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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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
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"I can't imagine why the bills are so high this month,
unless it could be that new pair of shoes you bought!"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pictured above from left to right are C. L. Terwilloger, Sears' Klamath Falls manager; Mrs. Arant of Weyerhaeuser Cams
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Arant won the set of ALLSTATES by writing the winning lyric about ALLSTATE tires to the tune of "Give Mt Five Min
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