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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1949)
PACE TWENTY HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. ORECON THURSDAY. JULY 7. . "Extras" For Officers In Armed Forces Causes Talk, But Figures Say "Not Bad" WASHINGTON All those "ex tras" that Ue officers of the armed services gel In addition to their reg ular pay are bothertaf some mem bers of congress. A few legislators made a (rest Issue of them during debate In the house of representatives when the military pay raise bill was sent bark to committee. The truth Is that the "extras" (re very substantial and a flat statement of officers' relatively low baslo pay does not tell the whole story. On the other hand, the value of the "extras" can be easily over rated. Olve a marine major's commis sion to husky figment of your Imagination. Make him 38. with 10 years In the aenrioe. Button him In Wa-shtngton. where he supports a wife and two children. -My base pay Is S,75 a year H16.2S a month." he willingly re plies when you ask him. since ot ernment pay no secret. "I get 15.811 a year, when you Include my allowances for quarters and subsis tence. That's 10& a month for rent and (63 a month to buy food for the family." . I "What about your extras?? I get In the neighborhood, but It's out of the way tor me. The wife almost never gets over to the com missary. She finds that chain stores are Just about as cheap, and It takes her nearly an hour to drive to 1U People have big notions about the value of PX's and commissaries to military men. Here's the real dope" The major produced a table which the national defense establishment recently submitted to the house armed services committee. It listed the total sales In commissaries (food stores! and post exchanges (general stores i for the calendar year 1943. It showed that In commissaries the prices were 12.4 per cent cheaper than In comparable stores In the community and that In post ex changes the price were 15 per . nt cheaper. "Your Income tax la pretty low, lant It?" "Yea, I get a break there. I didn't have to pay any tax at all during the war after figuring my exemp tions and deductions. This year I figure I'll pay glsaM. Im taxed only on base pay." "What about your retirement ben efits?" 111. 1 1 !.'. mil i iim-mmmmm' I""""! 1 " A ' ' v ' - v t . v - - - -- - - TIME TO RETIRE It's that time for Helen Spiker, who has put in 30 years of service with the Klamath Falls post office. She spent her last hours on the job last Thursdoy checking the stock of postage stamps on hand. Mrs. Spiker worked at the stamp window. Her co-workers gave 0 farewell "Good. It I make colonel b" the The big Item there la medical j time I retire. In another 30 years, care. I get that and all my de 'al ' I'll get $413 a month. But when work free. The family gets medical I die. of course there'll be nothing rare from the service, but no den- for my wife. I have to carry life tal work. The regulations say de- insurance to provide something for ! party jn her honor at Red Rock inn, Wocus. nenden's ret both medical and den- her." 1I . tal care u avauaots, out w seen a post where dental care was available for wives and children. As a matter of fact, about hall the eflicers I know In Washington can to a private physician when any one In the family is UL They have to pay for that, of eourse. "Dont you save a lot of money luiying at commissaries and post exchanges?" . , . -wn I nick ud a few knlc knack at the post exchange when Prayda Sees Improvement In Politics MOSCOW, -"Pravda" said In . wlirur editorial that "a certain lmnrovement" has been achieved this year in the political education ol party member and candidate. "In the course ot the gigantic work of directing socialist construc tion," said the paper. Vie party has succeeded In training hundreds of thousands of propagandist. It cannot, however, be said that all DroDagandist answer In their knowledge and experience to the high demands made on them. "In some part there are still tra ces of formalism and scholasticism In the organisation of studies. Live ly discussion Is often replaced by the question-answer method." "Pravda" said that In preparing for the new scholastic jreer main attention must be paid to Improving further the propagandist personnel. A fresh Instance ot the party's concern for rising the level of the Ideological, theoretical training and methodolofrical knowledge ot propa gandist was the decision of the Central Committee of the Party to organize courses for the leaders of political schools and study circles on study ot the biographies of Lenin and Stalin and the history ot the party. He Should Have Passed The Buck TACOMA, July 7 WV-Olaf San stead. 74-year-old Tacoman. wishes now he had "passed the buck" Sun day. Sanstead reported that he was absorbed In a study of a doe and a fawn on a mountain trail near Mineral when without warning a large buck deer plunged Into him. The Tacoman was knocked uncon scious and badly cut on the head. Medical care was given him at Mineral. ried another officer. In due course he was captured. But husband num ber one had not been killed. He was :( yM UttSUAUSi YOU wmiumsoiL ur fotof. mctmrn rPAna wpnovMV 'trWSff'M V & V VI V. Well what about the rest ot the "extras'?" There arent any more as far as I know." "What about government automo biles?" "I never climb Into a government ear except on official business. Only I " wliWW ; communications from Russian prl- four officers In Washington are as- i saa . pa. a j son camps the wife learned of her signed cars tor their ginvate u-lKAflUAAn difficult position, she asked the two the four chiefs of staff. If you're DCl IlCCll sT Gil I m,n 10 " unul ttur Dack on a post out In the boondocks, you I from Russia. Then, she says, she sometimes get away with using a I HAMBURG, Germany Wv Two i wlU decide which on to keep as little tree government transports- I German officers met In a Russian her husband. tlon, but most posU are pretty strict 1 pnson camp, iney soon aiscoverea German Vife To Choose Between Pair Council Drops Phone Rate Boost Fight PORTLAND. July T P Th city council '.ere ha dropped a move to force the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company to show proof that local rata should not be re duced, but expects lo keep an eye on the company' profit. Th derision followed a discussion of the rate question in which Mayor Dorothy MrCutlough Lee argued the Oregon rates were higher than those of neighboring West Coast states. Mrs. Lee also was critical ot the failure of upstate communities lo Join In a fight for Improvement ot the phone rate. Although council dropped It "home rule'' power to force the company to prove th validity ot Its rates. Mrs. Lee and City Commissioner Fred L. Peterson said It might be Invoked later. During the session. PT&T Man ager P. A. Dressier said a reduction of Portland rate would doom a company plan to extend non-toll service to neighboring communities. He said the utility planned to ex tend the toll-free aone to Mllwaukle, Oswego and Oak Grove by the end of 10M. The plan eventually would extend tile sone to Beaverton. Tl gard. Oresham. Oregon City, Van couver, Wash., and Hlllsboro, he ild. Recent phone rate boost in the state added 13.500.000 to subscribers' bills . Contract Calls For Charm Show HOLLYWOOD. July T 11 In fairness to the public, which has an eye tor such things, Universal International studio is requiring lis charming young things lo dipty their charms. ' While starting actresses are will ing enough to be the subject ot "cheesecake art," as It's called, after they attain higher salaries, they often get the Idea It's beneath thrir dignlty, the studio has found. Publlc-splrllrd Ulllversnl-Inlei na tional decided lo dignify bathing suit poses by writing "cheesecake" clauses In It contracts. The clause require that any young lady with charms to display shall do so for publicity pictures for the first five years of her contract. First signatory to the new part Is Pengie Castle, a green-eyed blonde with undeniable charms. , Four Cars Fight It Out In Street BRUSSELS (At This Belgian city with Its thousands of autoa, bicy cles, and trucks sees plenty of accl- picked up on the battlefield by the I dents these days. A recent street Russians. Incident, however, had even the Finally through the painfully alow j hardened police force shaking their neaas saaiy. mis time was lour auto fight lrc tor "lebensraum" In Waterloo Boulevard. The result waa that all four ended up ready for the scrap heap and one driver re tired from the tray with minor about it. "Wouldn't you save money on rent if you were assigned to quarters on a marine base?" "Sure would. But do you know how many quarters there are for marine officers in Washington? Six. and CST marine officers are sta tioned here. There are 974 quarter for officer altogether la the area. and there are 13,94? officer here, counttsa; all four services." I that they lived In the same German town. In the same street, at the same number and had the srme wife. DROWNS AALBORO. Denmark UP) Four thousand people bathed in the big city swimming pool at Aalborg wlth- This was how It came about, ac- j out noticing the body of a drowned cording to the Hamburg newspaper boy. It was not until the swimming "Abendblatt". A German major, re-, pool dosed down at nightfall that turning to the front from leave In j the boy. I year old Freddy Peterson, bruises. The dolphin Is considered to be the most beautiful of all our game fish. Sport Afield. 1942, told his wife to marry again If he were killed. Soon she waa offi cially told of his death In action. Eighteen months later she mar- of Aalborg. waa found. He had been dead for hours. It Pay to Da the Want Ads! FOR RENT St BMl M Mia Sewing Machine Lata Sewing Machine Service ais Wat ewaaa art NKW CtRADK SALEM. July 1 uli Oregon grower and packers of Yellow Globe Denver type onions can ma: - ft their onions under a new grade begin ning Friday, the state department of agriculture said today. The new grade, called Oregon fancy grade, conforms with the U 8. No. I grade, with additional re quirements for site, appearance and condition. It was asked by Wlllamrlt valley growers. Pacific Coast Shipping Off BAN rHANClSCO, July 7 lPl-Pa-clflo coast shipping waa off 131 per cent in th first half ot 1W. a com pared with last year. Three major coast porta Seattle, Portland and Lo Angrlea-Loiig Beach were ahead of last year their cargo volume being up. Th roast average as pulled do ti by Han Francisco bsy area porta which showed a loas of 30 per cent romp-red with last year. These estimate were figured by the Pacific Murium association on a basis ot longshore man hours worked on general measure of cargo volume, Hi Marlllm association, a coast wise employers' group, announced i that Seattle waa it per cent ahead lot ll)4t, Portland 10 4 per cent and . Los Angeles-Long Beach I I per cent. I The coast shipping picture, a In dicated by longshore work opportun Hies, showed that total hou.s worked for the half year period from Jan uary 3 to June 3t amounted to S.AOO.UOO. Last year, til figure was lu.tUO.OOO hours. ATHLETES FOOT GERM HOW TO KILL IT IN ONE HOUR ir not ei.sassu. r tr -. ab nv SiatfUl Ur Ihu SiaoMl rMiirl9. V.4-1.. W4t WHS tea per rnl 1i-h-l. H rNKTTcs. as aiiu Moaa SM lulir. Tr si STAR DKtU 1 It Pays to Us In rVant Adsl MC19JC tht makes folks sleep all night! TV-. nti, iw iImi, andMlNHwd b-sas of Ik IImi Ikwr b,.. -atao-d .ifSt (, lt'aSnM' i !.' ruttvhllMt -V I'll! uauallv ftllay .iI.,n H ,,, hi,, tukal Vaf lrtlla;..an a an p,,alnl tal I .! 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