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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1949)
A la v n 1 f iv.T1i- Cay's lews ly FRANK JF.NMNM PHEHE wurd ar written In Port- Imid, where Uiey hav a brand new sheriff. Ill nam U Bchrunk Terry D. Bchrunk. He hu a nic family ; a wlfa nd two children buy aged 7 and a girl aged two. Juiliiliuc by lhlr picture In tonight' paper, they re nice, clean American yuung people. Terry') age la St. He la a college gradual tUnlveralty o( Oregon. I lie la ea-navy, and got the Silver Htar for herolam In action. Prior to hi appointment to the herlft'i of tic t following the recall of Uie man Elliott) he waa a captain in Uie Portland fir department. , 'lie la a Democrat, naturally. feu Democrat rata politically in tile daya. Thai I nothing agalrut hlin. There are plenty of good Democrat and plenty of luil-loo-admlriblt Republlcaiu. T IMAGINE, from what 1 read of him In tonight' paper, thai he 'V lived a quiet, pleaaanl. homey Me. I fear that a lierlff of Mult nomah county all that will be changed. He 1 a public character now. He will be called upon to makt decialon. and they cau l all be pop ular one. Among oilier tiling, he will have to decide whether or not he will enforce lit lawa against gambling. Uutortuuately. law en lorcemcnt ofilolalj. In Oregon have to do that. It would be far aimpler If wt expected our ol final to k w It that the law arc obeyed and Uiey went ahead and aaw to It that tin la don. But, ala. w don't do It that way. Ho, you aee. Terry will have to make hi decision. If he decide to EN roHC'E Uie law, a lot of people will claim he la hurling buaine. If he decide. NOT to enforce them, a lot of people will wonder how much ht'l lung for It. SPENT laal night in on of Ore- gon g plraaanlral and nut plou cine. A part of the evening I pem playing dot machlnca In Uie com pany of thoroughly nice people. ' I won Jackpot on a nickel ma chine. A nickel machine m about my ft peed a a player of lol ma chine. I can make a dollar laal longer Uial way and I'm ao con aututed that I can gel aa much fun out of winning a nickel. machine jackpot aa a dollar one. I can yell J tut aa loudly with glee and a for the eaab Involved I'm wlrtllng ao old that I've learned lhat Taanibimg mcwy '1BNT MONEY. I According, to the law of average. I if you win tonight you'll loaa to morrow night, ao U you look upon your winning aa money you're jut a aap. f HAD an exceedingly good time and I came away with no feeling of being smirched. But TP I HAD BEEN THE SHERIFF OK THE D18TKICT ATTOHNEY OF THAT COUNTY. I WOULD HAVE FELT BMIHCHED. I would have known thai If I didn't clone Uie Joint and arreat all the player I would have been violating my oath of office. Alio I would have known that everybody thought I waa getting money for letting Uie slot machlnea run. JT happena that I know Uie xhrrift and Uie district attorney of Uie county in which Una pleasant and aoclable and good-natured wrestling match with the alol machine bandit waa conducted. I can't believe that (Continued on Page 2 PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OKEOON, Till KKDAV. OCTOBER 17, JMf Telephone gill Ne. tUS Beef Prices Soar Near Record High CHICAGO. Oct. 27 Beef on III hoof la elllng today at near record prlcea In the union tock yard. Bui don't let that worry you. You aren't going to find that beef In your butcher shop with a near-record price tag. In fact, you aren't going lo find It there. Prime Tula The top 18 prlr tor cattle, paid yesterday, we 141 HO a hundred pound for prim teers. That will cut out to prime meat. It the kind which la old directly to "name" rrataurant. club and ho tel. It doesn't get Into the butcher hop. "People who will buy tlic-e aleak won't car much whether the price la (3 00 or IS 00." one livestock com mlaalon man said. "There alwaya a ateady demand for beef from thou restaurants, regardlea of prlc." Perry Clark, a cattle feeder of Ogdrn, Iowa, ent In the top price load, which coiuuted of 17 head of Aberdeen-Angu teer. Mkyrarketed In the put two week price for prime cattle have tkyrorkeled. The prlr la now only 10 cent a hun dred pound under t h all-time peak mad In September of lat year. If that peak la to be acalrd. livestock men think It will have to be done before Uie livestock how laru November 2. U ilsawaw -aa-aaaaaawaawaaaai laweawm. .... e . . .a - 4 TALKING BUSINESS over coffee ore Paul Lee, left, ond Lynn Roycroft, co-chairman of the industrial division of the 1949 Klamath County Community Chest compaign which gets under way next week. HST Lifts Denf eld As Navy Chief BILLETIN WASHINGTON, Oct. t7 President Truman Uday lifted Admiral Lul E. Denfrld from hi poal aa chief f naval opera liona. WASHINOTON. Oct. 27 (1 Plan for a MJOO-man cut In the navy were duclod today In Uie midst of a growing ttorm over re port that Admiral Lout E. Den feld will be ousted a chief of naval operauon. Rep. Arends R-Ill aaid he had been Informed thai Denfeld will be eked to realiin In Uie "next day or because ol teaumony he gave m t ; y -.. - BBBBBBBBMaiaBa1 8 Dangerous Convicts Stage Daring Break WIIJ4INOTON. Del. Oct. 27 i A widespread manhunt waa on to day for eight convict who escaped from the New CaaU county prison with gun and ammunition taken from the Jail arsenal. ' The eight led by a 20-year-old life term prisoner made a daring break through the prison front gat last night after locking up Ouard Captain Harry Hamilton and using another guard a a shield. Machine Gun A buret of machine gun fir from a prison tower failed to atop them. Five of the escapee were report ed lo have boarded a Pennsylvania railroad freight train bound for Reading, Pa. Two others forced J. L. Ellloltbn, a stationery store clerk, to drive two blocks In his own ear and then shoved him out before driving off. The car was recovered several hours later, abandoned in Kennett Square. Pa. Roadblocks State police established road block throughout the Wilmington area and alerted authorities of ad joining suites to be on the lookout for the men, described as "dangerous." Top Attrocrion Lady Godiva To Be Fenced From Peeping Tom Crowds COVENTRY. Eng.. Oct. 27 They' had to put a fence around Lady Godiva statue. It s hard to keep Uie Peeping Toms away. A statue showing the lady clad only in her trease and altting aid aaddle on a hors. waa unveiled last Saturday by Mrs. Lewia Douglas, wife of Uie U. S. ambassador. Almost at once crowd wanting a closer look began trampling over the surrounding turf. City olfldala put up a three-foot-high barricade yesterday to save Uie gnus. Oodlva rode forth In Uie nude, legend aaya. some 900 years ago to shame her husband. lh lord of Uie town. Into giving tax relief lo the people. The townspeople went Indoors to let Uie lady pasa unseen. But one man looked and waa atruck blind. Hi errant way gave birth to Uie term Peeping Tom. "The alalue I proving an unexpected attraction." said one city official. 1 BLOWS BUBBLES TO LIVE Four-year-old Joyce Ann Whit worth of LoCrange, Ca., sits up in her hospital bed at Emory hospital at Atlanto, Co., and smiles os she anticipates the fun she is going to have blowing "therapeutic" bubbles. Her mother, Mrs. T. D. Whitworth, is assisting. Several months ago Joyce was operated on for a heart ailment. A lung con gestion developed when she returned home. Doctors pre scribed deep breathing to clear the condition but Joyce didn't understand. So thev riaaed the water bottle and n huhhU Vpipe, It's fun now, she soys. Coffee Prices Seen Going Higher Soon Coffee In Klamath Fall torea waa being sold from 2 to cents below wholesale price today a sit uation that grocer feel can hardly continue In view of sharply Increas ing wholesale costs. While retailers were unhappy ov er the price hikes, Mrs. Buying Pub lic wa getting more upset by the moment today aa rumors continued to fly that coffee will go to 11 a pound within six months. N Hoarding Most grocers in Uie Klamath area reported a slight Jump over normal purchasing, but buying Jitters had not yet developed lo the wartime hoarding stage. The wholesale price on nationally advertised standard coffee brands this morning was S3 cents a pound locally, and retallera are anticipat ing more price boosts to come soon. This morning's price quotaUon marks an Increase of some 10 or 12 cents over what retallera were pay ing Just a few short daya ago. Crop Failures Meanwhile, authorities are blam ing the rising cost on Central and South American crop failures, with no relief In sight. While coffee prices went up. wholesale egg prices remained steady ' since the drop Tuesday. Wholesale price of cartoned AA large la now 7' cents, AA medi um tl', cents, and AA small, 48'i cents: grade A prices, wholesale, remain SB's cents for large.- and 57 cents for medium. Drops on Tuesday ranged from S cent on A medium eggs to 2 cents on AA smalL two" the house armed services commit' tee on difference In the armed services. 'Insult' Arends demanded in a statement that Uie committee convene to meet this "insult to congress." He said the committee had promised Den feld and other critics of present military policies that they could speak their mind freely without fear of retallaUon. I The defense department budget Inspector said that In line with a scheduled reduction In sue of the operating fleet by next June 30. a corresponding decrease will be made In navy and marine per sonnel. 'Marine Taw He said a cut of 64.200 men and officers of the navy and marine cor pa 1 planned. The current strength Is about sl.000. An army reduction already has been announced. Secretary Gordon Oray said earlier this week that a total of 10.000 draftee and one-year enlistment will be released. This 1 will bring army strength down to about 030.000. I Ouster Figkt i Arends said congress for ft own 'protection must fiaM ao ouster of Dcnlelfl He saidno congtessional conunniM JriiW future ywould be vaMe to get seaumony "w6rth a pinch o. salt" from officers of Uie armed err ices U Denfeld is to get Uie axe. . Denfeld criticised high military policies a a witness at the house trrftJIrs"! Kakas lrit w r i''u.HU. CLEVELAND. Oct. 27 CV-The amon the armed aervfc... viui comment right-wing majority planned today to expel at least three or maybe all 12 unions whose leaders have shown pro-communist sympathy. A resoluUona committee under the United Auto Workers' head, Walter P. Reuther. stood ready to fight It out on the floor of next week's con vention If necessary. Three Principal It Is determined to oust the three union most crIUcal of Philip Mur ray's leadership: the United Elec trical Workers, with nearly 400.000 members, the Farm Equipment Workers with 50.000. and the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers number ing around 100.000. Ths plan of action decided upon by the powerful right-wing faction but subject to plenty of pressure before It can be put into effect calls for kicking out Uie three unions next Wednesday. HORRIBLE MASKS and such a pretty little girl, typifies the spirit of Halloween which was certainly running high in the grade school rooms in town this week. Here Third Croder Sue Corol Dick of Fremont school demonstrates a big "boo" be hind two of the masks made by the youngsters in Miss Martha Berg's room. Masks are whipped up out of newspaper soaked in water ond then dried and painted, and line the walls of the third grade room. Fishvheel Gold Holes Near Tell-Tale Level; Strike Boom or Bust? By JACK DAUM FISHWHEEL. Alaska. Oct. 27 oPr The future of Fish wheel balanced on a knife edge today. On one aide 1 fame, fortune and riches: on Uie other disillusionment and despair. We should know In a few day whether the pea-stud nuggets of golbVfound by Clifton Carroll last week touched off a boom or a bust. Prospect bole now being sunk have reached coarse sand at about six feet Sand usually cover the gravel which lie on top of the all. CIO to Axe Some Red Hued Unions Salem Negro Ban Trouble Stirs Again SALEM, Oct. 27 (PV-rTwo Negro farm workers were reported to have been ordered out of town because of their race. And their employer, U. 8. Alderman, has complained bit terly about the policeman who Is supposed lo have given the order. Alderman, who lias farms north of Salem, aaid two of his Negro potato diggers cam to Salem last Friday afternoon to get their pay. He said a city policeman told them to get out of town because Negroes aren't tolerated In Salem. Probe, Action E. C. Charlton, assistant police chief, promised an Immediate In vestigation and corrective mea sures. Alderman, In a letter to the po lice department, asked "did this po liceman speak with authority for the city of Salem, the capltol of our fair practice state of Oregon?" This Isn't the first case of a po liceman ordering Negroes put of town. About two years ago,', city officer ordered two Negroes, who were working on a railroad con struction gang, to leave the city. J U.S. Official Plans Non-Vet College Aid KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Oct. 27 11 U. S. Education Commissioner Earl James McGrath today proposed a 300.000.000-a-year scholarship pro gram for more than 400.000 non veteran college students. McGrath also suggested a system of federally guaranteed loans to college and university students sim ilar to those now available to World War II veterans. The two proposals, he said, would be a start toward a program to provide higher education to "Uie full two million or more of persons with college abilities who do not now get to college." McGrath called the proposals a "civilian bill of rights comparable to the O. I. bill of rlghu." Bang- Shooting Hours October J Opem t:05 a. m. Closet 4 :U p. m. KUHS Students Get Out Early For Big Game The Pelican won't want for root er when they take the field against Uie Grant Pass Cavemen Friday night. Klamath Union high school will close Its doors at 1 p.m. Friday so that student can make the trip to the game. Principal Jim Brown said that three school busea will make the run to Uie game for school organi sations. Also two public buses will be chartered o handle transporta tion. Younger Students Grade schoolers planning to at tend the game must submit per mission of their parents. However, grade school pupils will arrange their own transportation. Brown aaid school buses will make home deliveries starting at 1:10. Elementary school buses will run on regular schedule. Historic Ford Pension Plan OK'd by Labor DETROIT. Oct. 27 ( The auto mobile Industry marzed another milestone In It labor relations his tory today. Ford's 1100-a-monih pension plan, first In the Industry, was approved. Applying to Ford's 1MJ00 pronoo ,Uon workers, the plan was accept ed in s vow by the Ford rank and j file membership of the CIO United I Auto Workers. I Cwapany Burden Unofficially estimated to cost S30. 1 000.000 (Ml a year, the plan will be paid for entirely by Uie company. It is Uie major pan of a 10 cents an hour package and In general fol ows the recommendations of Presi dent Truman's fact-finding commis i n In Uie steel dispute. For Uie time being at least its approval assured peace in the auto industry. Top Issue Pensions have been the CAW- CIOs No. 1 objective in lu IM 'bargaining drive. A. wage Increase i wr . sidetracked at Ford in favor of pensions. Late last night the union an Inounced "overwhelming" approval from Uie rank and file. I The Ford plan provides that a worker who retiree at age 65 after 30 )ears service will be paid $100 a month, inclusive of social security benefits. Retirement at 65 Is voluntary. At 68 It Is compulsory. Firemen Fight Brush Fire A blase which covered between 200 and 300 acres of brush along the Old Fort road and Uie hills behind Hot Springs this morning was reported under control at 1:30 this afternoon. Both Klamath Protective association men and the county fire department fought the fire. Cause is believed to have been a trash fire which got out of control. An estimated six or eight acres of brush along the Old Fort road was burning at noon today In a grass fire which was being fought , by both county and Klamath Forest ; Protective association men. Cause of the blaze has not been i determined, and at noon It waa not i yet controlled. ' The tire was (cross from the city dump area. Cirasa Fire i Suburban firemen were called out , Wednesday afternoon, extinguishing a grass fir at 4015 Austin, with no damage to nearby buildings. The city department had a run to 221 N. 10th at 7:45 a. m. today I for a flue fire. There was no dam age, firemen aaid. BULLETIN LABORITER WIN LONDON, Oct, 17 MV-A con servative motion of no confidence In the labor government waa de feated 353 t 222 la the bou f tonight. Klamath Not Affected By Car Shortage Klamath Falls lumber Industries apparently are not drastically af fected by the Southern Pacific car shortage which Is causing an acute problem In many sections of the state, it was learned here today. An unofficial check of many saw mills here revealed that, although the movement of lumber Is slow, there exists "no acute problem." Spud Scene The picture Is also bright Insofar as the shipment of potatoes Is con cerned. Southern Pacific officials said that sufficient reefer cars are being furnished for spud movement. The quesUon of car shortage was posed here when it was learned that Representative Harris Ells worth was calling for an Interstate commerce commission Investigation of freight car allocaUon policies of Uie Southern Paclflo railroad. Other MUls Hurt "Many sawmills In Uie' Oregon division are receiving less than 30 per cent of cars needed," Ellsworth said. He added that shutdown of even 10 per cent of Oregon mills would cause loss of wages of $13,000,000. important bedrock. If gold 1 here. it wm be on the bedrock. The holes are dug by burning a fire on top of the ground for about six hours. This thaws Uie ground about a foot down and the prospec tor digs out the moist earth and starta another fire. It's a slow, tor turous process but Uie onlv rios- slble method here where no heavy equipment is to be bad. Vet'a Viewpoint Ed Farrell. a veteran of the Daw son gold rush, haa been prospecting uie streams 01 Alaska, since 1900. He has his hole five feet and should hit bedrock In about two days. . "Why this b nothing." said Ed as we walked away from the hole where he had Just lit a new fire. "In the Dawson rush there was a tin bf holes two mile long with fire and smoke coming out of each one. In those days a man didn't mind a little work." Tay Farrell thinks the modern pros pector is bury "expects to have the gold lump up and hit him in the face." He also remained optimistic de spite the absence of even an ounce of gold In commercial quantities. "That doesnt Indicate a thing. In the Fairbanks strike years ago there weren't one-tenth the Indica tions shown here so far." he ex plained. "We are finding color con sistently and few nuggets have been taken out that's enough to warrant a few days' work sinking a hole." . SUII Arrivinr Meanwhile, dosens of newcomers are pouring in each day. Three planes landed on Magoffin field be fore S a. m. yesterday. The field a quarter mile stretch of river suffidenUy frozen to support 450 horsepower planes wa named after Jim Magoffin, first bush pi lot to land on It. 'Hot' Cargo Unloaded At The Dalles THE DALLES, n . fV. 27 (AP) A pinappt) oarjre, cause or riverfront VlfklpnpA hfr a mnnth man was beinp; unloaded today under protection or shotgun guards and a court order, It was resumption of riot halted work, com in (r swiftly on the heels of a restraininr order issued late vesterda by Circuit Judge Malcolm W. WIU kiruon against CIO longshoremen. The order was served on the pick eta this morning and they left. Xon-anion Crew A non-union unloading crew, hired by th port of The Dalles, then went tn work Th. fi-. load of the canned pineapple, des- micu jur a tun jose. cam. cannery, was moved to a boxcar standing on a spur track beside th terminal. Sheriff's deputies some of them farmers dressed In work clothes stood by with shotguns over thrr rms. At Portland, Longshore Secretary W. C. Mackey said he assumed no longshoremen would go near th waicrirciu. t-wny lour or live picket had been here from Portland. Legal Duelling The new effort to move the pine apple, barged here from Hawaii dur tag a longshore strike In Uie Islands, stemmed from th week's second legal maneuver. An Injunction hearing against longshore pickets was blocked Tues day wnen Uie union asked for a new judge, objecting to Judge Wil kinson. Yesterday Uie port attorney, and an attorney for Isleways Incor porated, pineapple owner, asked Judge Wilkinson for a temporary restraining order, alleging that th union could not legally interfer with a municipality's activities. It was a separate but virtually parallel action In effect to that which wa delayed Tuesday. Judge WiUtinaon signed Uie order and aet Monday s bearing date. - The barge may be unloaded by Monday. Tw Hospitalised The first unloading attempt on September 2S was halted when long shoremen stormed the port termi nal. In the melee trucks and th unloading eran were smashed and two API. -track drtean ww hospi talised. State police were called out. The port commission ordered un loading halted to prevent further violence. The pineapple that had been un loaded before the fight, was loaded on a boxcar. It is still at the termi nal because rail crews refused to cross Uie picket line. - A Tito Shakes Rst Again BELGRADE, Oct. 27 Marsh al Tito last night promised to "fight enduringly" against Russian at tempts to dominate Yugoslavia. "We know." said Tito, "that la this struggle we are fighting for a great, just cause that will have tre mendous historical significance for Uie future and that this la Uie true, correct relationship among Uie soci alist states." Tito sounded this serious note aft er a day In which a Moscow news paper accused him of lavishing dia monds on an "American spy," named as Uie Yugoslav-born Metro politan opera soprano Zinka Kune Milanov. The singer, Interviewed over th telephone, said the story In the Mos cow Literary Gazette was "just silly." Clouds, Light Rain Forecast Despite bright . clear sunshine to ri ay. the weatherman forecast clouds and light rain for the Klam ath country tonight and Friday. . Klamath football tans were hop ing the weatherman Is wrong with hi Friday forecast, as scores plan to attend the big Orsnta Pass-Klam-ath gam at Grants Pass. Th low for tonight Is estimated to be about 30 degrees. Last night's minimum went to 23. : i r Meet the People ft' ;- i fa Ji , r I AN ALMOST never-ending job for Waitress Vivian Conned is clearing off the restaurant counter where she works o chore not envied by- any housewife, who hat it to do only a few times a day. j '
