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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1949)
0 A- fo) o) m, w A TO Attlee Cuts Spending To Ease Crisis LONDON. Oct. M Prim Minuter Altlt announced today he It slashing JM) .000.000 pounds 11700. 000,0001 nff government (pending to ate Britain's economic crisis. All I told the how ol common Oil 210.000 000 pound! doe tint In clude earing In Britain defense ependlng. The prim minister uld there will In sevlnge In the labor govern ment's aorlellred health proerem. In educstlon, In public and privet building, government adinlnlslr tin eoste enc In government pub lie rele lions nfflres. Keod price I'p? Prim of Mm foods will rise. mAulee told tht houae. Tilt prim 1nUUur'e prmrem U Urrt In with Britain' recent devaluation of the pound Irnm $4 03 to 13 80. Britain la fared with the nereulty of pur ring her export drive to earn dol lars, and thua. heavy rrdurtiona in her dollar purchases Irom the Unit ed Stalea have been lowest. Woman Dies; Shot Self, Sheriff Says Mra. K. A. Oatlund. 19. died at Klamath Valley hospital lest night of gunshot wound Sheriff Jack Preney aald waa self. Indicted. 8Ji waa brought to the hospital from Colllna rale, half a mile be low the Williamson river bridge on huhway 7. and waa pronounced dead at 10:41 pm. Temple Wound Sheriff Praney aald Hie ahootlni took place about o'clock. Mra. Oit lund. her husbend and three other prrmona were In the cafe drtnklnc coffee when ahe excused heraelf and walked Into a bedroom. A moment later a ahot waa heard and the young woman waa found with a bul let wound through, her temple. Her husbend noted a faint pulse and Keler'a ambulance waa called to brim her to the hospital. Self. Inflicted' Praney aald Investigation shorn ed the shot waa definitely eelf-lnfllcted. lie. a elate police officer and Depu ty Coroner Wlllard Ward went to the acetic ' ' Mra. Oatlund reportedly had been moras lor aom time over a younc aon by a former marrlaie who waa In the keeping of her perenle. She had been trying to aave money to take the child Into her own home. She and her husbend were operat ing Colllna cafe under leaae. Prospectors Pour Into Alaska After , Yukon Gold Strike By JACK DAUM PfHHWIIEEL, Alaaka. Oct. 24 lA't Doeene of new proa pec lore amateur and profeaalonal continued to pour Into Ihla scattered gold mining camp on the banka of the eVrled Yukon river today aa the Hat of cialmaukera awelled peat the hundred mark. There are tenia lining the river bank from five mllea up-atreem to three mllea down-alrcam, The tempereture dropped to lo degreea below ero laet night. The men occupying the tenia lit- Two Wrecks Kill Local ManA'oman i ocruirec 11 Kids Show Appreciation TACOMA, Oct. 34 lPV The Ta c.ime pollr department'a youth guldence division eteged e party here Prlday night for Tacoma teen aeera "to keep the klda off the alreeta." Today they toted up Uit damege rluie by the youngster on their way home aa: A number of broken light globe. BnvernJ blocka of tipped-over gar bage cane with contente etrewn along downtown atreeu. A falae fire elerm celling out flvt tiuck end two bettallon chlefi. A felae call to police reporting an accident. Police Cept. A. E. Parrar, head of the dlvl-vn, didn't com to work todey. He reported "in, with a needed Two perisna were killed In almllar week-end aulomoblle aecl denta here, bringing tha 1MB traf fic death toll In Klemeth county to 11. The deed are: Ralph Deen Cheney. 33. of 4040 Altetnonl: and Mra. Audrey Caraon, 37, of Keno. Alike Circumslancee of both eccldenU were almoet Indentlrel. according to alale police. The firat occurred ahortly before midnight Haturdey, the eecond about an hour later. Cheney waa driving aouth on highway tl when hit cer eppareiu- ly went out of control 141 Aula and akldded and rolled ralellty 223 feet down the pavement. He wea thrown out of the vehicle and hit head waa cruahed agalrut the pavemrnt.. He wee believed lo heve been killed Irulanlly. Hla peaaenger, Mra. Oledy Hee klna Stone. 35. of Worua waa In jured alightly and taken to Klam alh Velley hoapliel for treatment Bhe wee relreied from the hoa pliel yeaterday. Meeond Tragedy Ttie aecond accident occurred on the old Keno-Worden cutoff a mile eoulh of Keno. A convertible coupe driven by Bob Oene Hunt. 24. route I. box 22&-A. went out of control on a curve and overturned In a ditch on tile Irft hand aide of the road. Hunt waa uninjured but hie passenger. Mra. Audrey Carton, wee killed outright, her hred pinned between a car door and a large rock. Audrey Caraon. wee killed out right, hrr hred pinned between a cer door end a large rock. Mra. Ceraon wee employed aa a weltre'aa at the Rainbow tavern et Keno. Badly Damaged The care Involved In both acci dent were badly demeged. The bodlea of Mra. Ceraon and Cheney were teken to Ward fu neral home. Cheney, a tether at Weyerhaeu aer Timber company, had lived In Klameth Pella for four year, coming here from the Midweek He la aurvlved by hla wife. Ethel, and two email children. A brother, Orvlllr, aleo Uvea In Klamath Pall. Mr. Caraon had lived In the area only a few month. She we a native of Rife. Okie., and la aurvlved by a amell on at Keno. and four autera. One alster, Mra. Pearl Coffman, re si tie et Keno. lute a, not 12 141 Ant Fetellty CRITICALLY INJl'RF.D O R A NTS PASS, Oct, 24 OP) David Menery, 33, Sen Dtrgo, Calif., a former Oranta Pea buitnesaman. waa critically Injured late yeter dey when he pancaked hla two paaaenger plena at the Orent Pea airport. erally dropped from the aey upon thu hitherto unprospected area dur ing the laat three hectic day fol lowing disclosure Ihet pee-slted nugget were lound In i fiahwheel by Cllflon Cerrol, when he alerted lo dismentl the device for th win ter. Chums Rare The race lo auke claim left vir tually no time lor the main bueineaa at hand the eearch for gold. That will come later. Ae a result, how ever, no one know at ihle writing how good Alaska leteat gold alrlke actually la. A tew person wno have done some panning report finding -color," whlcn consists of minute flates of the precious metel without com mercial velue. Two of those are Jim Brown and Jack White, both origin- ally from Bey City. Mlchlgen. came to Palrbenke eight month ego. Their claims are above the point ot Carrol's discovery. Out of eight pen ning attempts ihey seid tney got color rech time. Mink Scene Carrol fiahwheel we loceted off the South river ehore neer tne bank of a long narrow island now known aa EMacovety Wend. The twisting. meandering river I about two miles wide at this point, 20 mile south east of Port Yukon, and la aplit In to eight chennele by numerous it lend and aendbar. Th terrain la generally flat, and In area la leced by tiny lekee and countless dough. Discovery Island u heevlly wood ed by 12-Inch Cottonwood. Thick yellow underbrush covers the banks which Incline sharply lo the river. A temporery landing field for light plane ha been set up on a frox- en aandber adjoining the Island and mere were umea In th laet two oeys wnrn it wee nearly aa busy aa uuuaraia field. Baey Airport' on one occanon I counted eight plane on th ground and five in the air walling to land. Bush pilot are making several trip daily to tha Island. On flyer asserted that a Tontrol tower 4 needed here el moat aa much a a pick and (hovel. A light enow covered the wnole countryside laet night with ground fog ewlrling amid the tree and around the prospectora' tenia. a mll cluster of tenia on Discovery laUnd are occupied by the holder or tne 14 claim which the Island encompaesee and by new errlvel (Continued on Page KUHS Student Hit. Injured Jack Lyon, l-yeer-old KUHS stu dent, we painfully hurt early Sun day morning when he waa atruck by a car on Komedale roed. The eutomob'lle. ataie police aald, wae driven by Leonard N. Fltxslm mom, 18SS Oary. Th boy waa walking along the road In the early dewn and was atruck from the rear by the car. He waa taken to Klameth Velley hospital for examination and It wa determined hi lnjurte Included broken shoulder blade, badly bruised leg end hip. Young Lyon, wea released from th hospital after a few hour but waa too tor and stiff to go to school today. H la th aon of Mr. and Mra. Everett Lyon, 2200 Wlsrd. PRICE flVE CENTS aTeP'l KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY. OCTOBER . 1S4S TclepnetM till No. lilt i w CAB Probing Two-Death Plane Crash A -IH1 aeroneuttc exeminer ar rived Bundey to start en invest uta Uon Into a light plane craah Satur day on the Clerk Pensler ranch neer Tuleleke, but no lormel aute ment as to tne probable cause of the cresh until etter the probe is 'complete. The exeminer. X. R. Mitchell ot Sent Momce, wea celled to Wil lows. Calif, a lew hour alter he errtved here to Investigate another accident In which three persons two of them from Northern Celif ornla ere killed. Fiery Deethe Pilot Cleude Stephens. 26. of aTlemath Falls, and Valmnnt STiMU 41. .Sail Gabriel. Call!., business buum were owned to death In th reckag of the Piper cruiser near .Tuleleke. nd KltHr brofr. Jetin Harvey Kittle, it. wa pa itfuily burned. According to witnesses, the plane had landed In a atubble field back of the Pensler ranch house, turned around and attempted a take-off. It never got off the ground but plowed through a barbed wire .fence and atruck the ditch dike, bounding over and Into the ditch. John Harvey Kittle, who weigh near 300 pounds, wa thrown out of the plane Into the ditch end wa pulled to shore by Jack Pensler and Herbert Klrby. who saw the acci dent from the Pensler ranch. The Injured men we reported Im proving todey at Klameth Velley hospital. Body Released The body of the pilot. Stephen, wee released by the eeroneuuca ex aminer to be taken to New-berg for burial and that of Velmont Kittle we released to be taken to Southern California. Mr. Mary Kittle, wife of Vel mont. 1 reported to be still et Tule leke. under the cere of a Sen Pran- euro physician. They hed been In th Tuleleke area for the hunting aeaaon, ataylng at the Ben Schulu boat landing In their trailer house. J 15 Vs' v' "L v RS-A'-i?,? . - 4 . ... "CJL. sgWWrle CHARRED WRECKAGE Only the skeleton framework of a Piper cruiser and the charred bodies of the pilot and a passenger remained Saturday afternoon after the plane crashed In an attempted takeoff and burned In a ditch on the Clark Fensler ranch near Tulelake. The pilot, Claude Stephens, and Valmont Kittle, the latter of San Gabriel, Calif., died in the flames. Harvey Kittle wot thrown clear and survived the crash. Siskiyou Man, Two Others Die in Crash WILLOWS. Calif, Oct 24 lPI Three men perished yesterday when a light plane crashed and burned near here. Olenn county officer tentatively Identified the men a George Ayd lott of Willows, Harold Doughty ot Napa, and Wilder Mill of Horn brook. Siskiyou county. Aydlott operates a hunting resort and lumber yard here. He also ha a tavern in Hombrook. Doughty It an automobile dealer and garage operator. More Gloom Clouds U.S; Strike Scene By The Aaeacaated Pm Thlceening gloom appeared to have (mothered todey any hope for early peace In the nation mdustrt- l-crippltng coal and ateel strike. Nowhere area there any apparent progrea toward break In either of the two major dlsputea aa unem ployment mounted and more and more Industrie became hobbled. Some railroad prepared to curtail train service because of dwindling coal piles and layoff continued In Industrie dependent upon steel up plies. Truman quiet There wa no Indication that Pres ident Truman had decided to Inter vene In either strike but apreeding dislocations in the nation' economy made such action seem more and more likely. Charles O. Rom. the president' presa secretary, said however, he knew of no Impending more by the White House In either the coal or steel strikes. But out of the dismal week-end development came settlement of two other strikes the 43-day tleup of the Missouri Pacific railroad by train and sngine men and the 170 day walkout of stevedore at fly of six Hawaiian porta. Drew la Backet But these aettlemenu scarcely dented the nation's total of nearly 4.000,000 idle workers which Secre tary of Commerce Sawyer says might climb to 5.000.000 by Decem- bei - 1 unless the steel and coal strikes are settled meanwhile. THE QUEEN'S COURT AND THE GOVERNOR shared atten tion at the 13th annual Klamath Basin Potato Festival which ended Saturday night ot Merrill. Above, Queen Lila Wine barger and her princesses, Eva Mae Alexander of Henley, Sally Smalley of Malin, Pat Eager of Bonanza and Mary Ruth Reed of Tulelake, on the queen's float in Saturday morning's big parade. Below, Governor Douglas McKay goes Western in a big hat and sports a Merrill spud festival button as he admirers one of the prize winning Netted Gem potatoes with Charlie Klund, one of the judges. (See story. Page 2.) McLing Death Probe Called Tonight, 7:30 A coroner's Inquest Is scheduled for 7:30 tonight into the death of Harvey McLing. who died Friday night of a shotgun wound. Dr. George H. Adler. county cor oner, will conduct the Inquest at Whttlock's Funeral home. . McLing, 36. was struck In the head by a No. S birdshot pellet from the gun of a hunting com penlon. Robert Wright McFarland of Portland. The pellet penetrated hie forehead and lodged In the brain. McLing died six hours later. Bute police and sheriff's officers. Investigating the Incident, said Mc Farland was 168 feet away when he fired at a pheasant and several stray pellets struck McLing. Well Known Two of the three men who per ished in the crash ol a Cessna ISO near Willows In the rice fields ot that section, were well known In Northern California. Yreka sources advised. Wilder I. Mills, 34-year-old Horn, brook youth, was the aon of Mr. and Mr. Roy Mills ot that place and had lived In Hombrook tor three year. He was employed as a trucker at the time of his death. He leaves hi parent, two brother. Ar thur and Clayton Mills of Hom brook. and one sister, Mrs. Paul Romanl ot Areata, Calir. Funeral Funeral services will be held Wed- nesday at 3 p.m. at the Hombrook Methodist church with burial In the Henley-Hornbrook cemetery. Oeorge Aydlott, 45, pilot of the plane, was well known In the Hom brook and Yreka area. He was heir. owner of Bill's piece at Hombrook.! operated a lumber yard at Willow ana nea otnrr ousiness interest in Northern California, CONVICTED SACRAMENTO, Calf, Oct. 34 A federal Jury today convicted Oakland automobile dealer Phil Davis of negligence In the speed boat accident on Lake Tahoe in which 14-year-old Imogene Wlttsche lost both feel. Tulelake Tot Hit; Skull Fractured TULELAKE Betty . Jean -0"Day. 7. who ran across a busy highway in . search of water was struck down and seriously Injured a dusk last night. The lttUe girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William ODay waa en route with a younger brother to the 8. P. drinking water tank near 1 the depot when she ran directly into the path of a car driven by Earl Lloyd Mellen. prinevUle, Ore. 'I Can Make It' Mellen was headed north on th highway when he noticed the two children at the aide of the roed. He heard the boy call out warn ing to the girl who called back "I can make It." and dashed across the roed. She wea lying under the front bumper when Mellen stopped The child suffered a fractured skull but was returned to her home near the Tulelake experi ment station following treatment by a local physician. No charges were filed against Mellen. Bird Hunters Crowd Hotels. Motor Courts Hotels and motor courts have been crowded over the week-end, the first few days of the bird sea son, and aecommoda tions will probably be scarce until bunting season is over. Not all visitors In Klamath Falls ere expecting to bag their limit ol ducks, however. Earl Nelson of Se attle has been doing his shooting with a camera. Nelson is sent here each year by Universal Newa to get picture ot wild life and hunters during the first days of the season. Another party from Seattle Included Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Andrews, and Dr. and Mrs. Joel Baker, who apent the week-end hunting. CaWonUaaa Guy and Claude Arnold. Sen Luis Obispo ranchers, bunted successful ly for a few days; and from further south came K. L. Green of Los An geles, who is In the building and sub-divasion business there. A group of hunters from the X. K. Wood Lumber company In the valley were visitors, among them C. R. DeVaney of Roseburg. Richard Frank and a party from Meier and Frank In Portland are expected In town this week. The traditional red hats and plaid shirts will be filing into town tram far and near until November i. when the first 30-day bunting peri od ends. UNAssembly Hears HST Peace Plea NEW YORK. Ot. 24 (AP) President Truman pleaded anew today for safeguard to banish the atom bomb and "negotiation and mutual adjustment" to end the Cold War's threat to peace. The president addressed 16,000 at an unprecedented open air session of the United Nations assembly. The principal speaker at the cornerstone ceremony for the United Nations' new home here, the president referred to the structures aa "the most Im portant building In the world." All mankind, the president d -clared. la In fear of destruction from tne awesome atom bomb. CbaUeng To assure that atomic energy will be devoted to man's well ere and not to hla destruction Is a con tinuing challenge to all natione and all peoples." President Tmnai aaid. Truman spoke alter a tumultous welcome to New York from s po nce -estimated crowd of 750.0O0 along his route from Pennsylvenla station to the TJN alte on 42nd. It wa hi first visit to th big city since his victorious election cam paign. Th band played "Sidewelks M New York" as the chief executive drove up In a 3S-car motorcade. Tha song, was chosen by the U. N. of fidal who decided no national an theme would be played on this In ternational occasion. A slight cheer arose from t h s crowd aa Truman shook hands with Russia s Andrei Y. Vlshlnsky upon bis arrival with Secretary of Bute Acheson at the blue and whit draped rostrum at the dead and tt East 42nd street on the East nver. Standing bareheaded In the au tumn breexe. he addressed the cheering crowd here and million vis radio, television and short wave broadcasts. It was bis first foreign policy declaration tince his September 33 announcement: "We have evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred In tha USSR." The preaider,leciared: - -. - "Ever since h first atomic -ir poii was developed. major oojec ttvc of United State policy ha been a ystem of International control of atomic energy that would assure ef fective prohibition of atomic wea pons, and at the same tune would promote the peaceful use of atomic energy by all nations." Trtiman spoke at the laying of th cornerstone of the secretariat build ing of permanent United Nation headquarters on UN's fourth anni versary. Benach Plea' The United State has offered ta surrender its bomb under the Russian-opposed, but general assembly approved "Baruch plan" providing rigid UN Inspections and controls to assure Illegal bomb building. The president did not mention Russia by name, but Indirectly chal lenged the Soviet government to of fer a "better and more effective plan." He seid the United Btates la now. "and will remain, ready to do Its full share" to meet the atomic weapon's threat to peace. JOURNALISM PRESIDENT EUGENE. Oct. 34 lP) The Ore gon Association of Journalism ad visers elected Mrs. Leah Hogu. Salem public Khool faculty mem ber, aa president at th conclusion of a one-day conference here Saturday. Bang- Shooting Hours OcUber t Opem I a.m. Close) 4:7 pja. No Diseases Outbreak In Klamath No unusual outbreak of com municable -diseases wss evident in Klamath county for the week end ing October 15. according to the Ore gon Health bulletin, published by the state board of health. There has been one new polio myelitis case with the year's total so far at nine for the county. Eleven cases of chicken pox were reported, three mump and eight scarlet fever. Parents were cautioned to watch for scarlet fever symptoms In their children, since most ot the 11 cases which have been reported have been quite mild and might not be recog nised as scarlet fever. lie. Jf Meet the People n rr; - . - : , -1 X MOVIES AH. INT THI ONLY place to enjoy a bag of pop corn os evidenced by the enjoyment portroyed by Joyce Lea and Nancy Fitzgerald, attractive targets for thu Meet the People photographer. . , .,
