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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1949)
II JllfUv By FRANK JKNKINI VKRKS oik lor the book: " All the chilly nliht tin New York tod thia mornlni, a Una of early bird Mood outside the Mttro pollun opera house to buy landing room Urkata for tonlgttl'a opanlni al toe Mel tolh opera eaaaon. ' I CTANDINQ room, miad you I Not a box. In which you can tit In comfort, out In plain Hint whtra everybody can aaa your fura and your Jewel. Juat a placa to stand up on achlnt fact and lKUn to nil musto that haa llvad down through tha ycara because It haa eomeihlng that paopla lova. . (r all It l mat goes to prova. you aaa, that DOES Uka all kind of paopla make a world I VriKRC la anolhar oddly InUreetlng dispatch In tha nawa today. It eomaa from WaahlngUHi. It aayi; "Representatlvee of . at nallona ara opanlni hara today tha annual confrrrnra of tha Pood and Agri cultural Onrsnlsollon of tha United Nation. Thia la their )ob: To find nut how to Increase food produce Unn In anma countrtee and how to hanrtla unmarketable surpluses In other." Tha dispatch addi that tha meet ing will run "two weeka or longer." e THAT. Id aar. la an opUmUUc estimate. Tha problem of too much food at eome place and In aome tlmea and too llttla food at other place and In other tlmea haa been plaguing humanity about aa long aa there haa been any record of human doing. If tha Pood and Agriculture or ganlaauon of United Nallona can eolve It In a couple of week, It will be aomethlng. a VOU muit remember from your Sunday achool day Joaeph' dream of tha aeven fat cow and tha aeren lean cow. Tha dream waa interpreted aa a forewarning of the aeven lean yeara that even then wera presumed to follow each seven tat yeara. Tha unshoe of It waa that Joaeph prevailed upon Pharaoh to store up grain while tha atortng waa good aa preparation for a time when hunger would be abroad In tha land. Tha Pharaoh followed Joaeph' advlcw and quit a lot of paopla ware aaved from starvation. ft. f HKN there U lh fable of Ui ant i and tha grasshopper. Tha ant worked and sweated through the lent and aunnr -aummer to. lay away a store of neoaaaltlea egalnat tha season of winter.- Tha grass hopper fiddled and danced and had himself a whale of a time while tha ant waa working and sieving and preparing to meet eventualities. Along In mid-summer, or some where thereabouts, tha two came together and tha grasshopper gava the ant tha merry, merry raspberry tot being an old fogy. The ant rame back with aome word of good advice that eeem to have been ut terly wasted on Hla Oraaahoppar- ahlp. A It turned out, lh ant waa sit ting pretty when winter cam along and tha grasshopper was in a bad, bad way. (Whereupon, I suspect, all the grasshoppers got together and Indicted tha ant as wicked, grasping capitalistic exploiters ) THIS Is the point. If any: This problem of alternating feast and famine I one that haa been worry Ing people for a long, long time. fear that It won't be settled, right away, be even men an Imposing af fair aa the annual conference of tha Pond and Agriculture Organisation of. United Nations. SPUD BULLETIN LOS ANOELBS. Nov. 11 (AP USDA) Potatoes: IT broken, U un 'woken ear on track; arrival Or' ' Jon 5, California 11, Idaho 11, Utah LI; 31 car arrived by truck: market steady; Idaho Ruaaet No. 1-A I3.SS. BAN FRANCISCO, Nor. 11 (AP U8DA) Potatoes: IT broken. 31 un broken cars on track; arrivals California I, Oregon 19, Nevada 1. Idaho 1; market firm; atat sales Klamath Ruaaeta No. 1-A It. 15-15. Sex Crimes Flare; Fresno Girl Killed In Fiendish Attack . , Price rive Ceate It Page 1 KLAMATH PALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1U Mat Telephone 1111 No.' 1H4 aa 25 LA Childrtn MoU.t.d LOS ANGELKS, Nov. 21 (A!') Some 26 cases of sexual moleitation of chil dren way more than usual have been reported In Los An if lot in the week aince six-year-old Linda Joyce Glucoft waa slain sadist ically. Tiie citizenry here ia so keyed up about the lituation that a maae meeting will be held tonight under the sponsorship of parent-teacher groups. Purpose of tha meeting will be to discus meth od of dealing with aeiual criminal. Healing Fred Btroble. aa-year-old retired baker, will appear today for a pre liminary hearing on charge of choking, bludgeoning and subbing Utile Linda to death alter molesting her In a bedroom. Btroble now la In solitary con finement ailar Jailers reported "rumblinga" among other prisoners. "I have heard rumblinga and rumor about what other prisoners might try to do to him.' said Chief Jailer Charlea A. Pi tiger aid. Pillow Saves Child in Fall From Auto A three-year-old Seattle girl, an rout lo Klamath rail to visit her grandmother for Thanksgiving, can thank a big, fluffy bed pillow for softening her fall from a fast mov ing car early yeaterday afternoon. The , youngster, Pauletta Malm daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Malme of Seattle. I In Klamath Valley hospital her recovering from multiple bruises, and lacera tion aa tha result of tha fall. Ra Boole Here Mr. and Mra. Malme were on their way to Klamath Falls to spend Thanksgiving week with his mother, Mr. Andrew Eck, 3354 Wantland. They had a five-year-old daughter Maureen, In tha front aaat and had Jus put Pauletta down for a nap when tha child apparently tend up in tha car and opened tha rear door. The pa rente aald tha first thing they knew, they saw her flying out the door. She waa clutching tha big pillow and she clung to It aa she rolled on the highway. Malme waa driving at about 60 mile an hour whan tha accident occurred at about 1 o'clock 10 miles north of Chtlo quln. Malme la employed with Elmer and Moody company of Seattle, cabinet maker. Quick Action Saves Life Of Youngster Tha marvel of medicine and ra dlo combined Saturday afternoon to save the Ufa of little Bennle Card, son of Mr. and Mr. Ben Card, 530 Torrey road. 1 Bennle was rushed to Klamath Valley hospital Saturday uncon scious aa the result of convulsion. There waa no physician at the hos pital to treat tha ohlld at the Urn. Rsdle Can Immediately, hospital authorities contacted radio station KFLW to send out an emergency call for a doctor. Within 10 minutes a doctor was contacted and the child Ufa was saved. Bennle waa kept In the hospital over tha week-end for observation and released today. if ; ' - If Snai i - - HOST AND HONOR GUEST President Truman (left), honor guest at a dinner given by the Shah of Iran (right), chats with the youthful Shah at the sumptuous banquet table in i Washington's Shorthorn hotel. The Shah is in the U. S. on o month-long goodwill tour, 1 . AO aa am ft a (sirl, IB. j pd0 -nr., Nov. 21 (AF, I'he raped body of an JB-year-oid girl was found in a muddy field near Huron last night, her head jammed into the mud. Deputy Coroner L. B. Webb said the girl, Jose phine Yanez, waa raped and then smothered In the mud. There ware teeth marks on the body. The girl waa the daughter of Mr. and Mra. Joe Vanes, of Huron. Sh waa kidnaped from her parents' car In front of a danc hall at Huron, 40 miles southwest of here, early Sunday. Vleteaa' J. Ed Martin, head of tha Fresno county sheriff s office criminal Identification bureau, said tha kill ing waa "tha most vicious murder aver committed In Fresno county." Constable Jeanne Peterson and Deputy Sheriff Oene Predmora aald the girl waa abducted while her pa rem were absent from tha car for a few mlnutea. A 11-year-old laborer waa booked In the county jail here for ques tioning. Sheriff deputies, how ever, declined to aay whether ha waa a suspect. Chest Drive Returns Hit 63 of Goal Klamath county's Community Cheat reached 63 per cent of lis goal. It waa learned at tha third report meeting held at noon today at the Wlllard. Total received to data la MUM. Tha quota la 5,M1. Close of the campaign la Wed nesday night. Tha luncheon today waa held at the Wlllard hotel and waa In honor of tha volunteer who comprise tha t-oumy uivision of the SS,MI cheat drive. For the firrt lime in Klamath County Community Cheat history, worker were not asked to pay for their lunch at Uie report meeUng. Sponsors for tha occasion were Cop co and Klamath Fall Creamery and Oeneral Chairman Chet Hama ker pointed out that neither of the firms deducted the coat of tha meal from their regular Chest contribu tion. Chakraeea Paul Brellhaupt. chairman of the County Division. Introduced the fol lowing dlrtiict chairmen who ara In charge of solicitation procedures In their respective areas: Scott Warren. Algoma: Mra. Roh tin Pfelffer, Bonanza, Dairy and Langell Valley: William Lorent, Chlloquln: Rev. Dick DeLap. Hen 1 a y,. Midland and Olene; Randall Pope, Merrill: Em 11 Well. Poe Va ry: Mra. Darrel Wick, Keno: R. W. Oehlerlch, Gilchrist; Mrs. P. H. Armstrong. Bly; Ivan Ottoman, Ms It n; Mra. Jerry Slsemore. Fort Klamath, and L, C. Franklin, Che mult. ' Epley Meaaaga Hamaker read a communication from Malcolm Epley, formerly with The Herald and New and un til hla recent departure from Klam ath rails president of tha Communi ty Cheat. "Here's hoping the drive goea over In a big way." Epley wrote. The potential la always there. It It can Just be developed." the for mer Cheat president declared and then- added his regards to members of tha board Of directors, aa cam paign worker, "and everybody else in good old Klamath rails." Final Report Tha final report meeting of the namoalzn will be held at noon Wed nesday at the Wlnema hotel and Hamaker urged al) campaign per sonnel to "hit the ball during the next two day and let' reach the goal on time." Thompson Urges Seal Support Mayor Robert Thompson today Issued a formal proclamation urg ing all resident of Klamath coun ty to support the IMS Christmas Seal Bale which open today. The text of tha atatement follows: "WHEREAS, tuberculosis Is a major health problem which la be ing fought by the Klamath County Tuberculosis and Health association whose activities ara supported sole ly by tha aala of Christmas seals, I do recommend that every citizen of Klamath Fall contribute to the sale of tha IMS Christmas aeal." In Oregon last year a person died every 34 ' hour from TB a dlseaaa which can be discovered early fay the cheat X-ray, which I ont of the actlvltle the Klanv alh TB association sponsors. Tha aeal aala ia tha only public appeal for fund and will continue until Christmas. tad in im WM U.N. Group Eyes world rood Setup WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP) A world in which "no man need go hungry, or ill-clad, or without a home" was the goal held up today to the food and agriculture organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The goal was pictured by Norris E. Dodd, director-gen eral or tne rxo, at the opening of lis annual conference. Representatives of 4S nations are here to tackle the Job of bow to in crease food production In aome countries and how to handle un marketable aurpluaea In other. Dodd la a former undersecretary or. uie ujb. department of agricul lure. He aald In his prepared text: Good Tear "In respect of the state of food and agriculture. 1949 haa been In general what farmer call a good year, even if not quite aa good In total aa 14S. "Food scarcity la no longer peri lous for nearly tha whole world, aa It waa through 1947. "For more than half the world, however, the old chronic undernour ishment oontlnuea and hunger la scarcely one aeal away from .mil lions. For the world aa a whole, per parson food supplies ara not a good aa before the war." Tide Tamed Dodd thus avnimed up an FAO report Issued over the week-end, which aald harvest In the Northern hemisphere have turned the tide against world starvation. The report added that production sUU I behind world needs. The director general mentioned only briefly. In hla opening talk, tha proposal to act up a world bank, or clearing house, aa a means of getting aurpluaea from on area In to another area where food la scarce. The proposed world food bank would have an eventual capital of $5,000,000,000, most of It from the UB. 1 ' I - 1 1 I Snow Band East And North By The Associated Pre A long narrow band of snow or snow flurrtea stretched across the northern fringe of the U. S. today from . the upper Missouri valley to New England. The heaviest snowfall waa In Northern Indiana. Michigan City had three to four inches. South Bend had one Inch. Except for scattered foe In tha Pacific coast states the rest of the nation had fair weather. TOYS FOR SANTA'S SACK Mrs. Ed Boyd, 1827 Portlond, mother of three children is donating toys to City Fireman Roy Howard for the annual Christmos toy' collection sponsored by the fire department. . . ' , lie's Ex Stabs Self 'For Laughs' LOS ANGELES. Nov. 31 UP) Only hour after she dined with her divorced husband. Francnot Tone, and their two children, beautiful blonde actress Jean Wallace stab bed herself In the abdomen with a butcher knife. The onetime Earl Carrol showgirl commented yesterday to police while being treated at Georgia Street Receiving hospital: "I did It Just for laughs." SaicUe? But police called It an attempted suicide and said that only the In tervention of her mother prevented more serious Injury or death. Police listed the motive aa despondency over the final breakup of her mar riage with Tone, which ended In a final divorce decree October 1. Her wound, while painful, waa not serious. Tone disclosed that he dined with hla 3-year-old wife Saturday night after she had taken the children to visit Santa Claus at a department store. He haa custody of them. OHIO TO ROSE BOWL CHICAGO Nov. 31 (JPl Ohio State waa officially named today a the Big Ten team to play In the Rosa Bowl football game January 1 Businessmen Re ady Gala Yule Show To Begin Here Dec 2 This 1 going to be a big Christmas for everybody If Klamath Fall businessmen have anything to do with It. Plana for the gala opening Friday night. December 3. are all aet to go and the program haa been ao outlined that kid and grownups alike will have an Interest In the aet-up. Clay Belllsle la general chairman of the Christmas opening. Hi helper Include, Deb Addison and Jack Keating, publicity: window awards, Tom O'Dwyer and Art Rein- a hart; Christmas music John Houa ton and Hap Davidson; Santa Claus and company, Keith Moon; achool participation, Al Ha tun; Christina decorations, Arthur Rlckbell; Christ mas tree and candy, 30-30 club, Bob Crammer; parade marshal, Al Schmeck; traffic Elks; master of ceremonies, Sandy Poteet: secretary, Charlea Stark; coordinator, Rudy Jacobs, president of the Klamath Merchanta association. Beta) Here' the scoop: Window will be dressed to the gun'la for the opening and there will be awards to the wtnnere, Judgea will be chosen from the communltlaa In tha baaln which have bean "saluted" this year. A gold cup trav eling award for tha sweepstake winner, plus ribbon award baaed on tha best Christmas selling win dow, ara features. Unveiling hour of the window Is 4 o'clock iharp. One window from each store will be In competition. Christmas music will feature tha parade with sound trucks going out Into the residential district. Carol linger from both KUHS, Fremont Junior high achool, the Sacred Heart choir, House brothers quartet, the KUHS band, and other group will feature tha music angle. There will be a song test around tha Christ maa tree. . Tha big tree will go up on tha oourthoUM property and following tha parade, with mora on thia ub- Ject later, than will be distribution of candy to the kids. Fire Station Yuletide Toy Pile Growing Toy donations from local resi dent are beginning to pile high In the rear of the fire department aa city firemen make pickups for the annual Christinas toy collection. - Firemen made several trip over the week-end making pickup of toys which they will rebuild and repair. spare time at tne lire aeparunem is spent In repairing sleds, tricycle. doll, scooters, wagons, and various other playthings for Christmas de livery to children. Rebuilt toys are being painted to give them that new Christmas morning look and stored for Santa' early deliveries, Dolls of all aires and type arc especially needed, firemen report. They need parte of dolls to replace broken arms and legs on dolls they now have. In addition to repairing the dolls, firemen repaint faces and they are dressed In new clothe by local women. Barry! Firemen remind the public that the earlier toys are turned In, the more time they have for rebuilding and Increasing the number of toys to be distributed this Christmas. Addresses called In to the city fire department are listed and pick- . up are maae dv routes, out or town pickups will be made later on, firemen explained, when they have several addresses to pick up. Anyone having toys to donate can either take them to the city fire department. Broad and Wall, or call tne department at S435, and they will call for tha toys. Mrs: Groves Dies in Auto Canal Plunge TULELAKE A young Klamath rails woman was killed instantly when a car crashed into a bridge and went into an irrigation canal a half mile south of Tulelake on the Alturas highway. . . The woman was Mrs. Har riet Jane Groves, 31, mother of three children. She waa alone In the car. Tulelake police placed the time of the accident at approximately S:30 a. m, and determined that the woman probably waa killed when the car hit the bridge and before It went Into the canal. Probe Police Chief Pete Pedersen aald investigation showed the car, com ing north, went onto the fhotiMer of the road 10S feet from the bridge. tnen seemed to swerve back toward the highway too late to clear the timber bridge abuttmant Mra. Groves may have gone to sleep at vne wneet, tne otncer aald. " After crashing through the bridge Umber, the car plunged to the oth er aide of the bridge and ripped out foundation timbers before tllng Into the water. The accident occurred Just north or the Park motel and The Inn tar-era An unidentified truck driver came upon the scene a few minute later and -called the Tulelake telephone operator to notify police. Body la Car The woman's body was still In the car when It waa pulled out of the canal, and Identification was made by papers found In her mud covered purse. The car. a 1936 Chevrolet coupe, was registered- to Andy Erickson, isae Mitchel. Klamath Fails. Mrs. Groves Is believed to have taken Erickson down to Whitehorse, Calif, where he la working and was driving hla car back. China Redr Hold Five Americans , WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP) The United States has appealed to 30 nations, including Russia, to inter vene with the Chinese Com munlsts in behalf of the im prisoned American Consul General, Angus Ward. The state department an nounced that Secretary Ach- eson sent out messages Friday night asking tha other gov ernment "aa a matter of urgency" to express to the Communist author ities at Pelping their "concern" over tha Jailing of Ward and four mem bers of his staff. Ward and tha others ware Jailed October 34. Ne Viol lan Tha state department laid that even today other American staff members at Mukden are still un sble to get permission to visit Ward. Acheaon made his appeal after the repeated protests to tha toe Chinese Communist officials, through American consular repre sentative at Pelping, had been Ig nored. , There ha been a mounting cry In thia country for some action Including demanda that the United Slates use force against the Communist. Mr. Groves body waa taken Into Klamath Falls to Whltlock'a funeral home. She Is survived by three chil dren, Charles, Thomas and Char lotte Jane Springer; her parents. Mr. and Mrs. prancls K. Patterson: two brothers. Thomas Patterson and Robert Patterson, and a sister. Mra. Elsie Hartley, all of Klamath Falls. Sport Bulletin LOS ANGELES, Nar. UP Caniernta I the nanlaasaa choice tee the West's twpreeenla live la the Kaoa BwarL Yesterday Senator Knowland (R-Calif taid in Formon news conference that he had radioed President Truman demanding a blockade of tha Chinese Communist at If the Reda fall quickly to release Ward. Knowland la touring the Orient. There waa no official comment her In reply. Last week state de partment officials Indicated Infor mally that they doubted a o. B. blockade would bring the Commu nist to term. They said the Chi nese Nationalists already have eat off Imports to Communist China fairly effectively. aUdiealea? George N. Craig, national com mander of the American Legion. also called for forcible action. Ha aald in a week-end statement tha the United States stands "ridiculed before the world and added: "The American Legion calls upon tha government to serve notice on Communist leaders in China that Consul Cteneral Ward, and his aa- sociatea must be released unharmed by an early specified date, or armed force will be dispatched t obtain their release.' The state department haa been asking for advice on the Chine situation generally. Oeneral Oeorge C. Marshall, former secretary or state: Harold Btassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, and John D. Rockefeller III were among a group of 35 American leader who have been called in. Heart Attack Victim's Body in Ditch Andrew Magnuson. 68, 533 8. 4th. was found dead Sunday morning in a ditch back of hi cabin. Death waa attributed to a heart attack. The elderly man apparently fell Into the ditch while coming horn from town Saturday night or early Sunday anorning. HI body wu found by John Schmidt, 52S 8. 4th. when Schmidt cam out to get some water from a faucet at the ditch. " ' Plane Loaded With 28 Children Lost ' OSLO, Norway, Nov. 31 (JfV-A plane carrying 3S undernourished Jewish refugee children from North Africa was missing today, believed crashed somewhere in tangled for est country near Oslo. The plane with 35 aboard 38 chil dren, three nurses and four crew men sent Its last radio message about 6 p. m. last night as it n eared Oslo' Fornebu airport. Soon afterward a sharp flash of light, followed by an explosion waa seen near OJersJoen lake a mile south east of Oslo. Hunt reds of searchers struggled through the tree and awampa in the lake region during the night and thia morning searching for a trace of tha missing craft. Tha 28 children were In a group of North African Jew from Tu nis being flown to Norway for six month of rest and rehabilitation be fore traveling on to Israel. Moat war between aix and 11 years of age. Meet the People (Mb AS CORHER CONVERSATIONALISTS Dick Hessig and 8. Balch are posting the time of day as the roving corrvsraman caught them on a Main street corner.
