Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, July 19, 1947, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text, fo)A' fo) UU A a The IE I (Engineers WEATHER 4 Dip ks Hy FRANK JKNKINH TIIK scries ot Incident culinlnal- lug III two uccaful voloe puu tux reduction In IU Intended place it the No. 1 domestic Issue In tho 1948 Presidential campaign, That In when It u nettled (or from Uie flint. B WABIIINQTON dispatch ay n boUi ldc lire happy over the tllualltm and willing to lei ma vot er decide who wa right. DoUi eoiind off title morning. Ray burn of Tcxaa, hotlite DemocraUc Icider, ay: "If the Republican want to throw title kind of tax bill Into the campaign, we'll wet coma the issue." That la Iho line followed by Presl- denl Trunin n In hi veto message. He called the bill the "wrong kind" at the "wrong time," uiuound and munis, nrriuaiure and faulty. Senator Mllllkln, lupubllcan. from Colorado, who waa floor man ager for Uie bill, tall Uie reporter there are "40.000,000 taxpayer who would have had aume relief except for two veloea by a Democratic Incident and administration." s... Uiera you are. The Democrat next year will go gallantly lato battle to aave the country from the wicked Republican who If given the chance will botch up the whole tax business. The Republican will point out how happy we might have been with our lower taxes and our greater "take home monry" If the Democrat hadn't viciously kicked over Die tax reduction apple cart. CUCH Is two-parly government which, after all. I un beat lorm of government yet devlaed. The two parllc balUa It out in a iree ana upen forum, and Uie voter luten and decide. Under one-party government (which la apreadlng rapidly In the world! aomebody IrtouBi An EDICT and get a blank check. rllia writer believe wo ought to hare had tax reduction NOW. If wa could have lot IU Blnce wa can't have It now, wa ought to get It a aoon a wa can. Reckless government (pending la our greatest danger. If permuted to go on unchecked. It will fritter away our resourcea at the very time when we need them worst. Frittering away our resources by reckles (pending will leave u waak at the time when we need (perhap worse than we have ever needed It before! to be trong. Reckless spending will continue a long aa there la plenty of money to apei.d Human nature Just work that way. Aa long aa tho aack of OTHER PEOPLES MONEY re main! full, wall go on dipping Into a WE are thu aaaurad of out good " old familiar domeatlo Issue. Our politician hava fought, bled and died over taxea since Uie Ume whereof tha memory of man run neth not to the contrary. Thl morning' dUpstchrs report the atart In Preano yesterday ot a "graa root" campaign who a avowed aim la the winning of the IMS Democratic Presidential nomi nal, i for Henry Wallace. . Wallace 1 a alncero aap. HI aupportcr. generally (peaking, are "left winners." Left wlngera, alio generally (peaking, are communist, communist sympathisers and head-In-the-roay-cloud communist ad mirer. , POMMUNI8M head up In and u take It orders from MOSCOW. 8o. you see. we'll hava a NEW Issue next year. IN England, Foreign Secretary Bcv- In. In an extemporaneous address to a coal miners picnic, taya "there II nlln aa r I, ralama l . Neat Farms, Well-Kept Ranches Feature On Trip ' By J. B. , Our trnvclqgtie this week takes a diverting loop through a cross-sec Hon of the rich farm lands of the Klnmnth bosln. It culls for a (mint down the Klnmnth vnlley to Mnlln, across the hill and back to Kln mnth Fulls via Poe Vnlley and Olene. It covers 75 miles on pnved ;-r?rf- irlKflKt highway. Leaving T$lnintith Fnlls you go nut S. 8ih, find turning right at the Lnkevlcw Junction onto the Merrill highway yon pnsa well cultivated acres of grain and po tatoes, grndunlly replacing timber aa tho mnln backbone of this county, Neat fnrm houses, wcVi - kept fences and progressive Improve ments along the entire trip Show tho prosperity of the country- Passing Mac's Store, a pumlco Uie building under construction looitui on the right. This Is n no1 slaughter house which will probn bly bo operating In another month. ' Merrill, a, farming community Just beyond,' boasts two good brick schools, tho usual post office chain tores, telegraph offlco and drug store, of ; every small American township ns well ns a community hull whore lively "hoc-downs" pro held of a Saturday night, A short stretch boyond la a Jnrgo quarter-horse ranch on tho ipt( nnd a llttlo farther down the line, Wlnoma, farms' large ,, concrete grain storage bins loom fin the right at the Mslone Siding. Hugo slacks or hay, same piled Ioono and somo In bales fields of sun-curing hay In ; windrows nnd bulen standing on end, bring you to Mnlln, tho prosperous pioneer Bohemian community. An ancient flour mill across Main street from the old theatre 'building, give a Mat. Half tl ( Ml- I'reulallallaa tail It (ami aa Iraain raar la Silt I.u l.ail raar ..11.11 Manual ....!. raraaaall ralr taar, easier ritlCB FIVE C'KNTM Burmese Ministers Shot Down LONDON, July II HI - Aung Hang, deputy chairman af the Bur ma executive council, and five other Burmese council minister were (lain today In Rangoon by terrorist who sprayed the eouncU chamber wltb machine-gun bullet, tha Rrlllsh government' ' Burma efflc announced. The announcement ((Id flva armed men sprang from a Jeep till morning before the council building In Rangoon, ran up Uie step to Uie chamber and loosed a hall of bullet. ft trie t Censorship Rangoon llaelf apparently wa under a censorship blackout. Two oUter members ot the ex acuUve council, Uie Burmese ad visory body to Oovernor Sir Hu bert Ranee, were wounded. The council ha been busy pre paring to Implement Britain' promise of early Independence. New of the assassination cabled hera br Sir Hubert. Tha Burma office autement tata there Is nothing In Uie report so far received to suggest that Uie altuaUon la not fully under con trol. Further Information will be made available." Thief Hocks Hero's Camera CIIICAQO. July 19 P Walter Troy, 40-year-oia city nreman, hailed for hi heroin rescue of a three-year-old boy from the clutches of a bear at Brookfleld loo. waa looking for hit prewar camera toaay. TVnu hand,! hla (7 camera to stranger aa he leaped a four-foot fence to rush to the rescue 01 terry Lee Falk, who wa aelsed by a 350 miiiuI Iwir Wednesday after he went to Uie bara of lu cage to feed It some popcorn. The bear held uie Im muHMi ilia hara with hla left paw and took the neck of hi blouse In hla teeth, - , Tha fireman, who weigh 170 pound and la five feet, eight lnche (11 lanriaH rf, nested blow( to Uie bear anout and me animai re I.. mmi hi- vrln An Terrv. TVnw whn waa at the ZOO With hi wir and two voune dauthterg. couldn't find the atranger to whom he had handed hK camera. Terry father. Ernest of nearby Jollet. ald h would huv mm me oesv cam era ha could find. Sunny Skies Prospect Here A clear, bright Sunday la In pros pect for Klamath people, many of whom are already encamped near lakes and streams In an attempt to get a brief respite from city heat. It waa allchtlv cooler In town Fri day following Thursday's season high of 00 degrees In Uie afternoon. The thermometer at the CAA weather station registered (4. the maximum Friday, but unofficial readings In town set the temperature in tne high go's. At 13:30 p.m. today Uie mercury stood at 81. flavor of earllor days particularly noticeable beside Uie modern structure of an oil atnUon and a enfe. Turn back at. this point up the rond toward Merrill, pnstUie chee.se factory at the crossroads, backed by a sage-studded hill. ConUnue past potato and bnrley fields to the Poe vnlley rond, a good gra veled highway on the right The land starts to rise hero, the road traversing ranged hills dotted with scrub brush and evergreens, swing ing over to Poe vnlley. A good view of this valley reclaimed from alkali land, now supporting lux uriant, Irrigated crops, can be soon from the top of the rise. Down Into tho vnlley, off the gravel rond nnd onto a newly paved and oiled stretch to Uie Barton spread, one of the more spectacular basin ranches, known ns the "Black and White." Here Chot Burton, owner, has his own iiienngerlo, with several varieties of deer, herds of elk and buffalo. He raises "Blond" potatoes and runs about 450 head of black Angus cattle nnd Is a genial host to thoso who wish to spend a tow minutes looking nround. The good road goes all the way to tho mnln highway and so back to Klamath Falls In about two hours. Mileage at points along this route: 00. Klamath Fnlls B,3--Lnkcvlow Junction 11, Mac's store 10. Merrill . 31.8 Tulclnke Junction to Cali fornia , 20. Mnlln 32.4 Poe valley turnoff 88.4 End of gravel road 86. Barton ranch 1 7B.1 Klamath Fall aaaKUgav naUe-aV I 1la. aw t at tw) - 1 r--.. .- jj:-'. - Highlight af the week' entertainment for Klamath children In lota of eases la the fun (how at the Pelican theatre Saturday morning at nln o'clock. Tbe nine o'clock photog- look his children thl morning and while waiting tor tha show to open snapped this picture of tha Juvenile lineup. Tax Issue Tossed Into Political Campaign Now WASHINGTON, July 11 (VP) Failure of tha senate to override President Truman's veto of the GOP tax-cutting bill tossed the Is- sue Into the 1B4S political cam paign today. Both (Ides expressed willingness to let the voters decide who wa right Prospect for tax reductions at this session of congress died last night when backer of Uie bill WAMIINGTON. July 1 IPh In lite vole by which the senate today failed to muster a two third majority required to over ride President Truman'a votauof the 4,0,M,0at Income tax aut bill, Washington and Oregon sea alora voted as follows: Cain (R-Wash.) and Cordon (R-Ore.), for overriding. Morse (R-Ore.) and Magnusoa (Il-Waah.) to sustain. marshaled only 67 senate votes against 38 supporters of the presi dent five short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Earlier the house had voted to' override with 37 vote to spare, 200 to 108. I'm not unhappy," Senator Mll llkln (R-Colo.), floor manager for the bill, told reporters. "There are 49,(0, 600 taxpayers who would have had some relief except for. 1. Can line Merrill' busy main H: I! -' - I kB-a-wrss-BBy .v J? -tRP'W " 1 KiaalilTiir IM- - .--t.'--"-'--'- --''-'' -y ' Iff'' " ' ' J'' fflirisTnafni!'r,-11 " IsMttat'llMr ""''l-1 Tf'sslll' I YBT I Hjlf fl ITT 1W HlKT iikTiUjrt I lii "C'jl U ' j' I 'i 1 (.":' v A .'.&; iV y -r aaj X' .-'"'fi" travel gn dips under the Great Northern railroad overpass, 3. Ancient wrfATUKDAir, JULY 10, 1S47 r two vetoes by a democratic presi dent and admlnlstraUon." House Majority Leader Halleck said tax relief apparroUy must wait "until the country elects republican president next year who will cooperate with the republican congress." Rep. Rayburn of Texas, the house democratic leader, already had accepted Uie challenge. "If the republicans want to throw this kind of tax bill Into the cam pslgn," he said, "we'll welcome the issue." Although the senate failure to override the veto waa foreshadowed by 11 60 to Uvota on paaaage lad week which also wa I than the necessary two - third the actual test waa a lively pollU eal ahow. Oalleties were packed as the bill reached Uie senate and house members crowded In Uie back of Uie chamber. Mllllkln. bald and deep-voiced, made a polnt-by-polnt reply to Uie presidential veto which termed Uie tax cut the "wrong kind" at Uie "wrong Ume." "unsound and un safe," and "premature and faulty." Senator Taylor (D-Idaho) Mint ed out that Uie president had promised - lower taxes at the ' proper time." "The people cant eat proper time." Mllllkln shot back. . h Special ) Farming Centers, Good Roads, Prosperous Ranches Seen On street, t. The road on this week'a I (Telephone gill) i mmmm ... Car Knocks 7oman Down Mrs. LeRoy W. Lubke. about 30. of 1731 Gary, wa struck by a car In front ot the Klamath Medical clinic on Esplanade shortly after noon today. She was suffering from shock when taken Into the clinic for examination but the extent of her Injuries was not readily deter mined. 'The car wa driven by Neal Mc Olnnls. who (aid that he did not see Mrs. Lubke In time to avoid Uie accident. ' - - ""- s She had parked her car across the street from tha clinic and started across the street, carrying her young daughter In her arms. Witnesses told police that Mrs. Lubke was looking down the street Uie other direction from McOinnls' approaching car. She was hit on Uie hip, thrown up Into the air and landed on her back on the pave ment, Uie baby still clutched In her arms. The child was not hurt. McOinnls stopped Immediately and he and clinic attendants took Mrs. Lubke and the baby into Uie clinic for examination, ' flour mill sUll stands on the main thoroughfare In Malin, old Bohemian I community, t. Time out to feed a No. 1087 Captain Of Refugee ' Ship Held HAIFA. Palestine, July 1 (Jfy The American captain of the ref ugee ship Exodus 1947 waa reported in jail today as a result of a ship board battle between more than 450 Jewish Immigrants and 80 British marines which left three dead and mora than U injured. One of the dead waa Identified by a British officer aa an American. First Mate Walter Bernstein of .Los Angeles. Tbe officer said Bernstein died In a Haifa hospital of head wonnda. The other victim were Jewish Immigrant. John Stanley Orauel, 30, of Worcester, Mass., who sailed with the Immigrants, said the skipper, Capt Bernard Marks. 28. ot Cln clnnaU. O., was Imprisoned as the Jews were moved to troopships for deportauon to Cyprus. There was no immediate confirmation from British sources. At Camp The uninjured immigrants al ready have reached Cyprus deten Uon camps. Joining some 15,000 oth ers who lacked certificates. Latest reports said 28 refugees. Including 17 women and a child and three British marines were In jured In the shipboard fight. Tbe ship, formerly the 1814-ton Chesa peake bay excursion vessel Presi dent Warfield. waa intercepted off the southwest coast of Palestine yesterday by five British warships. The refugee vessel was badly damaged by ramming during the boarding operation, and several British craft were damaged, but the Exodus steamed Into Palestine un der her own power-... 12 Hurt, One Dies In Bus-Truck Crash SUPERIOR, Ariz., July 10 (IP) One man wax killed and 12 persons were hospitalized as Uie result ot a crash between a Greyhound bus and an Ice truck three mile west of here this morning. Nona of the 10 bus . passengers were, critically hurt, although all suffered outs and bruises. None was from Uie North' west. Bulletin WASHINGTON, July 19 JP The senate passed and sent to the White House today a bill permltung the veterans to cash JWOO.BOO.Oo worth of terminal leave pay bonds. Psssage waa by a vote of 85 to t. The bill was passed by the house 388 to about two weeks ago. Tbe bill sent to the White House would permit but not require cashing of the bond any Ume after September L At present the bonds have- a maturity date five years from their issuance. friendly deer ea the Chet Barton Monday For Work Half Apparently only capitulation by tha company to union wag and working condition demand will haod off com plete shutdown of Southern Pacific railway traffic at p. m. Monday, tha deadline get by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for its members to holt work. President Truman's appointment of an emergency board . to inveitigate the ditpute was only an idle gesture as far aa the union is concerned. P. O. Peterson, general chairman of tha Brotherhood's SP unit, said last' night in San Franciica that there was no change in tha unionV position. "Only ac ceptance by the company ot our 19 demands for working condition changes will call off the walkout," Peterson de clared, President Roosevelt appointed a panel to solve Uie problem shortly before his death in 1945, and A. T. Mercler, - SP president, said that Uie Roosevelt board had passed on every one of Uie demands and that Uie company had accepted the board's recommendation "in their emirety." Force Compliance Mercler said that the Brother hood had called the strike to force compliance with the demands and that "this atutude is a bar to fair and orderly aetUement la the pub lic interest." -Mercler said that the Brother hood created Uie Issues under dis pute In the beginning and Itself asked for an emergency board to pass on the Issues. When the 1048 board did so "Uie Brotherhood re jected the board's report as a whole and sought to enforce only those recommendations that were outright In the Brotherhood's fa vor. The railroad management Is fully expecting the strike to come off at p.m. Monday, already going so far as to give traffic away to other lines, the union Pacliic and Santa, Pe, In Southern Cali fornia. Tbe company here Is snaking ar rangementa for the handling ef freight halted in the Klamath Fans yards by the strike. Live stock will be unloaded and taken ta corrals, perishable frelgbt will be placed aa lee and dead freight arm probably remain m the ears where the traina stop. - Train Stuck Here Southern Pacific passenger train No. 19, the Klamath, will be due in here at 8:30 p. m. Monday and probably will be left on the track by the strike. The Klamath Mon day will be southbound from Port land to San Francisco. The BP Ucket office Is continu ing to sell tickets,- but, with the tacit understanding on the part of the customer that the trip might be Interrupted. Last winter,- dur ing the two-day railroad strike. No. 19 was halted here and some pas sengers were moved on by the Greyhound bus lines while others sat out the strike In the can. - The SP company can not refuse to accept freight for shipment or sell tickets until the strike actually is under way, but the company probably will slap an embargo on freight and passengers Immediate ly after the 8 p. m. Monday strike deadline. This strike Involves only loco motive engineers, both passenger and freight, but when they quit the whole of the rolling -steer: will cease rolling.. Two - Hour Trip ranch. 8. Karakul sheep browse peacefully aa the Black and White ranch. 8. Newly paved road through Sef Date Plywood Stock IaTaIH A proposed public offering of ' stock by Plywood. Inc., of Detroit to ' raise about 8788,500 for purchase of all the outstanding common stock ' ot the Kalpine Plywood company, ' waa announced today In Philadel phia. ' Kalpine la the Ralph L. Smith ' enterprise on Uie Weed highway. The proposal' waa registered with the securities and exchange com- ' miaatmv PIvhmwI t v. j option to purchase the Kalpine ' tock, and If the sale of Plywood., Inc, stock Is okayed by the 8EC, ' will exercise that option. The Detroit corporation registered ' 1500,000 of 6 per cent sinking fund ' debentures and 300,000 shares of St par value oommon stock. Funds not needed for the Kal- ' pine purchase will be used to retire bank indebtedness and for addi tional working -apitsJ. ' The debentures win be offered for sale at 100 per cent plus accrued ' Interest from next . August 1,- and the common stocks will be offered ' tor $2 a share with 30 cents a share underwriting .commission. YMCAToOpen On Monday : Although the YMCA headquart ers in Uie Klamath Armory are not completely finished, the offices will be opened Monday morning for res-' Mtrauon or individuals wishing to ; join the TMOA. One room is ready for use and partial program will ' be started. Activities to be spon ' sored at the headquarters include tumbling, shuffle board, ping pong' and trampoline. : i Volunteers to assist on various group activities are needed, accord-' ing to Cecil Kollenborn, YMCA dl-' rector. Someone to handle the checking and Information desk Is' especially needed at this time. A tew people have signed up to assist with night groups but more are re-' quired, ,. J Membership fee for a year Is It and anyone is eligible to join from eight years of age, on up. Members will be entitled to use YMCA facu lties at the scheduled times. Pee valley.