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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1947)
HITS Lmllfi MLL rllLLL ?77V JV. Z 1 f- JV WICK FIVE CKNT Curvaceous Queen Connie of the Jayeee Host Iris nil'. Trady Heanetl llafll and t 1 cs? V ; ' v Afl . I . & " Cruise-Along. Connie Hunt was naaaed ejuren of the regatta at the receive her rrown at the rodeo ejin-en's hall at the armory tonight at ruler. ' Connie Hunt To Be Queen I'm alad If over!" w Connie j V.nimmt an being named I 111 a LUllllM-,t u., p Html a c queen of the Jaycee lloat Regalia to be held Sunday on Upper Klam ath lake. Cmiiile. H-year-old daughter of Ilr, and Mrs. J. C. Hunt, 10 Fine greet, was announced as queen at vf,e boat show sponsored by Ihe Junior ehamber commerce Trl day night. The allow will continue throughout 8aturday. Connie wa graduated from KUiia in tuio, Blue-eyed Queen Connie, nanicu ki wiriiiA nf htittmi sales for the ., regalia, waa iwn " j . ... with over .100 worth of admission bulimia to her credit. Donna Ed wards wa next In line with around JJOO worth of buttons sold and tied or third place were Trudy Bennett and Mary Lou Stanbery. Donna, a senior at KUHS Is 17. her mother Mr. Beryl Edwards, resides at 618 Oak. Trudy's parent are Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bennett of 1627 Blsbec. she Is 16 and a high aWinnl senior. Mary Lou la also a irnlor and IS. she lives with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Oils B. Slan brry at 2150 Kiln. other nrlncesses of the queen'i (ntirt are Carol Mimllrth. Lou Am Chase. Anna Johnson, Helen Eckerl and Patty Meyers. The girls will meet at the court house lawn Sunday at 12 noon "V" ? :C.j will be furnished In open convertl- ' ble loaned for the occasion by El- mer 11. Balslger, Maurice Miller. Howard Renner, Jim Hiirness. Jim Hunt, Ben Burgess, Elbert SUIes and Art Cherry. Father's Race To Save Baby Fails 8EDRO WOOLLEY. Wash.. June 21 (P) A father's race to Seattle late yesterday to secure a bndly nrrdod Incubator failed to save the life of 111 newly-born daughter. Tho Infant died about midnight aeven hours after she had been ttoorn by caesarlan operation. The father, Robert Taylor, Jiynped 'in his truck and hended for Scuttle Whan he learned Hint his child's condition required an Incubator and Ihe only one In Bedro Woolley wa In use. Taylor, escorted by state patrolmen, King county deputy sheriffs and Seattle police, m:ulr tho uo-mllo round trip In a little more than two hours. Post-War Firecrackers Prove Plenty Powerful Kids throughout? the country were having a field Uny with fire crack ers andi high explosive "bombs" as fireworks returned to the nation In wholesnlo fashion for the first time allien bofore tho war. Along with the fun of blowing irp tin can and watclllng destruc tion on a minor scale was the dan ger going hand In hand with the bang of a cracker and a warning to parent wa Issued today by. siatc , poncn to nautiio me urcwoi'Ka with extrcmo .caution. ' One frightened mother artwlscd both olty and slato police and The Herald and New of the danger of a specific type of cracker. -known as tho TNT bomb. It is a small silver cyllndor, about ono Inch long with the fuse In tho center, sold (o her two young sons by a fire cracker stand operator who sug gested to the youngster that they throw the bomb In water If they wanted to make a big splash. The 'youngsters, with another boy, went Into the bosemont of their homo, ,pnilliil)y filled a co ntent stationary tub wilh water uii.l Ihrew ono of the bombs In the tub as they scuttled to one side nf tha basement in anticipation of the splash. . KLAMATH Cuties Of Regatta Royal Court Kegatla I In nautical flat-top) poses with Frlnressea Donna F.dwarda Mary Lea Manbery above J on Trucker Saves Swimming Arlry Redman, trurker employed by the Earl Shearer arid O. K. ! on the Klamath river, cwn thank i his Jurky stars today that he ---,r..H In -win, I'ucsru longing ojirrBiiuiis ai ivenu learned to swim Redman Is In Hillside hospital recovering from shock and an In jured right cltmw, Ihe rrsult of an underwater swim at the mill early last nlKhl. The trucker had brought lops from Hitydrn mountain to the mill but Jain developed and It wa found necessary to break It up before Redman could unload. He waa Irving to slralrhteit out the logs when one rolled sharply and iimi ttiivu wits fdman dove between the skids ... iM. ..,,j l. Hp had a split second to get his direction as he hit the Icy Klam ath river water and swam . rirsiwr aielv for approximately '0 feet under Ihe logs before he reached open water. ' i Workmen srw Ihe accident and i were horrified to see. Redman dla-1 Summer To Start Today a... H.itl .riMi..n. .1 i.. i,. 1947 appearance at 10:19 tonight, according to the wtather -bureau, !but Klamath folk hoped today thai! the temperature will be summerlsh too. The mercury sank to a dls- heartening 38 drgrees Friday night! as a cold wind whistled through I town. 1 The weatherman ventured to forecast "fair" for tonight and Sun day bufr gave no Indication regard ing' whether warm or cold weather I In store for the basin area this week-end. ' . ' School Director Vote Due Monday A director. for a flve-venr term on school district No. 2, Klamnth Union high school, will be elected Monday. June 23, with polls to be open at KUHS from 2 to 7 p.m. Onlv name to appear on the ballot la l'i"t of Nelion Reed. Incumbent, who I a candidate to succeed hlm S3lf. Qualified voters arc persons 31 voniH of age or over and resi dents of the district for a period of 30 days. They need not be properly owners. They got a splash', nil right, ac- lg to the mot nor, and also blew tho cement tub to fragments. The youngsters wero fortunate In thnt they chose ono sldo of tho basement Instead of the other or the story might not havo ended quite so happily. None of the youngsters was injured but the mother, on returning from a store one block away, found the trio In toara and shaking with fright. Stnto police said one other re port wns received on the forco of the TNT bombs which nio appar ently living up to their name. One Irate homo owner said a bomb had been placed In his mail box and he now had nothing to put his mull In but a pleco of twisted melal on n pole. Another experiment destroy ed a heavy paint can when Ihe bomb was set off under the recep tacle. Fathers of tho three boys who experimented with the bomb In tho water, made their own Investiga tion of the bomb's forco and diy cliled that tho TNT crackers wore not for Juvenile use and hardly for their own. Parents were afcnin warned to go slow With modem fireworks. FAI.LH, OKKOON, HATUKDAV the poop derk of Charles .legler's boat show Friday night and will a twin coronation with the rodeo Life By Under Log Jam appear brneaih the Jam. He shout-1 ed as he came up beyond the mass wi nKa niiu wita puic iu a--i w shore. Lane Smith of Keno rushed Redman Into Klamath Falls and una ltll m half mtli, (mm InUtl hV was met a halt mile from town by Ihe Klilmath Ambulance Service which hnd been railed. Outside nf shock and the Inlured elbow, Red man said he felt none the worse for the frightening experience which gave him his first swim of the season. Redman, -45, live at route 3 box 114, Klamath Falls. Paper Route Offers Good Travehaue By M. W. A pleasant ofternoon's drive is the route token by The Herald and News employe Tom Potty in distributing pa pers to the .basin area south of Klamath Falls. Toking state highway No. 39, he trav els to Merrill and Molin, ,UUUU,,MS i 9" state lino to Tulelake, - alit. rrom luieiaKe me route returns to Merrill, around Stukcl mountain by woy of the the hill road, and through Spring lake section bock to Klamath Falls. Views to be seen on the afternoon drive are l- St. Augustine's chutch in MeVrilK 2 The J. P. Haley residence on the state line road- 3 and 4 Tulelake Main street. 5 Grain fields. ' 6 Spring loke. ' MMeage: Henley store Mac's store .. 8.2 miles ..12.4 ..19.6 ' Merrill . Malin ... Tulelake. Merrill . Klamath 30.1 39.7 52.5 Falls..77.8 Rescue Try Ends -in Girl's Death BALTIMORE, June 31 Ml Elwee T. Harris told jiollce today he was strolling along Pier Six with his girl friend, 'Adelc Roberts, 22, when she asked: "If I Jumped In would you save me." Harris sold he would, but he ex plained ho wasn't a very good swim mer. Adelc Jumped Into the harbor. Harris Jumped after her. Two patrolmen tossed Harris a rope and pulled him out. They re covered the girl s body half an hour later. Mother Held In Death Of Baby AI AMEDA. Calif.. June 31 lPi Police said today Mrs. Grace M. Jones. 23,. nf Altimedii. admitted smothering her four-wrek-old baby and putting his body Into flames of an incinerator because "Jesus told me to do It." The young wife of a sailor and mother -of another .child, 3, .was held for Investigation after Police men Pat Meuormoit nnu jonn Brnmunle look her statement. Police found the dinned torso In a irval hmisln? project Incinera tor last night. Today they began sift Inn ashes for missing parts, of the body. ' (Telephone Sill) identity Of YVefca Tot Sti Veiled fn Mysiery The blonde baby girl, found one week ago tomorrow in the brush at Heed, continued to remain the mya terloua -Mla X" a Klamath and Northern California authorities aald one clue after another led them up blind alien In Ihelr efforts to Iden tify the child and her assailant. rjheriff Lloyd L. Low, conducting the Investigation In this end of the wide area which la being combed for Information concerning the Identity of the three-year-old Kir) left for dead In a clump of buihi-s last Sat urday nlKhl, aald hi office had re ceived any number of tips and re gardless of their nature they were being run down, one by one. Latest Information coming to Sheriff Low's offlee was from Oll chiist In the northern section of the county where a man named John Cramer advised officers that his wife and daughter were on the bus last Friday and Identified newspaper pictures of the little girl as the child on the southbound Trallways with a man and a woman. . ' Clue Followed The sheriff said he had contacted stale police at Bend, closer to Oil- Auto Wreck Injures Two Two young people are In Hillside hospital recovering from Injuries received early this morning when their car overturned ai It lr.lls-J to make a curve on the Midland road and struck loose gravel. Injured were Francos Zlemirnc ruk. 16, ' daughter of Mrs. Anna Zlemlenezuk of Stewart addition, and John Keane. 19. 212 N. Jrd. son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Keane. Others In the car and uninjured were Walter Zlemlenezuk, brother of Prancea and driver of the ma- rhfni. Hnwarrl Wllktnann VI 7114 Summers lane: Dick Noud, 21. 2505 Nile, and Myron Kingsbury, 21, 2522 ; jvionieiiun. j The Klamath Ambulance Service .brought Miss Zlemlenezuk and ii,Mr lf. trv UHU4H. Th. i-l young Kenne to Hillside. The girl has an Injury to her left ankle and other hurts, and Keanc's Injuries were not determined at a laic hour this morning. His condition was reported good. They were admitted , to hospttal at 2 ,. m. i Loop r: -Jt. -U- -' ..-.v!'.. . ... r ; ". : ? trumt a-t11 uJ:a&i vw-- ,l,,i,i.li ..! ia-w-- i J I ? ' V jjt i3fll fc teti.r -13'-:; r r - -M Jit -, : - y - - ... j '.'1-J F-'- "x'-iv i" K .-'-t '.-t:"r. ' .- ..(,"-: ' : - . . ...'.. " ' '. I -v ' -' ' . . '. i r- I, Ti i - i ii miiaia i i isnifi ffinrii ri) r - i i i i ii r I v'-" ' - . v. WEATHER Mia. (ant 11.. Mia.. Mln. as IwiclalUllaa laal aaaia .. Trara Irtam Mar la ala less l.ail aar . JS.W itnl 11.11 faracaall Fair adat, Haaiar. No. 10M5 Christ than Klamath Fall, and that the patrol office had dispatched men to that community to cneck the Cramer etory. Late Friday state police here re turned from a foray into the Dairy ilonanza dlatrict to run down a clue which, like the othera, went cold under thorough Investigation. A similar report from Medford also came to nothing. ' Dorothy Htewart of the Hi-Way cafe in Klamath Falls, who said she could not Identify the child she eared for on a bus Friday as MMiss X." did not go to Vrrka Friday with city police as scheduled but will be shown later pictures of the Utile girl. In the meantime. Sheriff Ben Richardson of Siskiyou county, had additional requesu from various points in California asking for further Information and more pic ture of the abandoned child. In Quarantine Hospital attendant kept "Mfss X" In quarantine as she recovered from chicken pox. The child doe not speak In conversation and refuses to respond to any type of questioning, various names have been tried on her, such a Janice, Darlene and Sandra, but she ha not flicked an eyelash in recognition to anv of a. dozen or mote names voiced by her nurses. Her condition continue to Im prove. It was learned from Yreka source, and she I recovering ohv. slcally from the brutal beating. The child was found Sunday mornlno; In back of a Weed dance hnli where she had apparently been left by her What, Again? They've done It again. The Klamath County chamber of commerce received several calls this week from citizens pro testing an Item concerning Crater Lake national park which ap peared In the current issue of the "Highway Traveler," publi cation of the Oreyhound bus company. The article, describ ing national parks, stated that "Crater lake is reached from Northern California cities, from Portland. Eugene and Medford. Ore." Klamath people want ,to know what happened to Klamath Falls, the real gateway to the world renowned lake. Through Klamath Basin Gives Cross-Section 11 1 f .-.! V- ,-:,.....V-i ' - ;tt-r L-tow.:J'.Vi "m i.i.iLO . .- . ' .- ..j Democracy Losing Out, Says Atilee BAR.N'MLEV. England, June 21 I Pi Prime Minister Attire declared to day that "human right are denied and so-called democratic govern ment I a travesty" In "several coun tries of F.aatern Fur ope." "I am convinced that there should be' people in this eountsy, and people who profess to be so cialist, who appear to condone things that are done by govern ments that call themselves left, when they would protest vigorously If precisely the same things were done by government of the rleht. Attlee aald In a speech at a miners' demonstration. "Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and personal freedom 1 the right of the Individual whether he Is a capitalist or a worker, a con servative, a liberal or socialist," the premier declared. "Wherever you find the right of opposition denied, wherever you find such device a the single list of candidates, wherever you find a government that cannot be re moved by the method of the ballot box. there I no true democracy, there Is no true freedom." Pointed Statement It was the socialist premier's most pointed a n 1 1 - Russian statement since he told- the British Trade Un ion congress last winter that the Soviet government was building a "wall of ignorance" between the Russian people and the West. In tenor, It was along the lines of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's sharp pronouncement about Rus sia iji a house of common debate Thursday night. Observer wondered whether the British government was indirectly serving notice on Russia that Sec retary of Slate Marshall's aid-for- I E u r o p e proposals strengthened Britain' hand In International af fairs. . Drill Upset Hurts Rider I Despite a half dozen painful ln : juries. Guy Plunkett. 38, Wocus I resident, still plans to ride in the Fourth of July parade as a member ! of the Wocus community drill. Plunkett, a sawyer at McCollum's , mill, was practicing for the drill j" early last night when his horse . slipped In a turn on the pavement and threw him to the highway. ; Plunkett is resting at hi home and hi lnlurlea Include a fractured left ankle, badly bruised hands ; from gra 'cl cut, an Injured left j knee cap and cut on the head In- I eluding one over-the left eye which I required three stitches. i'.. " Final Decision To Be Made By Senate Monday WASHINGTON, June 21 (AP) A filibuster to delay th . senate vote on President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley union-curbing lofcor bill ended late today with an agreement for a final decision Monday, but debate on tho measure wen on without a break. Senator Wherry (N'eb.) the republican whip, said several senators had "important speeches" to deliver about the legis lation and the chamber would continue Its session that ol ready had stretched through nearly 29 hours. The hour of voting was fixed -" li a. m. (PST) Monday. , " The break In the bitUr argu ment about when the senate should try to override Mr. Truman's vig orous veto of the union-curbing legislation came . while Senator Morse IR-Ore.i was continuing a weary talk against the measure and leaders of his party. Still Confident Senator'Taft (R-Ohio), co-author of the measure that has stirred up the sharpest congressional fight this year, still Is confident the senate will muster the necessary two-third majority necessary to nullify the presidential rejection. The house already has voted to override. 331 to 83. taking that action almost Immediately after the veto reached that chamber. If the senate vote Monday to override, the measure will become law despite Mr. Truman's objec tion. Even the most optimistic senate supporter of the veto claimed only that the test there will be close. Senator Morse had luit com pleted hi tenth hour of a speech urging that the veto be sustained a speech which he acknowledged was part of a filibuster. Senator Wherry (Neb.), the re publican whip, obtained unanimous consent to submit the request for a vote agreement without Jeopardiz ing Morse's right to the fleor. Falling Tree Kills Groom TAHOE CITY. Calif., June 21 IB) A big plneylOO feet high and five feet thick, crashed across highway 89 late yesterday, killing a bride groom and Injuring a bride who were honeymoon - bound In their : coupe. William Albert McUen. 21, of ! Napa, was crushed to death. Hi ; bride of- a day, Nina, was in a Reno hospital today suffering from skull I injuries and shock. . Vie w Of Area's Products , . - - . ,.,. . ,A.-yj.a. ."--..aw-.C'g-V "Mmfafe Soviet Oil Sales Normal WASHINGTON, June 21 m Thomas E. Blatsdell, chief of the commerce department's office of International trade, told congreaa today that current United States oil shipments to Russia are "nor mal." Blaisdell was called to testify be fore a house armed services sub committee after Chairman Shafer R-Mlch.( said he wa concerned over the oil shipment In the face of a reported petroleum shortage here. "There la nothing unusual about a shipment of an estimated half a million barrels of Detroteum proouci to eioena from weat coast port. This I a normal seasonal movement. The volume concerned la not of a huge magnitude," Blais dell testified. Shafer interrupted to say "There . wa nothing unusual about send ing scrap Iron and oil to Japan In me iwus eitner. James H. Mayes, commerce de triment rjetroleum - exrjert. said half a million barrel of petroleum were exported during May. but h did not know how much of It went to Russia. Mayes said the Soviet received 72,000 barrels from the United State ' the first three months of this year. Tokyo Cops Get Added Bounty ' TOKYO. June 21 W) Police have decided to put a bounty on pickpockets. Special prize win be awarded officers on this basis:- one point tor capturing a pickpocket on the streets or at festivals: two for a capture aboard a train or In a theatre, and three point for cap turing, two or more at one time. I
