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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1948)
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SATURDAY, JAN. 17, 1948 PACK SIX New Pine Creek A number of local Masons and Vastern Star members attended the Joint Installation of officers at Ft. BldweU last Friday evening. Install ing Officer Reynolds of Alturas pre sided over the Masons while Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Smith of Willow Ranch were Installing officers for the East era Star. Mrs. Sarah Johnston is the new worthy matron who was In tailed In ceremonial splendor for the coming year and Emil Rlsley, now living on his ranch at Ft, Bid well, was re-elected worthy master. A big banquet preceded the meet ing and Jans Ward sang a special song number at the presentation ceremony. Andrew W. Lightle was taken to the Alturas hospital last Monday suffering with a mangled arm which was caught In the tie-up machine at the Willow Ranch Lumber com pany's box factory where he is em ployed as a handy man. He was repairing the machine at the time and accidently tripped the switch putting the feed belt In motion. The belt sucked his hand Into the ma chine and rendered him helpless to do anything until help came and the machine was turned off and the belt pulled back reversely so his arm could be taken out. Lightle has been most unfortunate with bad luck lately for he had just recently returned to work from hav ing his finger broken and it was the same hand with the splintered fore finger that was pulled Into the machine. He has suffered im measurably from the wound but was resting easier on Tuesday. Andy has also had two black-out attacks recently caused from nerv ous disorder or stomach ulcers. Con sidering all this hard luck coming on top of his wife's recent major operation, Andy has the fullest sym pathy of his many friends. The Boy Scouts went on a pros pecting hike last Sunday, out on Sugar Hill point, near where Harvey Porter has a quicksilver mine pros pect. The purpose of the hike was to acquaint the boys with cinnabar ore, to explore a certain cave around which hangs a gold nugget myth, and also to give the boys some prac tical experience In cooking. The boys put in what was sup posed to be the delicious elements of a dutch oven stew and built up a big fire over same prior to their explorations. AU might have been well but the boys stayed away too long and upon their return the stew was burned to a brown crisp. So the Scouts bad to rely upon a wholly Inadequate supply of sandwiches. Mrs. Harry Newman and son Ray mond and Mrs. Ida Mae Walker re turned home last Monday after spending two weeks visiting in Med ford and Grants Pass. The girls. Donna and Ruth, visited the two weeks with relatives at Hilt, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. John Sherman re turned on Friday evening after (pending three weeks visiting in Burns, Eugene and other coastal joints during the holiday season. Mr. and Mrs. Frank. Alexander e turned last week from spending a month or two traveling and visiting ' In California, Arizona, Colorado and fctah. With them returned Mr. and Mrs. Terry from Salt Lake City, Who are visiting with them for a time. The Alexanders had a won derful trip and are now ready to go to work again. Clifford Partin, Mark Partin. and Alvin McKune returned Sunday from Prlneville, Ore, where they attended a big IOOF lodge meeting. The meeting included the confer ring of the Royal Purple degree of the encampment and the Installa tion of officers for three lodges, Central Oregon, Bend and Lakeview poups. The visitors reported hav ing a big time. There will be a regular meeting of the East Side grange this Saturday evening. Olene Mrs. Tom Cimmiyottl has re turned to her home in Condon after week spent with her sister and family, Mrs. Bill Marshall. Mrs. Marshall and Infant daughter, Bar bara Jean, came home from the hospital the early part of January. Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall and Mr. and Mrs. Marion Barnes were hosts Saturday night to a grange sponsored card party at the Olene community hall. There were eight tables in play and high score went to Wynn Kinney and Mrs. Stanley Masten, low to Mrs. Rex High and Jack Roper. Mrs. Bill Garrett has received Word that her sister, Mrs. Vada Wll- j son of The Dalles, Is Improving j after a serious Illness. I Mrs. O. L. Brown Is spending this I Week in town with her father, B. S. j Orlgsby. Mrs. John Marshall and daugh ter, Ann, spent Tuesday at the Basil Brown home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder of Klamath Falls spent Sunday with the Marlon Barnes. Fort Klamath The regular monthly meeting of the Civic Improvement club was held Friday afternoon In the club house, the meeting having been .postponed one week due to the holidays. Mrs. V. B. Heacork. presi dent, was In the chair for the first time since her recent election to the office, and during the business ses sion, plans were made and commit tees appointed for the March of Dimes dance for the Infantile paralysis fund to be held here on Saturday night. January 2. The matter of the club providing some form of recreation for the youth of Fort Klamath was brought up and discussed at some length, with no action being taken. Inns much as there is no theatre or other form of diversion here for local youngsters, it was felt that the club should sponsor some form of enter tainment, the matter being tabled until later. Following the business meeting. Mrs. frank Denton and Mrs. H. T. Williams were hostesses to those present, when a social hour was en joyed and refreshments served to the following. Mrs. W. B. Hescock. Mrs. Raymond S. Loosley. Mrs. Richard Young. Mrs. Ord Pritehett. Mrs, James Van Wormer. Mrs. Mar vin Roeder, Mrs. Ray Prowell. Mrs. William A. Pase. Mrs. William C. Haekler. Mrs. Nettie J. Bishop, Mrs. R. O. Varnum. and a visitor. Mrs. Fern Head, who is making her home here with her daughter, Mrs. Ray Prowell. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sisemore and daughter Jo Ann returned last week from Berkeley. Calif., where they spent the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Bressler. Charles M. Shanahan has re turned from a trip to Dubuque. Ia, where he visited his sister. Sister Mary Alphortsine. who is a patient at Mt. Carmel hospital in Duouque. Sister Mary Alphortsine visited here with her brother last summer and since going back home has become almost totally blind, her condition being pronounced hopeless by doc tors. Although she is of advanced years during her visit here Sister Mary Alphonsine appeared very well and enjoyed the western moun tain scenery and especially a trip to Crater lake during her stay. Those who met her during her visit will regret to hear of her Ill ness. She has been a nun for over SO years. Donald Roeder was able to re sume his classes at Chiloquin High school this week, although he is on crutches with his left leg in a cast as a result of a broken bone in his ankle due to an accident while ski ing last week-end. not in the park as previously reported, but near the Wilson auto court north of Fort Klamath. The cast will be renwed from the Injured ankle In four weeks. Bert Gray is under the care of a Klamath Falls physician following the development of a painful mala dy which was diagnosed by his doc tor as fish poisoning. Gray is a veteran employe of the state fish hatchery at Crooked creek south of here, and the illness from which he Is suffering is caused from handling the fish, according to report, the strange malady being especially prevalent in Alaska among fishermen. Girl Scout News CARNIVAL By Dick Turner Hitchcock Is RotarySpeaker Phil Hitchcock, president of the West - Hitchcock corporation of Klamath Falls and president of the Klamath County chamber of com merce, used prospective basin de velopment as his theme as he spoke before the Klamath Rotary club at the regular weekly meeting at the Wlllard hotel Friday. Hitchcock sketched the general thinking of the board of directors of the local chamber regarding po tential economic development of the entire basin area and noted the marked similarity between Portland and Klamath problems. "Of utmost significance to our area," Hitchcock stated, "is the fact that Klamath Falls now ranks as the fourth distributive trade center In the entire Northwest." George Davis acted as chairman of the day. Classified Ads Bring Results The first Clothes for Friendship kit to be completed by Klamath Girl Scouts has been turned in to the Scout office by Brownie troop 35 of Henley, and Mrs. Ruby Ral ston, leader, and her girls are to be congratulated on being so prompt and efficient. This clothing kit. and many others the Klamath Girl Scouts are working on. will help reach the goal of 100.000 boxes of clothing to be sent overseas this year by the National Girl Scout oiganlsntion to help make a better life for many needy boys and girls In the war-devastated countries of Europe. The Henley Brownie Scouts col lected and made clothing for a girl from 7 to 8 years of age. and in cluded many items like stockings, skirts, underwear, bandannas and even safety pins. Troop 36 is com posed of Dorothy Askland Sandra Prunton. Linda Dcl-ap. Caroline DeVoss. Dora Jean DeVoss. Darlene Enloe. Charlene Flnchum. Sheila Finchum. Beverly Luper. Sandra Propst, Darlene Ralston. Patsy Ral ston. Joan Taylor. Martha Tuback and Susie Williams. Swimmers The Girl Scout organization is also very pleased with the progress o' the swimming program being held on the second Friday of each month. The second class was held last Friday, with a record group of 201 girls. Intermediate Scouts and Camp Fire Girls made up the larg est group with 115. Brownie Scouts and Blue Bird Camp Fire Girls came next with 80. and Senior Scouts and Camp Fire Girls had six. Of the 201 total. 156 were pres ent for the first time. The classes were understandably crowded, so the recreation department has pro vided the pool for use on the fourth Wednesdays of every month. In the future, the girls registered will be divided Into smaller classes and notified by mail of the time their class starts. At the recent class. Ella Redkey and Mrs. James Pinnt ger and Mrs. Larry Watkins of the Girl Scouts, and Virginia Denton and Naomi French of the Camp Fire organization, and Betty Pinni ger, a senior Scout, helped with the instruction and registration. The girls taking part in this pro gram are urged to practice as much as possible between sessions, and to do this, they may take advantace of the open swimming dates for the high school pool. On Saturdav afternoon from 1 to 5. the pool is open to the public with admission being 10 cents for those under 12 and 25 cents for over 12. On Sat urday evening the hours are from 5 to 9 and the charge is 25 cents and 50 cents. On Wednesday the pool Is available for private swim ming groups. Thursday evening is reserved for high school students at a 25 cents per person fee. and Fri days are reserved for Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. The city recreation department is to be thanked for setting up this fine program to promote better swimming, and further information on the use of the pool may. be ob tained by calling Sam Smith at the recreation department in the city hall. The phone is 7112. Committee Session Something new was added to a recent meeting of the out-of-doors committee when Senior Scouts were Invited to sit in on the proceedings and give their opinions and view points. The girls chosen for this were Cleo Cadwell and Ida Tenna foss. The rest of the members at tending were Vern Owens, Mrs. James Pinniger. Mrs. Keith Cobo. Mrs. William Bond and Miss Red key. Shasta Scouts The meeting of the Shasta Girl Scout troop on January 6 was visit ed by Miss Redkey and the troop was divided into patrols and told of camp plans. The patrols chose leaders and names and worked on their second class rank work. The Girl Scout office has re leased an interesting report show ing the rapid growth of Girl Scout ing In this area in 1947. The grand total of girls participating in Scout ing jumped from 524 to 758 in one year, with Intermediates leading the way with an increase from 256 ta 441. Brownies added 28 members, growing from 265 to 293. An en tirely new field was opened to high school girls when two senior troops were organized, increasing the Sen ior Scouts from nothing to 24. Adult ; 1 1 FT" II pIFI . OO00.A w jtt I COT. tWI II Nf A UKVKI. IMC. T. H. If 0. V a MT. W, "And to my business associate Spik O'Toole, I lenv th territory between 5th avenue and 4th avenue, bounded on the north by Jason street and on the south by Bond street, to be developed commercially as he sees fit!" Boyle's Column "The Lockup" Guards The Secrets Of Crop Reports lty HAL BOV1.E WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 iJ-v The present senate inquiry into grain speculation recalls the famous "case of the Jiggled window-shade." an historic scandal In the department of agriculture. The federal employe who Jiggled the windowshade was reported to have made more that year by this one act than the president of the United Stales received In salary then $50,000. It was buck in 1905. The man had just seen a secret crop report. By adjusting the wlndowshade he sig nalled to a conspirator outside whether the crop w ould be larger I or smaller than expected. What dltlerence would that news make? Well, the prices on a commodity market rise in normal times if a small crop Is forecast and fall If a huge crop Is in sight. A trader wno finds out this information in ad vance can thus buy or sell before the price changes and reap a profit. When he is dealing in i undreds of thousands of bushels, even a slight price change can make him big money. Foolproof System The outcry over the Jiggled wln dowshade led the department of agriculture to put in a foolproof system to assure that no news of its crop estimates would leak out until they were to be made public. To do this the newly created crop reporting board devised "the lock up." This Is a block-long corridor in the agriculture building which Is scaled off the morning monthly estimates of important national crops such as corn and wheat are to be Issued. Guards are pasted outside locked doors at each end of the corridor all wtndowbllnds are locked down, and the telephones are disconnect ed The statisticians then go to work assembling the data. No one Is permitted to leave the -lock-up" until the report has been completed and Issued simultaneously to news reporters waiting In a guarded room. Unaware of the restriction, the late Arthur M. Hyde, then secre tary of agriculture, tried to leave after signing his first departmental crop report. He had to wait. too. So another time did a man who had an urgent appointment with the presi dent. A worker did get out once when word came his wife had been sud denly stricken 111. But an armed guard accompanied him to the hos pital room. "Since 1906 there has beeu no leak of any kind." said Jasper E. Pallesen, secretary of the crop con trol board. ' I asked him whatever happened Flood Control Project Eyed PORTLAND, Jan. 17 il'v-A flood fiee era of growing Industrialization of the Wlllamrlle valley was en visioned today by sponsors of the Willamette vallry project and a new lock at the Oregon Oily fulls. Col. O. K. Walsh told the Port laud chuniber of comtiit'ive yester day that the project would bring 45 per cent of the valley under flood control, and with proper operation of the 20 reservoirs pluiiurd, the river level could be maintained. He said the reservoirs also would IH'riult Initiation of 431.000 acres and generation of 3H7.0O0 kilowatts of power. Sponsors of the new lock at Ore gon ('lty asserted it would promote establishment of decent rulUcd In dustry up the valley. Walter Huse. Oregon City. Clack amas county chairman of the Wll Inmctto vulley project committee, said the present hund-opcraied locks handled 58 1HH) tons of truffle In 1915 and a.:iP7.ono tons last year. An ehvlrlc stugle-llft lock la need ed, he said. Cost was estimated at J7.000.000. The Portland chamber sent n res olution to Hie Oregon delegation In congress urglnv support tor the Willamette project funds. to the man with the wlndowshiule. and he referred me to an Informa tion socialist who Is making a study of the ease. "The best I have been able to Irani." the Information man stud. "Is that he was fined MHH) after a long trial. But oldtiiners In the do piirtmrut say he probably had made $70,000 out of one deal he pulled. He Is dead now. but nobody Is sure whether he died In disgrace or a millionaire." How many umdowshades he toyed with before he was ratmht is unknown, but he pulled at least one other fast trick. Department records show that In June. 1905. he changed the official forecast of a 14 9 per cent decrease In the cotton crop to 114 per cent. This apparently suited his specu latlve purposes better. "The (Hid thing was that the final figure at the end of the year showed the actual decrease was nearer 11 than 14 per cent." said the Informa tion specialist. The fellow must have made a deal with the weniher. too. Indians living near the Caiskill mountains before the coming of the white man bcllrvrd them to be the dwelling place of the Great Spirit. PUMICE TILE For Every Building Need "There is no Finer Pumico Tilo Made." Klamath Pumice Tile Co. 1040 Owens Phone 4(119 ATTENTION LOGGERS! IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of Famous YARDERS - LOADERS SKIDDERS SilStK1L. ii ii i i Til U '. it' The Leader in the Field for Over 50 Years! 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Steak Chicken and Hem food Dinners Lounge and Dancing Open 6 p.m. till Z a. m. Phone 7981) T MAUN Saturday Jan. 17th Music by Pappy Gordon Dancing 10 Till 2 You are invited to the V. F. W. SATURDAY NITE at the Music By KARL SMYKIL and His 16 Piece Stardusters Band Featuring Vocalists PAUL SWIGART KAY CARLYLE Dancing 9 - 1 Adm. $1.00 inc. tax The Whole City of Tulelahe Wiped Out by Fire WOULD BE A Most Terrible Disaster! but the only fire in evidence now is the burning desire of the Tulcloke merchants to please every one who comes here. So much so is their desire to please that they have pledged themselves to make Tulclake THE Most Desirable Shopping Center PERIOD In making this pledge they are afraid to offer anything for sale but the highest quality for less money. THE YUKON TAVERN IS BURNING with the same desire ... so while enjoying a day's shopping in Tulelake the high light of your day will be lunch at the beautiful YUKON TAVERN We promise you better food for less money than any other place you can go or we will eat this ad! Our comfortable booths will rest your tired feet' and bodies while you enjoy a cool drink or a steaming cup of fresh made coffee. Bring your whole family . . . courtesy guaranteed . . . and while we are burning we might as well BURN UP THE FLOORS TOO so after 9 P.M. GET UP AND DANCE then go home and tell your friends what a good time you had at the Yu kon. Remember, let the ducks buy their wrist watches in Klamath Falls but do all your shopping in Tulelake. Being desirous to please at the Yukon, Jo and Charlie say: "Come As You Are!"
