Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, November 19, 1949, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPACE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OR-GON SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 1949 Community Clean-Up For Health Planned; Many Workers Needed "Klamath Psll ta fotm to hav lta lac scrubbed, and you're ex pected to provide the soap and the energy." This wu the opinion expressed by a group of dtlscns who gathered In the chamber of commerce offices Friday afternoon to organize the Community Clean-Up For Health Program. Help! A comparatively small group of people compared to the number who will be asked to help In the extensive program have outlined the project which Includes cleaning ud unsightly vacant lots, residential areas where folks hsve been care less, making the entrance Into the city more attractive to the tourists, and checking health hazards. Attending the session Friday were Mayor Robert A. Thompson, repre senting the city: Frank Jenkins, publisher of The Herald and News; Chsrlrs Stark, manager of the chamber of commerce: Clay Belllsle. representing Exchange club: E. H. Thompson, Rotary: Art Reinhart. Klamath Merchants association: H O. Juckrland. Klamath County Tuberculosis and Health association and Klamath Automobile Dealers association, and Dr. Buford Hargus. also representing the health asso ciation. Town la OeneraT Other Individuals and organisa tions will be asked to come into the picture and the general plan will Include schools, clubs, and the "town In general." As much of the clean-up as can be done before winter actually sets In, Is the hope of the committee which anticipates much benefit from the campaign. The program is sponsored by the Klamath County Tuberculosis and Health association. MARKETS ml FltlAHCIAl !,0 i mm A ! 1 Pine Activity Gain Continues PORTLAND, Nov. IS WV-Activity continued Increasing In Idaho white, pondcrosa and sugar pine lumber during the week ending November IX the Western Pin association reported today. Comparative figures, board feet: Last Week Previous Week Tear At Orders 64.509.000 fl.28O.0OO 43.S38.000 Shipments 66.463.000 64370.000 61.619.000 Production 66330.000 . 65.081,000 60.656.000 NATIONALLY KNOWN CARTOONIST Clyde Lamb checks one of his latest comic strip drawings of "Herman," with his wife before mailing it to his syndicate. Lamb does free lance cartoon drawing in addition to his daily comic strip antics of Herman. Heavy Dealing Boosts Grains CHICAGO. Not. It WV-All grains moved upward In heavy dealings on the board of trad today, paced by com. The yellow cereal had gains extending to 2 cents at times. Deferred contracts scored new seasonal highs. Strength of com was tied In with export demand for this grain. It was reflected also In the spot market where No. 1 yellow com sold t a discount of 3 to 3 hi cents compared with the December delivery. zesternay uw aiscoum was 3 CO cents. Other grains mostly followed the leadership of com. Some infla tionary sentiment appeared to be' present In the pits. Dealings became quite active toward the close as the demand met selling orders from traders evening up for the week-end holiday. Wheat closed tt-H higher. December 1..11S-V com was 1 to 1 higher. December $1.24a-V. oats were lower to 4 higher. December 7SH 75, rye was -14 higher. December 11.34-1.34.. soybeans were 1 to 1 higher, November 2-24'i, and lard was 5 to 7 cents a hundred pounds higher, December $1031. 1 Wheat Open High Low close Dee. . Jim a.12 mp, J.lls- 3.13' J.14 2.13 a.t3i-2.14 May J.11S-4 312 3.11H 3114 Stock Market Slows DoWri f NEW YORK. Nov. 19 Vf) The stock market ambled along a nar row price route today after snappy three-day rise. Most price changes were up ward. Gains were small, though, and a wide variety of shares either remained at Friday' dosing levels or Backed down a little. Few stocks moved more than fractional ly. Business started off with a rush but quieted as soon as overnight orders were disposed of. Turnover ran at a rate of 600,000 shares for the two-hour session. Railroad stocks did fairly wen. wun nigner prices paid for Santa Fe. N.Y. Central. Southern Rail way, and Union Pacific Corporate bonds moved narrowly. American Can 994 Am Power Lt 13H Am Tel & Tel 146 "4 Anaconda Bendix Aviation . Beth Steel Boeing Airplane . Calif Packing Canadian Pacific Case J I Caterpillar Chrysler Cons Vultee Continental Can Crown Zellerbach . Curtlss Wright Dupont de Nem General Electric General Foods" General Motors Goodyear Tire Int Harvester Int Paper Kennecott Llbby McN tt L Long Bell "A" Montgomery Ward Nash Kelvlnator Nat Dairy N Y Central Northern Pacific . Pac Am Fish Pac Gas Sc Elee . Pac Tel & Tel Penney J C Radio Corp Rayonler Reynolds Metals . Richfield Safeway Stores . Bears Roebuck Southern Pacific Standard Oil Cal . Studebaker Corp Trans-America Union Oil Cal Union Pacific United Airlines V 8 Steel Warner Bros Plo . 28H . 33S 30H 27Tt 354 I4-4 - 44N 33 - 69 1014 36 28 74 63S 404 - 464 664 404 28 62'. J14 74 21 63 16 - 364 104 174 - 134 - 324 .103 634 124 - 244 - 204 40 - 294 - 424 464 - 86 274 - 144 - 274 834 134 25 - 144 AUCTION OVER 400 OXBOW ANGUS FEEDER CALVES Lots of 1. 3, 6. 10: 4H-FFA and Commercial Feeders. YEARLINO FEEDERS In lots of 10 Choice Commercial Heifer Calves. Start a Black Herd. Bang's vaccinated. Uniform type and quality result 32 yean use Reg. lstered Angus Bulls. AT OXBOW RANCH PRAIRIE CITY, ORE. Saturday, Nov. 26th. Freer haul to Ontario, Redmond, Baker, or Pendleton for buyers of 20 or more animals " , LIVESTOCK CHICAGO. Nov. 19 UP! Boo. sold within a $15.25 to 15.TS range today, the latter price oeing the quotable top. Cattle and sheep were uominany steaay. -Hog prioes dropped sharply this -sr uoaer me weignt of the larg est marketings for any week since June. 1944. At the end of the week the top was $15.75. lowest since June. 1946. The average of barrows and gilts Friday waa esti mated at ,15.25. or below the "guide" price of $15.45. The local market's slump below the guide does not mean the gov ernment must buy pork next week. -m agriculture department ex plained. The guide Is based on a seven market average and covers ujb iuii week. Also, prices have been above the guide in previous weeks this month. This would per mit a slump below the guide next week without causing pork buying. The guide next week will drop 40 cents to $15.05. All classes of cattle were In greater supply this week. Prices mostly declined as the proximity of Thsnksgivlng turned consumers at tention to poultry. Top for prime MAKES OFFER Rep. James G. Fulton, Pittsburgh (R-Pa), who offered himself os host age for the release of Angus Ward, U. S. consul general now being held by Chinese communists, explains his ac tion to newsmen at the state capitol, at Harrisburg, Pa.' Mass Held For Rancher Con O'Keeffe LAKEVIEW Requiem high mass was held Tuesday for Con J. O' Keeffe. Adel rancher, killed In stantly Armistice night when a half-track in which he was riding went over a bank In Hammersley canyon. Mr. O'Keeffe, 57. wu with his U nepnew, Henry OKeeffe of Adel and George Bowers of Lakeview. They were moving some of the O'Keeffe sheep from that area. Henry O'Keeffe and Bowers, both Injured in th accident, walked for ahout six miles before they reached help. Irish Nstlv ' The victim was born June 29. 1892. at Newmarket, Ireland, and came to Lake county from Ireland In 1910 ensuing In the livestock industry in Lake and Klamath counties. He waa associated with his brother John until the tatter's death May . 30. 1943. He was a member of Lake county post No. 53. American Legion and was a veteran of World War I when he served In the St. Mlhlel. Chstesu Thierry and Meust-Argonn of fensives in France, Lost Hunter Sought In Umatilla PENDLETON, Nov. 19 ) A Umatilla county sheriff joined other searchers this morning look ing tor Kussell Hail. Weston hunt er, believed lost in the Tollgate area of the Blue mountains, 35 miles east of Pendleton. Hall, a member of an elk hunt ing party, failed to show up at the hunting camp Friday night. A telephone call to the sheriff's office this morning said that the man was lost somewhere on the skyline road around Gabrel Springs. i Other Barvivors In addition to relatives in War ner valley and Lakeview, Mr. O' Keeffe Is survived by three broth ers. Dan and Tom O'Keeffe of Mer rill and Mai In, Humphrey O'Keeffe of Sacramento, four brothers and two sisters in Ireland. Mass wss said by Father F. L. Gels with Fsther O'Connor of Mer rill and Father Phalen of Chllo quin assisting, at 8t. Patrick's Catholic church. Graveside service was conducted by Lake County post, American Legion. It Pays to Use 'he Want-Ads f steers was $40.75. Demand also slumped for lambs, particularly those carrying weight, which ended $1.00 to $2.50 lower. Motorist Cited, Posts Bond Wlllard Eyler Davis. 38. of 5104 Cottage, was cited for failure to yield the right of way yesterday after a minor traffic accident at S. 6th and Plum. He posted $5 ball with city police. Davis was Involved In a collision with a car driven by Martin E. Ramsby. 48. of 521 N. 5th, city police aaid. ri' t County Officials Favor U.S. Congress Pattern For State Legislature PORTLAND. Nov. 19 Mt-Or gun's county officials like the klra of giving each county on state sen slur, and a number of stat repre sentatives bs.ird on th county's population. That plan, proposed by Stat Rep. Giles French of Moro. was endorsed by th auoclatlon of Ore ton rountin at lta convention yes terday. It would follow the same pattern used In the U. 8. congress. At pres ent, both the state senate and th stat hous of representative ar apportioned on a population ba!'. Power, President The county Judges and commis sioners elected Jmle T. A. Power of Jefferson county as president. Judge D. N. Busrnbark of Douglas county wss elertrd vice-president and Marlon County Commissioner Hoy J. Hie was reelected secretary, treasurer. The convention suggested that charitable and religious organisa tions which operate business in com petition with private enterprise be sublect to Uxation. That was on of th sources of new revenue proposed to augment th sesre county Income. More License Another wss through licensing outdoor theatres and night clubs. The state would hsve to pass a law SHE DID IT For yeors, Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, U. S. treasurer, has wanted to wink at a camera focused on her, At a news conference in De troit she unsuppressed her suppressed desire with the above result. Horse Drags, Kills Pine Valley Youth BAKER, Nov. 19 (4) A 15-year old Pine Valley youth was dragged to his death yesterdsy by a boiling horse, according to Coroner Triad The boy. Versrl Leon Sagers. Halfway, was killed early yesterday morning as he wss herding csttle. the coroner reported. His death re suited from a fractured skull. The coroner said th boy s horse fell, then Jumped up and bolted away with young 8age a foot caught in me sunup. Portland Wins Sloucjh Suit PORTLAND. Nov. 19 A Jury aeciaea yesterday that sewsge dumped Into Columbia slough wss not responsible for dsmsge to the logs of two shingle companies. T h firms Portland Shingle company and East St. Louis Shingle company had sued Portland for $130,000, contending sewage dam aged their cedar logs. A Jury de cided in favor of the city of Port land after five and a half hours' deliberation. ' W r .a- A Howl-arious Comedy From The Studio That Gave You "THE FULLER BRUSH MAN" COLUMBIA PICTURES prssvawt Jaiti Jaasa CUrU r L CARTER GLEASON HENRY McHUGH "THf Added Dtll, Metre, S Days Btarilns- THANKSCIVINGf t g. -b . . . mm PAffCEJUBflEg LATE SHOW TONIGHT! LAST COMPLETE SHOW fTlflV 1 a ..... JiMM-tAI MIDNIGHT! ",Ze "ati . AUfD" reft, AtiO 0T ice TE8T RUM v -PHOWINn r---tlsgajsissiaassi ,V SQUARE contest 'PAteCg, ONSTAGE Chilly Night But Not Season Low A cold crisp night, with a bright morning sun, was the over-all re port throughout th Klamath basin this morning where minimum tem peratures ranged from 9 above at Tulelake's experiment station, to 23 in Klamath rails, CAA's report. Highways and streets were covered with a slick coal of frost, and cars left out overnight were coated with lc on windows and windshields. A number of -peephole" drlvera were observed creeping townward early this morning, violating a well known traflo rule. 19 Degree Some folks thought It was the coldest morning of th season but It wssn't. CAA said Is was 19 degrees on October 20. That record still holds. At Crater Lake national park rangers ssld It wss warming up and skies were clear. AU roads are open and the few icy spot have been sanded. Chains are not required but only on and a half feet of snow the area is discouraging to skllera. Port landers Up For Licenses PORTLAND. Nov. 19 JP-Six Portlandrrs mdng them a doctor and a cleaning firm owner will ap pear In municipal court Monday on a charge of falling to pay the city's new license fees. The six were arrested on war. rants yesterday, and released on their own recognizance. The city license Inspector hsd re ported that some firms hsve flatly refused to pay the feea. The whole fee system has been sharply opposed by business groups. R EIIN lOS PORTLAND. Nov. 19 M" Theo dore A. Prnlsnd, last commander of th Grand Army of the Republic had his daughter and three sons J with him today the first reunion In 41 years. I aullmrt'lng th counties to llcsns surh vstabltshinents. The count v offliials also recom mended a constitutional amendment which would not Include welfare budget In th 6 per cent tax limita tion. Oregon's county treasurers, which met here at the same time, demon strated their feminine loyalty by electing all women ofllrers. Twenty of th 94 treasurers are women, Mrs. E. T. ralrrhlld. Deschutes county, waa elected president; Mrs. T. II. Musgrove, Umatilla county, vice president: and Mrs. Allr Da vidson, Josetililne county, seer-tary-treasurer. Woman Sought To Identify Body in N.Y. New York clly police ar attempt ing to local a Mildred Ox. be lieved to be In Klamath Palls, In an effort to Identify a man whoa body I unclaimed In th metrop olis. A man tentatively Identified as Dumlnlo Uakouskl la desd In New York and his body unclaimed. Ac cording to information relayed her from New York. Haknuskl la be lieved to b a former husband of Mra. Cox. August W. Plalh, Inspector of New York police, wants to know of any relatives who could Identify and claim th body, Looking for somethlngT Read th Want Ads you may find It tlitrtl s-w rA st JOHN V -"CIH. VtnP"J s 1 iTmwio THEY'RE JUST Alt -PLAIN NUTS! -ENDS TODAY SlXfotCJtNE 'ylt . ' ...Bfcawroa U:.3 pj . ,nWILLIAM DEMAREST ) KJ? X . U JUNE HAVOC of iM Laugh! rOPEVB CARTOON I Ll "SILLY HILL I ILLY" I s VJ "HOLLYWOOD SANTA CLAVI tANl"