Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, July 16, 1949, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextACE TWO HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SA1URDAY, JULY 16, U9 Refugees Of Fire Being Fed, Housed Blaze Takes Several Homes CAVE JUNCTION. Ore- July 1 i" Sixty families, who fle4 from forest fire In this Southern Oregon were being (rd and housed here today, while crewa fought to extinguish the quieting flames. A forest fire Jumped a 100-foot wide river late yesterday, and swept ' along a four-mile-long atrip of farm and tlmberland, burning several houses and sending 60 farra families fleeing before it, Evacuee bedded down In the Pentecostal church, the Holland hotel, and many private homes of this small community. The American Leilon hall waa thrown open to store household goods the farmers brought here for safekeeping. Stranger Puts Up Money For Boy s Funeral PORTLAND, Ore.. July 1 TV- July It tv-A I big-hearted Californian with a pas. aton for anonymity arranged for the burial of a seven-year -old hero to ds y. It wat Thursday when seven-year-old Jacob Charles Sumners. one of the six children of transient berry pickers, heard a little boy yell that I hls foot wa. caught In rocks of the j other piece oi equipment. Sandy river. I The wind-tanned fire broke out Little Jacob, wading on the other ! tin miles south of here in cut aide, started splashing acrosa ttie ; over Umber yesterday, leaped the rtv.r to heln Th. mid-stream cur- ! protecting barrier of the Illinois rent caught him. I , . -j , .h. dazed parents, who had stopped their trailer on the Sandy's banks to let their children cool off. The family had Just 125. "I dont know what well do." said Mrs. Joe Sumners next day. -We'd I nxe h oury mm m me lamuy pios dropped sharply yesterday, and near Sedalia, Mo. I hate to leave ; m expected to drop In the rest him alone out here." j tn ,ute to(Uy. Last night a sport-shirted man In The mercury bit IN in Ontario, his mid-thirties strode Into the po- ; M hi Raker, fi In Pendleton, and lice station and ordered a reporter: j SI In Redmond yesterday, bat the -rind out what It costs to send ""lhrr " reported that a the kid back home." 1 coo' ware bad hit that area dor- Oregon Journal Reporter Jack '"" " '"- Eleewheew trmpera Ostenrren. who waa working on " m already lower, with something completely different,! mastmums In the eighties, blinked. i "Tn hot ,p" definitely brok- Th man ishheel . tin,. . ,h. newspaper story telling about the destitute family. -Find out what It i costs." he demanded. "When people re tn trouble, eocnrooel got to help ' them." : Reporter Ostergren called un the mortuary. The tnn to Sedalia for : the body and an escort would be ' IMS S3. man graooea out a cnecg- i Dooc, aigneo nis name, and threw It down. "You fill out the amount.' he said. -Just leave me out of this.' The check waa on a Ban Mateo, Calif, bank. Lightning Bolt Undresses Man GREELEY. Colo.. July 1 iPi Henry Jekel. 7. was undressed by a bolt of lightning yesterday after noon. The lightning etnick Jekel as he was walking near hla home. It knocked him down, shredded his It will start at half past two. right shirt, split his psnts from the pocket j after the bars close for the after to cuff, blew off a shoe and melted noon. Each pub will have Its own the ripper on his psnts. : prw. The vicar, the Rer. H. D. Jekel was burned and the hair ' Speakman. made the rounds last alnged from the left aide of his nicht to have a few been and e head. His condition waa reported j plain the plan, food today. j -rj,- nuh -nll th, rhurch are Mehlinq Given 3-Year Contract PORTLAND, July 18 ijr The i . " ' ivTiuuic w. mc.llllIS. Will K n . i H Mf th. tini.-M.t- Portland the next three years. -Next year." he added. "I want His reappointment to the second a barrel of beer for the eongrega uch term was announceed yester- j tlon after the service " day In 8outh Bend. Ind . by the , Very Rev. Thomaa Steiner. head of , When your young,! make the United States Province of Con- i fudge, suggest that they put it over gregation of Holy Cross. j low heat at the beginning and stir rather Mehling. at 3. came to constantly until every grain of sug the university In 1S4 when enroll- ar Is dLsolved. This careful dlsso ment was around 1000. It was 2200 lution of Ihe sugar Is one of the last term. 'secrets of making creamy fudge. ttt err f''.: j'c v arWaVa eat e as s SUNDAY A HIGH-RIDING ROUND-UP OF ROMANCE fc-v RODEO A"" r 1 . .fijirtr r,fM A RODEO AW" RHYTHW f - JIMMY IY00M NMY EDWARDS CHARLES RUSSEll JOE SAWYER Y DEANNA WAYNE V ttmft t. emus (uiioe I a 11 SI. Wwrtr rraAwflM SlMd Sv JOth CSur-f. f MTU CUIIU .Of A liUGH-A WHUUI The refugees dined and break fasted on Red Cross meals, served by the Legion auxiliary. The forest fire, which had black ened an area four miles long and more than a mile wide, calmed down during the night. Forewlera hoped that barring sudden brisk winds it would spread no further. At Portland, the weatherman gave encouragement with the re- port that Oregons hot spell, which had kept fire danger high all week. "waa definitely broken over the entire state." Two firefighters were Injured fighting the blaze yesterdsy. A buUdoser cut off a toe of Lee Hiatt'a right foot, and J. A. Hem- bree s foot was badly cut by an- river, and roared over a strip of j small fir, underbrush, and farm clearings. A few homes burned, and all the residents of the threatened area evacuated their houses. The blase broke out Just as Ore gon was ending a long heat wave. Temperatures in Northwest Oregon en over tne entire state, saia tne Portland weather forecaster. He "ld thi.ruln numll! 1hTe decreased lire danger in rsonnwesx ; Ortson' but that humidities still ; re" haardous.y low in South- west ,nd Eu,ml Oregon. Church Opens Doors In Pub CROWLE. Uncolnshire. England. ions generally eunouieo o i,e0rg tSrOWO Will July 1 i The boys from ne I " pioneers.) White Hart and the Fishmongers ' The latest Russian claim in avia- ACT 111 UU VJltlCB arms and the eight other saloons j tion came aa part of the fanfare for PORTLAND. July it IP The here are going to the Tillage church 1 the annual air parade at Tushlno . state CIO executive committee to tomorrow. field in Moscow tomorrow., I day appointed George W. Brown. The 10 pubkeepers and their 50 ' The newspaper Izvestia. organ of Jennings lodge, as acting secretary regulsr customers will turn out for ; the Soviet government, said records to replace Stanley EarL : a service the vicar arranged espe- i have been uncovered revealing that ; Earl haa accepted a post as gov i cially for them and nobody else a scribe of the ancient Prussian city ernment labor adviser to Korea. it wouldn't Interfere with their bartending and beer drinking. close together." he sa;d. "Both stand lor refreshments and good fellow ship. 50 and once was an Infantryman. ! iwu "pin. . . " , i V a T fpntn nnw ' The rahger" AMD TKE LADY, i Htf tut rwmr L-WjC s. r aeaassMseaWa, ma.- a Continuosii from 12:30 rhythm. w.;,- ffasasnm niiimnH t .0n li mriJai III IIHifS I III r w-'"r.v , iw srt iciirri ii UKJbJ in ,itf f A XVv rnt UfiDTiu unnorunn 'Spy I , - I NEW OFFICERS of the Mr. Mozama Toostmistress club for the coming term ore Mrs. Jock Elliott, president, obove, left, Mrs. Charles Sonto, vice president, right; Mrs. Lee Hollidoy, secretary, below, left, and Mrs Joseph VonMeter, treasurer. Elliott. Santo by Jones-Miller; Holliday by Ferebee-Kessler; VanMeter by Ouderlan. Soviets Claim First Balloon MOSCOW, July 1 The Soviet Union cUlmwl jey that a Russian , ! world s first balloon In 1731. It was : . . . Jul! of smoke. i i Historians generally credit the . first balloon ascent to the two French brothers, Joseph and j Jacques Montgolfter of Lyons in j 17g3. The Russians claim to have i been first with many scientific In- , of Nerekhta In Ryaxin province, one : I nryakutnyi. went aioit in a tr.ai . balloon 53 years before the Mom-, America, win serve until a mall golfier brothers. election next fall. Candidates will be The ancient manuscript revealed, nominated at the state convention said Ixvesna. that this remarkabk in October, and the election held Russian made a great ball -filled afterward, with poisonous and sunking smoke. . and having hung a loop from It. sat I Nul ndwlches make a fine ad in the loop. He flew In the balloon dltlon w ,umm,r MUia plM of "Uifir Um'" vegeiablea or fruit. To make the O"'0- nut butter for the sandwich filling The newspaper Red Fleet printed simply cream the butter well and nau page etory of the reported Pioneer flight. mat KLAMATH Torn n 1 ' 1 tJZl C'f blntinuouTTTom 12:30 . M. Berlin Airlift Plane Crashes ! BERLIN. July 16 (Pi A British 1 Hastings airlift plane crashed and 1 burned while takine off from T0l airfield In Berlin today, killing five crewmen, airport official reported, Xlrflfld .,tena.nu Mld .h, raw J"" ti;'d n lu,fl of SO feet and plunged to earth. . .... 1 ur was Miu lo or loaarQ with freight for western Germany. The crash raised the death toll ' for the 13 months of the air lift to M. Brown, 44. director of organize- tlon ror th. CIO Woodworkers of add finely ground pecan or walnut meats. Season with salt. FALLS L0VISTHAT PICTUKI! J KLAMATH FLYING NEWS By JOV Mtilll Air Activity There la a lot of activity at the Klamath Palls airport these days what Willi numerous tourists com ing In by priiate plane, many flight plana for Hunt private craft filed from here and a number of persons going aloft !r the first time. Irsl nights It was the first time In the air for Mr. and Mrs. Cllrnn Olson of Molalla this week when Rill Howe took them up with Al Macabre as pilot In a Piper dinner. Harry Thrasher. 731 St. Pranrls. took his first flight with Al Longe as pilot In a Piper Cruiser. Mora bee flew Horace Pice of East Main In a Clipper to Dallas. Ore., on hla first air trip. Johnny Dsvls. OTI mechanic, took his firsl solo hop recently, as did I.uthrr Hansen, nuuer of Leaders' Trailer eomnanv, S. nth. Business Trips George Dlmbat and Ray Morris were flown to Weed to take delivery on a couple of new Chrvalera re cently, and later Mnrabee flew Mor ris to Medford to bring back another new car. IJelna Mills, lots I business man. ha made a frw routine inns by plsne the ns-t tew weeks. Cmdr. W. W Jones, tn charge of the naval air reserve training pro gram, flew to Klsmalh Falls from Seattle in a navy J.RB in relation to the local reserve unit program. W. I. KrMerson of Klamath Itaatn Pine mills and son. Wilbur Kester son. flew to Oranla Pass. Briber. Burney. Sacramento. Red Bluff. Al. turss. Corvallis and Bend on busi ness recently. John Quisle? of Standard Peed made two trips to Orsnta Pass and one to Lakeview by air last week on business. Mocabee flew his oldest son. Wayne, to Eugene a week ago Sun day and brought bark the wrestler. Oeorge Dasrtte. who chartered a falrchlld here and flew it himself to Los Angeles, returning Saturdsy and then flying on to Koseburg where he had a match that evening. Pleasure Flights Jerry Rtrolt and Andy Robertson of San Pranrisco brought a Nsvton In for a fishing trip with Al Mora bee. All three men caught the limit number of fish. Ernie Oienger of Standard Peed flew to Tillamook for over the Fourth of July. John Ouielev. also ; of BtandeM Feed flew his wife to Lovelock. Nev, the same week-end to visit her relatives. ' Pete Powers. CAA communicator here at the airport, flew his brother. I Jim Powers, a student pilot visiting here from Oklahoma, over Crater lake on a pleasure cruise. I Johnny Blalock. salesman for 1 Longe Real Estate, has received his private pilot s license Al Mocabee gave him his test flight. Mrs. D. A. Ca-ssidy. 4I3 Denver, waa a plane passenger In a flight recently. A new flight atudent. last signed up. Is Pilot Pop New I una nephew, Vernon Q. Newlun of Sprague River. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Cloaks and Jerry Olson have returned from an overnight air trip to the coast this i j Approval 4 I Mentl - Whlteline Aircraft com pany haa received CAA approval for 1 an aircraft repair station with li cense 4117. This is the only approved plane repair station In Southern Oregon. Visitors Around 50 tourists and visitors have arrived at the Klamath Falls airport by private aircraft during the past two weeks. TIM HOLT saii.Jjiaw. , . i i JUf I I t livEjimLS l-iMVll4-l BiU'.lVfl-g.F' U I I I I III I I i hi II m mm i gal .. , -" tills Mil WA'V tie-s nilas'slBg A party of tour In two plaiira ar rived from San Praiirlsro for the rodeo, having mistaken the dale, and when they found It was all over flew on over to I lie coast. Two men fiom Hoi'edale, Mass., flew In. pilot ing aeparate planes on a vacation trip Three commercial flight students from Kalispell, Mont., Hew In on cross-country test flights last week. A Seattle Insurance man arrived by air on routine business. Another pilot with a friend as passenger flrw In from Dunkirk, N. Y., on an air vacation trip. Other pilots arrived from Idaho, California, Washington, Michigan, Colorado and British Columbia dur ing the past fortnight. Timber Sale Mark Set In Willamette El'OENK. July II l,rv-Wlth sales nt n-or 410 tnllllnn kiirrf . , .. I ,niu. .v.. u,n ... i .tl,,.i ,. 'mlw.. , . , new national record donna iha record during fiscal year ended June 30 toppuu the records of all other nauonal (uresis In the United states. ITie sales brought In UHal receipts of 11443.1:14. This timber sale record puis the Willamette forest al the top uf all the l&l national forests even though l lie volume of Umber logged Is still far short of lis allowable yearly rut under sustained yield msuage ment. The allowable cut la 341 mil lion board feet per year, also more Uisn that of any other national forest. Kecelpta this year esceed the year before by over one million dollars. ' n increase of about ai per cent. ; "" ' "'at forest,income ttutn all national foiest timber sale during the last quarter was down tMW.uuO from the same quarter a year ago. Blaze Chars Felled Timber VANCOUVER. B C . July 1 CP( I Damaae from forest tires in nmuh Columbia was mountm (.t nmr- day as only scattered showers helped firefighters battling and guarding biases throughout the province Al Cowichsn lake, on Vancouver Island, a rebel, gale-whipped con- flag ration which covers 7 no has destroyed almoil ltinonnno i... of felled and bucked timber The fire also hss denrn.t . donkey engines, a bus. a truck and a trailer and other logging equip emnt as It broke through a ring of firefightera yesterdsy and drove them before it. officiate said there , had been practically no rains In Ihe ' area. I IIILD'8 TRKAT Youngsters adore peanut butter frosting on cookies or cake. To pre- pare it, cream a quarter cup of butler or margarine with a quarter cup of peanut butter un- til the mixture u extremely well blended and fluffy. Add a cup of confectioners' sugar, beating well after each addition. Thin to a good spreading consistency with about 4 teaspoons of water, adding a tea spoon at a time and beatuig well. Decorate the frosted rupcakea or i rookies with peanut halves. iTASTAIIIE -g mmm Tv9 ... ' shoveller' i ri CARNIVAL JLeW 7 ml. i I r7i m k I! 4 ?s tyw sess ev sms sseviee sc T m esw a g "Mom, left tee you do that t making the Gotham Hurt With Service Of Buses Cut NEW YORK. July 1 i-ll New York Cllys giant netwuik of bus lines, already severely crippled, faces Uie threat of a greatly widen- , ed strike nest week. With bus service of some 1.135000 ;...,.,..,.. ..- ...u. ..-.. .... v. i Transportation Workers union made : plans for possible extension of the ; strike to lines used by l.BOT.000 ' more passengers. This would lie up virtually all ' privately operated bus Iraruporia- , tlon in the metropolis, halting bua eervlre on a tout of log routes and : effecting nearly J.fWO.OOO riders a D'- ' Twu lresident Michael J. Quill ' "ld sneeting of union leaders Monday night would give -serious consideration" lo ritendlng the stoppage to the big Third Avenue ' Transit system. T,, swelling bua strike started unexpectedly early Thursday aa a protest against the lay off of tour omnibus corporation mechanics for allrgrdly refusing to accept new company work achcdulea. Hut the stoppsge now has de- ; veloped into a full-fledged union bailie for new contract concessions Including a 31-cent hourly wage ' boost. a 40 Instead of a 44-hour , work week, and Improved pensions. Present wsgra on the struck lines average 1150 an hour. ; Mt. Lassen In California la the only active volcano In the United 1 Stales. gj aX llll II M ALWATi n v ii I i i Tc"ui' JigMA today" t'. ...FAMED FOR IHE FIGHTING BLOOD J&'lO f T & y -' V WIM I T ,fc'j'Vv ..... W JT T&fsb... FEARED FOR THE OUTLAW BLOODftSff THEY SHED! '" MAVMf MUel SIUCI OISSIOINI totnl S-PWMMH1S-11 1 arwryMoMse Weckera firf Colir Csrlooii By Dick Turner sat e. . trick Dad tay you're to good jack disappear!" Father Called By Child's Death j ASTORIA. July I i4-i A father I was summoned home from Guam I today to attend he funeral of a j nine-year-old son, struck and kill i ed by a baseball bat here. Jainra Robert Wheeler died after he suddenly hxiked up. from Ihe sola ! In the family home, bringing hia i head Into Ihe path of the bat. An i oldrr brother. George. 13, waa mak ing practice swings with the bat tn ' the living room The father. Robert C Wheeler. ,UU0Ilfd QUIn, , with the navy on Cloudburst Hits City In Texas ROCKPORT. Texas. July 14 uD A cloudburst dumped 1 ( inches of : rain on this Texas gulf coast town , "x1- The rain began at 1 am. and 1 waa continuing at mid-morning, Horkport Is miles northeast of Corpus Chrlstl. Severe lightning and thunder ae rompanlrd the Korkport '..irm part of a weather siege which hat claimed two IVxaa Uvea. First blow of Uie storm knocked Rorkpurt's power out but service was restored by dawn. The If Inchea brought us inches Rock port a total rainfall atnee noon yea- terday. '' NEW MANAfiER - PORTLAND, July II i Phd Hart. 39-year-old Portland musie dealer and former manager of the Seaiile Symphony orchestra, waa J named manager of the Portland , Symphony orchestra today. It Paya lo Use the Want Ada! "Helicopter Magic" Ti1 f ea.