 UV) A spectacular three iiliirm fire heavily damaged the roof and interior of the old armory building adjacent to the Pike Place murkel early today. The cnstle-like structure, built In 1001), was used. In part, us n storeroom for records of the mate unemployment compensa tion department. Eire Chief William Fitzgerald said he was considering the pos sibility that the fire was set to destroy the records which now lire being studied in an attempt to discover fraudulent compen sation claims. tlon. That Is for the Rig Four chiefs President Truman, Marshal Stalin, British Prime Minister Attlec and French Pre mier Rumudier to get together for a heart-to-heart talk across the table. After all, they're the head men, and they might be able to reach a compromise. Especially since much of the trouble is mutual suspicion between the two blocs. Many students of Ihe situation believe thnt if dis trust were removed, a solution might be achieved. rHAI.D a) Ur.Wt. Klamath r.lU, Ora. rKIIMV, April II. II4T, f't ra.a STATIC By KELLY ROBERTS Above Is a bit of feminlno pulchrlluile combining the two honeys from the "llnneydrip pers quintet. The three drip pers didn't quite make Out pic ture, luckily, The group was formed while they were ull fel low students In college, and Is now making a name for Itself on records und over the AUC network. a a a Just in case you wondered who the gent was that was stand ing with his back to Ihe ciimeru In yesterday's pie of Uoli Me Carl and his new car. It's L. L. Lombard, local Plymouth dealer, who hands the keys to Ihe first postwar Plymouth convertible lie has sold to the proud new owner. a a a Cavalcade of Sports presents a lOround light heavyweight bout between Billy Fox of Phila delphia mid Georgie Kocliun of New York. Hilly tins 43 succes sive KO's to his credit, but lost to tius Lesnevilch in a light heavy title match. Georgie Ko- eliiin reecnlly singed an upset by defeating Johnny Ciilaii. a a a Dave Ueucli, a local hum op erator, scored tiull a scoop on everyone yeslcrduy by getting In touch wllli operators In tho tor. initio aieu In Texas. It wui pointed out .by tho KAHS, Kla muth Amateur Kndlo society, that the only melius of coinnui nlcation rcporl'd In the urea, whs the operation of the portable IninsinltteiM by iiuiiitetir op. era tors, They performed Mil uiunzlng service. The KAUS restated thill they were ready to offer similar service In Ihe Kin. inn t ti aieu In easo of on emer gency, a a a One of the most unique iillhln for gelling drunk was overheard by us veslei'iluy In Justice court. Tlie mini claimed tluit ho win suffering with some "horrible disease" und lluil If he filled hie stomach full enough of alcohol II would kill the bugs and cure him. Mavbe he's got something, but it didn't work. Packer Sinks During Storm PORT ALDKRNI, II. C. April H op, The Pucker Willing Sluve. owned hy t'linudu Puck em. Ltd., foundered und sank In Puchcnu bay ul the height of u storm Wednesduy night, pro vincial imiIIco reported. The crew was reported to be safe ul Ucluelt, II. C. Puchcnu hay l near the en trance of llarkely sound on northern Vancouver Island. The Better Book AMIl Bible House rMnrly llran Woo a fthpp 11a n. alb hlMilh rati. Ore, rr aWllfiana A ( bttrrh Mttrpll City DtliYtrr Strvic. Ph. 8417. 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Our staff of watchmakers, all factory trained men. all licensed and under supervision of ft oertl fled watchmaker. Our 110,000 shop equipment en- ables as to have or make any watch part and repair any type ef watch. J. C. RENIE r jeweler nrrr: JCalX Mclarrj J. -wtaww)TOH-p-C' hjjJ Katherine Arant Is Sears ALLSTATE-KFLW Contest Winner k. JticL Jm Pictured above from left to right are C. L. Terwilloger, Sears' Klamath Falls manager; Mrs. Arant of Weyerhaeuser Cams No. 4, winner of four new ALLSTATE tires; George Willis and Pete Colley, Sears employees who served as featured vocalist and pianist, respectively, on the "SEARS SHOW" series of radio programs just concluded over KFLW Mri. Arant won the set of ALLSTATES by writing the winning lyric about ALLSTATE tires to the tune of "Give Mt Five Min utes More. Entries were received from every section of the Klamath basin.