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Finals Set
For March
At deadline Hi z p. m. yesterday,
40:4 war veterans hud fllrd appli
cation for the 44 homestead of
fcrcd In Uie (oppock buy opening
an the Klamath reclamation pro
ject. It waa by far the largrat nuttibrr
of application In any homcatead
opening on the Klamath project,
and nrarly Iwlre aa many aa fllrd
for MO homratraila late In 1148
In the Ural poal-World War II
oprnliif.
Hrvrrul application have arrlvrd
bv mail At the reclamation office
since the deadline, and one would
be applicant arrived In imtmmi about
10 minute Intc He Irlt In con
siderable "huff when Ilia applies.
tlon was refused Inr the simul
taneous Ilium, reclamation official
ald. They t:iicd It wa necessary
to obwrve strictly the established
deadline named In the regulation
act up by the secretary o( Uie In
terior. Hoard At Work
In the 19 opening, about one.
third ol the appllranla who ordinal.
y applied were eliminated In the
processing of application. If the
me proportion hold, It apper
that between 1600 and MOO Teteran
will participate In the llnal Cop
pork bay drawlni. The homcatead
rsamtntng boaed I already hard at
work proeeaalng tho application,
each of the three member of the
board reading each application
carefully.
Applicant who lire turned down
In Hi proceaalng procedure will hiive
10 dsy to appeal to the regional
raclnmatlon director after their re
ceipt of notice of rejection. Moat
turn-down are expected on tin
bull of Jrm experience.
Drawing In March
March IB I act M the approxi
mate date for the llnal drawing,
which will be carried out along the
line of the prevlou drawing. Every
effort will be made to Imish the
allotment o the new larmer can
get on their land In time for the
llrta farming aeason.
There will be no second drawing
for individual farm choice thi
lime. Tlio farm unit have been
numbered, and the applicant who
draw No. I In the drawing will get
No. 1 farm, and o on. Till will
lred the post-drawing process.
Inlereat In the t'oppock bay draw.
In wa drarribed by reclamation
ofllclal a "lerrlfle." Application
poured In from all part of the
country. A lutal of 15.101 blank
were ent out In reply lo Inqulrle,
but over 10.000 of tlio who made
Ituiulry failed lo file completed ap
plication. Reclamation employe held a
gueaalng contest on the number of
application which would be re
turned In the simultaneous filing
period. Joyce llrlaroe won the con
leal with a guea of 4000.
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8A1.EM, Jan. 21 T Ormond
K. Dean, Portland, Orrgon public
tilllllle commissioner from 1830 to
1 043. filed hi candidacy todny for
the republican nomination for stnte
treasurer. He I the first candidate
to file for the office.
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Hhlrley Jeffcoat (left) and Daisy Mae Itos, reelamallnn bureau clerks, are hown with a batch of the
final application for Coppuek bay homesteads wiilelt orrlved In largo number Just before the 2 p, m,
Imiiltanenu filing ilradlln yesterday. A tnlal of 4024 application were received In the RO-ilay filing
period,
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TWO MUKIUI.I. lU'll.DINGtt lll'RNKD Ot'T Two building In the center of the Merrill btuiiieai aecUon were virtually drntroyed by a fire
of unexplained origin early till morning, a fire which wa kept from aprcodlnr by wall ,if brlrji atructurr on eitUct aide. of too-burned
pot. Moat of the damage--wm done tn the Merrill Himarda, which' wa gutted, but tire Itcere hardware and electrical aenice alo received
evere fire, water and smoke damage. Two truck of the Merrill volunteer fire department and one truck from Malln fought the blaie for
two hour before It wa put out. The fire wa believed to bave atartrd In the pool hall and wa discovered when Darrrll King, one of the
owners, came to open for buslneu at 1:15 a. m. The Herald and News photograph.
Tito Claims Yugoslavia Has Atom Bomb
TRIKSTK. Free Territory, Jan. 21 text of the speech for a month, but at their dlaposal 150 dirlaiona ready thousand "bandits" were In the
(A'i rrrmler Marshal Tito was ' delayed publication, until It learned to march on 48 hours notice and j Yugoslav mountains and were vex
qiioled by I Voce Libera today as it was uuthcntlc and had been pi'P- ! capable of wiping out all obstacles Inn. but of no consequence. (Balkan,
telling Yugoslav communiai icauera i
that "we shall use our own atomic :
bomb" In any future conflict for
"the final annihilation of reaction."
(A version published by the pro
Drt.aulle trench weekly "Dlasl
tlenre 40" quoted Tito aa saying:
"War against the Anglo-Americans
It Inevitable. II Is perhaps even a
question of weeks."
Lo Voro Libera, a pro-llullnn
newspaper, said Tito had delivered
the secch to his party executive in
Zagreb last Nov. 18. It said he had
reported Kuuilan arsenal are turn
ing out 30.000 vehicles a month and
"our jet-propelled fighters and our
artillery will eliminate from the
enemy aviation any desire to come
and see us."
The French pnper said It had had
the text of the speech for a month,
but delayed publication, until It
learned It was authentic and had
been published In "Dlssldence 40."
prn-DcOiuilll.Ht French newspaper.
The paper said It had luid the
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Voce Libera quoted Tito as
saving that reactionary force, with ,
111 aiH nt Amwlnn anA Hrlfl.K
capital, were working against the
"Yugoslav proletariat," but that he
had a "verv atronr. well nrpantteri t
! armv which we iIa tint fit ehfwn. I
late and sweet but which stands in !
readiness, nol only to protect our
frontiers, but also lo oust the divi
sion of gangster concentrated In PORTLAND. Jail. 21 (P Record
Italy and Austria." The quotation 1 average and total prices were re
went on: ported today for 1047 sale of tim-
"Wc are ready to sink their fleet : ber from U. S. forest service tracts
In the Adriatic: against their atomic j In Washington and Oregon,
bombs we shall use our own. We do : The North Pacific regional fores
not stand alone this time. ; ter reported that the average price
"Our jet-propelled fighter plones 1 of $8.58 per 1000 feet and the total
and our artillery will efficaciously I $13,349,400 for 1.558.841.000 feet of
discourage visits by enemy aviation. ' timber were new yearly highs.
Our materiel comes from an In- j The timber cut in the region also
exhaustible source. Our lines of set new marks.
transport will never be cut.
"Russian workshops turn out 30.-
000 ears a month. Headquarters have
Deadline
JANUARY 21, HUH
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ooairuciing weir aavance up to
rarls."
Tito was quoted as saying
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Timber Sales
iSet Record
Competitive bidding for the dwin
dling Washtncton supply boosted
bids there to $8.76 per 1000 average
and brought $5,988,404 for 683.326.
000 feet. Oregon led ill volume with
875.518.000 feet of timber bringing
$7,360,996, an average of $8.41 per
1000 feel.
Sales from the Willamette n a -tlonal
forest tapped all other 19 re
gional forests and the total of 302.
217.000 feet for $2,493,657 was also
above sales for the most other en
tire regions in the nation.
The Columbia national forest in
Washington was second In volume
and the Umpqua In Oregon was
third.
The 1947 cut was 1.670.027,000
worth $8,848,442. Oregon's share was
941.799,000 feet for $6,604,589 com
pared with Washington's 728.228.000
feet valued at $3,243,853.
KPCA Retires
More Stock
Another $20,000 In government
held stock will be retired by the
Klnmath Production Credit associa
tion when It holds Its annual stock
holders' meeting nt the Oregon Vo
cational school dining room Satur
day noon, according to Lee Mc
Mullrn, secretary-treasurer.
Last year, $25,000 was retired.
This year's action will leave the as
sociation only $5000 awny from com
plete farmer-stockman ownership.
A four per cent dividend will be
paid Saturday.
Already, more than 300 cords have
been returned Indicating a record
attendance at the dinner. J. W.
Bradley, secretary of the Production
Credit corporation, Spokane, will be
the main spenkcr.
KPCA operates In Klamath, Lake,
Siskiyou and Modoc counties.
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No. 1243
esteatls
gutuuuiieiii. spuae&iiieii reguiariy
use the term "bandit" for opposi
uon lorces).
"Hundreds of thousands of their
companion who lire in our midst
spy on us from London and Wash
ington through yet undiscovered
channels." Tito was quoted as say
ing. "Comrades, these doings must
be slopped at all costs."
The report then quoted Tito as
saying:
"I have no wish to interfere In
matters of religion, but when pr'iesta
will toll alarm bells, there will be
wholesale insurrection and it must
not be overlooked that the farmers
are very well armed."
Fire Fatal
For Woman
Mis. Muck Andrews, 60-year-old
Corvallls housewife, died last night
In the Corvnllis General hospital of
burns suffered when flames de
stroyed two trailer houses at a camp
south of the city, sending four per
sons to the hospital early yesterday
afternoon.
Also injured ill the explosion were
Mrs. Andrew s' husband and Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Sabo of Klnmath Falls,
both students at Oregon State col
lege. Firemen said the explosion
came while young Sabo wns repair
ing a butane gas tank. Fumes appar
ently were Ignited by sparks, and
flames quickly destroyed the adjoin
ing trailers.
Sabo, 24-yenr-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Stephen Snbo of 73 Pine street,
pioneer Klamnth residents, and his
wife. Mary Jane, were said to be
out of dnnger todny. Snbo's mother
left here early yestcrdny on word of
the nccldent and is with another
son, Stephen Jr., also a student at
Oregon State. Paul Sabo is an army
veteran, and he and his wife left
Klamath Falls January 6 to enter
OSO. They were married last Au
gust. Grand Jury In
Third Day
Tlio county grand jury i In the
third day of Its deliberations todny
and has mndc no indication of a
report before probably late Thurs
day afternoon.
A four-dny session was predicted
when the grand Jury begnn work
Monday,
District Attorney Clarence A.
Humble hns been kept busy round
ing up witnesses for the Jury and a
steady stream of them have been
moving In and out of the grand Jury
room Just off circuit court chambers.
Nine Young People Injured
In Two-Car Highway Smash
Nine young people were injured,
four seriously, the result of a two
car accident two miles south of
Worden on highway 91 as they re
turned to Klamath Falls from a
Sacred Heart Academy-Do rrts high
school basketball game last night.
The accident occurred at 10:30 p.m.
In Hillside hospital are Elizabeth
Andersen, 16. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Andy Andersen, 700 Doty, and
Grace Howell, 16, 727 N. 9th. daugh
ter of Mrs. Vera Howell of Tule
lake. In Klamath Valley hospital are
two of the boys, Patrick Slowey,
18. 301 West Main, and Charles
Wood, 17, 2338 Home. Pat Is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis. Slowey,
and Charles is the son of Mrs. Ann
Wood, all of this city.
Treated at Klamath Valley and
dismissed last night were Rita Har
rington. 17-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Harrington of
1778 Etna, and Merie Schie, 20, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Schie,
134 N. 3rd.
Injured but not seriously, were
three youths, Clarence Virgil Ray
son, about 20; John Paul Foster,
20, 2926 Altamont drive, and George
Norman Steele, 925 Washington.
State police said the accident oc
curred when a coupe and a pickup
attempted to pass the Clay Howard
car which was In the left lane and
passing the lead car. Howard, a
county employe, resides at 2614
Turnage.
Howard's car was occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Howard and two academy
youths. They were ahead of the
Ray Howard machine carrying five
Youth Goes
To Boys Towh
BEND. Ore., Jan. 21 (4) Little
11 -year-old Cecil Snyder, who sang
In his penthouse cell atop the
Deschutes county courthouse and
roller skated down the corridors
while held on a charge of murder
lug his father, was headed for Boys
Town, Neb., and a new life today.
Arrested following the December
12 death of his father, Joseph V.
Snyder, the boy small for his years,
wns formally charged with murder.
Sheriff C. L. McCauley said he told
a story of abuse at the hands of his
father, with whom he lived alone in
a farm house five miles east of
here, and admitted putting poison
In two cheese sandwiches.
Circuit Judge R. S. Hamilton yes
terday paroled Cecil to the juvenile
court where Judge R. S. HamiUbn
conducted a hearing based on his
being a dependent child. Howard S.
Page, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, repre
senting Father Flnnngnn's Boy's
Town, asked that the boy be re
leased to him to live at the famed
Nebraska town. The petition was
granted, with the court holding the
boy under parole until he is 21.
Acheson Hits
Aid Plan Cut
ATL'ANTIC CITY. Jan. 21 (P
Former Undersecretary of State
Dean Acheson said today a drastic
cut In administration money esti
mates for European recovery would
"merely prolong the Illness,' the cost
and the danger."
If congress reduces the $6,800,
000,000 figure for the first IS months
of the Marshall plan to $4,000,000,000
or $5,000.0000.000. he declared. "It
censes to be a recovery program."
Instead It would be a dole handed
out to keep Europe alive and relief
"Is costly because It may be endless,"
Acheson said In a speech prepared
for a convention of the National
American Wholesale Grocers' asso
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academy students. All were en
route to Klamath Fall. Mrs.
Howard said she looked In the rear
view mirror and did not see any
approaching cars until they were
full in the left lane and In the act
of passing the car ahead. Just then.
she said, she saw a pickup and a
coupe "flying through the air.
Officers investigated and said the
pickup driver applied brakes so
lorciojy uiai uie rnaciune saiaaeo
a distance of 110 feet, overturned
and came to a stop headed south.
The pickup was driven by young
Rayson. route 1 box 924, and reg
istered to his stepfather. Frank
Owens, same address. The coupe
was driven by George Steeley of
ficers said.
It Is understood that the pickup
and the coupe were Klamath bound
"bumper to bumper." Officers said
both drivers admitted to be travel
ing at between "55 and 60 miles
per hour." . Both machines were
wrecked.
Passengers in the pickup were
Rayson, the driver, with Foster and
Miss Harrington in the lront seat,
Grace Howell, Betty Andersen, and
young Schie in the bed of the ma
chine. Steele's passengers were
Slowey and Wood.
An early morning check with Hill
side hospital showed that Miss
Andersen has a severe hand injury,
cuts and bruises. Miss Howell has
body bruises and is badly skinned
up. and she also has a broken
shoulder bone. Ray Howard said
that both girls were under the pick
up and that he and others extri
cated the two and Howard moved
them to Hillside. Both are Sacred
Heart academy junior students.
Miss Howell resides at the Lyle
Durrell home here.
Miss Harrington, a senior at the
academy, suffered from gasoline
burns and was treated at the hos
p'tal. Her clothing was saturated
but there was no fire.
Young Slowey has a fractured
pelvis and other hurts. His com
panion, Charles Wood, has bad
facial lacerations, slight concussion
and a painful elbow injury, hospital
attendants reported from Klamath
Valley. The Klamath Ambulance
Srrvice brought Slowey, Wood and
Schie into the hospital.
$5 Billion GOP Tax Cut
Heads For Certain Veto
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (P Ap
proved "as is" by the house repub
lican leadership, the $5,600,000,000
tax slashing bill moved today toward
swift house passage and a virtually
certain veto.
Democrats mobilising to battle the
measure claimed enough votes to
block Its final enactment, however,
unless the senate trims the site of
the tax cut when the legislation
reaches that body.
Speaker Martin (R-Mass.) set the
house vote tor next week, probably
Friday.
The house republican steering
committee, In approving the meas
ure late yesterday, refused flatly
to make any concessions that might
attract democratic support. A two
thirds majority Is needed In both
houses to overturn a presidential
objection.
Democratic Leader Rnyburn of
Texas told reporters "the bill as It
is will never become law, and I
think Uie republicans know it."
But Rep. Knutson tR-Mlnn.),
author of the measure, shot back
that Rayburn Is "Indulging in wish
ful thinking" and added: "The bill
will become law."
The GOP leaders Ignored Presi
dent Truman's substitute proposal
calling for a $40 "cost of living" tax
cut for everyone and a compensat
ing $3,200,000,000 excess profits levy
on corporation.
The ways and means committee
wns called Into closed door session
(10 a, m, EST) to consider the
Billiards,
Hardware
Store Hit
MERRILL, Jan. 21 A fire of un
determined origin this morning gut
ted two buildings In the center of
the Merrill business district and pnl
out of operation the Merrill Bil
liards, owned by Darrell King and
Van Ilolden, and the Reeves Hard
ware and Electrical service, owned
by Verle Reeves.
Damage to the buildings and thi
businesses is estimated at up to
$50,000, partially covered by In
surance. The fire apparently started In til
pool hail and was not noticed until
about 7:15 a. m. when Durrell King
came down to open the establish
ment. King said he pushed open the
door and smoke puffed out In his
face.
Turned In Alarm
He turned In the alarm and two
trucks manned by Merrill volunteer
firemen came up to battle the
blaze. Later a third truck was
brought In from Malln.
The fire was already going strong
in the pool hall and was spreading
into the wall and roof of the hard
ware (tore. It wa brought under
control about 9:15, but not nnttl
alter the pool hall wa almost total
ly destroyed and considerable fir
and water damage had been done to
the hardware store and stock.
The roof of the pool hall burned
out and caved In, and the upper
roof over the hardware stora was
destroyed and the celling of that
building sagged dangerously. The
blaze got Inside the double roof and
was hard to hit with the streams of
water . being pumped in by the
trucks.
No Injuries
No one was hurt In the fire or
In the two-hour fight.
King said that he had no Idea
how the fire started. The Merrill
Billiards had been closed up at 1
a. m. and no one was inside. Specu
lation was that It might have start
ed from a stove.
That building wa a one-story
frame structure, long and narrowi
and contained the bar. pool tables
and other fixture, plus an esti
mated $4000 stock. Hotden said that
be would put their loss at about
$10,000 in stock and fixtures, re
placement coat, but that he and
King had only $2500 Insurance. He
aid that until six months ago they
had S4500 insurance on the fix
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Rates Bureau
Meet Tonight
The Klamath Basin rates bureau
may bave a new name after tonight.
The annual meeting of the organi
zation will be held at 7:30 in the
chamber of commerce building, and
one of the Items of business to bs
acted upon is a proposal for a new
constitution.
The new constitution, in the first
article, directs that the name of thi
organization will be changed to
"Southern Oregon Traffic associa
tion." Also to be held tonight is an eleo
Uon of officers and a progress re
port. Officers and directors chosen
wUl take office Immediately.
Parole Studied
For Boy Slayer
BEND, Jan. 21 WP) Circuit Judgi
R. S. Hamilton today had under
study a motion to parole Cecil
Snyder, 11, facing (rial In the death
of his father, to a juvenile court
The boy was arrested December
18 a few days after his father died
from eating a cheese sandwich.
Police said the boy told of placing
poison in the sandwich because of
his father's cruel treatment.
Attorneys for the boy have waived
grand Jury hearing and asked the
court to place the case In the
Juvenile court.
Knutson measure. But with re
publicans outnumbering democrats
15 to 10, the committee's formal ap
proval was virtually certain.
Martin told a news comerenco
after the steering committee decision
that the republicans will slash Mr.
Truman's $39,700,000,000 budget ta
make room for the lax cut and
payment on the national debt of at
least $2,000,000,000.
"We need to cut Uie budget only
by $1,500,000,000 to do that," Mar
tin said, "but we are going to reduce
the budget much more than that."
To which Chairman Taber (R
N.V.) of Uie house appropriaUon
committee added in an Interview;
"When we get through with Uie
president's budget we will have
money enough for a $5,600,000,000
tax reduction and at least a $5,000,
000,000 payment on the debt."
On the other side of the capltol,
however, a leading republican who
asked not to be quoted by nam
said tax action will be delayed In
the senate "until we have a clearer
picture of what the treasury sur
plus will be."
Knutson' bill would:
1. Raise Individual exemptions
by $100, from $500 to $600.
2. Let husbandii and wives In all
states split Uie lauMly Income for
tax reporting purposes, thus hold
ing It within lower tax brackets.
3. Grant percentage cuts, rang
ing from 30 per cent In the lowest
Income bracket to 10 per cent In
the upper brackets.