Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, November 28, 1949, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUUM M TllO Cily s lews By PRANK JrNKINM UKIE U anouier o( Uiom Interest "ing did lgulf leant little atorle; 'Property lc Increased tll.lin, TO to total of tiM.3ri.344 (now, pleat that It la MILLIONS that ar Involved) In tin IU48-M flaral year in Oregon 54 counties. That u lilt report tixiuy (rum th Oregon Buaiiieu Ac Til Research Organization. "Th compilation Inoludrd iwu. mmu and fee in water and Irrtga tlon dlatrlcl and oilier minor taxing dlvuioiu. Tht report tald actuml accounted lor 10 per cent of all proprrty Uxea." THAT recall another ot Uirt "In- tereaUni and elgiilflrint" little contribution to the- new of the -day. It appeared In the papera a ay or to ago. It read: "Value of NON.TAXAI11.E nron. ferty in Oregon thl year la tML 3W.0M. a reduction of I11.IOI.0IT from the tM8,440.078 of IIH8." Not again that the atory drala In mlllluiu thu time In HUN. DREIS of mlllloiM. In apit of a redurtlnn from lt year, we have In Oregon MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF PROPERTY THAT IHNT TAXED. TJONT let loo hut under the collar all at onre. I haven't the actual flguree be tore me, but I attume that Ui biggest tingle chunk of thu non taxable property U made up of Uie federal poueaiuoiu In Oregon. A everybody know, roughly half of all the land area of Oregon u owned by the federal government. Then there la church property, rhnol property, charitable Insll tullon property a whol long lut of kincU of proiwrty we don't tax. There art doubtlna good rea anna for not taxing It. At any rale, the reason have been good enough to convince the legUlature, In moat cite, and the electorate In thot rate where the exemption have been aancllonrd by a vols of the people. Hull, It U a lull t hoc king to realm that her In the compara tively mall "late of Oregon we have a half BILLION dollara worth of property that Un't taxed. It help to explain why the levy U rathrr large on the remainder that IS taxed. T DONT want to be understood a being alt ateamed up over thu tltuallnn. It prevail rather gen erally over our country. It ha grown up alowly over the year. la NJmotl rate, titer have been r eons the teemed at the Urn to be sufficiently weighty to warrant the exemption. mix We are changing our economy. Th Idea of tha "welfare taut U intriguing our mlndi. We are moving alnwly. but def initely. In the direction of social Itm. These trend will mean great rhangrg In our way of life. TLSEWHERE over th world (with comparatively few exceptional population tend to be divided Into CLASHES. Then claase tend over the centurlea to become a tharply differentiated from each other at tha layer In a layer cake. On of the tragedle of the data tyatem la th fact that It I difficult to move out of on claat Into an other cla eepeclally Into a claa HIGHER UP. Thla la a hlttorlral fart: IN THE CREATION OP THI8 CLASS SYSTEM, TAX EXEMP TION (or at latt tax favoiitlam) HAS BEEN A POWERFUL FAC TOR IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PRIVILEGED CLASSES. WHATEVER we do In th way of "welfare atatc." "leave-ll-to-papa-tutr," and to on, I'm ture we don't want to duplicate In America EVER the ancient and depreaalng ytem of fixed classes. Anyway, w ought to keep clear n our mind that thla whole busl neaa ot tax exemption plu IN ( EQUALITY In taxation ha tendrd -over the centurlea of the paat to Frrtat FIXED privileged clatae. -r.v --urn .'."jl-lBJlllgw.II I V lllll U II I ' I I 1 1 I flBwl KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY. NOVEMBER M, 1M Telephone Sill TRAFFIC VICTIM SCREAMS WITH FAIN Mn. Donno Reu tcher, 25, her neck broken in a Lot Angelet troffic accident, ic reams in agony at a receiving hospital while awaiting treat ment. With her it Officer Charles 8, Yocum. The tpeeding auto in which she was riding went out of control and crashed into a troffic tignal. Police booked the driver, Leland Hanson, 28, who received a broken bock and possible broken neck, on drunk driving charges. Momentous Step In Peacetime Use Of Atomics Aired WASHINGTON, Nov. Mm Th atomle energy commuwlon dit doted today that it ha worked out aclenufto detignt for a plant to "breed" preclou atomic material. If tha plan work aa anticipated. It will be of momentou Import ance In aupplylng atomic matenal for uch peacetime project a atomic powered thlua and aircraft. Th announcement wa mad In connection with a new conference Bishop Urges, Sterilization Birth Control BIRMINOKAM. England, Nov. M i A Church of England blah op urged Britain today to terllla th unfit and mak birth control a na tional policy. Dr. E. W. Barne, blthop of Birm ingham, eatlmated "alx to ten per cent" of the Brltlth population U "mentally below par" and thould be itarllued. He tald unlet thla la don Britain will become danger oualy overcrowded, and called the Brltlth ulea "th pauper ot th Engluh apeaklng world." Preaelng Th blthop told the Birmingham Rotary club In a prepared tpeech the government' welfare ttate ha made the problem more preta tng than ever. "We mutt get rid ot the tlovenly, vtclou. Idle Waaler of th com munity," Dr. Barne declared. "Un fortunately, the welfare ttate la only too likely to encourage their In crete." Dr. Barne tald the population of England and Walea alone hat risen from around 4.000.000 In Elizabeth an (the 1500 al time to 11 time that today. Overpopulaled 'W ar overpopulated," he ttld. "The ttsk of buying ever larger quantltlr of food from abroad I moat difficult for a virtually bank rupt country." held by David E. Ullenthal, the re tiring ABC chairman. Dr. Lawrence R. Hafatad. anting In with LUIen thal, told about It. Hafttad la diree um at th ABC t "reactor develop ment program, Big Step HiftUd called R "th blggeat for ward tp In peacetlm application" of atomic energv. He aald that while th project (till U only a pencil and paper Job. the detlgner are confident that it will work. The A EC announced that it U be ginning Immediately construction of a tmt plant. The word or tni "breeder ' proj ect w the moat Important newt from th conference but it ranged over a wide field. Laughed Lllltnthal tlmply laughed off charge from Senator Edwin C. Johnaon ( D-Colo) that he 1 engaged In conversation of posalble broader exchange of atomic Information. A new erle of talk began today at the ttate department. Asked what might come of them, Ltltrnthal aald he think the talks ar "exploratory" and that any comment mutt come from th atatc department. Cooperation He aald It I hU pertonal view tht It U desirable to cooperate a widely aa possible with the Brltlth and Cantdltns. But he Insisted It U up to the ttate department, and congress, to make the final decision on how wide thla field ahould be. Price Five tenia 14 Page Na. 114? CHOIR SLATED NEWBERO, Nov. 2S (P George Fox college' a cappella choir will open It Christmas concert arason December 15, according to Director Roy r. Clark. t- s RETURN STARIS The unabashed Taylor quads of England return the ttaret of spec tators at the Mothercraft exhibition in London. The quads, who were 13 months old on s November 21, are (left to right) Kevin, .Annette, Paul and Robert. 2000 Said Killed In Russ Mine BERLIN', Nov. 28 (AP) The British-licensed news paper Telpjtraf said today 2000 persons perished in a uranium mine fire in the Soviet zone last Thursday. The paper said it was one one of the worst mine dis asters in history and charged that It waa due to negligence. In an early edition. Telegraf ttld 400 German miner died In the blaze, which occurred In a mine In the Erg mountains, on the Saxony Cxechoslovak bolder, near Johtn netgeorg enatadt. In It evening edi tion. It aald later reports had re vised the casualty list upward, to 3000. Only 300 miner were report ed rescued. The bulk of the work era, aald Telegraf, were political prisoner. 'Reliable' T h American-sponsored Berlin radio Riat, aaid It ha received a report from a reliable source that hundred of miner had burned or utfocated In a Johanngeorgerutadt uranium mine fir. A m e r I c an Intelligence officers aald they had not heard any report yet on auch a dlaater. . Th paper ale reported that too miner were browned several week ago when another uranium mine was flooded. Uranium U used In the production of atomic energy. Sex Murder Witness Gets Threat PITTSBURGH. Nov. 1 tJPs A witness In the brutal killing of a pretty dress hop salesgirl today re ceived a threat against her own life. The witness It Mrs. Ellen Flan nagan. who Friday night looked out her window and saw a strange man leap from the shadows and atuck Jean Brusco, 3t. Threat Relay The threat was phoned to a wom an who lives on the first floor of the Flannsgan home. A soft-voiced man told the woman: "You convey this message to Mrs. Flannsgan. Tell her to keep her mouth shut or she'll get what the Brusco woman got." A special police guard was Im mediately sent to the Flannsgan home. Meanwhile, another 30 men are on the special detail assigned to hunt the sex fiend who raped and killed the dark-haired woman. A milkman found her semi-nude body at dawn Saturday. Gomez New Colombian President BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov." 38 iJP) The conservative party announced today It elected Laureano Gomes president of Colombia by the largest vote ever cast In this country by a single party. He was the only candidate. The embittered liberal party withdrew Its nominee and boycotted the voting. Nearly complete returns announc ed by the conservatives for yester day's balloting gave Gomes 856.315 votes. The conservatives now can lay claim to being the majority par ty. The liberals claimed that posi tion up to yesterday on the basis. of the R37.600 votes tney polled in winning majorities In both houses of congress last June. The candidacy of Darlo Echandta, the liberal leader, was withdrawn when conservative President Maria no Ospina Peres proclaimed a state of siege three weeks ago after a long series of violent outbreaks and bloodshed. DIES NY88A, Ore., Nov. 38 (V-Ry. mond O. Larson, 54, manager of the Nyssa-Nampa Amalgamated Sugar company for th past 11 years, died at his home yesterday, ot a heart attack. He w a former Malheur county farm agent and past president of the chamber of commerce here. Hi widow and two children turvlve, IT AINT HAY Old Dobbin tries to toke o bite out of this parking meter which hos just been installed ot Worcester, Most. He didn't say whether he expected to eat it,-drink from It or just wanted to shoWlvs disgust over the new-fongled hitching post. Neither teeth nor parking meter wos hurt. 16 3 Arrested. Charged With Drunk Driving Three persons were arrested over the week-end on drunk driving charges, two here In Klamath Falls and one on the highway near Bly. James Gill Burk, 40. of Lakevlew. was. booked at the Bly city Jail and held in lieu ot t350 bail after his arrest by state police when he re portedly ran another car Into a bar row pit Karl Perry Edwards. 37. of Glen dale. Ore, was fined 1100 and sen tenced to 30 days in the city Jail here this morning. He was arrested for driving while Intoxicated on Main street early Sunday morning and said he had been drinking at Malln. . An earlier charge against Ed wards, that of failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian, was also brought out and a $35 tine as sessed. Jose L. Oallardo. 33-year-old tran sient, also pleaded guilty to drunk driving this morning In municipal court, along with a companion charge of disorderly conduct. He was fined a total of tHS and sen tenced to Jail for 30 days. Gallardo was arrested on Main Saturday night. f 1 ' r "v. ii in iiii'MiL TAKES OVIR Former Presi dent Arnulfo Ariot, hos taken over the presidency, of Pana ma, according to an announce ment by Col., Jose Remon, police chief in Panama, Pana ma. ' ' i Truman Off For Florida Vacation WASHINGTON. Nov. 38 m President Truman left today for Key West, Fla.. where he will spend the next three weeks resting and working. Virtually the full White House staff was aboard the presidential plane. "Independence." as it took off at 8:31 a. m. for the four- hour flight to Boca Chica airport. Utile White Hon' The president and his party will drive the eight and half miles from the airport to the Key West naval submarine station where he will make his headquarters for the sev enth time. The "Little White House" there was shined up for his arrival. Charles G. Ross said In advance that Truman expected to "carry on business as usual" at Key West. Electricians' New Union Eyes Pensions PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 38 (Pi The CIO's new electrical workers union opened Its week-long founding convention today with Its sights al ready set on tlOO-a-month pensions and a fourth round wage boost. Those economic aims were an' nounced yesterday by James B. Ca rev, acting leader of the recently formed right-wing organization the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE). The convention's keynote speech today is to be delivered by CIO President Philip Murray. His re marks are to be "off the cuff" but many delegates believe Carey In a statement yesterday sounded their tone an antl-communlst blast. 2-Year-0ld Boy Among Victims Three persons one a two- year-old boy died in this vicinity over the week-end as a result of automobile acci dents. Little Alfred Morton Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Smith of Weyer haeuser camp 4, died Sun day morninor at Klamath Valley hospital, a little less than 34 hours after be had been hurt In a wreck west of Keno. His death brought Klamath county 1949 traffic toll to It. ine cmia apparently was run over by hi father' car. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and three young chil dren were driving toward Klamath Falls when the car skidded on wet pavement a It round ed a curve half a mile from Keno. Fatal Skid The oar skidded into the left rear of a Cali fornia Oregon Power company truck driven lMt Ants by Glen Bowen, Copco Fatality water superintendent, then ca reened into a ditch. , When the car hn the truck door swung open and little. Alfred leu out, appaicntlF falling beneath the rear wheel of the car. The boy was brought to the hos pital by Vera R. Globs, camp 4. who came upon the- accident scene a few minutes later. Bowen' truck had pulled almost off the highway and stopped to avoid the collision, state police re ported. The body of the youngster tu taken to Wards funeral home. He is survived by his father and mother, a brother, Bruce Leo, aged 3. and a sister, Janet Louise, aged 10 months. MT. SHASTA. Calif. Two young men were killed on the outskirts of Mt. Shasta, late Saturday night and a third hospitalized at Weed I in an extremely critical con dition. Dead are Charles Lawrence Scott, It. of Taft, Calif., and Edgel Louis Stevens. 34, of Oakland. Both are employes of the Long BeU Lumber company at Weed. A passenger in their car. Elwen Haines. 18. of Mt. Shasta, was critically injured and three other persons were also hurt in' the crash. California highway officers said Scott apparently tried to make a turn at an auto court on Abrams lake road at Mt. Shasta when his car skidded on the wet pavement and went broadside Into a taxi driven by William E. Ryan of Mt. Shasta. OTI Registering Winter Students Registration for winter term at Oretech began this morning, how ever the student enrollment has not reached the number expected, ac cording to Winston Purvlne, direc tor of OTI. Full credit will be given for courses registered by Friday of this week, when registration ends. Nine ty new students are expected to en roll for winter term. Purvine said. HORTICULTURAL MEET WALLA WALLA. Nov. 38 tft The Blue Mountain Horticultural society will hold Its second annual conven tion at Milton-Freewater, Ore, to morrow and Wednesday. M. R. Harris and Charles Wright, plant pathologist from Pullman, will discus vegetable disease. DamageCost In Millions; Flood Feared SEATTLE. Nov. 28 ( AP) The fertile Skagit valley in Northwest Washington state braced for another serious flood threat today after a week-end storm had claimed 22 lives in the Pacific North west. The storm shot acrosa North Idaho and Montana during the . night, and then lost much of it punch as It veered north Into Manitoba. Canada. - Fourteen of the . victim died hi British Columbia. Property dam age throughout the atorrn area waa estimated in tne millions of dollar. with Washington state the hardest hit. DEATH LIST By Tbe Ataoeiated Frees Washington Roy Carr, Shelton. drowned when car awepl off U. 8. highway 101 at entrance to Skokomish river val Mrs. I. C. Ransome. SB, Ketchi kan, Alaska, fatally Injured when car driven by her huaband (truck rock washed down by storm five miles south of Kelso. R. J. Tingley, 43, Darning, elec trocuted near Everson when he stepped on 13.000 volt power line blown down by wind. Oregon ' Ray Anakln. Troutdale, drowned when he fell from tugboat Into Co lumbia river during ttorm. Edward Shawn and Kenneth Mears, Tongue Point naval station, killed when car crashed into fallen tree near Gearhart. ' Montana Eugene Jefferson, 84, killed when wind toppled wall of his barn at his firm 3S mile north of Missoula. Britbh Columbia Gordon John Fullerton. 34. North Vancouver, drowned when swept In to Capilano river while sandbagginc iu bank. Six crew member of tugboat, alt of Victoria, who drowned when craft capsized 8aturday off-Victoria. Town. Flooded Five town In the Skagit valley were flooded ty the Skagit river. Horses and cattle were drowned and several persons were rescued by boat but no death or Injuries were reported. - , ; The river dropped during the fore noon, but W. R. Whitnall of the Skagit county engineer's office at Mount Vernon, said it might begin rising again with high tide on Fuget sound at about 13:45 p. m. The usually placid stream branch es Into two fork near its mouth and both empty Into the sound. Whitnall said if the dikes at Mount Vernon designed to handle 38 'i feet of water could withstand the back-up from the sound, the worst would be over. . Battle ? - , ' The river level was 35.01 feet at about 10:30 a. m. It reached the 36.05 level at & a. m. Rain-drenched sandbag crews of between 350 and 500 men worked furiously through the night strengthening the kikes. South of Mount Vernon, dikes gave way in two places. One was between the communities of La Con- . ner and Conway, five miles south of Mount Vernon and the other was near the North Fork bridge. Just south of Conway. This second break tor out a half mil of Greet North ern railway track near Mill town. Danger Harold Strombon. assistant Skagit county engineer, said if the high level of the river continued long, the dikes might become saturated and suffer breaks. Army and coast guard rescue crews and hundreds of volunteers worked throughout the night at oth er spots In the valley sand-bagging dikes. . r Meet the People c 1 SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE is the imposing title of Evelyn McKay who greets you as you enter the Pacific Telephone).,, and Telegraph office. Her duties include checking new ac counts as she is doing here. ' "