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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1949)
la mm JO M A v JV uTl- ay's ip By FRANK JKNKISS CPEAKINO to tilt Rotary club her " the other night before going on to Merrill to Uw PoUlo Festival, Ouvirnur McKay asserted that Ore on Mow the neUou'a most rapidly growlnt state) needs trmiuy to pro cu It own raw material mora completely. He offered lumber at an example of what w have been missing by not doing ao. The manulaclura of rough lum ber, he aald, rmployea Irom one to one and a hall men per tnousana It I. But over In the Coo Bay country, he told hla hearers, Douglas fir tree are now being proceued Into battery separators. This re finement of the wood of the original tree produces employment for about KIOHT men per uiousana ieeu w That Is to nay, It produce from Jlx to eight Uinrs as many man- houra of employment as the manu facture of rough boards. THE use of Douglas fir for battery separators. Incidentally, offers an Interesting example of new uses for old materials. 'Pier was a time when we thought that only the comparatively rare and scarce Port Orford cedar could be UMd for this purpose. Now we find that Douglas fir serves very nicely. Until very recently, white fir was looked upon as a "weed" tree. Now It has an established commercial value. And so It Is with the lowly Jack. pine, which haa always been held to be a nuisance rather than an asset. Research la disclosing to us an amaalng number of usea tor lack Pine, whose fibers are the longest of any of the soft woods. BUT left get back to the governor's D stwirallon aa to getting more man-hours out of each log. We think of our umber supply In terms of millions of feel. A million is a thousand thousands. That is to say. according to tlie governor'! rsumate, the manufacture of a mil lion feet of rough boards will pro Vide Jobs for from 1000 to 1600 men. A MILLION ffCET OK TIMI1KR MANUKACTURKD INTO BAT TERY SEPARATORS PROVIUKS EMPLOYMENT rOR EIOHT THOUSAND MEN. VERB COX. formerly secretary of " the Willamette Valley Lumber mens association, now In the whole sale lumber business for himself in Eugene, confirms the governor's figures In a general way, but puts It in a allghUy different form. On the average, he says, produc tion of a Uiouund feel of rough .lumber., ntpvlde .two .man-day of . amnlnvmriit no man In tile woods and one man In the mill. (A man- day la one man working one day.) Ma adds that It Is certainly true that by further processing our rough lumber by manufacturing It Into doors and windows, table. Ironing boards, kitchen cabinet, etc. wt can get tour times at many man- dayt out of the tree. THIS 1 Uie point: If we can refine our rough lum ber PAR ENOUOII. our dwindling supply of virgin Umber wul pro vide more payroll each year than we ever got out of our Immense forests In the heydsy of their abundance. That la something to think about. PRICE riVE CENTS t9. waEGON, TIKHIMV, OCTOBER ZS, 1M .OAoi 111 Ne. till 3 Bern ; ays Mitts Mff L uuirmiiiinj 2 - 5 - ZD G If Eh J w i & i IT WONT IE LONG until this section of Kit Carson parkway will b in greenery, hiding the bareness which now greets the eye. The section borders Kit Corson woy, the newly com- oleted north entrance to the city of Klamath Falls. Mounds indicate where the trees and shrubs will go and workmen were rushing the job before the next hard freeze. demousbei 13 Students Get Holiday Routine business took up the hours tpent last night by boards 1 and J meeting at KUHS but one announcement that pleases student came out of the session. There will be no school on Friday. November 11, Armistice Day. This will enable a long week-end for those planning to leave town, and will also permit a large aggregation of students and parents to attend the traditional Armistice Day game witn uend at Bend. It wat announced that lighting improvement in the city schools Is virtually completed and the home . making room In KUHS la now in V 1 1 "1 'fl I fln -at m .n lha m(i.,,4 noor at me nign acnooi present all modern equipment and method for thlt division of study. U.S. Defense Heads Study Feud Lessons WA8H3NOTON. Oct.-15 ( De fense Secretary Johnson held a hud dle today with the civilian chiefs o' the three armed force on "lea sons to be learned" from the house committee hearings on the growing feud among the services. With Johnson at the meeUng was Navy Secretary Pranria Matthews. Undersecretary of Defense Stephen Karly also took part. However, Army Secretary Gordon Ora and Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington were both out of the city. They were represented by Act ing Army Secretary Tracy Voor heet and Acting Air Secretary Eu gene Zuckert. .' The announcement of the meeting preceded by only a few minute a scheduled visit to the White House by Johnson and Matthews. Hurry-up calls went out to Puerto Rico, meanwhile to get the air force 'a Oen. Hoyt Vandenberg back to Washington for the first regular meeting ol the Joint chief of staff since their public row over unification. KILLED JUNEAU, Alaska. Oct. 35 (At A target practice session ended trag ically yesterday with the death of Willi W. Rolf, M. Roff. for 33 yean chief mechanic for the public roads administration here, wat shot and killed while with a friend on Douglaa Island. The friend, Ed Klbby. told police hi gun dis charged accidentally ami the bullet struck Roff In the chest. A-Bomb s Sting Weak At 4-Mile Distance MEXICO CITY, Oct. 35 (At You do have a chance against the atomic bomb If you are at least half a mile away from the explosion. MaJ. Albert J. Bauer, of Uie U. S. army sunt eon general office, aaya If you're four mllea away when the bomb goea off, your chance of escaping without Injury are almost perfect. But from four mllea In toward the center, the safety percentage! o-op on tnarpiy. rrom a nau muev out to g mile and a half from the State Control Board Members Clash; Hot Name Calling Melee SALEM, Oct. 35 ol-The stale- board of control spilt In a bitter lug lest today, during which Slate Treasurer Person charged that Oov emor McKay "Hit me below the bell while I was out of town. The feud broke out over the governor's refusal last week to approve 0 Pearsons $160 claim for printing atomic blast, It It about 60-60 that you will com out alive. In the half-mile Inner circle, "there will be almost complete destruction" with deaths very close to 100 per cents," Bauer aaya. . Co-Authors Bauer prepared this report with Cuptaln John R. Hognesa of the V 8. army medical center for pre sentation today before the 13th International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy meeting here. Military medical otflcrra from 36 nation are attending the con giess. Basing their findings on the atomic explosions at Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikini, the two army medical men described the effect of an atomic blast and how to de fend a city against It, Agreeing .that "the atomic bomb Is truly a fearful and extremely de alt ucllve weapon," the report em- phaslrea that the public must real ise "an atomic explosion It not the end for all concerned." At Hiroshima, 60,000 In a city of 360,000 died from one bomb. But the report blamed the high death rate on the downtown location 'of hospital!. At Hiroshima nlne-tenthi of the doctors and nuttet were bomb casualties. Thlt 'prevented medical aid which could have saved many victims, i Radiation The report said of all Hiroshima deaths, only 15 In 100 came from the mysterious and much feared radiation alckness. Moat deaths re sulted from Injuries common to any other bombardment burns, frac tures, contusions and laceration. Bauer and Hognes regard wide spread fire and severe burn as Uie greatest hasarda of the bomb. The Intense flash of the blast sends out heat wave that can Ignite Intlam able materials a mile and a half Bureau Head To Consider Canal Fencing Ooodrlch W. Unewesver, director of operations and maintenance of the bureau of reclamaUon. will be In Klamath Palls November 10. to dlKUss fencing of the government canal. In a letter from Oerard Davidson, assistant secretary of Uie depart ment of Interior, directed to Coun cllmen Alfred Condrey and O. C. Tatman, the city council learned last night, that there Is every pos sibility of the canal-fencing project materialising. Hope Davidson said In hit letter, "I sincerely hope tome plan can be worked out while he tUneweaveri 11 here." Davidson further stated that Im mediately on hit return from the Western State conference ;n Ban Francisco, which Condrey and Tat man attended, he haa spoken with the heads of the bureau of recla mation commission on this subject. Commenting on the letter and the canal fencing project Mayor Thompson slated that much praise waa due Condrey and Tatman tor their efforts at the San Francisco conference. . . Women Cited Also cited by the mayor tor their work In promoting the canal proj ect was a committee of seven local women working In the Interest of safety. Tlie committee headed by Mrs. Robert A. McDonald consists ot Mrs, Gilbert Morey, Mrs. Don Cur tis, Mrs. James T. Brown, Mr. Oeorga Massey Jr., Mrs. Frank Bogatay, and Mr. Jack Elliott. I paper which outlined the duties of the state treasurer. McKay countered that Pearson "Is playing politics." Cheat' And Secretary of State Newbry, the third board member, called Bute Sen. Neuberger a "cheat." This waa the result of Neuberger' criticism of Newbry. whom Neu berger claims Is putting hit name cn state department license appli cations and other such state docu ment In order to gain politically. Oovernor McKay and Newbry are republicans. Neuberger and Pear ton are democrat. Stale to Pay The upshot of the whole thing is that Pearson's printing bill prob ably will be paid by the state, be cause of Newbry s position that elective state officials can spend money out of their own budget without having to win approval of the board of control. After Newbry made thit latter statement. Pearson said: "The printing voucher doetnt re quire approval of the board. It waa unfair for the governor to hit me below the belt when I was out of town. It It the first time that the honesty and Integrity of a public official haa been attacked by an other board member. Seals "You. Oovernor McKay, are the only one running for office. I'll pay that printing bill myself If you and Newbry pay for the ttaie seals which they distribute to school children and tourists." Pearson claimed he asked Newbry for a supply of state seals to he could distribute his autograph, too. But he said Newbry refused to give him any, to Pearson said he had (Continued on Page 3) C. C. Loudon Dies Under Ranch Truck Klamath county's 13th automobile fatality of 1949 and third in two days yester day afternoon claimed the life of Clarence C. Loudon, 27 -year -old Poe valley ranchhand. It was Loudon's second serious automobile mishap in five weeks, and the first was the remote cause of Uie second. Loudon was Injured last month when he overturned and demolished his car east of the Dan Liskey Poe valley ranch, and yesterday had come hi to Klamath Palls for a physical checkup. He took, a Hurry cab back to the ranch but ! Aale had no money to pay Fatality his fare. Asking the driver, Wiley Knlghten, cab company owner, to wait, Loudon got in dump truck nd drove out Into, a field where Robert Neblett, a tractor operator, wa working. Loudon borrowed 620 two 610 bill from Neblett and got in the truck to drive back. He drove down the left shoulder of g ranch road 17) I ecu, a Neblett ajefeed, tut a soft spot and the dump truck turned over Into a dry irrigation ditch. The young man apparenUy Jumpei or waa thrown front the truck but the truck cab fell over on him, pinning mm down. Loudon wa killed Instantly. The accident hap pened at 4:45 p. m. Spwf Worker Loudon, an ex-service man. had worked on Uie Poe valley ranch periodically for three years, accord ing to Foreman Paul Hatchett, com ing each harvest season to work in the spuds. His parent are said to reside In Wilsonvllle. Neb. The body was Uken to Ward's Funeral home. The fatality, although not on a public highway, wa Uie third at tributed to automobiles in Klam ath county since shortly before mid night Ssturday night. Ralph Dean Chancy, 33. wa killed on highway 7 Just above. the California state line and Mi. Audrey Carson. 37. wa killed early Sunday morning on the Keno-Worden cutoff. M n 'sUi EN ROUTE TO U. $. Kinuyo Tanako, Japanese movie star, arrives at Tokyo otrport to start her tour of Honolulu and U. S., by permission of SCAP, U. S. occupying authority. Big Nugget Find Lures Prospectors By JACE DA I'M FISHWHEFX, Alatka, Oct. 25 (AP) Rumors that more nuggets had been found along the banks of the fabled Yukon river swept periodically through this boom ing gold rush camp today. But attempts to trace the finds met with a wall of cagey silence. Prospectors eyed one another suspiciously, unwilling to talk about their luck in panning the stream until they have filed their claims. Although the temperature is 15 below and still falling. many or the early arrivals" have begun panning for the I Crazed Man Shoots Ten, Kills Self WATERFORD, Mich, Oct. 34 (1 A crazed, middle-aged farmer shot up two taverns last night, then killed himself after wounding ten persons. On a mad spree with a shotgun Joe Runyon. 57, terrorized this sleepy little resort village In a be grudging farewell to the world. Two of his victims, both women, were critically wounded. Tramping back and forth across a street, Runyon fired seven or eight charges from a 13-guage shotgun through windows of the two taverns, witnesses said. ' At the end ot violent 10 or 12 minutes, be walked a short distance up the street and fired final charge through hit own chest. This wat the last In a aeries of rapid reloading. Runyon't gun wat a tingle-shot weapon. Jury Clears Hunter In McLing Death A coroner's Jury last night In ef fect exonerated a Portland hunter of criminal blame In Uie death last Friday of Keith Harvey McLing who died of s .shotgun wound received whUe hunting pheasant. The shot resulting McLing s death came from the gun of Robert Wright McFarland. 352S SE Insley. Portland. A single No. S birdshot pellet penetrated the young man's forehead and entered his brain. Different McFarland told a story of the shooting to the coroner's Jury slight ly different from the version he re portedly told officers Immediately after the shooting. Last night he said be saw a pheasant In the brush and started to kneel when hit ankle turned and he tell forward, the pump gus dia- xliarging. He- aaicf haioVnot aim and shoot at the bird. Earlier, according to District At torney D. E. Van Vector, McFar land said, he had dropped to hla knee as a pheasant rose and had fired low at the bird. Tragedy Scene McLing was 168 feet away from McFarland when the shot was fired. Three other Portland hunters,' Hen ry Troh. 184 SE 15ih: Warren Te gan. 5401 NE 37th: and Kenneth P. Curry. 1424 NE 74th; were also in the field. The party had formed a rough semi-circle and were walking through the sagebrush to flush bird. The coroners Jury verdict ab solved McFarland of Intent to harm McLing but remarked that all five hunters were negligent and careless in assuming the hunting formation they had assumed. District Attorney Van Vector said after the inquest that there proba bly would be no criminal prosecu tion of McFarland. Dr. George H. Adler. county cor oner, conducted the Inquest at Whit lock's funeral home. The Jury in cluded Blaine Orrell. John Hayden, Carrol Howe, B. K. Teed. Jack Dur acha and Ralph Howard. precious yellow stuff all men dream about. From their results we may know soon whether this gold rush is destined to be remembered along with the other famous one of Alaska history. That Is the opinion held by veteran gold seekers who Impatiently await each dawn to re new their hunt for Uie yellow metal amid Uie Yukon sands. Temp Quickens Feverish activity up and down the river from last week's discovery lite 20 mile southeast of Fort z uKon neigntenea 11 tempo as a report trickled through Ftshwheei's mushrooming tent city. The word wa that a three-eighth Inch nugget bad been found. The nugget wa said to have been I accidentally pulled up in a miner' Ducket Irom the bottom of a water hole on the south bank of uie river one-quarter of a mile from the original strike. Earl Hurst, veteran Alaska pros pector, admitted he saw the nug get, which he described as -good coarse gold." Mere A trapper from Eagle. Charlie Biedennan, also said he examined nugget panned half a mile up stream from Discovery Island, on which Clifton Carroll first found pea-size nugget aa he dismantled his water-propelled fishwheeL In neither case was It possible to learn accurately who made the later discoveries. With aircraft streaming in from Fairbanks and Fort Yukon, scores of new prospectors arrived daily lured to the run of the Arctic by Uie age-old hunt for gold. Yuken lee A second landing field waa estab lished yesterday about five miles upstream from Discovery iContinued on Page 2) Grants Pass Grid Ducats Available A l noon today there were still about log tleketa left for the Pelican Grants Past football gam In Grant Pas Friday night. There were originally 3e tle keta for Klamath fan for the gridiron coolest, g, district I General admission tickets will be on tale at game time. Ktckoff time la I p. a. Woo-pirching Woe College Girls Warned About, Hazardous 'Unmentionables' SCHENECTADY. N. Y Oct. 25 W A student at Union college contends that embracing a Skldmore college girl It like "making love to a coaxial cable." Writing In the college paper. Columnist David Markson of Albany said some Skldmore girls wore "deadly bear-trap arrangements" as part of their undergarment. A spokesman at Skldmore In Saratoga Springs aald the glrlt were "so busy with other things" that Uiey had no time for comment. Danger! In his column. In the Concordiensls, Markson described the last time he dated a Skldmore girl: "Every Ume she moved I expected a couple of those concentric high tension wires to pop out, zoom scroti . . and bury themselves between my favorite rib . , ." , Markson warned Skldmore; "If our love means anything, you had better stop outfitUng yourself like uie Inside of an alarm clock that la apt to bust apart at the teams In any given moment. Before Skldmore can hope to tee more of Union, Union will have to tee more of Skldmore." 6 Die in French Train Wreck AVIGNON, France, Oct M P The Spanish border express crashed against a freight platform Just out side Avignon early today, killing six persona and Injuring It. Six of uie injured were reported in serious condition. The train was a self-propelled Seattle to Vote On Time. Policy 8EATTLE. Oct. 25 UP) Proposal to remove some of the confusion resulting from SeatUe's daylight savings time ordinance wiU go be fore uie voters next March. The amendment would give the city council power to fix the "fast time" period to conform with other ct!ons of the country. Seattle and several other Puget sound ciUes did not set clocks back this year untU October 1. almost a week after other sections of the country returned to normal Ume. Overseas Yule Postal Rates Cut in Effect Mailers of Christmas parcels to certain foreign countries are re minded by the postoffice that they can take advantage of reduced pott- j age rates. The rate of six cents instead of the usual 14 cents a pound, applies only to relief items however, and Yule gifts ot clothing, food or other relief articles are Included. The rate applies to all European coun tries except Uie Scandinavian na tions and Russian-occupied zone or countries. Other Areas Other area covered by the rate may be checked with the postoffice, which will be glad to furnish In formation about rates, articles which are sale for overseas Christ mas mailing and the proper way to pack Christmas overseas parcels. Those wishing to mail overseas gift packages are reminded that they must be In the mail in early November to assure Christmas arrival. Reds Losing Election In Iceland REYKJAVIK. Iceland, Oct. 25 (AP) First vote re turns in Iceland's general election today showed a loss for the communists, who had campaigned against this island nation's membership in the North Atlantic pact The communist party, which held 10 seats in the last S2-member al thing parlia ment), lost one seat to the pro gressive (agrarians) in the city of Reykjavik. Complete mums for Uie capital showed the independ ence (conservative! party re-elected four members, Uie social democrats re-elected one and Uie communists re-elected two. .' Voting ended yesterday in rural districts and final result were not expected before Saturday. Attlee Hits Rough Going In Parliament iajnuun. Oct 29 UP) Prime"" Minister Attlee hit a political storm today a whirlwind of charge he was too timid with economies meant to keep Britain from going bioke. Even large sections of his own labor party were let down by the plan Attlee discussed before the house of commons yesterday: A plan to whittle 280.000.000 (t7S4. 000.000) or S per cent from the country' 3300.000.000 17,240,- ooc.ouo) budget. Let-Down For two weeks the nation had been built up to expect a really drastic belaboring. When it came, OonservaUve Leader Winston Churchill summed up the reaction of many: "Is It adequate to the need In which we stand?" It teemed likely Churchill would again demand a quick election to let Uie people give Judgment on the socialist regime. Many political observers Judged that Attlee himself had suffered a damaging blow in political prestige. Laborite criticisms rifled through a caucus of the party's legislators this morning. It results were un known, but Attlee previously hat been able to whistle rebels to heel. Some of his opponents taw polit ical motives in his failure to swing the economy axe wider. AtUee must call an election before hit five year term expires next July. Bang Shooting Hours October M Open: Sitlaja. Cleaei 4:MF-a. Meet the People "-1 - W '.) J --" - .. ' , ' r s ) w '-A -.';.'. WORKING IN THI FINE sunshine at Esplanade ond Main is a fine summer job for Irvin Smith, cement finisher, who it polishing up the island where) a traffic signal will soon be installed to regulate- the heavy flow of town moving vehicle.
