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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1949)
MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1949 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PACK NINE h Quiet Bulldog Crommelin, Siraight Talking Skipper, Has Plenty of Spunk Hr KI'TII COWAN iiffrnslve la "beliit; lillildrd tn WAHIIINOTON, Oil. I la-t-What death'' and IU morale destroyed, manner of nieti Cept. John (I Herrlllre Onimmrllil Jr.T lit aald h realized ha likely wan In appearance. Ilia key man In Uiaaiiig away navy career, but tha currrnt uproar about navy nm- did In Ilia hop that cniiKrasa would rala la allm, and two Inches ahurt 1 Investliiale. of all feet. Ha wcluhe I7U pound.. tar. C'roriiinrlln, tha for lla haa a qukk rangy itrnle. nirr Lillian t. l.amlla ol Han lJiriw, Ha haa aanny uiona nair ana ma i .am . nave wirce ruiiciren. i ne tolu eyaa can look at you vary j family calla Wriunipaa. Ala., home vaunt and aharply. Ilia lined fata Hn la one of five brother., all Indlratea hie Inner teusenraa. trailuetc of the naval academy. All Last tsunrtay he waa 47 yeare old but one trained at pilot. Two were jle waa born In Montgomery, Ala. killed In tha last war. IllillniuUhrd Krrwd lie had a dltlngulhed war rec i ord. And very ahortly he waa duel to be considered for promotion to! tear admiral. Ilia frlendi aay ha haa the teuecl ly of bulldog. He ! positive In itli convictions, s Aa a pilot he la ralrd "lop.' Rear Adin. Austin K. Doyle, head of Uie naval air training program, described him aa "one of the great eat naval avlatlona o all lime." Ilia IMS claaa yearbook at the 'naval academy described him aa "carrying a mean wallop" In hit Jlt. He waa Introduced aa "a typi cal Bouthern gentlemen, fond of vLa, llllle children and pretty ikhmen.' Keen foe Aviation The young eiulgn waa keenly In terested In aviation. Hut flral the navy required he apend two yeara on aea duly. Thla done, he went to tha naval air elation at I'ensacola, l-to. Pront tha time he flnUhed hla . training In IIKI6 until the outbreak; of the war he had a variety of avl , alKin aaauinment that gave hlin e- tenalve training. i When war rami he waa on duly ! In Washington. In June, IWJ. he waa aaaigned to Uia rarrler Enter ! prlaa. . While Crommelin eerved with the ; "Big I" It participated In the oc ' cupaUon of Guadalcanal and in the ! baltlee of the Mlewart Ulanda, the ; Holnmon Islands, and Uie Kennel lalanda. Cited rer Bravery ! Ha waa commended "for eapecl J ally merltorloua pertnrmance of duly under fire." Ilia "calm emir ! age" waa noted aa well aa Ilia akill- ful aggreaalveneaa and fighting aplr It ha waa credited wlih inaialling . In tha pilota ha led. He waa aboard Uie Dacombe Bay ! when ahe waa torpedoed and aunk ; In the Oilbert Ulanda. In recent weeka there haa been an outrnipplng of "lettera to edi ; Uira" about Crommelin. One of . theaa came from a former enlisted ; man who told of Crommelln'a cour age when the Llacomoe Bay waa aunk. Calm Conrage He wrote Uiat after Crommrlm. , badly burned, made It la a rescue j craft he quit calmly dlacusaed whether It waa worth while for him ', to hang on. After the war. Crommelin had ; more Waahlnglon duly and then J pan waa ready to go to aea he waa . namea ner nrai saipper. ) A couple of more eaMgnmenU and. ' then, laat April, he waa attached to ! tha Joint rhlefa of ttaff, thla conn ! try'a military high command. Then ' ha publicly charged that the navy'a Youngsters Learn Work Of Firemen Ftr Marahal Roy Rowe of tha city fire department haa takrn over a project of organlilng atudent firemen In the city elementary school. Each achool haa atudrnt chief and aaaUUnt chief, whoae Job It la to nveraee achool fire drllla. In addition to the two lop JoIm, cap lalna, room marahala, Imiiectora and firemen are choaen In each achool. liadgea are fumlahed by Uie Junior firemen. Job of tha captalna la to check completion of drllla and notify tha chief aa anon aa each caplain'a aectlon la free of occu panla. Room marahala lead their rlaaaea out of the building, are In formed of at least two eilta from their aectlon of the building and ee that all children are out of the room. Rowe aald the Idea of the plan l to Impreaa upon the clly'a achool youngsters the Imixirlance of pre caullona agairnt fire and to mnke them conacloua of fire dangera. Four Found Shot To Death FORT WORTH. Ten . Oct 10 IPi Potir person were found ahot t o death today at their home In u- burhan Oak Knoll They were Identified by neighbors aa' Mra. Richard O. finch, about 33: Penelope Pinch, I. her daughter: Allan Pinch. 7. her eon: a Mra Walker, Identified aa the children'! maternal grandmother. I A next door neighbor, Mra. T C. Huklll, dlacovered the bod lea when ! ahe went to Inquire about the rhll I dren whom aha uaually drove I o ! achool with her own child, j Mra. Huklll aald ahe laat aaw the family Haturday. Neighbors aald ihe grandmother had come here re cently from Florida. tram tha people In old-age penalon expenaea for that year. Thoae In favor of the present aya- tern argue If Uie government had borrowed from banka or other pri vate organualiona, by aelhng them bonda, Uie government would have had to pay Intercut on them any way. So part of the Income t a I money paid by people who alio pay tha hoc la I aecurity tax would have had to be uaed In paying off Uie Interest on the bonda no matter who had bought thoae bonda. To Buy or Bell Uae the Want-Adil Washington State, Dairy Champ PORTLAND. Oct. 10 iP-Wah-Inaum tttale college carried off firat honora yeaterday In Uie annual Intercollegiate dairy Judging con tent at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition. Ranking behind W. 8. C were Unlverilty of Idaho, Oregon Bute college. University of Britlah C o lumbia, Colorado State college, and Montana State college. In the dairy product Judging, the Utah 8UU college team Waa flral, Unlverilty o ( Idaho team aecond and Waahlnglon Stale college third. About U par cent of Uie Tjreel. denta of Uie United States hate been of English. Welah. Scotch or Scotch Irian extraction. JACKETS and CRUISER COATS Black Bear Seattle Waolrn lllrach Wrlae All Colore and Hiiea OREGON WOOLEN STORE Ith Mala Phone M73 Wjiii;0B yrirfTrrrTTTlrr' TYPICAL SCHOOL FIREMEN ore these two young boys who were chosen chief ond os sislant chief ot Fremont Junior high. From left ore City Fireman Roy Rowe who is or ganizing the jun.or firemen, Fremont Chief Cordon Campbell, Assistont Chief Rudy Wes tm, ond Principal Lowell Koup. A umilor progrom is being conducted in oil the city's elementary schools. Tax Titxy Here's Old-Age Funds Setup, And Arguments Pro and Con B JAMKK MAM.OW fund. Invested In those government WA.SHINOTON, Oct. 10 tJf' Do bonds, la earning money. So mucn you ever wonder 'what happens to for that for a moment. Ihe aoclal aecurlly tax you pay Into The government haa a debt of the old-age jem.u-.n plan? ' 1244.000,000.000. II got Into that debt There are argument over how ln " n1 fP"'on handled. But,'"- ., . ... . 1 liai a wurji uie cwv ui iuioiiiik the government far exceeded the money It waa able to collect, moatly that tux money la Ihrre la no aign that the preaenlj The argument will be outlined briefly here. But, tint, here la Uie background. You and Boaa Pay If you're covered by the penalon plan, you ana your oom rain py yearly one per cent of your aalary I ur to the first I'lOOO I That'a a total of two per cent you and your bona pay. The government i now t collecting yearly about II.- In Income and corporation taxes. So, aa It got further and further Into debt and needed exua money to keep going. It borrowed money. It did the borrowing by selling bonda to banka. life Insurance com panies, you and me, and to the aoclal aecurity reserve fund. Interest On all the bond It sold, of course. 13000 of aalary, also pay Income taxea. And part of their Income la uaed for paying off aome of the In terest on the debt Including the interest on the government bonds bought by the aoclal aecurity fund. Double Taxation? Critic of the present system aay Uite la double taxauon. They suggest that Uie old-age penalon plan be placed on a pay-as-you-go basis, which means: Instead of collecting enough ao clal aecurity taxes every year to pay out aoclal security benefit for Dial and allll have enough left over to build up a reserve that can be lnvesved ln government bonda, Uie government ahould collect yearly InliiHins knnili mA In IK. uwi.l Otw.000 that way. . aecurity 'reaerv. fund, the govern- Out of that. It a paying yearly In mr.t . . . nl4 ntluf Kntfll b ft U I ' The original foreat area of t h e United Blatea la estimated at S30 million acres nearly half the country' land area. 17.000.000.000, leaving a yearly I serve of around f 1.100,000.000. Since 137. when It first started . collecting this Ux. Uie aoclal se curity system haa built up a re- , serve of around 111.700.000.000. I The money doesn't lie Idle. Con gres said It should be Invested in government bonds, which now pay I around J' per cent Interest. Bo the aoclal aecurlly reserve So the government ha a double Job ln handling that debt: to pay off aome of the debt while at Uie same Ume paying Interest on It. The man and hi employer who pays a total of two per cent aoclal aecurity tax on the man' 1 1 r t Car JBSf 5131 (40 wmsm 3L" its in"1 TOUCH OF MAGIC . . . Of LEONS &&&&& Strictly pixie business! The newest thing afoot . . , a softie bool just made for campus wear. 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