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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1948)
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SATURDAY, r?48 FEB. 7, PACB TWO Continuous from 12:30 p. ui. ri.i AI.AN l.ANIC In "WILD FRONTIER" uiliilXJiiiflaiiiiliai . Ai5o . Laurel - Hardv tsi "Beau Hunks' BOTH TBEATEE1 ESQUIRE TOWER Storting Tomorrow P -4 - scon ..iBT raw hi 1 Phone 4iVt 1 QUI 30 p.m. ENDS T0DAYrm" uniiumnnn iiwiirivuuu a iiflBonancE Also "The Burning Cross" MIDNIGHT PREVIEW TONITE Z" 11:30 5: Csntlnnoot From 12:30 p. m. TOMORROW Growth, Shift Of School Population Brings Many Problems In This Area Editor's Note This Is the drat of a series of articles about Klamath schools by school people. The Illustrated articles will appear on Saturdays for several weeks. By G. K. ROBERTSON General School Supcrrtsor The Brewing and shitting school population ot Klamath Falls pre sents many educational problems tc the officials of school district No. 1. The average dally attendance has risen from 1677 to 3100 pupils dur ing the period from 1940 to 1SH7. This month's enrollment of 3171 shows an increase ot 44 pupils over that of one year ago. It appears this trend will continue fo: some time. Each new school year brings a number of overcrowd ed classrooms. Occasionally this llll rhana 4S? I tmAm snows W CONTINUOrS I TODAY ' ";3 I rDon AMECHlsQ I Catherine McLEOP I Alto C'oftrlla Chan la I -CHINESE RING- I ! ON THE STAGE SM r. X. 'SHOOT THE WOSKS"! I Girl Scout News Ella Redkey, executive secretary for Klamath Falls Girl Scout, brings back glowing reports of the recent convention she attended In Seattle. A full week was spent tn planning for the 1948 conference and In setting up regional plans for 1950 and In discussing council work. There were 40 Girl Scout workers present, representing Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alas ka, which is Region 13 in the Girl Scout organization. Regional com mittee members, who are volunteer workers, and directors for councils were Invited to attend. The conference opened with a planning session featuring the out line of work for the week, and a dinner was held at which Mrs. Charles Mockmore, regional com mittee chairman, presided. Greet ings from Elizabeth Hayden, execu tive director of the 'Idaho area council, wire presented. Another day's work included an address by Velma Cochrane on the Girl Scout Clothes for Friendship drive. Miss Cochrane is connected with the American Friends Service which has been chosen to bale and shirj the kits overseas because this or ganization was awarded the 1947 Peace Prize. An interesting point Miss Cochrane made was that the kits are plainly labeled as Girl Scout contributions and whenever possible they are given to needy Girl Scouts or Girl Guides in for eign countries. Also on this day, Mrs. Harry Robbins of the national board gave highlights from the na tional convention, and Esther Ansel, regional director spoke on "What is Our Future?" General Session The next day of the conference was a general session discussion on three topics, the corning regional conference, recruitment of profes sional workers, and senior girl plan ning and world conference. Mem bers were divided Into work groups to discuss these topics. In the eve ning all members of the conference were treated to a dinner at the home of Mrs. Charles CUse, at which time Margaret Murray, per sonnel department representative fiom national, spoke on community relations. At a general session the next day, Mrs. Mockmore presided, and Miss Ansel spoke on 1949 regional plans. A panel discussion on "Our Role In Carrying Out National Plans" was led by Margaret Mur ray. The group separated into ter ritorial meetings and discussed their plans to 1950. The last three days of the con ference were devoted to discussing finances and budgets, with Miss Murray as Instructor and Mrs. Marjorie Kafer as assistant. The final decision of the meeting was to hold the next regional con vention in November of this year in Spokane and local councils were asked to appoint a person to pro mote this conference. Clothes Drive The Clothes for Friendship drive is getting added Impetus here with the announcement that the Singer Sewing Machine company Is coop erating In every way to make the project a success. They are offer ing special training for the leaders situation Is remedied in part by transporting pupils by bus to an other school of less enrollment, or by providing optional districts be tween adjoining schools isce over lapping areas accompanying map) where pupils may attend another school with a smaller enrollment than the one they normally should attend. In general, the map show ing the boundaries of the respec tive schools can be relied upon as a guide in determining which school a pupil should attend. Slight ad justments are made from ycHr to year to keep pace with new popula tion developments. However, the enrollment of some schools Is too large to be solved bv any adjustment other than an ex pansion of the school plant. This condition exists at Roosevelt, Mills and Fremont junior high. For sometime the sixth and seventh grades of the Conger school have been attending Roosevelt. Be cause of the enlarged enrollment at Roosevelt, it becomes necessary to care for these youngsters at Con ger. To provide facilities for these pupils, a combination gymnasium auditorium is under construction a' Conger. This building will also pro vide space for three additional classrooms. When the Conger construction Is I completed. Mills will be the only school lacking an auditorium. The old auditorium was made over Into three classrooms two years ago. The enlarged enrollment there increases the need for the completion of the I auditorium and additional class rooms for which $100,000 was raised by means of a special levy approved b the voters two years ago. School authorities are studying the advisaoility of adding class-' rooms to Fremont Junior high and Roosevelt. and a course at a reduced rate for those wanting to help with th; drive, and are going to feature the drive with window displays. This help is especially valuable because much of the clothing that goes In to the kits must be made by the girls sending them, or old clothing that has been made over. More Information on the Singer Sewing Machine company plans will be announced at the leaders' meeting to be held Monday night at 7:30 at the Presbyterian church. This meeting will also feature tex tile painting, and leaders coming to the meeting are asked tn brinff a handkerchief or scarf or some siml- ' lar item which thev can practice on. j Troop 6 Troop 6 of the Roosevelt district held an Ice skating party recently which was an all-day affair, and Included cooking of the noon meal 'at the cabin of Elmer Hamden on Upper Klamath lake. Girl Scouts present were Caroline Boyd, Janice Larson, Julie Harnden, Joan Jucke land. Delores Caster, Loreen Mill?. Laura Coldeman, Geraldlne Lee, Bernice Traw and Flavia Lee. Others invited were Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Boyd and Donnie and Jlmmie Boyd, Mrs. L. L. Truax and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Harnden. Troop 44 From troop 44 in Malin comes word of election of officers. The new president is Lucile Weber and publicity chairman is Marie Rogers. At their recent meeting, the girls worked on Valentine pin cushion. Valentine candy was served by Marie Rogers and Marlene Vack nitz, hostesses. Swimming Program The swimming program held jointly by Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls Is attracting many new members. At the last class, out of the 152 in attendance. 60 were there for the first time. The girls were divided ino small classes and given as much individual Instruction as possible. In the absence of Ella Redkey, James Plnniger helped Mrs. Lawrence Flynch Instruct. The girls were registered by Mrs. James Pinnlger and the senior girls who were acting as life guards were Jackie Robatcek and Betty Pinnlger. U, . , BOUNDARIti ; . g ILEMCNTARY SCHOOL! I - 1 DUTAICT NO. I j y I III 1 ' CWMi No. 1 wo, drown by N JVv U col d rowing in NVx Klomoth Union high fV If 111 X, Phone your Want-Ad to the Her ald and News, 8111, or bring your ad to the office at Pine an- Esplanade. Pay in advance, get 10 discount Sabotage In Korea Seen As Pressure For Ouster Of U.S., Russian Forces SEOUL. Korea, Feb. 1 (IP Wide spread sabotage of rail traffic and telegraph communication lines was reported today Incidents regarded by U. S. authorities as pressure to force the United Nations commis sion to leave Korea. School Bond Float Eyed LAKEVIEW, Feb. 1 Directors of the Lakeview school board are studying the necessity for a bond issue for construction of four addl- Gauges, VBlves and drive rods were Handbills circulated throughout South Korea called for a general strike. Two notices delivered to Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, U. S. occu pation commander, warned of a three-day strike to force the com mission's departure. The commission voted yesterday to refer back to the UN little as sembly the problem of conducting elections preliminary to Korean In dependence. Russia's refusal to per mit entry Into North Korea has stumped the commission. The U. S. army, which occupies South Korea, reported a 13-car train was derailed about 30 miles east of Seoul, and that tracks were dam aged elsewhere In five places. Church Woman Takes Office i Mrs. Emily Lyon Mecum, new di rector of religious education of the First Presbyterian church, has taken over management of the church of fice. Her work will Include advising and assisting lay workers. Mrs. Mecum received her B A. de gree from Carthage college, Carth age, 111., and a diploma in music, specializing In the piano. Her mas ter's degree in Christian education came from the Presbyterian College of Christian Education. Presbyterian Seminary of Chicago. A post-graduate course In teaching retarded or advanced children was completed at Wayne university In Detroit. During the war, Mrs. Mecum worked for the emergency board of the Presbyterian synod of Illinois, and was a full-time worker In the Cairo Presbytery In Southern Illinois. Lithographers, was named by the Hans Norland Fire tniuranr. Ill national political action committee, j N. Itli SL tional elementary grade rooms, with a view to holding the election this spring and building In the summer. Superintendent Dave Bates told removed from 49 locomotives. Wire Clipped Telegraph lines from Seoul were cut in many places. The army announced 33 persons the group that there are now 138 ' had been arrested. 7947 Was Bumper Year For Sighting Cosmic Visitors TttJCyvtTCMEB MM OUXE HAiT ASTOK ALBERT OEMS! By J. HUGH PRUETT Ailronomtr. Kxtenaloa DlvUion. Orrgoa llifber Eduralion Sritcm So many comets came into tele scopic ken during 1947 that even those persons versed in such matters had difficulty keeping in mind the "which, where and when" of all of them. Fourteen of these cosmic visi tors came our way and were sighted last year. Some were returns of those discovered years ago; others were new ones never before recorded. The man who asked, "When will the comet be visible to the naked eye?" had the astronomer baffled as to which one he referred. Before discussing further, we should distinguish between comets and meteors. The latter are the ob jects seen dashing speedily across the sky and disappearing within a few seconds. They are In our upper atmosphere when visible and are less than 100 miles above the earth. Comets seem stationary, although from night to night lt may be noted that they have moved across the background of "fixed" stars as does the moon. A comet, with a more or less Impressive tall, may remain In sight for several months. Comets are not In our atmosphere at all but are millions of miles from us. Perhaps last year's comet receiv ing the most publicity was 1947n, first seen from the southern hemis phere December 5. Some press re ports Indicated It was brighter than nauey g iamea comet, but no obser vation confirmed this. It was later observed from the United States but under difficulty because of nearness to the sun and decreased bright ness. There is a comet which gives hope of being easily visible to the unaided eye by the last of February. This Is Comet Bester (1947k), discovered September 35 of last year. During the first weeks of this year it was so low in the western twilight and apparently so near the sun that It was practically Invisible. Soon It will be In the morning sky. and by Feb ruary 19 will be rising about 45 min utes before the sun. By the 37th, it will come up l'j hours before sun rise in the east southeast. Astronomers predict future lum inosity of comets by both the 4th power and 6th-power laws, but are never sure which one will apply. If the 6th-power applies In this case, Comet Bester will be almost as bright as the Big Dipper stars on February 37, and should be visible despite the nearly full moon in the west. By March 14. this comet will rise almost due esst nearly four hours before the sun and In a moonless sky. It will still be at nearly maxi mum brightness. It will continue to rise earlier, and until around the middle of March will appear be neath the fairly bright first-magnitude star Altair, which lt will con stantly approach. By March 23, the comet, now growing dimmer, will be a little above this star. first graders in four rooms, and these next year will move into only three rooms now available for sec ond grades: there are now 99 sec ond graders, and there are only three rooms available for third graders next year; there are 84 fourth graders, with only two fifth grade rooms available next year, and there are now 85 fifth graders, with only two sixth gTade rooms avail able next year. In suggesting construction of ad ditional second, third, fifth and sixth grade rooms, Bates said that the recent school census Indicates that the four present first grade rooms, now filled with 128 pupils, will be even more crowded next fall but he felt that for the present the district could put up with this sit uation If the other crowded condl tlonscan be alleviated now. ELEVENTH IN SILVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (IP) Ore gon was 11th among Western states In silver production last year. The bureau of mines said production in creased to the 194,4 level, totaling 34,181,335 ounces. Oregon's total was 33,000 ounces. GEORGE'S Cabinet NIiop BUILT-INS SCREENS STORE FIXTURES 164 E. Main Phone 7261 "All along." said Hodge, "I've been expecting physical efforts to sabo tage the w ork of the commission." He added, however, that no troop alert was planned because "there is nothing to Indicate that Korean authorities can't handle the situa tion at present." Meanwhile the commission went into executive session to consult with Oeneral Hodge. A commission spokesman said the group had heard of the Incidents but was taking no cognizance of them. Strike handbills were not signed, but there was at least one Indica tion that leftists were behind the Incidents, A gang raided the Ori ental Dally News, newspaper of the rightist Korean democratic party, and overturned type cases. Literature Literature distributed In Seoul demanded the immediate withdraw al of United States and Russian occupation troops, the confiscation and re-dlslrlbutlon of land, na tionalization of Industry, release of "political prisoners and transfer of power to the people." No antt-Amerlcan Incidents were reported. CIO NAMES I.OWMAN PORTLAND. Feb. 7 (A-) The ap pointment of James Lowman, Port land, as CIO political action direc tor for Oregon was announced to day. Lowman, president of the Port land local of the CIO Amalgamated LOOK Something New Has Been Added To Martin's Richfield Station 6th and Klamath A COMPLETE NEW AUTO BRAKE DEPARTMENT Howard Scarlet, formerly of Sunrise Auto Br oka Scrvica, will guarantee you the most reoionoble prices in town. Leave your cor for a FREE BRAKE CHECK-UP Whilo you do your ihopping. Ty 1WU Bt fXJ DOM I UQUIUS TO V MAVt TO-l PuftNltH A dj I KNOW "C; lipHMON HIT totm.fM .' fit?SMi George E. 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