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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1947)
If 1 KFPA Pushes Construction Of Fire Tower On Hogback Preparation for the coming fire season has started by by Klamath Forut Protective association, clear ing loga from roads where they have fallen during the winter and repalr Ing communication lines broken by snow and storms. The 40 -loot lookout tower under conntructlon on top of 8300-foot Hogback mountain is the blgktest Job being done by KFPA In lt fire prevention work. A crew of live m built tile 1100 foot stretch to the ton where (he tower will be, in eight days. It li still a little bumpy In eiwta and there are rooks which must be blast ed out, but the rouil t passable. Actual work started on the lower last Monday, with two carpenters. Hurkhard and Schortgen contrac tor, and two laborers on the Job. One aide of the tower was almost "Queen" Plans Final Here Radio's "Queen for a Day" will be met at the Klamath Falls air port the morning of May 7 and es corted to her suite at the Willard hotel by a welcoming committee of local cltlwns, according to the an nounced schedule by the chamber of commerce "Queen for a Day committee, and from then on for the next 60 hours her stay will be packed with event in the Kuunath basin. Tlx lucky award winner on the Mutual broadcasting system radio program will be formally introduced and feted at a banquet the night of May 1 in the Wiliard hotel banquet room, and then escorted to the Peli can theatre where she mill appear In a command performance In her honor. 6he will be Interviewed on the stage over a local radio broad cast and a special winter sports Mm will provide a preview for her scheduled trip to Crater lake. The morning of May t xht queen will breakfast In bed. then prepare lor an air trip over the entire basin area for a birdseye view of her do main. At noon she will appear as a guest of the Kiwaniaus,- and after lunch she'll be whisked by hmosine to an as yet unnamed ranch for an afternoon insoecuon of the inner workings of potato farming. Dinner will be served her highness at a Klamath cattle ranch. The following day. May . her highness will awaken early to break fast at Klamath Agency and visit with members of the Klamath tribe, then lunch at Crater lake and an afternoon of winter sports. The eve ning will be taken up with dinner and dancing at Lakeshore inn until 10 o'clock when her highness leaves to catch the 10:45 plane (or the south. completed Thursday and the cement "shoes" poured for the 12-Inch di ameter red fir corner posts to stand In. The side will be raised by Tues day Schortgen expects, then the other three sides will be built to it. The whole tower should be up by the end of next week, Schortgen said, with only a few details left lor the following week. A trap-door will be made in the tower floor, through which the lookout can draw up the supplies brought to him a couple of times a week. A eollrisal view Is to be had from top ot Hogback, and It is expected to become one of the points of In terest to tourists when the road is Improved enough for casual travel, Hal Ogle, superintendent of KFPA, believes. The view takes in Swan lake, Meadow lake, Tulelake. tipper Klamath lake. Ewauna lake. Pelican Bay, Weyerhaeuser Timber com pany, and ill of Klamath Falls. Even the top of Sugarloaf mountain in Northern California can be seen from Hogback and with 40 feet added to the height of the mountain by the tower, a wide range of terri tory can be supervised during fir season. Two men working with a rat are clearing brush from the mountain top. and It is planned to build a railing at one point where the drop Ship Blast Is Most Powerful HOUSTON. Tex., May I OP The April 16 explosion of the SS Oraud cu mp at Texas City was equivalent to 360 five-ton blockbuster bombs exploding simultaneously, Kdgar M. Queeny, chairman of the board of Monsanto Chemical company, said. In a report. "The Texas City dis aster." released today to stockhold ers and employes on Moiuanto, whose Texas City plant was prac tically destroyed by the series of blasts and fires of the disaster, Queeny said the atomic bomb explo sion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki "may have been less severe than that suffered by parts of our plant." Queeny denied reports Uiat a se ries of major explosions occurred within the Monsanto plant follow ing the Initial explosion of the SS Qrandcamp. is straight down but the view across the city Is superlative. All water for drinking purposes and for pouring cement or other uses must be brought up the moun tain, a distance of five and one-half miles from the edge of town. It Ject a half hour to get to work and takes the crew working on this pro to get home. They start on the lob at 8 a.m. and knock off half an hour for lunch and are through at 4 p.m. Dance Bly SAT. & SUN. NIGHT THE CLUB VFlne Steaki Fried Chicken Dancing f p. m. to 1:311 a. m. Featuring DON and WESTIE 3 'Dr. SUty. "Hotti. OPTOMETRIST " . , ; . , COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. TWO STORES EXCLUSIVELY ORT1CAL Portland: 1 S.W. Alder Klamath Fatt: 730 Main u (STAB LI MED 101 '7121 fl rcl'ten OH.m.lrl.U: Dr. Si G. N.lei. Dr. O. J. N.lM, Dr. B. F. AlexsoS.r, Dr. i- . Sos. Dr. WUIisa. a. slSStns. Dr. M. V. B.ll.a. HUIU BAQD'KIIUD WHILE REPAIRING WINDMILL TO HEIRS THROBGH FAIMEBS SPECIAL LIABILITY POLICY HERE'S THE ANSWER! General of America's Special Blanket liability Policy for Farmers provides in ONE, all-embracing policy this MULTIPLE insurance! AOAINST Wantage elalrns wkUk might oe entered fry employees or 9efff f Automatically pars vp fa $500 medfraf casts fa aocJt parson . bivred.j . AOAINtT ma fosses of Hvestock and farm macnlnery fnroeaa fir rheff or flood. AOAINST kvrolafy or km Mjroefk fire mf ftovseaoJa and eersoaof possessions AOAINST awfamaalfa dnoioois or fess throve tneff or fire AOAINST a m.IMud. of enforssee damaao slalms and fosses. -Fatal accident can happen on any farm. Would your financial ecurity be threatened if such a tragedy should befall someone on your farm? Not if you know about and profit from General of Amer ica's famous Farmer Blanket Liability Policy. Then you can let this company assume all liability, defend suits against you and pay the damage, a we did in the case ibove. x You owe it to yourself and your family to get ALL THE FACTS' about thit "Blanket of Protection,'' THE Jerry Thomas Insurance Reinstatement Urged By Vet Officers E. B. Burner, Ralph D. Jones and Lynn Roycroft, leuders of tluve major veterans omnnlsntlons, this week urged veterans of World War I to reinstate their national service life Insurance during NSl.l Week. Roycroft, commuiider of Klamath Post No. 8. American Lemon, re minded veterans that the NtSLI pro gram was Inspired by the Legion and other veterans' groups. "We felt that life Insurance was a great protection to the soldier ami his family." Roycroft staled, "'lime has not changed the Legion's view point. All veterans of World War It are being urged by the Legion lo reinstate lapsed CI policies or con vert to one of six permanent plans now offered by the government." Speaking tor the Veterans of Foreign wars, Jones, commander of Pelican post, described NSM as one of tlie most valuable possessions of every veteran of the second world war. "No Insurance Issued through any recognised commercial underwriter can equal the Of policy." Jones de clared. "It is our recomniendittloii that all veterans take advantage of this opportunity to reinstate their Insurance and keep It for the pro tection of their families and them selves." Strongly backing the veterans ad ministration's Insurance program iv the Disabled American veterans. NSl.I requires no additional prem ium for service disabilities and a veteran disabled In service Is not disbarred from reinstating at the present time. "We cannot stress too strongly the value of N8LI." commented Ucnner, commander of chapter I'J. D A V. "Most of us who served In World War I, through bitter and often tragic experience, recognised the value of government Insurance and urge veterans lo keep It while they have this chance,'' M'r'.t'UL MKK.l lMl NEW YORK, May 3 M'i The Mxvlnl Palestine assembly of the I United Nations will have an extra I ordinary meeting tomorrow to honor I the president of Mexico, Miguel Ale . num. Andrew A. Cordler, executive as sistant to Trygve Lie. UN secretary, general, said (he session would be confined to ceremonies and brief addresses by UN officials and the Mexican chief executive. State Asks Federal Aid SAl.KM, May I t't Bute of ficials apiiealed today to the fed eral social security board to tele graph welfare funds so that Oregon can pay Its old age pensions and other public welfare allotments Im mediately. Miss Loa Howard, Portland, slate public welfar administrator, said l.S .000 old age pension checks should have been mailed out yesterday, but were delayed because congress was slow In appropriating funds. She told Acting Qovemor Marshall S- ELECTRIC WIRING Par Free Kilimale or Information an Any Type Wiring or Repair Tall 6.&B. RADIO & ELECTRIC SHOP Ml R. ath Phone ? HtaAi.n niws. aitiasik raits, an. alAf, Ms I, 1MT. Y Cornett this morning that congress finally appropriated the money, but It would tie another week or lit days before Oregoni share arrived un less the money were telegraphed, Cornell apiiealed lo fteliator Ouy Cordon to contact Ihe U, a. treasury to see It the money could be tele graphed, Miss Howard alio made a similar plea to the social security board. The federal funds Involved are about 000.000, but Ilia delay ties up Oregon's todciiil-ttale-coiinty welfare program which amounts to lUOO.OOO for this month. Classified Ads Bring Results. Moscow Ambassador . a am J Describes Parade 4 littllLlN, May i m - WeltiajJA Bedell Smith, U. 8. ambassador ' Moscow salt! today the May Day parade before (he Kremlin wai " very good show, with ion Jet plane, flying overhead and a large, fours: eugliird bomber which looked very much like a H-3U " Smith slopped at Tempelholf sir.' drome eu route to Washington, lie said his return hud no comieiitlon' with reports that he might become an assistant secretary of slate, BIRT & ANN Yes, that's right! Announcing the Opening of Birt & Ann's Fine Food Store The Place - 1605 Esplanade - Friday, May 9 With a complete line of flue foods, meals and vegetables. LOOK FOR FUTURI ANNOUNCEMENTS . ooaoooooaoaoaaoooaaoooooaoaaooooonoaoaaonooaoa f mim ,- " "'T,ee V! Rrex Tilt!? am iisr Proof Positivt Thai- Sow Strtomlined Economy System DOES Savt You Monev 1 ttxxfirxZ!K77?&k v n i188 gs; I, mm 169.95 Bed Divan and Chair Convincing proof of Sears valval! Modern divan opont out eaiily to a double bed. 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Agency s 121 No. 8th St. Klamath Falls Hour: 9 to 5:30 133 So. 8th. Phone S188 Jl
