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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1949)
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, If 4 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACE TWO Sept 1, School Registration Day At Merrill MERRILL. An. 3 Bummer vacation will officially and for all Merrill achool kiU September 1. when registration for both huh and elementary itudrnta will be held at the respective achooli. Dnrlnr the eumiuer months, both achoola er thoroughly cleaned, the trade achool gym waa painted, and new green and whit asphalt Ule blocks were laid a the floor at the high achool. A real atoker lor the high achool furnace waa also purchased. Five teachera who are new to Merrill have been added to the grade achool faculty. They are Mar Jorl Week, fim trade; Lut Kan. gelmeler. aecond trade: Edna Mc Curdy. third trade: Eleanor Splek erman, fourth trade, and Irene Behnka who will teach a combined grade. Lavirma Storey, first trade, Mar garet McAnulty, aecond trade; Vera Ocha, fifth trade, and Harvey Den ham, sixth trade and principal, ar raturnlnt thia year. To date no music teacher has been obtained for the trade achooL The combined Junior and senior high achool faculty will also have four new teachers: Marry Kansel meter, science and Junior high: Thelma Warren, English: Murtal Hyden. home economics and girl's physical education work, and Loren Hum pal, who will be shop Instruc tor. High school faculty members re turning ar Harold Hendrickson. principal and athletic coach: Floyd Mauney, math and Junior high, and Charles Dobry, music and band In structor. Principal H. J. Hendrlrkeea als stresses that It la moat Im portant for all Merrill etadenta U register September 1. In rder t get claases and rabjecta lined np. Children startint the first trad must be t years old. or hare reach that ag by November IS. Parents are requested to accompany them bringing birth certificates or other proof of age. New students coming to Merrill for the fiiit time ar asked to bring report cards from their former achool. Regular claaeee will begin Toes day. September S. to day after Labor Day. Bnea will ran oo regular acbedalea a registra tion day. John Scott will driv one baa and do Janitor work at the grade arhsoL and Emit Christeneea wiD drive the aecond bos and act as Janitor at the high arhooL The cafeteria will be open Sep tember . with Mrs. Frances Fox stain in charge. Student accident Insurance win be carried stain this year with rates for elementary students set at 1 per year, and for Junior and senior high school students the rale will be tl.2s annually. Hendrlckeon has abo announced that a change is being made la book rental fee for senior eta rente. Last year SO eenta book rental waa charted, but this year, la order to make enda meet, a flat fos of M a year win be charged oaek senior high stodent. First practice of the Merrill Hus kies football team has been set for this Wednesday. August 34 on the athletic field. All home gsmes will be played on the flood-lighted field, and a complete schedule will b an nounced later. Road Workers Pass Picket Lines ONTARIO. Ore.. Aug. JS (h-Msl-heur county officials hava an nounced they will he more men lor county road Jobs. Newly signed crews hsv passed through AFL picket line. Road work was delayed when crews went on strike, protesting a wage cut. xney later joined an AFL Teamstera' union but failed to reach an agreement with th coun ty on wages. Crews passed through teamster picket line at three points venter day. Th county court reported 13 truck and heavy equipment drivers naa been employed to replace JO men on strike. Want Ads don't cost they pay! or nmri orrv rvg ir. m. I USJw-sv jtsrvniK-v 7feJ V - J1MMIE DAVIS WjM ' Urns' . Umt runs i r 1 $ ; 1 ? -- V v - ? y 4vV i AMONG NEW RESIDENTS to Klamoth Falls is Edward J. Kolar and family. He is con nected with the Columbian Optical company as a dis pensing optician and was transferred here from the Portland office. He and his wife and child ore at home at 718 Jefferson street. Prior to his present connection, Mr. Kolor was with optical firms in San Bernardino and River side, Calif. He has had exten sive experience in the fitting of artificial eyes. 500 Killed Yhen Chinese Ship Explodes CANTOS'. Aug. aw - Approxi mately 500 persons were killed or Injured in the explosion of an am munition ship in the hsrbor of Takso. southeastern Formosa, the offlcisl Chinese central news agency said todsy. The agency said ammunition was being uploaded from the Chinese steamer Chunglt. There wss a huge explosion, which waa followed quick ly by others. The whole port city waa ahakea by the blast which broke nearly every window In Takao and canard morn other damage, the agency reported. Terror spread through the city. Shortly after the first blast ripped through the ship the city wss darkened by the smoke arising from the waterfront. The wharf are, was a seen of destruction, the agency said. (Takao la on of the most im portant ports tor the Chines na tionalist government on Formosa, which has been converted Into a fortress.) Local Insurance Agents Honored NEW YORK. N. Y, Aug. 13 (Spe cial) Martin 8wanson of 411 Main, and Paul R. Winter of 126 8. Eighth of Klamath Falls, repre sentatives of th New York Life Insurance company, have been named members of th 1M9 Nylie Stsr club, it wss announced today by Dudley Dowell, vie president of the compsny. The Nylle Star club Is an or ganisation of leading members of New York Life's field force of more than 500 agents from throughout the United States and Canada. Swanson and Winter have been invited to attend an educational conference of the Star club Septem ber 28-29 at the Hotel del Cor onado, Coronado. Calif., a which home office staff members and outstanding agents will discuss cur rent developments In th life In surance business. CZECH MORMONS CELEBRATE PRAGUE UP The Mormon mis sion in Czechoslovakia celebrated lta SOth anniversary in Prague re. cently. About 200 members and friends of the mission from all parts of Czechoslovakia cam to participate. The convention aent a telegram of thanks to President Klement Oottwsld for stat support oi its operations. rif ieiperor Men iui(fiii:-H-r'r!tyirjrii:t!it-riir!ti:iflM:i i!i;iii:i:i!iiJtu.t:i:t:i.,.'tf:;:i::;:iii!i:!:i W am - BwawoWwjawaBBaaBBBBBFW a mm ' I i end One ' i r rl? Woman V. l-sVw" -MWIlllAM lUlOTTi ""Vat'l soettv? fVfr I WIHDIOIMOCHIWM sT.tt.sw. a .v. , ' u m :j i S:. AMI 'iii' vtw. LB''etJ f:n ,!.'!:. C.l.r CASTOON WiiN :;:li:;:i:iJ4ii;ii '' I 16,000-Acre Blaze Held Within Trails (Continued from Pat Oni trol by Sunday morning, but at noon Sundsy broke away again and began to roll up the huge acreage finally embraced within Ita peri meter. An Investigation of the fire has been started by Shuts national forest officials. Big Force Recruited The fire fighting force Included more than 2J0 men recruited in the Klamath Falls area. 40 Inmates of a prison camp. TO loggers, go local pickups and many forest service officials and others. Dim Fisher, custodian of the Lava Beds monument., said this morning that the Schonchln butt lookout In the Lava Beds reported a few hot spots along the fire line, but In gen eral the condition looked good from that side. Fisher hsd men and equipment ready for further flre fightlng and patrol work. Many Blase There was on casualty among fire-fighter. Don Roads, 37, Klam ath Falls, who was hurt when a snag hit him In the back, was re coverint satisfactorily today at Klamath Valley hospital. The Sheep Well fire was one of many which were tought by thou sands of men in the United States and Canada today. Flames licked at ttmberland in Maine. In Western and Far Western states, and in Quebec. California had several bad fires, and la San Diego county officiate declared an emergency condition when a new fir broke out An other new fir raged In Delus can yon, near Fallbrook. Calif, driving many settlers out of their homes. Three small ranches were burned and a larg Bomber of livestock perished. In Idsho. gains were msde against a 7500-acr fir tn prectpltious Hell's canyon, but other Idaho fires were making trouble. Firea in Yel lowstone park wer checked. Curtis Knudsen, one of the crew fighting the Hell s canyon fire, died of lnjunes. and three others wer hospitalized. City Teachers ) Meet Slated Teachers of the city school system will hold an orientation aession at 11 o'clock next Tuesday morning In the Klamath Union high achool auditorium. The panel discussion will be com prised of three tenersl topics. A member of the city recreation committee will lead discussion on Recreation Present and Future." emphasizing the relation between the achoola and the recreation pro gram: Chamber of Commerce Man ager C. R. 8tark will skipper the discussion of the Hshn-Csmpbell Industrial report, and Frank Jenkins will discuss th outlook for indus trial development in Klamath county. KENT Born at Klamath Valley hospital, Klamath Falls, Ore.. Aug ust 18. 1B49. to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Kent. S611 Delaware, a boy. Weight, t pounds 12'v ounces. DELAP Born at Klamath Valley hospital. Klamath Falls. Ore.. Aug ust 30. 1M9. to Mr. and Mrs Charlea DeLap. rout 7 box 577. glrL Weight. 7 pounds 13 ounces. RANDALL Born at Klamath Valley hospital. Klamath Falls. Ore.. August 21. 1941, to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Randall. Bonanza, a glrL Wright. S pounds 3'v ounces. BRAZIL Bom at Klamath Valley hospital. Klamath Falls. Ore.. Aug ust 21. 1940. to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brszilll, Malln. a boy. Weight pounds 3 ounces. SCHWAEIOER Born at Klamath Valley hospital, Klamath Falls, Ore., August 23, 1849. to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schwaeiger, 52S Prescott, s boy. Weight, t pounds 3'i ounces. Springfield Girl Dies In Wreck EUOENE, Aug. 23 VPh-An over turned car claimed the Ufa of 12-year-old Helen McElhsney, Spring field, and put two teen-agers In a hospital late yesterday. Lendell Mathews, IS. Springfield, underwent surgery at Sacred Heart hospital here after the accident The victim's sister, Marilyn, 14, was treated for bruises. Police aald the thre were en rout home from harvesting beans In Lane county fields when th csr rolled over on a curve. mum t 14 )NOWi VDS C0. r nsat. in v u s on i .V uliriLS '"'Mil NtXT ATTRACTION ft 1 rJ ' navio ntxt ir win wmr.HT LT 131 M IVri.TN KCYT-Jl MRLF.V CftAvr.fg BlTt J 9 xil FIRE LOCATION Map by Malcolm Epley Jr., shows general location of Sheep Well firt that covered 16,000 ocres in the Modoc and Shosta notional forests and the Lovo Beds na tional monument. Justlr Curt Frank John Baltasor, violation of th basic rule. Fin 110. Harry Albert Daudt. fallur tc obev atop sign. Fine ti SO. Charll WUbur Parker, fallur to obey atop aign. Fine SS.90. Merrit Eugene Kass. Inadectuat emergency brake. Tin S S0. Velden Irwin Mathews, fallur to obey stop sign. Fine ti 50. Ardte Dov Alexsnder. faiur to obey stop sign. Fine 15 SO. Edward Arthur Newnast. violation of the basic rule. Fine 17 SO. Michael Edward Dillon, disorder ly conduct Fine S2S. Michael Edward Dillon, drunk on a public htghway. Fin tlS. Jo Carmelo Scorns, failure to obey stop light. Fine 5 V. William Edward Palmer, fallur to obey atop sign. Fin tS.SO. Winifred Town Hetney. fallur to obey atop sign. Fin 5 50. Charlea Wesley Epperson, failure to procuro operator a license. Fin ISM. Arthur Merl Stockton, no tall light Fin SSSO. Earl J. Sehorn, axl overload. Fin 31. Herman Ben Snyder, fallur to yield right of way. Fin tlO. James Byron Rouse, parking in prohibited aone. Pin Si 50. Berkeley M. Mast, combination overload. Fin 125. Richard Lauderbach, no operator's license. Fin SS SO. Samuel Floyd Ramsey, no wheel covers on truck. Fin IS SO. John.) aturl Brehm. Inadequate emergency brake. Fin 5J0. 1 Two Drunk Driving Fines Imposed Two persons wer fined this morn ing In municipal court on ehargea of drunk driving, both growing out or automobile accidents. Eva Peterson Yates. 31. rout I. was fined 1100 and received a 30-day probationary sentence. Police re ported ah struck a car operated by Mrs. Chet Summers, 414 Oak. at Fifth and Klamath late yesterday afternoon, then backed Into a parked car. A 30-day Jail sentence went with the 1100 fin assessed Bernard B. Perkins. 27, of 31 Mesa, who waa Involved In a alight parking lot accident at Twelfth and Main at 2: IS this morning. Perkins' csr struck a parked vehicle owned by Willis Lauber of San Francisco. Rotarians Inspect Show Animals Several members of th Rotary club with Francis Skinner, 4-H club agent. Inspected animals recently that will be entered In th Junior Livestock show next wek. A group consisting of E. H. Thompson. A. H. Bussman. L. A. West. County Agent C. A. Hender son. Charles Martin, Walter Jendrre Jewskl, assistant county agent, and Skinner visited the 4-H Beef, Sheep and Hog dub In th county. Tie-Breaking Tilt Slated Tomorrow The Academy and Mills teams of th Eagle aoftbali league will play a game Wednesday afternoon to break a second-place ti In th league. Game tim la 1:30 at Kl wsnls park. The winner will plsy th leading Teamsters squsd Thursday. Round-Table Meet Public Invited Professor Emma Zweybruck will conduct a round-table discussion Wednesday evening at th OTI guest house. Th discussion will be on group problems in teaching, de signing and visual expression. After th discussion and lecture, refreshments will be served by th Klsmath Art association. Th pub lic la invited. IRON CURTAIN BREECH LUEBECK HP) A young Oerman girl refugee from th Soviet ion succeeded In piercing th Iron cur tain and making money from It In the British son resort of Trave muend on th Baltic, ah set up a former Wehrmacht artillery range finder. For th equivalent of a nickel you may peep through and try to find out what goes on In th nearby Soviet ton. AIR SHOW MEET The sub-committee members of th chamber of commerce air show commute will meet tomorrow morning, Wednesday, at 10:30 to discuss plans for staging of th Klamath air show, scheduled for September 11, Sixty languages and dialect an spoken In Manila, 1 .ja JJ Population Of City Jail Up Population of th county Jail reached 31 today with th over night addition of six prisoners, four of them for felonies. Th Jail roster now Includes 13 men booked on felony chsrtes and nine persons serving time for mis demeanors, lncludlnt thre women. Ovemnht bookinfs included: Jamea Robert Powers, 64. for ob taining money by false pretenses, and his son, Leonard Thomaa Powers, 11, for parole violation. Th younger man reportedly also has Issued bad checks Jamea Robert Powers waived preliminary hearing this morning on a complaint re lardlnf a 110 check passed at Cum mlna hardware. Louis Josa Mars. (1. booked for obtalnlnt money by fala pretenses Raymond B. Jerry. S3, arrested at Chiloquln for selling liquor to In dians and held for Hood River authorities aa a parol violator. Oladys Jackson Kirk, 33. Beatty Indian woman, arrested on th Mid land road last night tor possession of liquor. Clarence Patrick Coffee. 4-year- old transient arrested with the In dian woman on charge of drunk on a public highway. Herman Oildo Jlmlnes.34. of Mer rill arrested for using a void foreign license and having no operators license. Jtmlnea waa released on 150 ball. NAVIGATOR TRAINING Navigator training for the air fore will be atarted November 1. Training of navigators ceased after the war since a aupply of trained navigators was available. However, more enlistment ar now needed, and recruits will be accepted at th local army and air fore oftlc In th post oftlc building. DRASTIC PRICE SLASHES! COME PREPARED TO BUY TWO, THREE, FOUR OR MORE! $3) ) SHOPl Formtriy r. 1.95 Cottons Linens Rayons Dozens of Styles! City Advisory Board To Aid Administration Designed as move toward "bat tor city government," Mayor Robert A. Thompson Monday night an nounced th appointment of a cit laena' advisory committee. Naming of the commute took place during the regular city council session. Mayor Thompson aald that h and th council feel that mattera come up requiring a "cross section of Judgment." and the committe was anjwinted for thai sole purpose. "The committee will not usurp power from other committees." th mayor said this morning. Chairman of the body la Frank Jenkins, The Herald and News pub lisher. Members ar Rev. David Barnett. Ellon Thompson, and Rus sell Ttsdsle. Frank Weaver, J. V. Owens, and Paul Farrena. A motion by Councilman A. F Condrey last night to keep all el'y records waa passed by the council. Previously It was planned to destroy records older than 10 yeara. and City Attorney Henry Perklna was Instructed to draw up an ordinance authorising such a move. Council action last night cancelled disposing of any city records. After the city audit is complete, the records older Ihsn II years will be filed and alored In the bomb shelter at the municipal airport It-waa atlpulated the airport man ager would not be held responsible tor in aa-geeptng of the docu ments. The elly recreation department will be asked to submit a detailed breakdown aa Its monthly e. pendlturea. The council frit the recreation report la the past has been to general. Fred Lewis appeared befor the council again to urge Installation of top signs on Shasta Way at Wash bum for protection of th achool children. Folic Chief Orvllle Hamilton waa handle the problem for study and action. .An ordinance will be drawn up to prrpare liens against property adjacent to the Twelfth street Im provement project between Msin and Klamath. Authorising th city attorney to draw up this ordinance followed when no protests wer lodged on th aaaessment roll for the chore. Fir Chief Henry Akin request to atore the old Slots tire track al th airport to be Bard aa an emergency pumper, waa okayed by the council. A caution sign will be placed on Eldorado between Lowell and Law rence, following a recommendation 1 by Council President Darrell Miller. To Buy or Sell L'se the Want Adsl If 5 Min. from Town BUY! $9n Formerly to 10.95 RIGHT UP ALLEN'S ALLIY Fred Allen, rou.o comedion, vocotioning ot Sea Cirt, N. J , picked up o newspaper and laughed and laughed. One of Allen's pet hales, radio give away programs, hod just been banned by the federal com munications commission. Said Allen to newsmen, "They hove taken radio awoy from the scovengeri and given It back to- the entertainers " Mountains No Longer For Men Only TOKYO Ther ar no more mountains In Japsn for men only. Flv Japanest women hsv I climbed mlle-hlsh Mount Qmlne In I Nara prefecture southwest of To kyo. I Befor th war, there war a lot j of peaks wher women mountain climbers were not allowed. Bud i dhlst sects had built temples there j and wouldn't allow women around. I Came Japan's new constitution af ter th war and a new day for j Japanese women. They became as . free aa the men. And all the fe male mountain cllmbera took ad i vantage of th new day. They began scaling every moun tain peak that had been out-nf-1 oounus lor mem oeiore. .?min was th last to be conquered. MM 1 Tgs BsvaJamhSmssamaaaBVsB jlgp sssssssmMsmaamv DRESS MUST BE SOLD! "if SAVE DOLLARS! Bembergs Sheers Crepes All Sizes! All Colors! 615-17 MAIN ST. 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