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Newspaper Page TextPACI SIX HfcKALD AND NEWS, KLAMA1H FALLS, OKfcCON Bob Kounz, Albany, Named President Of Oregon FFA Organization At OVS Meet OVS, April It An Albany boy. flub Kouni, au elected president of the Oregon Future l'raitn of Am erica at the FFA convention ( Ore f on Vocational school last week-end. Olher office are Bob Barnes. Silvexton, vice president; Novelle Bobbins, N)"". tecretary; Maurice Janialatlt, McMinnvllle, treasurer; France Ropn, Pendleton, reporter. - Dlttrlrt trie prealdenta and ad Visors respectively are Southern Ore gon. Joe Wright, Granu Paaa and A. T.. Street, Mnlin; Kantern Ore gon. Klden Barker, Ontario; Dirk Wilson, Nvaaa, advinor; Blue Moun tain, Ray Tarter, Milton: V. Wedin, Milton; Lower Willamette. Bill Tolke, Banki; C'loyd Makinson. F.u- Spring Lake Resident Dies 1 Walter W. Quimby, about 58, was found dead al 8:15 . m. Monday kt hii home In the Spring lake dis trict when t neighbor called at the residence. The coroner's office said Quim by had been dead about one-half an hour when found. Death Is thought to have been caused by pneumonia, pulmby lived alone. , The man was the brother of the late Gordon Quimby, well known JClamath stage line operator who died two years ago. Another brother. Harry. Is said to live In Klamath Falls but was out of town Monday. , A full obituary will appear in Tuesday's Issue of The Herald and Mews. Remains art at Ward s. George Belt Dies At Home OOLD BEACH. April 12 George L Belt, 36. Gold Beach attorney and on of Supreme Court Justice Harry H. Belt, died suddenly at his home Saturday. Belt was raised In Dallas. Ore. and ent to Salem In 1925 when his father was appointed to the supreme bench. He was graduated from the University of Oregon law school in J135 and began practice In Salem. , During the war George Belt served with army Intelligence In North Wrica. Sicily and Austria. At the jnd of the war he came back to Oregon and tried to settle for prac tice In Klamath Palls but was un able to locate office space here. Then he went to Gold Beach. Survivors, besides the parents, are Jhe widow, a son and two sisters. Retired Rancher Passes At 76 Charles Herbert Cook. 76-year-old retired stockman, died at the family Jiome, 1937 Derby. Saturday at 10:55 a. m. following an illness of the past several months. I Mr. Cook was the father of Carl K Cook, former Klamath Falls po lice Judge, now of Oceanside. Calif . ?rs. Jessie Shaver and Stanley P. f ook of Klamath Falls. Other sur yivors Include his wife. Mrs. Alice ,Took of this city, a son. Robert of Boulder Cttv. Nev.. and a daughter. Mm. Edna McMlllen of Marysvllle. Calif. I Final rites will be held Wednes day at 9:30 a. m. from the Sacred 'Heart church with interment In Mt. Calvary cemetery. , Carl K. Cook arrived here Sun-1 day afternoon to attend services I for his father. gene; I pper Willamette. Iiayrl tan (leave, halrtn, Howard Ben net. New berg. Contest winners announced Sat urday Include the following: Pasture Improvement OleiT Car mony, Sandy, and Bobby Mlnyard, Sandy. Potato C.radlnr Corky Kills. Don ald Coleman. Malln, gold certif icate; Marvin Robertson, Bill C.reen, New berg, allrer certificate; Ray Weygart, Jerry Jeskey, Canby, silver certificates. Dairy Judging Rosebttrg. Scap poose. Oresham. gold certificates: Lakeview, Bank. Malm. Hillsboro. silver certificates; Woodburn. Perry dale. Newberg. bronse certificates. Individual Dairy Judging Merle Sanders. Roseburg. Lyle Flatting. Perrydale. Leonard Weber. Malm, gold certificates; Darwin Hammer-sly. Lakeview; Ronald Kennedy, Cottage Orove: Lew Stephan. Scap poose: Bill Cross. Banks, silver cer tificates: Paul Heriberg. Woodburn: Dean Hunter. Nyssa: Raymond Cross, Elgin, bronre certificates. Farm Accounting Chuck Krueger, lllllsboro. gold certificate; Ray Has clt, Malln. silver certificate; Ran dolph Scoggins, Amity; Dick Stritx ke. Roseburg: Barnard Wessman. Granu Pass, bronie certificates. Search For Plane Starts PORTLAND. April 13 tPi A sec ond ground search began today for the Oregon national guard A-26 at tack plane that vanished Friday night with three men aboard. Trucks, Jeeps, and men on foot started a hunt of the heavily wooded Fargher lake area near Ara boy, Wash., where residents report ed hearing explosions about the time the plane s last radio message was heard. The final message was radioed from 11 miles north of Portland the same general area where eight men died in an army plane last month. Ground crews searched the Cou gar mountain region in Southern Washington fruitlessly yesterday. Repeated flights over the week-end revealed nothing, and this morn ing's weather was unfavorable for an air search. Aboard the missing plane, which was en route from McChord field to Portland, were Capt. A. M. McCor kle. 59: M Sgt. J. W. Shaylor. 30. and Pfc J. T. Tofte. 18, all of Portland. TOONERVILLE FOLKS DEMONSTRATION S Don't Go North, Young Man, Unless You're All Set With Employment WASHINGTON. April 12 ( Don't go to Alaska looking for a fishing industry Job. says the fish and wildlife service, unless: A. You have a definite offer. B. You have enough money to get home on If work is not available. It will also help, the agency cautions, if you have experience in that line. A service publication, prepared by Paul Elliott of the commercial fish eries division, points out that most canneries do their hiring in March or April, usually In Seattle. Workers hired at Seattle receive Logger Posts Bail In Knox Law Case John Ray Dunn, 54. logger living at 501 Broad, posted si 000 bail early Sunday morning at the county Jail after his arrest on a charge of viola tion of the Knox law. Dunn allegedly was selling liquor at his residence. He was picked up by a liquor control commission offi cer and is due for a hearing in Jus tice court. There are about 940.000 deer In the national forests of the United States. Alton Betsch In OVS Teaching Spot OVS. April 12 Oregon Vocation al school's new electrical appliance repair Instructor is Altan F. Betsch,' who replaces Leonard Nuttall. Nut tall has resigned due to ill health and has returned to his former home in Rogue River. Betsch has had 22 years experi ence In the trade. Including five years as a supervisor at the Mare Island navy yard. Before moving to Klamath Falls he was chief electrician at Crater Lake national park. He and his family are residing in Klamath Falls. County Clerk To Keep Office Open Unregisterea persons who want to vote In the May 21 primary elec tions or those who have a change to make In their registration will have a chance to get the Job done at night this week. The county clerk's office will be open from 7 until 9:30 each night through Friday, including tonight, and on Monday night of next week. transportation and travel time pay at the cannery's expense. Most can neries provide monthly employes with room and board, and hire them from two to five months in the sum mer and early fall. Wages vary from 1191 to $376 a month for cannery and culinary workers, up to (317 to $578 a month for machinists, electricians and car penters. The 48-hour week is cus tomary. "People experienced in fishing or In the work of the canneries are now much more readily available than they were during the war years." Elliott says. He adds that the cost of food and lodging in Alaska is from 35 to 30 per cent higher than in the United States. In regard to fishing, as distin guished from cannery work, Elliott adds: "In most cases hours are long, work hard, and income moderate. "Very often the fishermen actu ally lose money when the fishing or marketing conditions are poor. Fur thermore, seasickness Is often a problem, "The reluctance of the captain of individual fishing vessels to hire in experienced personnel is not sur prising. The crew must be a well Integrated team If the fishing Is to pay. "Anyone entering the fishery for the first time must usually expect low earnings for the first two or three seasons." RC Swimming Course Slated A Junior Hod Cross swimming course will begin tonight, Monday, at the. Kliinmh Union high school pool, spoiisnicd under the coopera tion of the Red Cross, achool board and city rivreutlon di'iiartiuctit. CIiikm's will be held twice weekly, from 9 In 11 a. m, Saturdays, and from 4 to S p. in.. Mondays. The course Is open to both boys and girls from 15 to 17 years old. Instructor Is Klla Kcdkoy. For In (ui million regarding a senior Hod Crass swimming class to be held Inter, tluwc Interested are Invtli'd to cull the city recreation utflce. 7112. Car Plunges Off Highway A spectacular automobile accident near Modoc Point on htghwnv 97 early Sunday morning extensively damaged a 1918 model car and held up Southern Pacific railroad truffle for a short time but resulted In no Injuries to the three occupants of the machine. Driver of the vehicle. Robert R. Miller of Aberdeen, Wash., told state police he was driving toward Klamath Pnlls about 5 a. m. when his car struck something In the road, presumably a rock. The vehicle veered to the side of the highway and broke off a sign post before plunging about 60 feel down a grade and through signal wires along the SP railroad tracks. It landed upright. The broken wires caused two trains to be held up here. Miller received a skinned nose, but the car's two olher occupants, William W. Miller of Aberdeen, brother of the driver, and Mrs. Lester Furlong of Seattle, were unhurt. Henderson Home Burns Al.Tl'RAS. Calif. April 13-An explosion in a heating furnace late Saturday night caused damage esti mated at tIS.OOO to the Grady Hen derson residence here. Members of the family were gone at the time. Neighbors discovered the fire which rapidly gained headway Members of the Alluras tire depart ment were called but Fire Chief Bill MrCaw described the blaze as "the most stubborn fight'' of years. I The house was fully Insured. Singer I mt.,. ,t.'..M' - "n- M. 1 t'lturlr WlfMt of Tulrlnkr ti prrsltlrnt of thr Klanmth Kail r lift ptcr of III Hl'MlSQSA, pun tor iruup fur the pur tide of brttrr ahop qtmrlela which will br stuKrit al the rrliran thmtre on the eve ning of April 23. Art Course To Be Offered j course III fine aria as a hobby will urulll Tuesday at 8 p. 111. Ull dei the dliectlon of Hubert Haii Ister. art aunervisur of the illy schools, Itecrenllon Director Hum I Smith aiiiiuiiuml today. I Instruction 111 oils, water colors, I crnvon work and textile painting I will be available, sinllll aald. The j coiiiMi will run fur nix weeks, front i 8 to 10 n in.. Tuesdiivs In th rl ! room of Klamath Union high school. Those Intel I'slrtl will be expected lo furnish most of their own ma terials, and a fee of fl for Ihe en tile course will cover ilio cost of Hull net Ion. It pays to Use the Want-Adsl KC Speech Club Meets The KnlKhtii of Columbus Hprn h cmft club met Thurru.i.y In Ihe Wlnrmit hotel tlinlntt room with 11 Omelet" us totmtmnMer. TopUninMpr wna O. Andrleu. who nutttmrd rtvlr topic to rnch member for one-minute tntk. Murk Pit ul, district deputy of Toti.itnma tent Internnttnniil. wus n1u a Kpenker of the evening. The mnln unenklnti pmnriuu wus led by K. Pnvelnk mid R. Hiimrrli k. with flve-mlnute tnlkit, follimed hv h 10-mtmite talk on "Don't Let It Oet You Down." by P. Suprenunt. Plum ure (toiiiR forward for nf ftltiittoti with Tou.Httni.htem Inter mttionnt. mid vis Horn und new members nrc urK?d to attend. Turn thane no-umne, used ar News Wnnt Ads nre Inexpensive mi l tides into cash nowl Herald mid Urtnii quick remits WASHING MACHINE SERVICE 1 All Mnkci ' ' Authorised Maytag Survica TUCKER STEINKAMP APPLIANCES Ksgulre Itlili. flume Rltll.1 FREE! Drop in and let us wash out your PARKER "51" and fill it with your favorite color of Suporchromo FREE at TI IE 11111:11 Mini 737 Moin Your foctory ouihoriied Port Repoir Station Get there f caster on United Maktint PORTLAND 2' j hn. SEATTLE 3!i hn. SAN FRANCISCO .... 3 hrt. LOS ANGELES 61 i hn. Srrrlre tn t lilrmu. New York and "all the Kat" Airport T.rmlnol ("nil 1171 Venice. Italy. Is built on 117 small Islands, and its so-called canals are natural estuaries of the Adriatic Sea. Fetters Taken To Prison Today Wayne Addison Fetters. 33. was on his way to Salem today to bettin serving a seven-year sentence in the Oregon state penitentiary. He Is tn custody of Deputy Sheriff Marlon Barnes. Fetters was convicted March ft of manslaughter In the death of Mel- I chanted with belnu drunk. vin Larson as the result of a fight Both were lodged In the county last July and was sentenced Satur- I Jail to appear tn justice court fylon day. ' day at 2 p. m. Pair Arrested On Drunk Charges A meandering motorist was plrk ed up for drunk driving and his companion booked for being drunk air a public highway, when state police arrested William Harold Keffer, laborer living at 3407 BIs bee. late Saturday afternoon. ' Keffer was charged with dronk driving after officers observed his car traveling on S. 6th street near Altmont drive, at 4:30 p. m. Sat urday. Keffer's passenger, Vlrtor Clar ence Halberg. 1235 Adams, was t i (i nfniA rt i i ut4i7TimLiotun ! ft""''. Earl Whltlock :Go a Little Easier in - Congress Z By CARL WHITLOCK 2 Tt Is considered quite smart and .sophisticated, among numbers of people, to rldi- 'cule congress as -a sort of vaude Aille show filled -with low comedi- ; ans. And assur- f idly, there are, : ln lis halls, a Jfew clowns who are fully worthy ! if our contempt, it " On the other f Hh f n d, congress surely contains a remarkable per centage of hon Mst, hard-work ing, brilliant patriots who could rarn a good deal more in private life than they will ever earn as ttervants of the public, and whom ve are extremely fortunate to tave working for us. Also, don't you think congress Reserves a certain degree of re spect merely for the fact that It mis a directly elected body which "represents us you and me In Washington. And It reflects, pret ly accurately, all our shortcomings as it should. 2 Any propaganda which Is antl ,rongress I don't mean sound and constructive criticism I mean pointless ridicule and unjust con riemnatlon, plays right spang into the hands of those anti-American forces in our midst who are try- Hug constantly to discredit our en ire form of government Let's start discounting such prop aganda much more heavily than t do. Next Monday, Mr. Whltlock, of tihe Earl Whltlock Funeral Home, will comment on "HOW OLD IS TOO OLD?" m it a FLATTENING CAPE From Your OIiI f oal? Our master furrier, Mr. Belliile, will do the restyling of your old fur coat including cleaning, glazing and re lining in our own work rooms for An Low An 0 a A o tLt futituiiial No costume is complete without beau tiful gloves . . and you'll find none lovelier than our handsewn, double woven cotton gloves by Shalimar; in six button lengths and the season's most exciting colors. 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