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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1948)
11 AM M ffilffjlfn r iizirA) Liu it iiyjiyjiy FJMy ismnsai i jpfiljywm,mi,,miK,i, nwm mm wpp iiwiiiii i i a flllCK rVK t'KNTH 'J- KLAMATH FAI.I.H, OIIKGON, THI'IIHIIAV, JIJ' . V , . . HAT 0 IB WCATHtR Mi. Jm 17 Ml PrtolFltalUn U.l SI haurt . ..M Miriam ytsr I 4mit 11.1 Lilt rr KM Normal II.S4 f trccstli ,' dy, bwtr. Telephone Hi J J No. 1392 I R 'I l yrww Mvffci lly FRANK JIA'KINH WHAT Ui tlo Willi Western Ger many U llio prewilng problem o( Ihe molilrnl. I We muni accustom oumelvrs to the UioiiiiIiI Uint when nil If Uila prulilnn la actlled othcia will arlac. In the thick volume of world hlalory, Uila la chapter of change mid flint.) HP for drclalun la the proposal of the wentem nittloiu to re eaubllah Weatern Germany aa a lf-gnvrrnliig national unit. Trrance la ararcd. Alwnya Grrinaiw llaa been the ogre In the French plclure. Alwuya III the past when (Irrmnuy uela airung I'm me liita auffrrrtl. If the French comrnl I) nuke the Unmans alrnng ugnln, II will be aolrly brrauae thry now tear Kiutaltt more. Kven the Wcatrrn OrrniBiis grum ble. 'Ihry ay the plan la bring Impoard on thrm that thry have no hand In II themaelvrs. 'the atiawer to tJiriu, uf courar. la IImi loarra can't be litooarra. The Gcr nmiu gafublrd again for world con jural mid loal. Kuaala la oul lo make h.-ah of llie whole business. WE nerd Iradrrahlp wise, clear headed, comprtrnt Iradrrahlp. Never within Uie mrmory of llioae of tu now living waa the need for audi Iradrrahlp greater. Mere In America, w will gel the kind of leaden WE THE PEOPLE rhooae. If our choice la bad. we will pay the penally. riKl.U MRMIAl, JAN CIIIUS- Tl AN HMUT8. RETIilINU prime mlnuirr of South Africa. tella an audience, In the unlverally city of Cambridge, England, that "the b. tle for Europe hat begun and muai nut end before final victory la at tained." He aaya the comniuiilal "tlfttt column technique" la the greatest menace to the western world. W. urgea rillMNESa a the way to meet II. HAT i la the 'communist "fifth column" IcehmqueT " " It lan't anything new. It la ex tremely old. DIVIDE AND CON CJUER la the eaunce of lu If you can divide your enemtca and get thrm to fighting each other, you can usually gel what you wnnu Hmarl men dlaroverrd that fact many, many crniurlra ago. The thought that Uie communlata among us twhoae numbera are In algiilflcanl) can conquer America arc ma abaurd- Aa of now. It aluurd. Uul If Ihry ran get ua all aplll up Into factloiu. every faction fighting every othrr faction, they can conquer ua. The Ureek civilisation, In Ua time the flne.it the world had aren, failed and vanished from Ulc world be cause Uie Greek clty-alatra neve could leant to get along with racn other. Their enemies divided thrm and conquered Uiem. MIHAI of Romania and Anne of Ilnurbon-Parma are finally mar ried In Athens. The gue.ita Include the king and queen of Greece, ex Quern Helen of Romania (Mlhale mothcrl and oUter members of royal famlllea. The ceremony wa.i a glittering one. Crowna were borrowed from the Orcrk royal house (which atlll alanda after the hurricane that hns awept away to many royal houses j. Tlie crowns weren't actually placed on Mlhal's and Annc'a heads, Thry were held directly over them by at tendant. Hope, you are, springs eternal In HST Hints At Speeded Up Campaign lly MINKKT It. VACCAKO (II.YMI'M. Wash., June 10 IIP rrraldrnt Truman punrluatrd lila lung distance altark on roitgrraa to day with a broad hint of a more ralrndril apraklng rampalgn Mwhrn llilnga warm up, and we get Into pollllra." The rhlrf rarrullve Jnkrd Willi a Irahialdr audlrnre at F.vrrrtl laat itlfhl about "thla nl-partlasn, nun pollllral trip uf mine." Upon rrcrlvlng a nxl and rrrl from the crowd urn! bring Invited to rntrr a aahnoii derby, he said he didn't know whrthrr hr would be Mticceasful as hr didn't know the conditions but if he did rutrr he would do "my dainiidrat" JuM "like I do everything rlsr." Itrtllrn Talked To audlrnre after audlrnre, In tralnsldr and other appearances, the prraldrlit auifgralrd the HM blllty of his return luter to discuss the iHsura of the campaign. And before audlrnre aftrr audl- enre, he haa attacked congress for falling to go along wnii ma pricing, housing and farm reromrarnda llons. Ills remark to rrporlcrs at 8K kaue Uial Uie present congress la the worst In his memory he first said the worst alnce the flral one mrt drrw luimrdlate response from republican congrrssmrn. House Re publican Leader llallerk of Indiana countered by saying. "There are a lot of people who think Mr. Truman la the poorest president we have had alnce George Washington." The prrsldrnl arrived here at 1:J0 a. m. (I'STl this morning and waa awakrnrd Iraa than Hirer hours later to be adrlsrd of the death of Krrrrtary of Ijlbor Iwla B. Krhwrl Irnbarh In Washington. II. 1', "Deepest tirlrf" Mr. Truman, who aerved with tk'hwellrubarh In Uie senate, aald he learned of his death "with deep cat grief." . '.'He waa my wainv, personal friend. He waa a great senator, a grral Judge and a grrat secretary of labor." The disastrous Columbia river flood, Uie effects of which he will n .......a r.i. i. t II Solons Back Forest Roads WASHINGTON, June 10 iA'i Congressmen from 2i stales lined up today in support of a $20,000,000 grant for forest highways. Rep. Barrett (H-Wyo.i, spokes man for the group, said II would ask the house appropriations com mittee lo Include the money In the last deficiency appropriations bill. Many congressmen have contend ed that the amount allowed for forest highways In the regular agri culture department appropriation bill will be wholly Inadequate during the year sinning July 1. The house allowed I5.000.000 and the senate voted $5,300,000. The agriculture bill Is now before a con ference committee of the two houses, but the committee cannot approve more than the highest voted by one brnnch $5,300,000. llarrett told a reporter the addi tional $20,000,000 sourIU for the for est highways In the next 12 months has now been approved by the bud gel bureau for Inclusion In the de ficiency appropriation bill, A ' p. For Regatta Queen p CyY-' f " ' -BaasasBSBSBsaasaBBtsrwwwtesa" - - stiinia iiasaniHilniii'ia n i.w Aim al aiaWiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I'relty Brverly Voung became queen of the 1MI I'pper Klamath lake regatta last night, when Fred Khlers. president of the Junior chamber of commerce, placed a crown on her dark hair. Plclure shows coronaUon rerrmony. j : : Beverly Young Will Reign As Queen Of Boat Regatta Sunday llark-halrrd Hrverly Young, one i school Junior was crowned at the of the youngest contcalants In the ! ball by Fred Ehlers. Joyces prcsl Junlor chamber of commerce regatta I "'. who ls0 Psentea her with uie Douquet, corsage, ouiova wnst wntch and Arvln radio which went queen eonteat, last night walked off with the crown and Uie .ensuing royal gifts at the coronation ball held in the armory. The pretty Klamath Union high Apples And Security Rewards In Bond Campaign Klamath Lumber and flox corporation employes are the flrat group of this kind In go over 30 per rent on' payroll savlnga In the Security llnnd campaign, and thla picture allows them getting the prlir two boxes of fine apples. In the pleturet II. K. (lelt, Virgil Tuler, Charles II. Wllchrr, Harry C. OTarrell, Norman Hansen and Fred Weber, employe! long on payroll savings, and Klton Thompson, Security Bond payroll sayings chairman ........ j with the title, The con Ira t was based on the number of regatta buttons sold by the 10 candidates. Miss Young sold 126 discs. Brverly. duughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Young. 1614. Ntmiu. will reign over the rec.ntui events, to be held Sunday starting at 1 p. m. on Upper Klamath lake. A number of Klamath Falls firms donated glfta to the contestants. Kohn's Flower shop presented can didates with floral girts for the ball, Evergreen studio gave portraits and Lady Klamath Beauty shop handled individual hair styling for the girls. Roger's Jewelry company was the donor of the queen's wntch and Adnlr's Furniture store furnished the radio. A luggngc gift from The LugKnge shop and a manicure sot from Cnstleberry's Drug went to Uelorcs Rice, second place winner, A Proctor Ncver-Llft Iron and an Evcrshnip pen and pencil set from Derby's Music company and Under wood's Camera shop respectively were presented to Mary Lou Stan berry, third place contestant. Mary Lou Case, in fourth place, received a billfold from The Cameo shop and a silk scarf from Miller's i:rprlmrnt store, while a cosmetic kit from Lee Hendricks drug store and a pair of nylons from Leom went to Tat Kennelt In fifth place, Pat MncMllliui, In sixth place, was presented with cologne from Your Store Inc., and a pair of nylons from Lcons. LnPolntes presented a silk scarf and Lcons a pair of nylons to Nancy Slusher, seventh place winner, and a plastic beach bag from Pnvlrss Drug and a pair of nylons from Crnlgs wont to Lou Ann Chase in eighth place. Dor othea Cogdlll, tor ninth place, re ceived an album of recordings from Harwin'a Jewelers and a pair of nylons from Crnlgs. The remainder of the regatta dayg calls for a boat show, which will be held in Balsiger's showrooms on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the regatta proper on the lake Sun day afternoon. Boat races, both power and sail, log-bucking; and water-skiing are on the agenda for the lake show, all of which will be attended by Queen Beverly and her court. Diamond Highway To Open Sunday Barrlcadr mcroM the Diamond lake h I h way will be removed early Sunday morning permlttinr travel Into that area, It was announced to day by the Oregon itate highway department. Tom Edwards, state highway maintenance engineer, said he had not been over the road for a week but at that time there was con siderable snow. The Ice has gone, however. It Is understood that private In terests plowed the snow from' the summer homes area last week-end. The road is now open from the Medford side with the last of the snow plowing completed today. The plows went through five-foot drifts to clear the route, Edwards said. Fishing season at Diamond lake, which opens next Tuesday, 'June 15, Is expected to see considerable traf fic over the road. Dies aw . :; ', 0 US Plane Flies Much Faster Than Sound WASHINGTON', June 10 Air Secretary Symington said to day the air force research plane XS-1 several times has flown "much faster than the speed of sound." Symington told a news confer ' ence that so far as he knows no other plane haa achieved super sonic speed, that is, faster than sound travels. The first and only pilot to fly the XS-1 beyond the so-called sonic wall is CapL Charles E. Y eager, 25, a fighter pilot who destroyed 13 German planes while serving with the air force. V eager, a native of .Myra, W. Va is a test pilot assigned to the air materiel command at Wright Field. Ohio. House Group Kills T-E-YV Housing Bill WASHINGTON, June 10 11 The house banking committee defeated today, 14 to 13, a democratic effort to revive the senate-passed Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill that provides for public housing, slums clearance and farm home aids. Two republicans Hull of Wiscon sin and Stratton of Illinois were reported to have joined 10 demo crats In support of the T-E-W bill. The vote left the house republican leadership In at least temporary control of the housing legislation. The democrats sought to over throw the substitute housing bill offered by Banking Chairman Wol cott iR-Mich.) and present to the house Instead the T-E-W bill spon sored by Senator Taft of Ohio, a republican presidential aspirant. Chinese General Has 8 Doubles NANKING. June 10 ( Chinese have been puzzled by reports of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng being seen on successive days in widely separated areas of China's central war front. The offi cial Central News agency had an answer today. Liu, said a Kaifeng dispatch, Is using eight doubles. Each has one eye missing. LOIIS 8CHWELLENBACH Schwellenbach Dies Following Long Illness WASHINGTON, June 10 tPr Sec retary of Labor Lewis B, Schwellen bach died today. The White House announced Schwellenbach passed away at 4:40 a. m. at Walter Reed hoapitaL He had been ill several weeks. He was 5 years old and had been labor department chief since June 30. 145. Mrs. Schwellenbach was at his bedside at the time of his death. The White House said death re sulted from "cardiac failure which complicated his recent illness." Truman Notified President Truman, now on the west coast, has been notified of his death. No funeral arrangements have been made, the White House state ment said. Schwellenbach was a former democratic senator from Washing ton state and federal district court judge. He succeeded Frances Per kins, one of the original members of the late President Roosevelt's cabinet. He was a senator from 1935 until his resignation on December 16. 1940. to accept the federal judgeship in Washington a post he resigned to Join the cabinet. - Long Illness Illness had prevented Schwellen bach from taking an active part in recurring labor crisis of the last several months. Last April he took a cruise to Havana in an effort to regain his health but was removed from shiDboard In New York har bor on his return. He was taken to a hospital on Governors island for treatment of a respiratory infection. President Truman's personal ohy. sician. Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Gra ham, attended him then. Truman Eyes Boeing Strike OLYMPIA. June 10 IIP) President , Truman will be asked tonight to I help end the 48-day-old strike at the Boeing Airplane company. j The request will be made during a conference between the president and Harold J. Gibson, president of the striking aeromechanics union (Ind.). The conference was arranged by Gov. Mon C. Wallgren. Gibson said he would present the chief executive with a petition which he said has been signed by several thousand Seattle residents, business men, civic o I f 1 c 1 a 1 s and labor leaders. High Tides Add Danger Of Breaks PORTLAND, Ore., June 10 (P) Flash floods and high tldra heaped new threats on the water-weary Pacific Northweat today. The awol. Irn Columbia and Fraser rivers built their three-week flood siege toward new heights. Three cloudburta and a five-hour downpour sent tons of water hurt, ling Into the raging Columbia and more farmland was added to soma 660 square miles already under water. The weather forecast: show ers and thundershowers. High Tides High tides rolled In from the Pa clflc, threatening anew more than 11.000 harassed defendrrs of almoat awamped dike guarding Oregon Washington and Riitlah Columbia lowlands where the Columbia and Canada's Fraser rivers meet the sea. Leakage along the levees In creased steadily. The death toll for 22 days of Hood was 32 upped two by the drown ing yesterday of a 10-year-old boy and a railroad division engineer. The Red Cross In Portland said 335 still were unaccounted for in the Memorial Day flooding of Van port war housing city of 18,100 and It issued a "critical list" of 121 names. The relief agency said It has exhausted all means relatives and Vanport neighbors of locating; the 121. Damage already in countless multi-millions mounted steadily. Flash Flood A cloudburst In British Colombia formed s flash flood last night that swept awar 15 miles of Canadian Pacific railway track In the Koot enai district of the Colombia's headwaters. The washout was be tween Balfour and Procter. Columbia floodwaters edged up ward In the smelter citv of Trail, B C. All beer parlors, clubs, liquor stores and pool rooms closed as an urgent call was Issued for more volunteer flood-fighters. Sidewalks were awash at spots on the main thoroughfare. Water stood five feet deep in the palm room of the Crown Point hotel. Two cloudbursts washed Washing ton areas draining into the Colum bia. One, near Spokane In the eastern part of the state late yesterday, sent a five-foot wall of water ever a highway, flooded homes snd devas tated wheat fields and gardens. Another struck last night In the ICaalloacS Para t. Calama 4 . Lakeview Child Treated Here A year and a half old Lakeview child, Wayne Martin, was released from Hillside hospital Wednesday after receiving extensive treatment for a lacerated left eye, the result of a dog bite. The little boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Martin of 129 S. Jay, Lakeview, was brought here last week after a puppy had struck as his face. Wayne's father is em ployed as a lumber handler M Amer ican Box company. Merrill Notice Mrs. Howard Dewey has been appointed correspondent of The Herald and News at Merrill. The newspaper will appreciate Mer rill people giving their news to Mrs. Dewey for forwarding to our office. Mrs. Dewey succeeds Mrs. Isa bel Barry, who is too busy with other work to continue as cor respondent. The Herald and News appreciates the line service of Mrs. Barry, and a special article written by her will appear In the near future. Lusty Nominating Conventions In America Today Are The Outgrowth Of A Quiet Little Whig Meeting 140 Years Ago ' i l f XA whrA Till ''sry. , 1 Teddy Roosevelt walks from the 1912 GOP convention (Inset) to the Bull Moose third party conclave (background). A high point in convention history, It was also notable for an unexpected shout from the platform: "Where Is the blankety-Wank preacher?" 1 By PETER EDSON NEA Staff Correspondent (First of Series of Four Articles) WASHINGTON In any other country than the United States, up coming republican, democratic and r third party political conventions In Philadelphia would be considered briwls, riots or even minor revolu- Hons, with certain circus and holl- " day week overtones. This curiosity did not develop full- ' oiown &b ine oirtu 01 uie repuoiic ,. , The founding fathers never intended it would be this way. The first three presidential candidates were hand-picked. Leading citizens, con gressional caucuses and the state legislatures just picked out some body who would be good. There wa ... enough talent around In Washing- ton, Adams and Jefferson so that "" they couldn't go wrong. The first national nominating con vention was held in New York 140 years ago. It was entirely a secret affair. A small group of federalist or whig party members met In a closed , . meeting. They were described as -men of "culture, education and " means." Model Without asking the advice of any JI. of the voters, they picked a couple of now-forgotten men named Plnck- -ney and King as their candidates. Madison and Clinton licked t he pants off them. But what the Whigs did In 1808 was to serve as the model for the , first real political party convention an open federalist gathering In " (Caaliaaai aa rata t, Ce(eiaa II t:1
