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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1947)
ME mm (ft Mfo) 1WM) In Hie Day's feus lly I HANK JKNKINH Till; United HI ii Ion deiiiumls lit Lake Htlcrcii I UN hciiitiiuiirtcrsl today thnt tlio aectuily council of United Nation give top priority to the EX I'LOWVK liulkiin problem because. nf ll "timriicy. ; uriiAT lii thin iicinl urgency? There is UIIOoTINU In Greece. A MMikrMiMil of tlio tlrock govern ment trln the security council tills iniiriilnii thnt "strong and well armed Inutile tureen Invaded Greek terrimry 1mm Albania on July IS." lie nddii Unit "ullntlt tureen. Imitlilliig unit of nil International iii-nmti ul Irrruulars mid com- niuiiiiitii" me concentrated on the Albanian mile of the frontier and iimL idiniiiiiiilMn III tlreece. Yugu. uluvln mid Allwlilii nre attempting to I, urn it rebel iiiivoriiiiieiii tlreece. I I AT In the mieelnl amnliliaiK'e of w nil till"? Well, we have picked tlreece n otic or the ilttte to '"U iieil o( cumiiiuiiliuii. 11 rnther lixik If i-oiiiiiiiinlMU iheiided by Moncowi It ralllim our Imnd. UIIIAT will we do about If " -nml In linrd Ui nny. fcvmit hnve moved mi swiftly In Kuroie thnt trendy tlreece mid TutKey nre i0' Inted outiKuiU. -Oiir front line l now the Htettln-Adrlntlc "line nitreed mion t Vnltn. The "one world" hope l nlrendy oul.'Thrre nre nw TWO Wtiltl.ua. One In the world of eotiiinmilim, whose western frontier In olivloualy tnu Stettin-Adriatic Hue. The other U OUK world the world of free nirn. nE nre trying to wive Wentern " Europe for OUH world. Cora nuiiilMii I reaching for It. Com mununis eKin U world elmun. nut of which communism grow nnturnlly. Hungry. hopeless people rench for ronimunuin drowning men rench for nlrnwn. Our rhnneit weniKin in ECONOMIC REHABILITATION of Wentern Ku ro. Clettlng iieoplo there bnck on their fret, working nd produc ing. Orowlng food to ent. Making things to line. Hum building HOPE FOR THE 1-UTUHK. It in plnn thnt Americans can urk Inr. pitKKCK mill Turkey nre EAST of U thin Hlelllii-Alrlntlc line thnt is now the frontier. Tliey nre outpuaU in nllen territory. Con we defend them? An to tlmt time nlniie enrt tell,'' a P we nre to defend our world, we munt remnln strong. If we nre to reinnln strong, wo mint PRODUCE. Production In now the nnnwer to everything we want nnd need. Along thnt line, there l n note of encournrmcnt In the Hewn from Washington linn morning. The burenu of lnbor statistic tell u thnt In the first nix monthn of this year ntrlken mid lockout cost tin only about one-fourth as much In LOST TIME an In the corresponding , period of hint year. IN Washington. Jerome Ney. board chairman of the American Retnll Federation, ay today: "It. 1 prob able we nre near OR PAST the peak of prlcen." Thnt In to nny Mn hln opinion) PRODUCTION 18 CATCH1NO UP. Only adequate production can bring prlcen- down. An long an there nre nhortngen, there will be rinlug prlcen. NEY wan iipciiklng to Joint con gressional committee on the eco nomic report, which In trying to chart n course, towurd a STABLE American economy. With that In mind, lie proponed (lint the nntlon ntrlve toward a goal of twice the Industrial production of 10:i0, with about 08 million people employed nnd a nntloiinl Income of 185 billion DOLLARS n year about neven blllloun more than nt present. MOTE that he apeak lu terms of dollars. That weakens hln pro posal. Wo can't. ent dollars. Wo can't wear them. What wo need In more PHYSICAL volumo of produc- Hon moro TII1NOS. j ! THE bill to cut taxed has probably j fulled again. There arc apparent ly not enouiih votes In the senate (I nllnill nn I'm n, Column 31 President Don Potter (siitiidliiff left) Is shown Introducing Tom Ktnnlev (standing rlghtl, manager of the Slmstn-Ciiscnde Wonderland association, at Inst nigiita annum meeting of the Tulelake chamber at the Sportsmen' hotel. I'ltH K HVK CKNTH ! '-O KLAMATH V' ,A,?eN, TVmOAt, JVLt 1J, 39 Telephone sill) No. ISM li f. ' 1. y 5 : o- - YUrt uf Ill U mM A AlInT II "im O? A, A IV AH( II nnV .nflnfc. tt rak U IIKW Ui-f'. . i I I V ! n. V2 AnT .V. .'fl . r 1 Elementary School May Be Added Another rlrmrntnry school will be added to the rnpldly-growing nouth eaatern nuhurbnn area of Klnmnth r'alln within a year or two, If present plain of the county school board materialise. The county la purchasing about seven and a half acres of ground as Ite for a school from Lee Uureker, who in building an estrnnive hous ing project In the area. tin Huinftirrs Lnne The plot is lorn ted on Bristol street, between llomednle mid Hum mem lnne, right In the midst of the district In which Uie biggest build ing boom Is going uu and to which the bulk of the suburban (xipuls tion Is shifting. At present (our srhools nerve the seen, lnrludlng AlUmont junior high and rlrmenlary. Hummers and HtmsU. The location of the new srhoot will be roughly halfway be tween Kummers school nnd Alia monl The county Is pnylng 110O0 an acre for the ground. At present approximately 1600 studoou attend the four suburban schools, with an even larger en rollment in prosect lor next fall. Because of the heavy enrollments and limited classroom cpacs. Alta mont elementary has only the first three grades, Shasta and Summers only the first five grades. Altmnoni Junior high has been carrying the fourth to eighth graden. ifnrold Ashley, county superin tendent of schooln, nald thnt the new nrhofll, as yet unnnmrd, wss plan ned tor sli grades nnd thnt even tually all Hie suburban elementary sellouts will carry sis graden, freeing Altainunl Junior high for strictly Junior high classes. . Committee OK's Leave. Pay Bill WASHINGTON. July 1J 1lS Legislation to pertnlt the cashing this fall of 1 1.800.000.000 worth of terminal leave bonds was unani mously approved today by the sen ate armed services committee. The bill, already passed unani mously by the house, wotild permit former enlisted men and some offi cers who hold the bonds to cash them any time after September 1. Tulelake Chamber Talks Possibility Of TULELAKE. July IS Tulelake' ambition to win a place on the air map was emphasised tn the report of Hon Potter, president of the Tulelake chamber of commerce, given at the chamber's annual din ner meeting In the (Sportsmen's hotel. Potter told of discussions with a representative of the C'AA relative to a proposed nlrport site at Newell, and with rlouthwest Airway agents with respect to a Tulelake stop on the proposed Klamath Falls-lled- dlng leg of Houthwest's operations. The president snld that the sug gested airport site at Newell had been looked upon approvingly by the CAA representative, and that Southwest believed the atop feasi ble If Ha proposed service is ap proved by the CAB. Services Talked Pottor's report nlso touched on efforts to got a hospital, medical service, dental service, and many other community services per formed by the chamber. Tlio hos- pltnl Issue Is pending, and develop Tulelake Chamber Annual Meeting r i; sr jr , H Troops Plan j r . nncer wove r-. ' v -"v .iff ( spt. Vayne M. tiurdane. state on criminal law during the first patrolmen. The classes are held In Vocation school. Moose Lodge Theft Told The Moose convention, which closed Sunday, had a bad turn just nt the end as lodge officials yesterday pwrnlng discovered a burglary at the lodge hall, 1010 Pine, In which an estimated 1600 In cur rency and sliver wag taken. Investigating police said that entry had been made Into the build ing through a basement ventilator, which was kicked oien. The prowler then went upstairs to the office and ransacked It. The money was taken from a drawer which was forced open, but an even larger sum of money was overlooked. -Apparently the' prowler took his time, visiting the clubroom and taking a Utile money there. Air Stop ments may be expected shortly, he Indicated, Tom Stanley, manager of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland asso ciation, was a principal speaker at the meeting, and outlined the pro gram of the association. Develop ment work, including an industrial survey, transportation Improve ments, conservation, advertising and public service are "planks in the Shall a-Cnscade pisiform," Stanley said. Dean Pleper. Shnsta - Cascade publicity chief, presented a wire re cording broadcast of his own speech to tne Tulelake group, nnd ex plnlned how a wire recorder Is used in making transcriptions' for radio broadcasts featuring the Wonder land. Sperlnl tribute was paid to Mrs. Katherine Addison, the chnmbcr's secretary, for her loyal work. Outside guesU: present for the meeting Included the Wonderland representatives. Earl Luby, photog rapher for Pathways magazine, and Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Epiey of Klamath Falls. , aA police officer from MiiwauMc, In session of a aches! conducted by the old Ifostesa House building at . 33 Students Start Class At OVSnSQQ Figure Seen Thirty-three students trudged to class this morning, starting off school worn at Oregon Vocational school, and half a dozen more are expected to come in for registration today and i begin their studies tomorrow. tmikhit a total enrollment of 39 for the state's newest school. Eventually, as -more buildings at the campus on the hill are remodeled and more courses offered, Uiat figure of 30 is expected to grow to 1500. The old Marine Barracks layout, one of the fanciest military estab lishments on the West Coast, Is fast losing its wartime Identity and taking on a civilian air. Classes in auto mechanics, cook ing and baking and body and fender work started at 8:30 tills morning. The post garage Is being utilized for the auto courses, while the BOQ kitchen is the lab for cooking classes. Since OVS is once and for all a voca tional school, twokwork is at a min imum. The students learn by doing. Of she 33 student attending classes today, only 12 are living on the post. The others live in town. Two mar ried couples reside at the BOQ while waiting to move into apartments on the campus, and a third couple is Raging Kenai Fire Gains ANCHORAGE. Alas. July 15 m The raging Kenai peninsula forest fire moved forward on a TO-miie front today as weary fire fighters hoped for a favorable wind to per mit backfiring at a hastily con structed fire block four miles from the threatened fishing t village on Kcnnl. The tiny village stood only six miles 'from the flames yesterday after the fire jumped a 40-foot pro tective block Sunday. Smoke from the fire hung over Anchorage -last night the heaviest since the blaae began five weeks ago. Planes were unable to land and motorists acre forced to use headlights, although normally It is light until midnight at this time of year. Knsllof, about 30 miles to the south of Kenai, also lay In the path of the flames. Although the town Itself is not believec in Immediate danger because of surrounding swamps and cleared land, many homes and much rirh timber land and wildlife were feared lost. Army fire maps show 400 spot fires dotting the peninsula with smoke towering to 15,000 feet. Romeo And Juliet Battle It Out DETROIT, July 15 IjP) Romeo and Juliet have parted, and process servers from Wayne county circuit court want to know "wherefore art thou, Romeo?" Juliet St. Amour wants to know, too. Married February . 1M4 to Romeo St. Amour, she filed suit for divorce yesterday, telling Judge Theodore J. Richert her husband no . longer loved her, had called her vile names nnd put her out of the house in night clothing. The judge issued a temporary In junction restraining Romeo from molesting Juliet or disposing of his assets. pictured a he wss giving a lecture the Oregon state police for S4 rookie the Marina barrack now Oregon ' expected In today from Portland. between the reinforced Greek army The two couples there now have nojut!Sul al Konitsa and replacements children, but the Portland couple lias ' moving north from loannina. a cliiltt. All but one.ot the 33 are veterans. "and as the scribal is fully accredited under the Of Mil of tights, single veterans will draw government checks of (65 a month, the married vets will be paid 190 by Uncle Sam. The state police school is in it second day, classes held for 54 rookie patrolmen in the old post Hostess house. Capt. Vayne M. Gurdane, head of the MUwankie state police detachment. In charge. Pineapple Tieup Talked HONOLULU. July 15 im Top negotiators of the CIO Internation al Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's union and the strikebound pineapple industry were reported today to have Jiiet with Federal Conciliator Nathan P. reussinger in a new attempt to settle the five-day-old strike. ' None of the parties "would con firm the meeting, but Feinslnger said he had "not been idle" yester day. All that separated the pineapple workers and the industry from agreement when pre-strike negoti ations "blew up" was whether' a 10-cent hourly Increase should be retroactive to June i or February 1. The ILWU said its leaders had recommended to its 350-member territorial committee that the un ion's powerful susar and longshore branches give full support to the pineapple strike. The meeting broke up late last night without decision nnd wbs scheduled to be resumed today. Fall Fatal For Forest Worker SEATTLE. July 15 Ss Robert V. Smith, forest service employe, was killed yesterday afternoon when he fell off a cliff while working on a telephone line near High Rock look out in the mineral district of the Snoqiifllmie national forest. H. L. Plumb, forest supervisor, said Smith fell about 40 feet. He was dead when fellow workmen reached him. Smith was the son of Mrs. A. P. Smith, 1433 Fern street. New Or leans. , Biimp, Caught in Down-Draft, Plunges Info Ocean Near Eureka EUREKA, Calif.,' July 15 V-Navy Blimp K-99. caught in a ter rific down-draft of air, plunged into the ocean south of here yesterday, and, after its 11 occupants had escaped unhurt, rose again to come finally to earth eight miles north of Eureka. Lt. D. E. W. Devancy of San Jose. Calif., the pilot of the 358-foot craft, said it became unmanageable when caught in the draft while cruising approximately 150 feet above the water on a photographic mission for the California bureau of marine fisheries. The front section of the gondola was torn from the craft and both Devaney and the co-pilot, Lt. B. A. GoeUe. of Minneapolis, were thrown Into the water. SIX of the nine men remaining on the blimp immediately took to a rubber raft. Three of the navy men, whom the pilot did not name, remained aboard in an attempt to regain control. They finally were forced to leap from about 10 feet when the blimp became airborne again and started to drift away, out of control. It was understood that Use navy expected to salvage the blimp and recomnusslon it, - ATHENS, July IS IPi Air Min ister Pansyotis Caneiiopoulo s nounced today that "the situs tlon baa radically chanted In favor of national forces" In Kpirust where Oreek army troops were reported snapping a pincers on strong guer rilla units driving south of the key city of loannina tjanina). Army source said two Important engagements with guerrilla columns were Imminent in Northwestern Greece. The government charged that the guerrilla had "Invaded" Greek soil from Albania. Inform ants close to the Greek general staff said a new "invasion was pos sible from the direction of Yugo slavia. Difficult Position The Informants quoted headquart er of the second army corps and the army of Northern Greece both of which are involved in the cur rent operations as saying: "We've got the invading forces in a dif ficult position." Unofficial esti mates said eight battalions about 2500 men were in the guerrilla forces in the area where the two battle impended. Two guerrilla columns were said to have started moving southward toward loannina, capital and larg est city of Eplrus, after the attack on Konltea two days ago. Konltsa is about six miles from tne Albanian frontier and 25 miles north of loannina. One large force, estimated at more than iooo men. was renoned c&u&ht Tax Message Due Friday WASHINGTON, July 15 The White House said (oday President Truman's message vetoing the new $4.000.000 flOO income tax reduetioB bill will be sent to congress this seek probably on Friday. In advance of final congressional action on the republican measure. Mr. Truman had given-otice that he intended to reject it as be bad a previous, similar biU. He also gave assurances that the veto would be forthcoming promptly after he re ceived the legislation. Press Secretary Charles G. Boss, ir discussing plans for the veto mes sage, told reporters that the bill is expected to reach the White House some time during the day. The possibility of putting the bill into law over Mr. Truman's veto has virtually disappeared despite the 60 to 33 vote by which it passed the senate yesterday. Although this gave tax cut advocates a 2S-vote margin, it fell two votes shy of the two-thirds needed to override presi dential rejection. Louis Will Not Defend Title NEW YORK, July 15 (Pj Joe Louis will not defend his heavy weight boxing title during 1947, it was decided today at a meeting m which the champion, his manager, Marshall Miles of Buffalo, and Sol Strauss, acting director of the 20th Century Sporting club participated. Man Fined for Shooting Bear Arict Laverne Bragg. 24, of 2025 Darrow. was fined $25 In justice court at Dorris yesterday for shoot ing a bear out of season He plead ed guilty. Bragg shot a bear at Medicine lakeJuly 4 and transported it to Klarnath Falls, so both California and Oregon state officers and a federal wildlife service man Inves tigated. California has an open sea son on bear, from November 15 to December 31. . f ix . .fti PORTLAND. July 15 Lafayette A. Lewis, 5s, of Los Angelesv was elected Grand Exalted Euler of the Benevolent and Protective Or der of Elk, lie is a member of the Anaheim, Calif., lodge. (AP wire photoj. Lewis Named Elks Ruler PORTLAND, Ore, July 15 UPh Lafayette A. Lewi of Anaheim, Call!, was elected today as grand exalted ruler at the 83rd annual convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Other officers on the unopposed slate were; grand esteemed leading knight, Douglas Lainboume of Salt Lake City; grand esteemed loyal knight, Ronald Dunn of Oneida, N. ?.; grand esteemed lecturing knight. H. H. Russell of Warrensburg, Mo.; grand secretary. J. Edward Waster of Chicago: grand treasurer, Joseph G, Kyle of Gary, Ind.; grand tiler, Emery Hughes of Minneapolis; grand inner guard, John Antwise of Birmingham, Aia-, and grand trustee, Howard R, Davi of Willlamsport, Pa. A native of Anaheim, Calif., Lewis has been active in the organization for many years and is credited is large part with building the Cali fornia membership to it present 85,000, The grand exalted ruler is head of approximately 000.000 Elks, members of 1450 lodges in the Unit ed States, end its territorial pos sessions. ' Retiring grand exalted ruler is r Charles E. Braughton. Sheboygan. Wis., newspaper publisher. Marshall Plan Gets Backing PARIS. July 15 yP The 18-na-tion European economic conference approved today plans for organizing a cooperative effort to speed the continent s, recovery under the Mar shal! proposal. The delegates unanimously ap proved a rules committee report nominating Britain. France, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands to a key executive committee and set ting up four subcommittees on food and agriculture, Iron and steel, transport and coal and energy. .The plenary session, third since the conference convened Saturday, will be the last until the commit tees have completed their detailed work of assessing the resources and needs of the participating cations before applying for American fi nancial aid under the proposal of U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall. Addressing the session. Premier Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium urged long-range economic planning which would "not be limited to Im mediate objectives," as well as a shorter-range program to qualify the nations for the American aid. V it V f . v J I A post office special delivery man make goad nine o'clock speefaft, so the early morning leniman today caught Herb Snyder delivering a psckags for Uncie Sam, . No Deaths Reported At Scene i BOGOTA, Columbia, Julr IS m A former fovernor cf NariM da- Violent earthaaka which aiioott Hi , soothers citr of Pstto yesterday j caused t$MQ peso 1 fise.&ee) I damages. Ktrsnseiy, no one -a reports -iled and only aevrn i recorded, none serioos, I fame prevailed for some time, j however, because the firnt shock cut Bamuaoon and Jelt the , ciy of mm in dartases and with. 1 oui communications. Two or three I ubseijueH4 shocks were reported. The earthquakes, worst In Pasto's history, was blamed on an eruption l " nearby Gaieras volcano. jumesses saw trie people of Pasto ' ran wildlv h fh Blanket wrapped about their night jwujsjs. obseb ierua;y implored divine help to entreaties which mingled with the rumbling of cracktof wall and collapsing buildlnRs. Later account from the local near the Ecuadorian border Indi cated conditions were much ies ' distressing than first reported. Balkans Get Top Priority UiKH ssrrrYTOKj .fur. inline The United States demanded today that the United Nation security council give top priority to the ex plosive Balkan 'problem is view of it "urgency." Berscbeli V. Johnson, U, S, dele gate, proposed that the council aide track all other Issues thl after noon and work exclusively on the Balkan case until it arrived at a decision. r Johnson declared that be was actinx on instructions frnm Wtt.h- jinglcn where top officials considered sne summon -urgent." He disclosed that he had proposed last night to Dr. Oscar Xante of Poland, council president, that the Balkan discussions, originally sched uled for this afternoon, be moved up to the morning session. He said, however, that he would not press his demands because some delegates apparently were not ready to begin discussion thl morning. He did not indicate which, delegate Highway Issue Peace Talked Ki&math's eitv emiiidlmen ran. sentatives of the state highway com ciissloa end Paul Parrens, repre sentine rjrr.rrt v h.v,Hr ftwtH, closing streets intersecting the pro jwaca ssorii entrance route, were scheduled to meet this afternoon in aa attempt to work out a eompro mise agreement on the street closing If satisfactory settlement of the issue is reached, the state highway commission wiii open bids next Mon day on the north entrance route. The matter came up at last night meeting of the council, which was asked to adopt a resolution closing off streets intersecting the highway, Farrens protested for property hold ers on MeIro.se and Earl streets, especially on the grounds that the closure would make it difficult t use the sloping streets during win. ter periods. He raised technical obi the lawyer, member of the firm of Farrens and Maxwell, indicated a compromise might be reached, and he and highway department repre sentatives held a conference. They teen asked for today s council meet ing, which was scheduled for early" afternoon at the city hall. r
