A fMflERTiFAnM (piu An n RrMfpR: t-aawaeTTW 1 " 1 ' 9 P t 11 r,..,,-..iww-,-,Bi i am- i (ft A fo) Day's Sews By FRANK jr.NKlNI AN official commission In Washing ton bu iul mad momentous deoialon. U l th Whit Hou commlealon. IK Job waa to docld whether U tear the old Whit Houae down end build a w on or to renovate the preeent structure. It decided to RENOVATE. FHB commission hu 5 00,000. pproprlatd by toiu'w. to work with. In a rcnl report. President Truman conceded Uiat u mil lit b cheaper to rebuild than to try la r pair lii ancient official horn al our President. However, h aald, Ui American paupl would Ilk to praesrv Ui present building for scnllnitnlal and hUUHIc reasons. II la right. It would outt m all a paiif. and a aharp on. If th beauillul old houM al til other nd of Pennsylvania avenue from Uit Capitol war to b (crapped. TIIJE old Whit Houa la lovly with Ui lovellneaa thai U born f alniule. perfect Una. 11 reminds ua of a uma when our national 111 waa simpler and lovelier. When th Whll Houa was built, w were a young nation Uiat had just cut Itself Ioum from til ml mentation and Ui pally dcepotiaine and lii tragic fruiiraUona of Ui Old World. What w wanted waa a way of III that waa better than any way of 111 had ever been be fur. If w could achieve that, w bi lleted, w couid s-k fur nothing nor. No personal sacrifice. fll, waa too great If 11 contributed la til achievement upon which w had art our minda and our hearts. In trial spirit, w at about Ui building ot a ntw uation in a wilderness. a HEN th Whll Houtl waa bull'. w th alt that now la th roaring. whining, whatl-w 1 1 n I n--whe, plol-wiuun-a-plot, wholly aruflrial thing that w call Ui city of Wash ington waa not 'much mar titan a aid pasture, dulurd with tree. Thomaa Jelferaon. tha firu ral occupant of Ui Whila House, filled wU In physical appaaanca wltn tha alia what til new capital of a nw nation waa being built. H waa tail, raw-boned, freckled and aandy of complexion. In hia cam paign, he waa called Long Tom. tie played th violin. ' UI waa Ui outstanding radlaal at t hi urn. Hia alocuon Irajhiatpirr the aophlstlcated peopi of lii euohlaucaied CUM ol New York and Philadelphia and aVaton naarly out ot their ahoee. What w think of Henry WaUac la mild In oompariaon with what th clly slickers ot that tint thought ot Jaffaraon. Yet, I think. In these day, be would be railed a reactionary and a tend-patier. Ha wa huelile, tar example, to th supreme court for til reason Uiat, tu hia mind, til court under Chief Justice Marahali WAS DlrlPOtUOJ TO BUILD UP THIS FKUKRAL POWhJt AT Tilt fcXFKNba, UP THK HI AILS. Panry that. In tiiea daya when buainru people generally are lar rifled by Ui tendency to concenLraia EVkKYTHlNU In Washington, leav lug la our elates and our minor cull devieion only a hollow ahell ot the authority that one waa theirs I Tna radical ol thea daya want to center KVEHY1HINO In Wash ington wher he and hia kind can b Doe. e UKRE S an odd one: When Associate Justice William CUAhing died In UI0, Jelferaon wrota to Albert Uailaun: "I obeerv old Cuihlng la dead. Al lengin. then, w hav a chanc of getting a RKPUBUCAN majority in th au prem court." imagine that coming from the founder of th Democratic party I THE catch, of course, la that Jef frraon waa referring to th RE PUBLICAN POHM OF OOVfcKN. MKNT, In which th power of th people la exercised through the I elected representative of the Deoole ratiier than directly, as in a pur democracy. Th Republican party hadn't bean areameo ol then. 0 In tiiea days, th radicals lean toward til Idea of pur democracy uniuauve, reierenaum, recall) and away from government by elected representatives (congreaa, th legis latures, etc.) Only th conserva tives now believe in republics. I ETB at least breathe a algh ol relief that th old Whit Hou.e la to be retained for us, with It traditions of the great daya when ther waa SINCERITY in govern ment and men fouirht for principles and not Ju.it tor POWER. S-L Firemen Now Have Truck Th eiewart-Lennox rural fir prmectlv district received a fir tiuck last night, mad posxlbl by donations by cltlteiM of the area. It wa announced today by Harold Hrlileferateln, secretary-treasurer of Ihf dlntrlcL The tank nf the truck waa built In Btrwart-Lennoi and then sent to Ihe Howard Cooper corporation Milch put It on th truck and mad om changes In th pump and put on a booster bone. Th lire organisation la operated entirely by volunteer firemen. Th number to call on fir re ports at night are, ma. Fire chief Hod Mathers, and 7UU8, AanlaUnt Chief Al Loomln. Tha number to rail day 1 mm, th stewart Lenrmi itir. FBICE FIVE CENT 1 i KLAMATH FAI.LH, OIIKdON, FRIDAY, AUCI'HT I. IM Telephn 1111 Na. t4 1 y (SCDIP i$mS (Sabiridlson i? - V'.no.w-. -..vv -VUv vr.f.;. -i K tu'eUWIwt,-'V'. ."' 'alr..a m ... ..i,.laVaa...saa.,' ,a,., .fc akaeaaij AIT CLASSES Students ot &n 0TI ort institute wr busy yesterdoy ofternoon with o wottr color class which was held near the old marine rifle range. From left to right Cordon West, Alice Stonecypher ond Joyce Copeland ort shown sketching the.Klomarh landscape. Instructors for the class are Vern Swonsen, president of the Klomath Art association, ond James Peck, director of the Cornish school of fine orts in Seattle. 'Smoke-Jumpers' Leap Into Areas To Battle Pacific Northwest Fires - . By Taa AaMtatea) Pnaa A fee aal aervtr plan leaded ap wtth lead aad water today (frldayl, aa forester eaatlnaed taklag ta Ihe air la kelp baltl lire, barnlag aver wMrlv arparaled erUana af Ihe Pa cific Northwest. The biggeat fir a thousand actea on the Ochoco national fareat ol Central Oregon was corralled last night, but fira-ttghlera continued battling on smaller fronts over the Northwest. A amok Jumper who aararhaled right lata the fire he waa going la fig hi wa carried aal af the Kanlkaa nauaasl fareat aa a air if her last night, and waa lakea la a hospital la Bonner Ferry, Idah. Lloyd C. Knapp. Colvllle. Wash, Warner Road Oiling Gets Under Way LAKEVIEW. Aug. t Oiling the Jl-mile section of the Warner road from Fremont Junction to Drakes creek got under way this week. It was announced by Tom 81m. auper lntendent of the work for the con tractor, D. P. McKensie of Salem. 81m aald Ihe work waa expected to take about three weeks. Much ot the contracting flrm'a equipment ar rived th past weekend, and the last of It on Monday. The oiling work started on Tuesday. Oracling and gravel surfacing ot that aerllon waa completed earlier by Ihe Inter City Sand and Oravrl company of Eugene. Tfcta firm alao has th . Mib-conlract from Mc Kensl for getting out th oil rock for the hard eurlaclng. The it ale highway commission has placed th remaining seven mil stretch of th Warner road, from Drake creek to Adrl, on the I9S0-61 program. No Sun At Night So ASA I Nudists ) Put On Clothes To Attend Dramatic Show DENVER. Aug. I M" Nudist put on their clothes last night and at tended a dramatic allow at their annual convention. "After all, we're the American Sunbathing association, and there' no aun at night," explained Mary Kllgore. Shea chairman for the convention In Deer Creek canyon, aouthweat of Denver. The nudlatl Ignored a newspaper reader sug gestion I hey ahould have assembled In nearby Bear canyon. Last night affair was Iras socia ble for some ot the aklntolk than their clotlieslesa frolics. The absenc of clothe make for a more sociable life, a pair of To peka, Kan., girl. Mildred and Mary, told an Interviewer. "You underatand we mean all clothes oft." Mildred aald. ' ju a we bit of clothe la much wor than nothing l Tkt tnn Mw 1 parachuted Dito the Kanlksu' yerter- day to tight on of 20 small light- ning blaies. Ha landej In a tree. and crashed Into aom burning tlm- bers on the ground. llla back. Injured, k railed away rrae in lire, aai raaia am wia a.L An elghl-Bua rearae team par aehaled In la th fareat and carried r WHAT FAT?' Highly irv dignont when a London re porter suggested she was too fat, "Miss America," Bcbe Shopp, 18, quickly replied, "Whot fat?" Miss Shopp is on o 33-day crusade through Europe for "clean thinking and bona fide bosoms." Of falsies, she said: "I don't wear them ond never will. Falsies aren't honest." Trench bathing aulla. They're aim ply horrible." The people running around In their birthday suit at the conven tion ar perfectly at ease, a Trian told an Interviewer. "When you're undresaed and ev eryone around Is the same way. why. you don't even notice th different phyalqura about you." he instated. Rertoini convention buaineM baa been Intermingled with volleyball, hniseahne pitching and ping-pong tournaments for the bareakln com petitors. President Margueret Pulls, Oak land, N. led a discussion yester day on pinna for affiliation of Inde pendent club around th world with th AHA. Tli big event today Is crowning of a "king" and "queen" tor the con vention. Judging will be en th bar est eaeentlala. Th best lun tan win, Wilderness T'nim aa a fonr-ho ta aa am balance. '. I aald he was not i hoar trip ever trail ta aa a an balance. The forest aerrlr ! said k waa not serieusly hart. ; third fir broke out In a rugged. canyon-pocked area ot th Ochoco j national forest In Oregon. Just aa 1 (wo other biases were brought under controL The new firs about M acres la In such Insereasible country thai the lie men dispatched la fight It will have la be fed by parachuted meats. Larry Bohler. m tonal forest serv- ! Krc- tr m" ln wt new ' crlttclied sharply by both republi- I lea pilot flew from Portland to ! chairman camp Included former : cans and democrats in congress. Prineville' to drop the men meals. ! N'Uonal Chairman Harmon Span- The rewritten measure was sub eouipment, and tlve-gallon cans of J" Io W''" ,Hnn,nn of jmltted to the senate by Chairman water West Virginia, and Col. R. B. Crea- I Connelly (D-Tex.l ot the foreign j "They will be dropped three weal a day aa long as they have ta stay an th fir 1100, reported Gay Johnson, regional fir dispatcher at Portland. The men are working on the south fork of the John Day river. Juat five mile north of the 350-acre Squaw creek fire that was controlled yes terday. The lM-arre Ochoco fire, easier la fight berauae af It fist terrain, was completely fir -trailed laal night. Other scattered blare were being fought on the Fremont national for est of Oregon and ln several part of Idaho. A 25 -acre fir three mile south of Call' creek near the McKensie river waa eon trolled yesterday. Fifty men. Including member of th East Lane Fir Protective aaaociatton, loggers and a late fire crewmen, fought the blase that started Wed nesday. A 600-acre tire north ot Idaho City In Southern Idaho was "crowning" badly through the tops of small lodgrpole pines. Lynn Knight, fire dispatcher for the Boise national fore.it, said 300 men on the fire hoped to control It to day. Anothee Idah blaie, a 20. acre fire 3 mile south of Salmon, was being "mopped ap today. It was controlled yesterday by a 75-man crew. One amoke Jumper received a dlaloraled ahaulder dropping la th fire. Rude Reception For Burglars PARRAN. Md., Aug. 5 Police today gated t tracks leading to and from a window of a combina tion store and pout office In thia Calvert county town. They deduced th following: Burglars had pried open the out aide set of shutters. Between the shutters they discovered a hornets' neat. Th burglars left hurriedly, hornets In pursuit. Ed Freuer Back At Home Again Ed Freuer wa able to return to his home In Poe valley Thursday afternoon after several daya In Klamath Valley hospital recover ing from a bad tall last week-end while mountain climbing at MU MrLoughlln. Freuer' condition la considered very good and his recovery la Judged a remarkably fast. Beck Loses Out In Tight 5-VoteCounth WAKIIINGTON. Aag. I ft A re-' erator who will bul-d a modem mill publican national committee spill , In Chiloquin. The step was taken squarely down the middle found It- I m an effort to bolster the sagging elf ander the command today at a economy of the reservation town, new chairman, bay fi. babtiebaa ' The plan has passed the Klam t New Jersey. : ala tribal ceaneil and aaw la being Gabtielaon is yer-lnduatrtallst. i U.v r.nA law. -wi4 h, . 1 aval I Rrlr fivMith n.kn,. f.rm.r.h,,.lneUm.n h, 1 promised complete neutrality as be- I e"'d mm'T tween candidates tor president and , Three Firm Cat congreaa. , j At present three firms are cutting But Oabrielson a election vester- pine on the reservation, and Taylor day by a 6 to 47 vote over Beck- I ' " eapected the total cut for State Chairman A. T. "Bert" How- thu ifnd" w wia PPn 100 Out MO feet. rOBNETT VOTE Mrs. Olive Cornell. Klamath woman who la Oregon national re publican eammltteewoman. rated for Axel J. Beck. South Dakota, In th COP balloting al Wash ington yesterday, aha wired Tha Herald and Newa today. "1 rated for Beck knowing ie frat wa certain, later leaning ananlmana rate far Gaarletean." aald the wire. Tangratalatra him and offered lie per cent sappers and reslrnatisn from execs live caaamittr whenever he waa ready la make new apaaintaaenta. -Mrs. Cernctt has been serving aa a, IS-peraaa aatianal eaecatlva I eammlltea. j ard of Nebraska got n tingle vote ! put the national party machinery back In th familiar hands ot long Urn supporters of Benator Robert A Tart, of Ohio. The new chairman succaedeo Rep. U...I. n I, n DHimulnnk J nl,--j rmMMn mn. , b q,,, 10 K rwey , o( Npw yorL Tail himself took aa apparent psrt In the national eammltle eaa- ; tmt. bat saanv af hia backer eaa- , tributed la Oabrlclaoa' bare asargin , victory. I If It-two was the minimi , veto by which any candidal con la win sal af the total let faalifled votes at yesterdays aeaalan. I Besides Oabnelson himself and ger of Texas. Oabrielsona opponent called them the party old guard and In sisted the fight was mor against them than against th new chair man. Yugo Troops Alerted Along Border Areas BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Aug. 5 W Yugoslav troops were In a stale of alert today to guard against what Premier Marshal Tito called pro vocations and Intimidation by his Soviet-dominated neighbor. Tanjug. th official news agency, last night quoted Marshal Tito as saying bloody clashes already had taken place In Macedonia. The stormy Balkan region lies between communist Bulgaria and Albania, with Oreece on the southern border. Tito said his troop were ln a "slat ol alert in order to safeguard th peaceful construction of our socialist country." Th premier, who defied Soviet dictation a year ago in a row with th comlnform tcommunlst Inter national Information bureau), ac cused his eastern neighbor of try ing to intimidate Yugoslavia By spreading rumors' of a three tend red army Invasion. Tito called them "nothing but ordinary rumors" but added: "Nevertheless, we are not un vigllant her either ... we are prepared to prevent all provoca tions, to defend our country against veryone." Cool Weather Welcomed Klamath people welcomed cooler weather today aa th mercury stayed low enough to offer some relief from several day of wel tering heat. A stiff breeze and scattered clouds helped keep things cool. Estimated high for thia afternoon la go degrees, compared to 84 lor Saturday. Yesterday' maximum waa 84, and last night the mercury went down to 48. The forecast for this week-end Is fair with Indications that 1 cool weather will continue tor a Urn. Chiloquin Sawmill Bid Call Slated Klamath Indiaa agency affieiale hope la be able la advertise for Mda en a 4M.M aM-foet Umber aale which would bring a sawmill Into C'htloqain this summer, Recce Tay- agency forester, aald today. The Indiana have agreed to guar antee that much timber to an op- viewed ay the Indian aerrkee and secretary af the interior la Huh- !. bids OB tha project will be I Weyerbaeaser la catting aa th j Utile Vsmeav tract and at haddle mountain, Klamath Lumber and ; Bai la logging an Ihe Wildherae tract and Klaaaalh Basin Pin Mills at Squaw fuu. VV'eyerhaenser's opera lion al camp 11 waa descd ana d urine Jaly. Taylor aaid the reservation umber had escaped serious leas by fir this season but that fir clanger la Kill prcsenL Meat biases thia summer hav been lightning-started. Mew Arms-Aid Bill Cuts Out Truman Powers WASHINGTON. Aug. S lAv-The administration sent to congress to day a' new- rms-rar-urope bill shorn of provisions giving Presi dent Truman power to decide when and where aid should be given. The new measure, submitted to the houa and the senate, named specifically the countries to be ' aided under the tl ssn non mo nm. grinL jt nude no change, however in ' 1 th coat of the proposed program, The proposed outlay has been k k committee and to the , .u-".;u nouriy basic rate. Va of the foreign affair com- I . mlttee. m Connelly told reporter the new RonntlTn FlTO bill was drafted by Secretary, of " 1 " C Stat Acheson and hu the "ap- Hnrfar aftn4rl nroval of Secretarv of Defense i WnuCr WUIUrOI Johnson. Connelly disclosed the changes after members of his com mittee and the senate armed ser vice committee had met with Acheson and Johnson. Times Are Tough In Japan, Too TOKYO. Aug. S (A"v Police pick ing up pickpocket picked up the president of an automobile body plant. And what, they asked the little Japanese Industrialist, wa such a respectable cltiten doing picking pockets? Collections from customers were most difficult, he replied. Had to get money some way to pay the help. e. t - . r 4 jfjrfi .. - . jr I .--'. lyutr t$ t: --;;y.:- C. .'it ,1 ljr- ADDITION AT MILLS This handsome entrancewoy it a feature of the latest addition to Mills school, the new auditorium which is neoring completion. It will probably be in shape in time for school this fall, and is a badly needed facility ot Mills where the terrific increase in students has been a major problem for the post two years, Blazing Gun Cuts Down Rodeo Judge BIG RPRING, Trass. Aag. I m Bullets from a cowhand a aligaa killed a redea Judge aad aa an taoklog sow boy eaileg stadent last nlghL Herb rrisxeU. a Brahma ball rider from Beaamant, aver near tha East Tesaa line. Ignored a radee crowd af about tta wbra ha went fanning for Judge Henry Preataa I Back I Jones, a so at is, af Ranger. He cat dawn Jone with a M caliber ballet through the chin. A wild skat killed Carl C. Myers af Abilene. TX president af Hardin-Himmena tnlveralty Ra- aociation. termer Howard Ceonty gheriff Jesa n laughter Jnmpee) an Prti sell and yanked the pistol ant of bis hsod. A bunch af eawboya, running awkwardly In then high heeled boats, dashed ap la help Hlanghter. Hheriff Bob Waif lacked Prtj aeU la the caanly JaiL KrtiieU waa charged with marder In both deaths. Wolf aald the sheeting ended aa argument that bad ercarred about Iwa hears earlier between t rrraell and Jones. The crowd Jumped and reared aa FrissrlT pistol flashed and Jones fell In the arena dirt. It had already been a wUd night, even far a West Texaa rsdea, Iwa cowboy a had been tbrava and hart by unruly brancs. Bridges Flies To Hawaii To Talk Strike HONOLULU. Aug. I 'jPv Harry Bridges, president of the Interna tional Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's onion, arrived by air to day ln Honolulu, where hi union s stevedore hav been on strike for j IT daya. His trip from San Francisco waa linked with efforts to settle th walkout that haa paralyzed th ter ritory of Hawaii economically. I Until Bridges' arrival, he had kept j his movements mysterious. He had booked air paasag for today, but it ) developed that he had actually let: the mainland last night on a reser vation taken ln the nam of Louis j Ooldbiau. another official of thei CIO union. I i On the same plan with Bridge waa George Hillenbrand of th U. S. conciliation service. For aereval days Bridge has been expected to take a direct hand in the Hawsil dock strike" Earlier Bridges had offered to en ter into peace talks ln Washington. D. C with Hawaii employer repre sentatives, but they declined. Hawaii strikers are demanding ' 35-cent raise above their pre-strike Fire which burned over about 75 acres a few miles east of Bonanza was reported to be in check this morning and Klamath Forest Pro tective association crews were mop ping up. Fifty men fought the blase, and three bulldozers, a blade and two pumpers were used. NOMINATED WASHINOTON. Aug. t ( Presi dent Truman today nominated Tracy S. Voorhee for promotion from assistant secretary to under secretary of the army. He also nominated Archibald S. Alexander. 1948 democratic candi date for senator from New Jersey, to be assistant secretary ot the I army. - 1 II. II' ;li. t.;( J; (if lit; II, I ..... it I ,.. t m a II 1 II a.- - V'l I al : i ll . i: - - - - y :v - t t I r X I " "'''"',tT i.. . Permit Veto Authority ' Questioned A?f FRANCISCO, Aag. I m ' W. A. Patterson, president af l aired I Air Line, today challenged bluntly ( th power af Ik government to 1 cancel any af th airway' permit. Patterson was testifying at tha hearing being eandacled by tha civil aeronautics board aa Ihe ejaea i Uoo af feeder line serving sis western cities. The townt involved are Santm Barbara, Monterey. Salinas, Red ; Bluff and Eureka, in California, and Klamath Falls, Ore. Southwest Air wsys serves four of those points. It wants to serve all alx. and have UAL I eliminated from the field. South , west's permits are expiring. "We take no particular Interest in whether Southwest Airways' per mit Is extended one year or. 100 years," aald Pattcrton. "That up to the government." ,. No Authority Bat whea it comes ta Ihe euesllsa af aaspending I AL service. Patter ' aoa declared, "sur position Is euit clear. 'He daa't leel that CAB ha tha power ar authority to take any thing away (rem as. If anything la going ta be aeeompliahed here. It will have ta be done in agreement between all parties. It can't be daae ; by aa order." He declared "certain people" are , trying to get "certain things" by I representing that UAL I inefficient. I He remarked that in a recent talk ; in Des Moines, he tried to make the point that UAL waa serving about 31 ismall cities and deserved more subsidy because it was doing th same thing the feeder lines were ; doing and the latter were getting a large subsidy. Bat ke aald CAL didn't want ta get it af the small foams. 'We are not rroaaa akimmera." he testified. We're willing la take a little bad along with tha goad." Last Ditch Fight -1'aitea Air Lines intends to flghf to tha very last ditch." Patterson added, "against any approach ta thia thing that aeaamea we ar inefficient ar wasteful operatora." Patterwn aald "no." when Exam- trier Paul N. Pletfter asked him if. In a business way. It wouldn't b In UAL Interest to abandon the six cities ln question. "It UAL eliminated all cities that are unprofitable." he added, "then we would soon be called 'cream skimmers' ' and "the big octopus. Wed suffer mora be that" Hug Las Tb lows af revenue ta United Afcr Lines, tf Klaaaalh Falls and five California towns were eliminated from ita route, woald total aaara a than a half millioa dollar a year. That waa the testimony before a civil aervaaatica board bearing by a CAB traffic expert, David W. Bl se al one, yesterday. Blaestoae said menace Irora line ta Santa Barbara. Eureka. Red Bluff. Monterev. nalinaa and Klam ath Falls bring I'AL frooa SHiM ta So. annaallv. He said that Southwest Airway, which want the lines Into those cities, wot'.J gain only 400.000 a year, since Southwest would not obtain the through-passenger busi ness which UAL handles. But another CAB expert, Solomon Colter, countered that I'AL would save administrative lands by elim inating service In the alx citlea, Ceiker did not specify how mack woald be saved." Boeing Plant Has Order Backlog SEATTLE. Aug. 5 ii Despite S85.0O0.00O lost by cancellation of ' the air force's B-54 bomber contract. I Boeing Airplane company has a backlog of orders totaling IJ3. 028.203. The figure, a company statement revealed yesterday, includes start ing funds for the B-47 Stratojet bomber - now entering production at the Wichita. Kans.. plant. The first six months of 14 brought the company a net profit of S662J49 and sales ot $110,829,131. .w. v .... v "- r