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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1948)
mm oak HMiiwffi . . I f lV IT 1 I WEATHER I PS ' "''l12 lly rilANK JKNKIN'M TIIK newt from I'limue aa this !t written la censured mid un rrllnblc, but It seems reasonably clear Uiitl wlml hud already come to Finland, Ui I'olnnU. to Itoiuitlilu. to llulgarla hos now conic to Ccr)ioAlo vnkia. Moscow has TAKKN OVKIt. T" u, tin In peculiarly liuulc. The Ctciiia in our kind of peo ple. They liuve a lung trudllloii Hunger, In fuel, limn ourei ol de vollon to the liberty of the In dividual. Thry have genius lor In dustry. Whenever thry have been left alone, thry huve developed hillh alanilurd of living. They ere baslcully lolcrunl end decent. We know in our bones todity Diet thry ore niiflerlim nil the lor lurm of the ctiuiiiicd -as wo would be suf fering II ui one twill, uwlul stroke ell ol our liberties hud been tnken away end wo were Irll wrlthluii under Uio heel of a denpollc con queror. TIIIC Finns, too, ere our kind of lleoplr. Hut the Kllllla huve known relatively little of real liberty. Whal they have exiicrlenced of It has been In brief flashes, sandwiched In between long pcrloda of despotism. I'olund has never known much of rrnl liberty. And su II U with Itomanlu and llulguiia mid Yugo Alavia. In their cuscs, the denpotlam of coiniiiuulaiii la Just another 111 a long neiiea of despotic Interludes. llul Cmhiulovnkla, which trucka bjik to linhcmla and Moravlu. with their ceuturleA-louic alrUKglc for the ruihl of the Individual to think u he plcusca mid. within the hunts of the rights of othera, to IX oa he pleura. Well, somehow Uic low of liberty by thuae who have It loiilt jnuun to become accustomed to It and lo Irani how to appreciate It aeenta to hit uji with harder Jolt Ihttn Iosa ol liberty by those who have never had II long enough to CillUW INTO IT to that It beromcA a part of them. VKKP Ihla clear 111 your mind, for It It fundamental: Cominuuiam didn't come to CaechoAlovakla OA the result of an KI.KCTION in which everybody not out and voted mid communism won out. There tu ft period of disturbance, mid debate. Then SUDDKNLY AHMED MEN APPKARF.D l)K- FORK TUB OOVkllNMLNT HUU.UINOrS. Dial woa the end o( It. It came jiul like that. Liberty was dead nd communlAm had taken ll place UKRB It ft realutlc thought; Chechoslovakia tried to work Willi Russia. Hhe accepted her position. She WANTED lo throw In with ua In an effort lo rebuild Europe, but KuiUU (aid NOI bo Uie Czechs stayed with Russia. They tried to work It out. They hoped against ho)e for the beat. The headline tell in what came of IU UE'U like lo work with Russia. Aa ft matter of fuel, there Is nothing we want more. For nearly two yeura, we tried earneatly to do It. We'd love lo tackle the Job again If we could tee any hope of success. llul UiU much la becoming clear: Anyone who It going lo work with RiiAAla niUAt be AT LKA8T AS BTKONU AS RUSSIA. Czechoslo vakia, wua Utile mid weak. Russia, la powerful. So whut WAS Csecho Alovakla NOW IS RUSSIA. Let' heed the lesson. Lel'a atay STRONU. School Election Data Tiiiif : ThimdRy, t p. m. la 7 p. m. Whrrr: Klamath I'nlon high rhnnl. for vntrri In KT1IH dUtrlct HhanlA arlifMtl. I, tik mIi ore (iitrdrna nunirry. K. N. AH TTNlflrnrr, Mlillanil ruail. l'urPBe: 1 ailjiut biiundarlra of KUitiAlh I'nlnn hlRh arhool and rounlT unit dlntrlcta to take care of . alluatlnni where high arhool puplla are atlondltif arhoolg not In diilrlct In which thry rrnlilr. Probe Demanded In Sale Of "Frozen" City Lots Dlscuvery that the city, mtuln.it lis own orders, has sold nearly all of the lots In (in nrcn supposedly withheld 'from sale prompted City Couiicllninn Wendell Smith to de mand nn InvesllRiitlnn at Inst night's council meeting. Originally the lots were ordered "frozen" by the council until Uie state highway commission mado a decision regard ing construction of the proposed north cnlranco highway. The prop el ty Is located along tho sector set aside for a parkway, bordering the highway silo In lint Springs addi tion. Early in tho north entrance dis cussion, about three years ago, cmiiicllmeii ordered tho area with held and considered rc-r.onlng It from class A residential to class 1-A residential In order to prevent erection of "hot dog Simula or ser vice stnllnns," according to Conn lilmnn Paul O. Landry. Police Judite Howard Si rode was in tiered by councllmen to look up rnmra of those persons who bought the land for next week's council session. When Counclhnaii Bnilth found that re-zonlng nt tho parkway lots an well as others In Hot Springs near the Old Fort road was being considered, the city dads hit ft snag In further re-zonlng action. Councilman Landry explained "" 11111 - - , i rillCK MVK CKNTH 09- KLAMATH FALLK, OHKUON, V" pV . r.HHL'AR Y 25. 194 Telephone si 11 Noim , , Jp " , - .Cl ' j Mm. : Logging TraiIasf Kills Two ;t 21 : . A- . 1 Iw. ! Dixie Rebels Plan Ouster For Truman WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 fr-l)liie rebrla switched Urtlrs today. Their aim now la to knock President Tru man out of the democratic presi dential nomination lo avoid having to fight him within the party. Their strategy la to try to convince northern democrat thai (a) Mr. Truman has no chmuo to win In November and ibl the parly should get another nominee 1cm Inclined to preu for congressional action on antl-lynch, anti-poll tax and similar racial equality proposals. Senator McClellan iO -Ark i told reporter: Can't Win "The time ha come when the party may reullze thai President Truman can't win. Maybe then we can get another nominee." McClellan and tlx other southern senators met ycAlerday with two of the protecting Dixie governors still In Washington. The Kouthernera made clear they are willing to think about a great many other men. so long as the one finally picked la not publicly Identi fied with the president's civil rights program. They came up with some names. Senator Olln Johnston (D.-8C.) said Secretary of State Marshall would be Just the man. The diffi culty It. however, that Marshall has said flatly he will "never" run for public office. McClellan, who says he doesn't think President Truman could win 'In November even with southern support, plugged Senator Harry T. Dyrd iD.-Va i as a substitute nom inee. But Byrd, who attended the meeting, asked that his name be kept out of that kind of talk. Another revolt leader, who asked not lo be Identified, aald the name of James F. Byrnes, former secre tary of state. Is on many of the Southerners' minds. Fort Klamath Youth Hurt Oene Page, 30-year-old Fort Kla math youth nttendlng Oregon Vo cational school. Is In Hillside hos pital today with serious head In juries received when he waa thrown from his car as the machine struck a bridge late last night near the Bonanui Junction. Page ana three other OV3 stu e'ents, Donald Wlmer of Fort Kla math, Robert Doak mid Dick Fltiry, both of Chlloquln, were returning home from a basket bnl) game at Hly when Pnge's ear struck an Icy sec tion of highway, skidded and the rear end of the machine struck the bridge. Page and Doak were thrown out of the car but Doak was unin jured. Page, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cuss Page of the Fort, has bad head hurts, his nose was split open, and lie has shoulder and back Injuries. His mother was at his bedside today and said his condition waa Im proved. The car was damaged but the four youths were able to drive It Into Klnmnth Falls. Neither Flury nor Wlmer was Injured. that for three or four years, the city has been attempting to re-rone the area without results. Re-toning was first considered before Council man Smith was elected. Councilman A. F. -Condiey sided with Landry In demanding that semq action on the long-stundlng Issue be tnken. Smith and Couiicll ninn Angus Newton asked that be fore any re-sonlng Is considered,. the council Investigate sale of the frozen lots in Hot Springs. Landry replied that he doesn t care who owns the property, wheth er It Is the city or private Indi viduals, the land should be re zoned to make a restricted residen tial district along the new entrance Into Klamath Falls. Prompting the city dadR' argu ment was a request from City At torney Henry Perkins that he be allowed to publish a proposed amendment to the ronlng ordi nance. Tho amendment would make It possible for the city to notify property owners of re-r.onlng t hrntigh published newspaper notice. The amondincnt Is primarily to simplify the present set-up when end If the council decides to re echo any area, Perkins said. City officials did agree on one thing publishing the proposed amendment brought tip by Perkins. Truck Dives Off Highway Two Washington truck drivers miraculously escaped death last night when their northbound diesel truck-trailer struck a rock, plunged over a . 30-fool embankment and crashed Into the Southern Pacific roadbed about a mile and a half north of Barclay Springs on high way 07. John Edward Agar, Bremerton, Wash., driver of Uie truck, and his relief driver, Thomas R. Anderson, Seattle, who was sleeping In the re lief compartment at the time of the accident, were badly shaken up but escaped with only a tew scratches and bruises. Neither required medi cal attention. The truck, a Pctcrbllt diesel freighter of the Los Angeles-Seattle line, crashed through the rock-gunrd wires which border the 8P tracks In that area, snapping one pole and sevcr'al strands of Uie wire, and cume to rest across a siding and spur-line on the roadbed. The accident occurred at approxi mately V:o p. m. lilt Rock Agar wild he was driving at a moderate rate of speed, northbound, when he hit a large roek near the center of the roadway with his left front wheel. The Impact whipped Uie front axle to the left, and Uie machine skidded about 160 feet be fore leaving the pnvement. Agar said the truck was upright when It plunged off the road, but rolled over on Its right side after smashing Into Uie tracks below. He said the truck cllpiied a passenger car In the rear fender as 11 skidded off the road, but the car evidently was not dam nged. The driver did not slop. Anderson, asleep in a small com partment Just behind the cab of the truck, barely escaped being crushed K'snllnu-d on race S, Caluma t Power Slashed In California SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 (iW Northern and Central California's worst winter drought In history re suited today In orders to cut the consumption of electrical power al most to wartime dlmout proportions, Tho slate public utilities commis sion, after an emergency hearing, ordered seven utility companies norUi of the Tchachapl mountains to tnko drastic curtailment measures effective nt 13:01 a. m. tomorrow. Lighting of all shop windows and outdoor advertising except theatre marquees was banned. Floodlighting of all outdoor sports events was ordered reduced 60 per cent. Street lighting will be curtailed. Harlan Bosworth, assistant to the vice president of the California Oregon Power company, said today the company Is hopeful the Cali fornia power curtailment will not nffect the company's operations 'In Oregon areas, but will not know for rertnln until ihe California PUC or der Is received. Whether the dhiinut regulations will be enforced In Tule loke, Alluras, Dorrls, and other nearby California points, was also uncertain today. Copco Is getting roughly 10.000 kilowatts of power now from the Pacific Gas nnd Klectrlo system In California, and has sufficient power to carry a full load to customers In this area nt this time. s -s-imss ssssss.ss.sssssssssss. SS.SSSSSSMM ...-ft:: i-y 1 :i: Mtj.X:KMlH MU'll Mill II hi tl 1 1 A sDecUcular Dlunre over a 30 trurk-traller crashing onto the Southern Pacific railroad tracks Just north of Barklay Sprints late Tuesday night when the big machine struck a rork on the highway. The line of lights visible In the center of the picture is the lighted roek tuard bordering the track. Both driver and relief driver of the truck were Edward Agar, left, of Bremerton, compartment where his relief driver cidenL At right is Ronnie Brown, Steel Man Says ERP Sure Way To Depression In US WASHINGTON. Feb. 25 (JPv Steel man Ernest T. Weir said today the Marshall plan might lead to a de pression here more serious than any threat of "collapse and communism" In Europe. Yet, tho chairman of Uie Nntionnl Steel corporation contended, Ihe ad ministration Is using "a tremendous propaganda campaign" to try to win quick approval for its multi-million dollar European recovery program. Weir outlined his views in a state ment prepared for house foreign af fairs committee hearings on the plan. "To those who arc alarmed by the prospect of an expansion of Russian communism," Weir declared, "I say that a serious depression In the United States Is the greatest thing to fear." And one Is sure lo come, he said, if huge sums "wasted through In efficient spending abroad" are piled onto the "fantastic cost of govern ment at home." Weir said he was not making the point that all aid should be denied Europe. But he said It should be on this basis: "1. Continue urgent relief of hu man suffering by proven agencies, "2. Then ninke a thorough, care ful, further study of Europe's abil ity to fill Its own needs; the practi cal possibility of effective use of our aid by Europe; and the effect of aid on Uie U. S. economy. "3. Establish for this study nnd Uie administration of nld nil Inde pendent agency free from political influence x x x. "4. Appropriate at this time an - foot embankment tent thit huge uninjured. In the lower picture, John Wash., driver. Inspects the sleepinr was asleep at the Ume of the ac reporter for The Herald and Newt. amount no greater than the actual needs that are shown to be Justi fied xxx. "6. Make commitments for no more than one year at a time." Weir asserted: "I cannot subscribe to the presi dent's position that precisely $6,800,- 000. 000 spent between now and July 1, 1949 will save Europe but that anything less will be money 'poured down a rathole'." The senate foreign relations com mittee has decided that $5,300, 000.000 should be spent on the pro gram during the first 12 months ending March 31, 1939. The house committee next week will begin its own closed door study of how much to allow. Sometimes You Just Can't Win TAMPA, Fin., Feb. 24 (l T. J. Younglove bundled himself in a blanket, armed himself with a shot gun and kept a week-long vigil for chicken thieves. Then, one night some dogs start ed running his Jersey yearlings. While ho was after the dogs, some body slipped Into his chicken house nnd stole 15 pullets. BIG HAI L ROME. Feb. 25 (fli Five robust bandits were arrested yesterday at Torrlta Tiberina, near Rome. They were dragging away the Inst of the town's steel bridge, which they had been systematically dismantling for several days. Low Water Held Cause Of Explosion Two men were killed tnd a third seriously burned early Tuesday morning tlx miles south of Can by, Calif., when a logging train loco motive of the Ralph L. Smith log ging operations blew up. Fatally burned In Uie explosion were Mike Link. 56. engineer, and Harold Miller, about 21, brakeman the train. Another brakeman. Arthur Wemer, about 27, remains in a critical condition at the Alturu hospital, his body badly burned by cteam. Train Stopped The explosion occurred on a sid ing as Uie logging train had pulled to a stop at about 2 a. m., according to A. B. Hood of Klamath Falls, head of Ralph L. Smith operations In this area who left early yester day for Alturas and Canby. Word of the tragedy reached Canby some time after the explosion when C. H. Parsons, locomotive fireman, walked three miles to the Big Lakes camp to summon aid. Parsons was blown from the cab but was able to walk. He Is at his home In Canby suffer' lng from shock but his condition Is reported good. He has burns on Uie lower leg. Link, Miller and Werner were moved to the Alturas hospital where link died at 5:30 a. m. yes terday, and Miller succumbed at 10:38 a. m. Link was unmarried but young Miller it survived by wife and child. Werner is also married, his wife, it is understood, it a sister cf Harold Miller, the brakeman. Cause at Uie accident is thought to have been low water in the boiler but an Inquest It scheduled for later In the week on the return of Dis trict Attorney Charles Lederer of. Arluras, now in Southern Call fornla. At an early hour this afternoon the Alturas hospital reported Wer ner's condition still grave. He has deep steam burns about the face, above the waist and around the groin. Hood said all members of Uie log ging crew had been with the Ralph L Smith operations for quite some Ume. Link Is an old employe and welj known in the Canby-Alturas sector. Senate Okays Rent Proposal WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 OP The senate today passed by a voice vote the house-approved bill extending rent controls one month beyond next Sunday. The measure now will be flown to Uie Caribbean for President Tru man's signature. Mr. Truman is vacationing in that area. The senate acted under a sus pension of its rules making it un necessary for the banking commit tee to pass on Uie bill. Last night the senate passed its own bill to continue rent controls 14 months. The present rent law is due to expire Sunday. The house voted yesterday to keep it alive "as is" through March. Governor John Hall (right) and the magnitude of Oregon Vocational Carter, an auto mechanic ttadent. Deputy Sheriff Jack Franey be. came the 12th man to run for sheriff of Klamaih eonnty today. He seeks the GOP nomination. EvarsTMn Franey Files For Sheriff Jack Franey, deputy for 13 yean. came into the sheriffs race today. making an even dozen candidates seeking the office being vacated by Sheriff Lloyd Low. Franey is a republican, the ninth member of hit party to file for the nomination. Also this morning came an an' nouncement from Deputy Marion Barnes that he Is not ;n Uie running for the office. He had often been mentioned as a likely candidate. Deputy Franey has worked under Sheriff Low for the past 13 years and declares that he feels the ex perience he has gained qualifies him to seek election to trie onice. He Is a native of Wisconsin but has lived in Klamath county for 24 years and is well acquainted over the entire county. He it 48 years old, married, resides at 2030 Fremont, is a member of the Elks lodge and the 40-and-8 organization of American Legion. 3000 Phones Out Of Order More-, than 3000 customers were without telephone service today as trouble occurred somewhere alone the South Sixth street circuit of The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company. Disruption was noted at ( a. m. and a crew dispatched to a point near the Midland road but at noon today. Manager Charles Seavey said Uie source of the trouble waa no located and a cable crew had been summoned from Roseburg. No toll lines are out and com munication Is satisfactory at all points south except in the south suburban area, Seavey said. Just when Uie source n trouble will be located was not learned early this afternoon, but Seavey observed that when it was found it would not take more than one hour to make neces sary repairs. A wet cable Is thought to have caused the disruption of service. Early today it looked as if the trouble would probably be found In an underground section. Late Spud Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 25 (AP USDA) Potatoes: 11 broken. 22 un broken cars on track; arrivals, Cali fornia 1, Idaho 5, Oregon 3, Maine 2: market about steady; Deschutes Russets No. 1 bakers delivered, $6.65. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25 (AP USD A) Potatoes: 31 broken, 36 un broken cars on track; arrivals, Cali fornia 1, Idaho 6, Utah 2, Colorado 1, by truck 4: market about steady; Idaho Russets No. 1-A. $5.10-5.25. High State Officials Pay Visit To Secretary ef Stale Earl Newbry school, which they visited. They Benes Gives In After 5 Day Holdout PRAGUE, Feb. 25 WV-Communtti Premier K element Gottwald took over control of Cteehotlovakla to nlght with a new cabinet made up almost wholly of hit supporters. President Eduard Benes, who held out for five dayt against the com munisi battering ram, yielded Gottwald's demands. Gottwald said "reacUon" waa whipped. He told a dense throng In the capital's business center Benes had capitulated In "something that waa not In complete accordance with hut wishes." 14 Resign The president accepted the resig nations of 14 members from Uie former coalition 12 who resigned last week In the deepening crisis and two social democrats who declined to go along today with the left wing. The new cabinet retained Jaa Mataryk, non-party man and toa of Thomas Masaryk, the nation' first president, at foreign minister. Masaryk hat preached cooperation with the west. Bat his retention waa viewed here largely at an astute eommnnist move trading on the name of the beloved father of hie country. The new cabinet includes 11 other communist besides Oottwald, two national socialists, two Catholi people's party members and one Slovak democrat, all of these friend ly to the communist program. Thus the opposition in the minor parties it not actually represented. Back to Power The social democrats in the cab inet represent the party which ha been a key to the current crisis. It , swung back to the support of "she -communist thit week after several month of estrangement, and with the switch, Zdenek Flerllnger vault ed to power again. Flerllnger, a pro-communist who wa deposed a party chairman last year, becomes minister of industry in the new cabinet. Long before the official announce ment from Hradeany, the presi dential Balaee, the government radio announced that the president had capitulated te eommnnist demands. This announcement gave the Im pression that the last obstacle to iron communist control of the nation had been swept aside. Some 60,000- persons clogged the business section of the city lor a communist demonstration aa the announcement came in time to call oft a general strike threatened, by . e. the communist. Oottwald himself mad the an nouncement. The decision was 'not easy," the premier said in an address over a (Catlaa m rata , tXsma at Courtright To Be Transferred B. G. Courtright, the superin tendent of the Klamath Indian res ervaUon, will be transferred to the Duck valley reservation, Utah, on April 1, The Herald and News learned today. He will be replaced at Klamath by Ray M. Bltney, regional Indian service forester at Phoenix, Aria. Bltney was formerly superintendent of the Red Lake reservation, Min-r -nesota, spent a year at the Taholatt , reservaUoo near Hoquiam, Wash., then returned to Red Lake. He en tered the army and on return waa tent to Phoenix. Courtright, for more than 10 year superintendent of the Klamath, 1 a career with the Indian service. He ha been recently on leave, but has returned to active superin tendency which he will hold until relieved by Bltney In April. Court- right would make no comment on the change in answer to inquiry this morning, but lnformaUon on thsv, matter came from an unquestioned source. OVS (center) were surprised ystterday at ; are talking te Jesse a,
