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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1949)
r i ..l. mi .The , 7P yr sw ! Days torn SJIWlM rEMtlKS By I RANK JKNKINa DISPATCH trum Mliml ' morning eaye: "A tropical hurricane with wlmU op to UO mllrs per hour passed north of picturesque Nimii. in Mm Bahamas, today and heeded for Kinh Morula a Gold Coast. That'e a aura sign Uiat fall It ap proaching. a a YOU may not b familiar with Uili farm KflnM fn.t ailtlllitil tl Florida. It doesn't mean, aa It don over at our own Gold Uracil, Dial there la gold In Uia aanda of Ux a. What It don mean la Uiat Kasterners, whrn Uiey makt a bi(, quick killing, head for Palm Beach and Miami aa Instinctively aa tin swallows lor Ban Juan Caplitrano In ilia spring. That la Uils difference: Ilia quick-aud-easy money East erners hrad fur Klortda'a Uold Coast to allow off Uielr ntw wealth. Tha awallowa go to Ceplstrano to mala. build homes and rrar famillca. f Tins dupatch la from Wa-hliigton: Kiimt of President I'rumana claant frlanda predicted today ha won't let tl be known until after Uia 1950 congressional rlecuons whether ha will run again." That's a aura turn Uiat wa hava passed ona Presidential election and are beginning lo get ready fur en olhar ona. MY personal opinion la that AT 4TIIK PRESENT MOMKNT larry Truman doesn't want to ruu attain. Ill add that 1 think ha WILL run again. Why? Writ, Uia prwcirt on a President to run and run and keep on running, la well-nigh Irreauuble. for ona tiling, the habit of power growt on people, for another. Uia Jobs of sevcrsl million Americana ornd on Uia Inrtunbeal of tha Wtilla Houm. Tha pressure Uiry put on turn lo run again, ao that Uiry won't b Uirown back Into Uia cold, clammy muck of privets llfr, la too great to be mraaured by any existing uislru nient of precision. a Till altuaUon hai anoiiirr clement: Men who hold positions of re sponsibility and auuiority fa.l In evilably into tha belief (sincere, ao far aa I hey ara concerned) thai NOBODY fcLSK CAN IX) THE JOB AS WELL, AS THEY. CO far aa I'm concerned. I hope wo add to our conaututlon an amendment forbidding any Presi dent to am for nioro than to t-rma. It arema to ma Uiat ona o! litstorys clearest leaaona la Uiat too much power, held In too few hsnJs too king la tha moat dangrroua of II threat ta Uia liberties of the people, a a a T REMEMBER clearly a certain chamber of commerce In Oregon (which I ahaJJ not name hare) whoaa affaire were administered for many, many yeara by a IllUe group of able, publlc-aplrtted men. They wera ao good and held ao completely Uia con fidence of their townspeople that they wera returned to office year after year. EVENTUALLY they became too old lor too busy with Uielr own ffatra) to go on functioning. Be rauaa no new blood had been brought In, there waa no ona to fall bark on at tha moment. Tha or ganliauon disbanded and for two years Uia town had BO chamber of commerca. PUC Going To Court Over Sprague River Water Lease The State attorney general and public utilities commissioner hare brought a law ault here against Ivey c. Clark, owner of tha Sprague Rlrer Water company, to force compliance with a provision of Uia publls utilities act. Tha legal action la petition for Alaska Feels .Earthquake By Tha Aaaoclafed Frees Continued rumbllngt of mother earth were 'reported last night Petersburg, In eoutheaatern Alaska, reported a alight earth tremor at I 10 pm. Meanwhile CapL Ernest rots of tha U8AT Jamaa O'Hara reported last night on Uia ship's arrival from Japan that It encountered a severe bump and momentarily boiling waters at 10 : p m. (P8T Tuesday night.) "It felt almost aa If wa had struck soma heavy object Just under tha surface," ha said. Sports Bulletins NKW YORK, Aug. W Bill Hlgnry'a triple sparked three-run sevrnlh Inning rally that gave the New York t.lanta a 4 lo 1 victory over the Nt. l-ouls Cardinals today. The defeat re duced the Cardinals' National lea gue lead to a single game. PORRHT 1I1I.LH, N. Y, Aug. M Ted Nrhroeder sent the United Mtatee Into a !- lead In Ita bid ta retain the Davis Cup today by whipping Billy rlldwell of Aus tralia, e-1, 1-7, 4-t, I t. . U,U rKK B KIVK tKNTS I JgJ KLAMATH fAI.LH, OBKGON, FRIDAY, AlGl'HT M. IMt Telephone 1111 No. tU i . 1 Plane Hurricane Hits Coast Of Florida m i.i iTiv MIAMI, Ha.. Aug. U v-The first wlnda af hurrlrana forea errrarard arraaa r L Lauderdale beach lata today, toaaing the aeaa arraaa an ace aw highway aad marooning a group af alihtarrra wha look ahrlier In a priest s home. MIAMI. Pla, Aug. i Pi A hurri cane edged up lo the aoulh Florida roast today, leaving one death In in wake as It whirled paal Miami. A amall. unidentified bay waa resorted drownra) at Miami aa ha tried la relrtnre a beat torn loeae by tg-mile wind. Tlie aiorm, containing winds up to l.'O mlln an hour waa centered only a few miles offshore near ft. Ijiudrrdale and pnwreailng auiadlly west .northweatward. WincU began to ilam higher and higher from Miami northward. Wot Palm Beach had Increasing windi which nearrd H mlln an hour at 3 30 pm. EST. Harneaaa warn I no flew fraaa Miami Bewrk to Vera llearh. and naettieaal atorra warning algnala flapped narlh af there to tertian dlaa. at the north end af the alafe. Luther Jonra, chairman of Uia Evrrgladn Evacuaton committee, announced that a meeting of com munity officials agreed not to evac uate tha lake area where 1800 or more Drrmonadrowned In a !9Jg hurricane, since then a big. pro tective levee haa been built to keep lake waters from being blown out by hurrtranea. Ixm-flying black clouds and dis mal showers heralded the tempest along 110 miles of coastline from Vera Beaehj to Miami. Black and red hurricane1 flags flapped from Vera Beach to Maml and around huge Lake Okeechobee. Judge Ignores 'Red' Pickets NEW YORK. Aur. 3d OPv More then 100 chanting plcketa marched before Uia federal courthouse today despita redrral Judge Harold K. Medina's admonition Uiat ha would not be -Intimidated" In his conduct of the communist conspiracy trial. Only yesterday Judge Medina, presiding over tha trial of II top communist leaders, said ha would 'not be intimidated by picketing or pressure of any aort." In football fashion. Uia plcketa shouted their major chant "Wa demand a mistrial" an alternative writ of mandamus. and involves a one-year lease of tha water aystem by Clark ta John U Achlry of Bonanza. Accordng to Public Utilities Com missioner Oeorge H. Plagg'a state ment of tha caae, the water company Is considered a public utility and tha public utilities act requires that any lease or assignment of any prop erly necessary to tha operation of utility be submitted In advanca to tha commissioner for approval. On July 1, Clark gave Achlry a one-year lease on the water system. with option to buy for $.1500. On July t Clark waa requested by tha PUO to comply with tha uUltlea law and, according to Plagg'a com plaint, on July 35 a letter waa re ceived saying that Clark did not believe he had any obligation to request approval of any leasing of his own property. The letter waa from tha Parreni and Maxwell law firm, attorneys for Clark. Haif ehargea that Clark la en gaged In acta and practices vio lating provisions of tha public nflllllea art and aaka a writ of mandamus to force presentation of the lease for ho commissioner's approval, or a court appearance for Clark to show eauae why ha should not submit tha lease for approval. The Bprague River water con troversy has been going on for sev eral months and at one time Clark aiked PUC for permission to quit business because tha operation waa not profitable, That permission was not granted. On June 17, a deadline set by a utilities examiner for a solution to tha water troubles, the system was closed down and tha community of 8prague River had no city water supply for about two weeks, until Achlry took over on I he lease. There ara about 90 users of the waer system. Blamed For .--v w V ffe- V : ' KIDS AND THEIR FITS These three small fry ond their pets caught the judges' eye at the kid parade this morning From left they ore Roymond Kidd with his pet roccoon, "Doc"; Shirley Woodward and her sheep "Bosco," ond little Charles Boleyn looking flabbergasted os he clings to his little friend, "Rosebud," the skunk. 4 v CAROLYN AND HER PILICAN This entry was iudgec" os the one most representative of the Klomath country ir, the kids' parade this morning. The pelican seems to be wonder ing what it's all about. Chet Barton ond little Carolyn Feigi sit in the carriage and watch proceedings. Everett Sends Congress Chicks Home To Roost Everett chember of commerca auggeated yesterday that If coast al arras are so "vulnerable" aa to require movement Inland of tha Boeing Airplane company, than possibly congress ahould move the nation's capital ta tha Midwest also. In a resolution directed to tha lawmakers, the chamber remind ed them that the capllol waa aarked and burned August It, lilt. It demanded that eongreaa . . aa an emergency measure make provision for removal of the national capllol from Ita present highly vulnerable loca tion an the Atlantic coast to a point possibly west of the Mis sissippi and aa nearly equidistant between the Canadian border and gulf aa possible , ." (ETTINQ READY NEW YORK. Aug. it P) Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (D-N.Y.) and socialite Buianne Perrln of New York obtained a marriage license today. No wedding date waa Indi cated est tha application. kaaUysJeWHa- V fi.: JWT ' ! " - ,- - f. 271 Mail Rates Key To KF's Air Service United Air Lines wants to con tinue service to Klamath Falls and other smaller communities In the west, but also want compensation on mall-rates If It I to maintain Its service Into those communities. According to a letter received by Chamber of Commerce Manager Charlie Stark, West Coaat Air lines oarrlea tha government mall at a rate of ax cents per airplane mile, while United, a main line, carries for only three cents an airline mile. The letter, written by United : President W. A. Patterson to Robert 1 W Sawyer, editor of the Bend Bul letin, was forwarded to Stark by another United official, W. R. Thlg pen. Patterson went on to say that United wants to keep on serving the smaller communities, but has op ened negotiations with West Coast Airlines on plana that the feeder line might receive some of Unltrd's present stops which would be "logi cally transferred from United" with the changing picture of air travel. Siskiyou Fire 1 ' W- fa' FT ! l f Kids Parade Pets; Fish To Skunks! Klamath kids with their pete ranging from skunks to minute stsrd furl took over Main street this morning In the pet parade put on by the Klamath Retail Mer chants association as a part of the school days' salute program. Tha small fry, with dogs, cats, turtles, fish, birds, goats, sheep, rac coons and other pets, marched from the courthouse to the Montgomery Ward store where a wealth ot prises waa dished out for the winners. Some af tha peta were dreseed la rotorfol style, wagone and bog glea were decorated and hmnar ana signs were displayed, all ta amuse and entertain a large throng of persons who lined the eidewalka. The best drewed prize went to little Margie Wrllman. The girl. dressed as Cinderella, was seated In a gaily-decorated wagon pulled by a large Chesapeake dog. The most-comical Utle went to Mary Snyder and Elaine Quinn, decked out in hula skirts, both with their pet dogs In tow. Copping the most-unusual award I and along with It the grand prize was Eva Jo LaRue. s years old. In a colorful costume, little Eva Jo pulled ! a wagon In which was seated her small dog, Chlquita. outfitted In a tuxedo. Jene Baxter with his goat Billy, won the prize for the largest pet, while Jimmy Scupel with his tiny guppy fish received the nod for the smallest per, A luckv horseshoe key chain and a free ticket to the Hl-Ho fun show Saturday morning were given all contestants In the parade. Special prises were donated by Srars. Roebuck, Montgomery Ward. Miller's department atore, Jones-Miller stadia. Matt Finnl gan'a and Prnney'a. Arthur Rlckbell was In charge of the parade. They'll Have Two Barns . . . For A While! ASTORIA, Aug. i Frank and John Hlllstrom wanted to build a new barn Just where the old one stood. But they couldn't get along without one during con struction. 80 the Ingenious Mlllslroma started hammering up the new, bigger barn right around the old one. -When It's finished," they ex plained, "It'll be easy to tear down the aid ona from the In side." LAini B WEAKENING STRATHAVEN, Scotland, Aug. 26 (P) 81 r Harry Lauder, famed Scot tish comedian, who Is gravely 111 at his home near here, was report ed weakening this morning. Lauder, 70, has been 111 since Monday with uremia and blood clou on the brain. 'Copter Seen Over Site Of Yreka Blaze YRJ2KA, Aug. J The twelfth naval district today will be asked by the state division of forestry to determine whether a navy heli copter pilot started a 600-acre (ran fire near Yreka yesterday. Le Roy Neil, state forest ranger, betievea the fire started whew tha nidenUfird pllet fired tracer bul leta al a coyote. The plane was seen hovering over the area by Louis Poulke. on whose ranch the fire occurred. Poulke said he heard six shots and aaw the plane flying north. Smoke rose Immedi ately over the spot where the plane have been covering. Feolke tamed In la alarm and five pieces af equipment and M men foaght the biaxe far three boors, it waa controlled, bat was still ander patrol this morning. Forester Nell said the CAA report ed Uiat a navy helicopter refueled at Medford shortly after the In cident near here. The plane was believed en route from Sacramento to Portland. Merrill Fire MERRILL. Aug. 2 Flames broke out on a hill a alio west of Merrill shortly before noon today, touching nearby grain stubble before It was controlled by the county fire de partment. Tha fire of undetermined origin, started on a aage brush covered hill near the county gravel pit. and burned Into part of the stubble ot ! cut grain on the Joe Pothering ham ' ra.-ic.ri. The blase cad not reach into grain which waa gull standing. House Solons Going Home: Senators Toil WASHINOTON. Aug. 3e Wl House members headed homeward today for a 25-day vacation with out the approval ot the senate. The house members wont return until September 21. except for a handful who will remain here to conduct formal "no business" ses sions twice a week. Those are neces sary because the senate would not agree to an outright adjournment. The holiday waa voted amid I tion after membera got tired of waiting for the senate to approve a Joint measure. That would have per mitted house adjournment without Informal sessions In the meantime. The senate Is unable to leave Washington because It haa more work than It can handle. WHEELCHAIR TRAVELER John A. Padjen, 41, Midvale, Utah, sits in his wheelchair at Salt Loke City, Utah, airport before- leaving for Son Fran cisco. The physically handi capped Utahn will leave San Francisco on a 4000-mile trip across the nation to New York in a motorized wheelchair. He said he will make the coost-to-coost trip to inspire handi capped persons throughout the world. I ! a) 'Cochino' Lost In Arctic; 84 Crewmen Saved WASHINOTON. Aug. J IJF) Six navy submariners and a dvlllaa technician lost their Uvea and M crewmen were rescued today wheat the submarine Cochlno exploded and burned In Arctic waters. The six navy men were attached to the U8S Tusk, a slater sub marine which rescued the Cochlno'a crew. The civilian. Robert W. Phllco. Newark. N. J., waa the only ona lost aboard Uia Cochlno. The sunken submarine waa equipped with a anorkel an under water "breathing" tube which en-a ' ablad It to remain submerged for I long periods of time. Tha explosion aernrraal la tha Csehirjo'e battery room and waa followed by fire. A lieutenant and five of the Turk's enlisted men were swept from her deck b7 heavy seas during the rescue of tha Mochlno's crew, which was hampered by high aeaa. The Teak, with the r earned men aboard, la heading for the Nor wegian port of HammerfaaL This la the nearest point where medical can be obtained. In its first announcement the navy listed the following as missing: LL (Jgl William Hanley Shatter Jr, Stamford, Conn.; Melvtn Buck Hen neberger Jr, Gloucester City, N. J.: James Robert Miller. Liberty. Mo.; Robert Lee Ptnney. 8turgls, Mich.; Robert Francis Brunner Jr., Al toona, Pa.; John O. Outtermuth, Cincinnati. Forest Fires Still Menace Western Area By The Aasociated Press Fire still menaced brush and tim ber land areas in western United States today, but few serious de velopments were reported. A new brush fire broke out In California Just south of the Stanis laus national forest. More than 7100 acres already have been burned over in Stanislaus and two lives have been lost. A hage brash fire hi San Diego and Riverside eaantlee in Cali fornia earned eat el central aWng a faar-atila front. High temperatures and changing winds that shifted seven time In one hour harrassed the fire fighters. More than 12.000 acres of ranch and grazing lands have been burned Tat ras fas Idaho's Favette aa lltnal forest srere sot at twasras. The la a aa la Hen's eanvsra and the ether est the esarth farts of the Sabnaw iltn kre cnaimdi 3e.ee acres af timber. Two am have died that week ta the Pay ette ferrst. All fires In Yellowstone perk were reported checked and nearlng the control stage. Fire In the Black Hills of South Dakota also has subsided. Two small ilres both under ten acres burned In Western Oregon. Cool weather lessened the danger In Oregon. last Resort' In Search For Lost Youngster McGREGOR, Minn. Aug. 2 m A bulldozer roared Into action today, damming a creek In the search for three-year-old Larry Coleman. Minnesota national guard offi cers said the barrier waa being thrown ap "aa a last resort" In the hent for the tot, missing since be started to pick ap pine eonea on his grandparents farm SO salles north ef here last Saturday. LL Col. William Johnson, com mander ot the remaining 100 troop ers, said the dam would dear of water an area of one and one-half square miles. "If we don't find any trace of Larry In this aperauon. It aeems futile to continue the search," aaid Johnson. The quest has been carried out I over a w ide area around the farm ot ciay uoieman. wnom Larry was visiting with his parents when he disappeared. IN OREGON" WALLA WALLA, Aug. 20 (Pi Es caped lifer George Madison still had his freedom today, as author ities pressed the search for the Spo kane county slayer Into northeast ern Oregon. Madison slipped away from the state penitentiary here Wednesday night with three com-1 Pn'ns. New US Guided Missiles May Become Air Artillery WASHINOTON. Aug. 26 WW The united States Is developing guided missiles which would both bring down enemy planes and enable American bombers to shoot down attacking fighters. Dr. Karl Compton, chairman of the defense department's research and development board, disclosed the new weapons last night. He described aa "exceedingly Im portant the air-to-air missile which a B-3 esold axe against apeedy Jet fighters. He said this weapon "may well become the principal artillery ef air combat." In a radio broadcast with Atomic I n e l y Commissioner Sumner Cain Charges Truman Yith Sabotage Try WASHINOTON, Aug. 2 f) Sen ator Cain (R-Wash today accused the Truman administration of "de liberately, but under cover as much aa possible, trying to sabotage" the coordinated plan of the army en gineers and reclamation bureau on the Columbia river. Cain said In a statement Uiat the budget bureau. In a letter signed by Acting Director F. J. Lawton, allied the senate public works committee to deter consideration of bUla to authorize the coordinated program until it completes studies to deter mine whether It fits in with the program of the president. "It appecra that the administra tion Is playing a game of supposedly having some ot Its spokesmen favor this program and then knifing it In the back by having the bureau of the budget say that the commit tee should defer action on this bill.1 Cain said. Gl Dividend Forms Here Monday Application forma tor the special O. L insurance dividend for World War II veterana will be on hand at the Klazaath post office, at the vet erana administration office located at Room 313. post office building, and at all veterans service organi zations on Monday. August 29. Wil liam D. Lueke, In charge of the local VA office, announced today. Approximately lis.000 World War II veterans In Oregon will share in the S2.8O0.0O0.l100 dividend fund to be distributed to Id million policy holders by the VA. Veterans whose insurance haa lapsed are still eligible for the divi dend, provided their policies were In force tor at least three months before the end of 1947, Lucke said. The application form la a simple one, with complete Instructions on how to fill It out. If a veteran haa ' misplaced his Insurance number. he need not be concerned, accord ing to Lucke. Inclusion of his serv ice serial number and his branch of service on the application will serve to identify the account. Alter the application Is filled out. It la to be mailed to the Veterana Administration In Washlngt on, D. C. The VA will acknowledge re ceipt of the applicaUon. Veterans should give the VA an address where they will be for at least six months. Because of the tremendous size of the Job, the first dividend checks will not be mailed until sometime In January. 1950. The VA hopes to complete the dis tribution In June, 1950. Foreign Arms Act Delayed Until Monday WASHINGTON. Aug. 28 P Ad ministration leaders today delayed until Monday a decision on cutting the 1. 450.000,000 arms assistance program. But they rushed Cen. Omar Bradley up to the closed-door ses sion of the senate foreign rela tione committees ta battle a speci fic cut of si6e.99e.toe. Senators Vandenberg (R-Mlch and Dulles (R-N.Y.) have been lead, lng the drive to chop the aid funds for Canada, England and other members of the Atlantic pact bark to an even $1.000, 000,000. The ad ministration asked $1,160,990,000. Chairman Connally to -Tex.) of the foreign relations committee said General Bradley argued this "would be false economy." The general said the $160.990000 - would be used to retool existing arms and ammunition plants In European nations, Connally said. Pike. Compton listed four types of guided missile on which u. 8. sci entists are at work. Besides the plane-carried missile, h e noted a "surface-to-surface" weapon which could ha used as long-range artillery. Development of this weapon "Is already well ad vanced for those of a few hundred miles range," he said. The anti-aircraft, or "surface-to-air" missiles, Compton aaid, "bid fair to become the effective counter measure" fraaa tha groand against swift attacking planes. There also la an "alr-to-aurface" model, some types of which saw" acUon In World War IL I 4
