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0) Jfl E3 cm mm 1A j 1 uTIio- 1! i 1WWS Bj HUNK JKNKIN8 JJOVIET RUSSIA today denouncea " th Yugoslav government end charge Uiut Premier Marshal Tito regime la more end more "throwing In lie lot with the Weil." WHAT don that mnT " Well, there ere eome baslo facts that we mut remember. The gov ernment ol Bovlet Russia U a com munist lo government. The govern ment of Yugoslavia la 1 communistic government. Marshal bulln of Russia la communist. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia la a communist. Here la the difference: Ruaala 'a BIO communism. Yugo lavla la LI TILE communism. Btalln la the big communist, and alma to stay that way. Tito Is the little communist and wanta to get bigger. Ruaala wanta (and Intends) to run the whole allow. Yugoslavia wants to run her own show. ,. WT.IAT It bolls down to la that men 4 like Tito constitute a threat to Uie Ulcere dozen of big allot com munist In the Kremlin whose pur pose la to RUN THIS COMMUNIST WORLD. What Interesta us la the now ob vious fact that ambitious communist Iradrra are beginning to fight each other for power. MOTE No. 1 on thla screwball 11 world: Dispatches tills morning Inform us that the Huntord atomic plant Is so closely regulated that not even National Ouard and reserve air force plunea can practice defending It. (Not even military planea can fly over Hanford.l Bo the fllere of the two air forces will pretend that the Umatilla (Ore.) area Is Hanford and will practice defending that I I I VCREWBALL world not No. I: In Astoria a Mrs. Dent Burns, a cannery employee, waa called onto the Job and given an hour and hall to report, bhe waa late, and was fired. Hlie put In a claim for stale unemployment compensation, alleg ing that an hour and a halt Isn't enough time for a woman to get dressed and get to work. The can nery, her employer, aaya It certainly IS trme enough, and tliat'a that. So the a tale unemployment com mission of the slate of Oregon will now have to work out and hand down a formal decision on how much time an employed woman can have to get dresaed. A rra a complicated world we live In. A thought that occurs to ua far too seldom la that ALL THI8 COM PLICATION COSTS MONEY. Thla I wasted i cost Is reflected In the price of everything we buy Just like taxes. The more we have to pay for the things we buy the leu our dollars are worth. RNOTHER reminder, In conclusion: " Don't forget that If the lady wins her case and get her unemploy ment compensation (which will be money paid for work that Isn't done) the coat of that, too, will be reflect ed In the price of the things we have to buy. The welfare state la wonderful, of course, but It does cost monry. That la a fact we too often forget. Williamson Area House Burns CHILOQUIN. Aug. 12 A two atory government house on the Wil liamson river In Chlloquln burned to the ground In a blaze which awept the structure shortly after noon, Thursday. Origin of the fire waa not deter mined. The house waa the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Miller, who were attending a Klamath Indian tribal council meeting at Klamath Agency when the blaze broke out. Only a few personal belongings were aaved. The Chlloquln fire rig fought the fire. Until the 1920's, the building was used a a government school, but since then It has been used as a residence. Truman, Vinson Names On Records As '5 Percenter' Hearings Continue Today WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 !" Sen ator Mundt (R-S.D.) told the five percenter Inquiry today that MnJ. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan appeared to have entered Into an "ingenious plot" to fill a top army job. This new turn In the Investigation came amidst developments which: 1. Brought out the names of Mrs. Harry S. Truman, Chief Justice Vin son and other notables as reported recipients of home freezers from a company Hint has figured In the senate hearings. The White House an Id It knows nothing of the matter. Vinson said he'll let the senate Investigating committee develop the mstler. 2. Prompted an announcement that Vaughan, President Truman's army side, hns Indicated he Is ready to testify whenever the committee wants to hear him. The committee Is looking Into the activities of so-called five-percenters persons who seek out govern ment contracts for others at a fee. Vaughan's name has entered the hearing on several counts mainly as a reported close friends of James V. Hunt, former army officer, sur plus property sales consultant and more recently a management coun sellor. Todsy tha aommitU heard testi PRICE FIVE f'KNTH Vlk Inbspiitai Showdown Aske , -,"' ' -.aa : a w:Vi i n , WHERE 15 MET FIERY DEATH Rescuers scorch the charred and ripped wreckage of the Greyhound bus in which 15 persons were burned to death whert it crashed into a concrete bridge abutment neor Bloomington, Ind. Thirteen passengers and the driver survived the crosh. Judiciary OK's Clark, McGrath Jobs WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 cP) The senate Judiciary committee to day recommended confirmation of Attorney General Tom C. Clark to be an associate Justice of the su preme court. The vote was I to J. The committee also recommend ed to 0 the confirmation of Senator J. Howard McOrath (D R.I.) to be attorney general suc ceeding Clark. Chairman McCarran (D-Nev.) at first declined to aay who voted against Clark. Later he told re porters that Senators Donnel (R Mo.) and Ferguson (R-Mlch.) op posed confirmation. McCarran said he would report the committee action to the sen ate at once but would not aak unanimous consent required to act upon the hlgn court appointment today. Unless aome other senator dors this, and It Is accepted, there will be no senate action on the matter until Monday. In addition to McCarran, other senators voting for Clark Includ ed: Kllgore iD-W.Va ), Magnuaon (D-Wash). McOrath. Miller, ID Ida). O'Conor, ID-Md.), Oraham iD-N C i. Wiley (R-Wls.) and Lan ger (R-N.D.) Two committee members were not preaent or recorded: Eastland (D-Mlsa.) and Jenner (R-Ind.) Ferguson left the closed com mittee session before the action on McOrath as attorney general. Mc Orath also left. HOPS HARVESTED INDEPENDENCE. Aug. 12 W The hop harvest Is under way In this area. A few of the yards launched picking of early varieties this week, and all the yards will be harvest ing by next wrek. Growers said the early crop did not appear as heavy as last season's. mony that Hunt's secretary deliv ered to Vaughan's office in the White House Inst spring a memo randum from MaJ. Oen. Alden H. Waltt on the fitness of certain army officers to succeed Waitt as army chemical corps chief. No replacement was made at the time. Waltt on July 16 was suspended as chemical chief by Secretary of the Army Oordon Gray, along with MaJ. Gen. Herman Feldman, quarter master general. Gray said In a statement that the senate Inquiry had turned up evi dence "which Indicates that Gen eral Waltt Improperly furnished personnel data to an Individual not In the military service and who was not. entitled to receive such data." On July 7, Miss Mildred Ortmeyer, Hunt's secretary, testified to com mittee and army Investigators that Waltt dictated a memorandum to her entitled "Eligible officers for appointment to chief of chemical corps." Senator Mundt (R-S.D.) ex claimed: "It looks to rne like a sort of ingenious plot to which Hunt, Waltt and Vaughan have connived to cut the throats of all the other officers trying to get that Job." l-aOW KLAMATH FALLS, OKP.GON, aUakftasaesM', A I GLUT U 1849 VP5 v Rent Decontrol Issue in Klamath Shaping Up; Some Action Hinted By Monday The subject of rent da-control In Klamath Falls aeema to be brewing towards the boiling point, and some development are expected at nest Monday'a rlty council setalon. It waa Indicated this week. After the city dada agreed to piaeon-hole th probability of call ing a public hearing at last week a council confab, the matter bobbed up again during a meeting of the KlwanU club Thursday when a gov ernment official was discussing fed eral housing. Bert Igl, ei-fhalrmen the elty planning commission, changed the general discussion when he aaked Mayer Robert A. Thompson what the elty of Klamath Falls wss going Stewardess Heroine Of Air Crash PORTLAND. Me., Aug. 12 ur A pretty and plucky stewardess was heroine of a Northeast Airliner crash from which 27 persons escaped safe ly last night. Miss Patricia Donnellan. 23. of North Qulncy. Mass, a rookie at her Job, calmly herded the passengers out a rear door a scant two min utes before the plane was envoloped In Hemes on Portland Municipal airport. The new. 1400.000 Convalr from New York and Boston was a total loss. Captain Roderick Cote. 4001 Mel rose, Mas., the pilot, said the pro pellers of the twin englned plane accidentally reversed 15 or 20 feet above the runway "and we Started to plop straight down.. "Then our landing gear collapsed and the sparks began to fly." The big plane slithered on Its belly for several hundred feet in a shower of sparks. Then the right engine caught tire. Shouting, "follow me." Miss Don nellan led the way to the rear door when she couldn't open the front door the hydraulic system wouldn't work and flames blocked an emer gency exit. Thomas Cllsh, SO, of Falmouth, a passenger, said "all hands got out Inside of a minute." "That little stewardess was grand," he said. " She did a grand Job." Baseball Scores NATIONAL (Seven Innings rain). Philadelphia 100 001 02 ( 0 New York 000 000 00 S 0 Borowy and Semlnlck: Jones, Behrman (61 and R. Mueller. AMERICAN BOSTON, Aug. 12 () Before the smallest paid home crowd of the season, 4014 fans, Boston's Red Sox today dumped the Washington Sen ators, 15-7, In the first game of a day-night doubleheader. Roberto Ortiz, who banged his first homer In the opening Inning, drove In five Washington runs and Vern Ste phens, who rapped his 29th, drove In five fur the Sox, (Day game). Washington ... 300 001 003 7 12 0 Boston 201 047 Olx 15 14 0 Scarborough, Oettel (5), Weltcrotli (61, Gonzales (6) and Evans; Stobbs and Tebbett. (1(0 AY ....saw--- ajta..... . Kltk. , to do about the lifting of rent ceiling a. "If anyone Is Interested In what the council will do about li, come to next Monday night's council meet ing." Mayor Thompson replied. If l'a query apparently was prompted by the fact thaC Ashland, Salem and mora recently Medford, In addition to other Oregon cities. ban de-controlled rent. The council as a whole aeema U feel that It will call a public hear' Ins of landlords and tenants necea aary ander the law if the people deaire such a meeting. Councilman O. C. Tatuian said that he didn't think the council would make any move until It has been presented with a petition, but indicated that such a development may be forthcoming at the next council meeting. The mayor couldn't be reached today for comment. Regardless of what the council may deride to do, however, after a public hearing, the final decision resta with the governor of the atate. It waa emphasised. Bomb Blast Wrecks Car Of US Attache PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, Aug. 12 tPt An American embassy offi cial here reported that a-home-made bomb had wrecked his automobile early today. The official was Capt John Childs, assistant air attache at the embassy, whose home Is Lewlston, Me. He said the automobile was un occupied and parked In front of his house at the time of the explo sion. Nobody was injured but win dows of buildings in the vicinity were shattered by the blast. Capt. Childs said he had parked his auto in the street in front of his residence at about 11:15 pm, and retired about midnight. Some five minutes later, he said, he heard an explosion. Childs said that Czech police ex perts who Investigated found rem nants of a fuse and pipe and metal container In which the explosive was packed. "It looked like a home-made Job," he said. "I have no theories about who might have planted it, nor do the police." Reporter Puts On The Heat NEW YORK, Aug. 12 P) An enterprising reporter has dug up some unusual data about New York City's heat wave that the weather bureau doesn't supply. While the official reading atop the Whitehall building in Lower Manhattan stood at a record high of 98.1 degrees yesterday, the re porter went roving with a ther mometer and recorded these tem peratures: 103 degrees Inside a policeman's shoes. 130 degrees on a tiled rooftop. 93 degrees In an alr-condltloned elevator. 37 degrees In a plane 17,000 feet above the city. After a quick thunderstorm sent the official temperature down to 81, the reporter said, the city was as cool as a cucumber In fact, cooler. A vegetable stand cucum ber was 2. Telephone gill 1 Kr Project Included In 24-Unit Plan A direct legislative move waa made in Waahington today to force a showdown on the veterana admlni atratlon hospital Issue on which hanre the fate of the VA hospital at Klamath Falls. An Asaoclated Treas dispatch aaid that Rep. Rankin (U-Misa.) intro duced a bill to direct the VA to go ahead with construction of 24 hospi tal projects. This measure would reinstate a 16,000-bed program can celled by President Truman when he aent his budget to congress last January. i The AP dispatch specifically listed the 200 -bed general medical hospital at Klamath Falls as one of the project In the program. Klamath men who have been active in pressing the hospital issue aaid they were fully cognizant of the fact that introduction of legia lation does not mean, ita passage. but they aaid they considered the Rankin move a favorable develop ment. Truman Veto Ted Case, county veteran service officer who appeared as a repre sentative of veteran groups here In testifying before a congressional committee) in Washington, said he has recently received Information indicating that President Truman remained adamant in his stand against the 24-hospttal program. Senators and congressmen who have tried to get him to go for reinstate ment have had no luck. Case was informed. Case aaid he presumed that the Rankin bill represents a direct legis lative alternative decided upon In view of the president unwillingneaa to pnt the hospitals back In the budget which he offered to congress. The VA acquired a site oo the hill bark of Hot Spring and spent sub stantial auma In preparation of architect's drawings for the struc ture. Skull Eyed As Clue In Rice Slaying A charred skull found at the city dump and turned over to the sheriff's office is being examined this afternoon for possible Identi fication aa that of Mrs. Jennie Morrison Rice. Mrs. Rice's body, without head, arm or legs, waa found In the Klamath river late last May and her husband, William Howard Rice, is now serving a life sen tence in the Oregon state prison for second degree murder. Sheriff Jsck Franey said that the skull he is examining Is that of a woman, and a few strands of red hair are visible under a microscope. Mrs. Rice hsd red hair. 2 Recommended For Judgeships WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 UP Senator Downey (D-Callf.) today recommended to President Truman the appointment of Edward P. Murphy. San Francisco, and S. Victor Wagler. Oakland, as federal district Judges for Northern Cali fornia. Both Murphy and Wagler are serving as superior court Judges. The two Judgeships for Northern California were created oy a con gressional act signed by the presi dent August 3. Youth Missing From Summer Camp NORTH VANCOUVER. B. C. Aug 12 (CPI Andrew Johnson, 15, of Areata. Calif., missing for eight days from nearby Deep Cove summer csmp. Is believed by police to have illegally re-entered the United States a week ago. Police say his re-entry is illegal because the boy's entry papers are still here. Johnson Is ssid to have told a resident here he was heading for Texas. The bov had little money. Johnson was one of a group of American boys vacationing a few miles from Vancouver. Meanwhile, the camp director, Dr. Mervyn V. Miller, and his student nurse wife, Helen, are going ahead with their plans to take the boys north. The group are scheduled to tail by Union Steamships to Prince Rupert, B. C, on August 16. HARVEST ON HOOD RIVER, Aug. 12 W The Gravenstein apple harvest was In full swing today, with 12 carloads of apples nearly ready for ship ment. The Bartlctt pear harvest will start nenrlng Its peak In the valley next week. ' WEATHER Klamalk rails aa Tlelallrl Meillr eiaar uar aariir ur Uatsat an SalarSar. ersiire taaaaar ahawara la asaantatna SalarSar aealaf. Hlfh lasar In l.alikl IS. Hlih SalarSar S. Mas. lAaf. Ill 17 M a 4 fraclallallaa tail It kaaia S No. 2051 Tax Rate In City Lower, Rural Higher Combined Levies (Mlllare Rates) 1948-49 1943-50 Klamath Falls Bonanza .. Chlloquln Malln Merrill 1-U2-1 CU-U2 CU-CUH General rural. 19.7 71.7 706 99.4 93.0 541 57.4 51.7 77.4 73.4 71.5 100.4 89.8 573 62 5 54.2 By HALE SCARBROl GH .Village rate upon wrjich Klam ath county property taxes will be paid this fail declined a little for urban Klamath Falls but the su burban and rural areas have fig ures slightly higher than for last year. Figure released today by the county assessor office set the combined millage rate which will be applied to property within the city limits of Klamath Falls at 77.4 ($7.74 per (100 of assessed valuation) compared to 79.7 for last year. The decreased millage Is primar ily due to the addition to the tax roll of assessments on new con struction and property Improve ments. The immediate suburban area, outside the city limits but in city elementary and Klamath Vnion high school districts, has a millage of ilX compared to 54.1 last year. The suburban area using county elementary schools and Klamath Union high school has a rate of 62.5. compared to 57.4 last year. In creases in school taxes are re- fleeted In the higher miuages. The general rural ICU-CUH) rate Is 54.2, up from 51.7 last year. Merrill Down Merrill city is the only other area outside of Klamath Falls showing a millage decrease. The Merrill rate is 89 8 compared, to 93 0 lir the 1M8H9 fiscal year. Bonanza' combined levy Jumped from 71.1 to 73.4: Malm's from 99 J to 100 4; Chiloquin's from 70 6 to 71.5. The Malin rate includes It's cemetery and park levies. Included in each combined levy Is 15.8 mills for the county prop er, millage for schools and for any park, fire, drainage or cemetery levy applicable. The Klamath Falls combined levy includes 15.8 for the county, 20.1 for the city and the .remainder is for schools. Assessed valuation of Klamath Falls property, upon which the 77.4 combined millage is levied, Is 514,39421.81. The Stewart-Lennox area within the recently organized fire district has an additional four mills tagged onto Its otherwise normal assess ment For instance, property In the general rural district iCU CUH) and also In the fire district Is assessed at 58.2 rather than the 54.2 general rural rate. Total assessed value of taxable property in Klamath county this year Is (49.249.142.22. The total Bonanza assessment is (108.814.82 and the city of Bon anza gets 19.2 mills of the 73.4 combined levy; Malin's assessment is (184.252.80 and the Malin city government gets 34.1 mills of the 100.4 combined levy; Chiloquin's total assessment Is (290,183.40 and the city of Chlloquln gets 17.3 of the combined 71.5 levy; Merrill's total assessment Is (370,006.06 and the city of Merrill gets 32.9 mills of the 89.8 combined levy. Mac Declines To Return To US TOKYO. Aug. 12 (P General MacArthur today declined a sen ate Invitation to return to Wash ington and testify on the foreign arms aid bill. The occupation commander In a statement gave these two main reasons: 1. He's needed In Tokyo "during this moment of critical events in the Far East." 2. The testimony wanted from him concerns China, "which has never been within the area of my command responsibility." On top of that, MacArthur said that "my specific views with re spect to the strategio potentiali ties of the area embracing my Far East command are fully on file with the department of the army." BULLETIN WASHINGTON,' Aug. 12 (JP) President Truman today nomi nated Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins to be chief of staff of the army. Collins, vice chief of staff, waa named to succeed Gen. Omar Bradley. Bradley waa nominated yester day to the highest military rank in the country chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Collin waa born In New Or leans, May 1, 1896. He was gradu ated from the Military Academy and waa commissioned a second lieutenant, April 20, 1917. Ha saw service in both World Han, Alaska Area Feared Next Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON, Aug. U (JP) Gov, Ernest Gruenlng told con gress todaf that Alaska la de fenaeleaa and the territory eonld be eapturrd tomorrow by a minor scale airborne Invasion. "If there la another Paarl Har borand this time It will be a far more serious disaster than In 1941 It shsll not be said that n warning has been given," Gruea. Ing said In a telegram to Senator Hunt (D-Wyo.). Hunt placed the communication In the Congressional Record. The governor gave his eatlmata of Alaskan defenaes in appealing to eongre to act quickly on a (137.738,712 defense authorisa tion. "I can state categorically." Grurning aaid. "that Alaska is defenseless snd that the territory could be taken tomorrow by a minor-scale airborne Invasion." He aaid a report that congress is deferring action at this session on the territory's defense author ization "appear to ua unbeliev able." Hawaii To Put Teeth In Strike Rule HONOLULU, Aug. 12 ) HawaU's senate today worked on a bill that would outlaw union interference with government operation of docks crippled by a 104-day strike. The attorney general's office of fered amendments clearing- up con stitutionality of the proposed law. If it passes the senate it will be sent to the territorial house of rep resentatives. Under the proposed law, strikes and picketing against the govern ment would be outlawed. The bill is the outgrowth of the costly CIO International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's union strike In the Islands. The' union seeks a pay hike from (1.40 to (1.72 an hour. The legislature earlier authorized the governor to seize the struck docks for government operation. The proposed law would ban sec ondary boycott and union "hot cargo" action against government operations. The 2000 striking union members are expected to test the validity of the law. If it Is passed, in an early court action. Territorial Governor Ingram M. Stainoack has ordered the seizure of facilities of seven struck stevedor ing companies. The islands' govern ment is now employing men to work ships expected here from the Gulf Coast. Chiloquin To Get PE Plant Chiloquin schools will get a physical education plant and other work may be done at Bly, Beatty and Bonanza as a result of con gressional action today on a bill giv ing the Klamath county school dis trict (150.000 for capital improve ments on schools attended by In dians and white children. Only President Truman's signature is needed to complete authorization. County Superintendent Carroll Howe said that the largest construc tion Job financed by this money will be at Chiloquin, where the heaviest concentration of Indian school chil dren exists. He said that a badly needed physical education layout will be erected at Chiloquin. Howe said that Congressman Lowell Stockman and Senator Guy Cordon did most of the work on the appropriation bill In Washington. Earl Whitlock Funeral Home Sale Told Today; Washington Man Buyer Sale of the Earl Whitlock Funeral home to Keith O'Halr of Camas, Wash., has been announced by Earl Whitlock, pioneer Klamath Falls funeral director and business man. Whitlock, who came to Klamath Falls In 1905 from SUverton and almost Immediately established a mortuary, plans to retain his home In Klamath Falls. He and Mrs. Whitlock will travel considerably. O'Halr announced that Al Mc Donald, who has been with the Earl Whitlock Funeral home for the past 17 years, has been appoint ed manager and funeral director. The name has been changed to Whitlock Memorial chapel. McDonald has been active In civic affairs, and O'Halr stated the manager would have more time to follow these extra activities in the future. O'Halr has owned a funeral home In Camas for the past eight years, and has been a licensed mortician since 1928. "I have known Earl Whitlock for the past 20 years, and this oppor tunity to acquire his establishment is Just what I've always looked forward to," O'Halr said. "This is Just the size and type of business I've wanted, and th lz and kind Slash Will Be Asked At House Meet WASHINGTON, Aug. It (O Advocate of rutting President Truman's (1.450,000.000 arms aid bill gave up the fight In the houa foreign affairs committee today. They decided to make their aland on the house floor Instead. The bill Is duo to reach the floor next week, after the foreign af fairs committee vole on it Mon day. Representatives Vorys (R-Ohio) and Richards (D-S.C.i, who had been spearheading the drive for cut, told newrmen they plan no further committee action but will make their fight when the bill comes before the house. Their decision to toss In the sponge In committee followed de feat yesterday, by a tie vote, of Richards' amendment to reduce the amount of arms aid for Atlantic pact nations to (580,495.000. and rejection today, on a technicality, of a similar amendment. The amendment offered today would have done it hv percentage. Chairman Kee (D-W.Va.) ruled it out of order on the ground tha committee already had rejected tha same proposal. Peace Aim Be for a adjourning until next Monday morning, the committee adopted several amendmenta de signed to reiter4 the hope of tha I. 8. for world peace and calling on adminietrators of the aid pro gram to bring about "unified di rection and effort" in developing defense plans. Several amendments still must be considered by the committee. Another Vorys amendment would prohibit the cor"xuction abroad with United States funds of new arms plant. It would psrmit only standard U. S. arms to be sent to foreign nations. Both Vorys and Richard have amendment ts charge at actual coot or replacement cost the value of any except surplus arm aent abroad. President Truman has pro posed that he be given broad au thority to fix a value on such arms. Another amendment proposed by Rep. Lodge R-Conn.) would au thorize a (200.000,000 arms aid pro gram for non-communist China. A group of senators headed by Knowland (R-Callf.) has been urging that (175.000,000 of th to tal (1,430,000.000 arms aid program be earmarked for China.. Flying Tiger Air Freight Wins Okay BURBANK. Calif., Aug. 12 (IP) The Flying Tiger cargo line is frea to push its expansion program into 43 cities throughout Northern and Southwestern United States. With a Washington. D. C, fed eral court denying American Air lines an injunction against tha freight company. Flying Tiger President Robert W. Prescott said last night: "We're going ahead full steam." The line now operates daily freight service between Los Ange les. San Diego and San Francisco, and Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit. Cleveland and New York. American had appealed civil aeronautics board approval of the expansion plan. The line earlier listed Seattle, Wenatchee. Longvlew and Yakima In Washington state as among th 43 points it planned to include on it transcontinental nights. PASSES MEDFIELD, Mass., Aug. 12 UP) Mrs. Laura Brown Smith, 96, moth er of the wife of Gov. Ernest Omening of Alaska, died today at her home. She lived here for 50 years and was the town's oldest inhabitant. of community I like to raise my family In." Mr. and Mrs. O'Halr have mad their home at 1943 Logan street, with their two children. Michael, 9, and Susan, 10. He is a member of the Episcopal church and the Masonic lodge. Earl Whitlock' was born at Silver ton, graduated from the New York City School of Embalming, and was connected with a Portland mortu ary before coming to Klamath Falls on August 22: 1905. In 1906, he erected an undertaking establish ment on the present site of the First Piesbytcrlan church. Sixth and Pine, and later erected the present Whitlock: Memorial chapel across the street from the church. Whitlock was for many years Klamath county coroner. He has been active in the chamber of com merce. Rotary club and Elks lodge, and Is a past president of the Ore gon State Funeral Directors associa tion. Regarded as an outstanding contribution to the Klamath busi ness district is the Memory Oarden which Whitlock established on Pin street In honor of his mother, Amelia Whitlock, who died In 1930, The landscaped garden Is an at tractive resting spot adjoining th chapel and on the sit of Amelia Whitlock ! old horn. t
