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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1949)
Melkvsi hUlki m hmimim jp i ar - j v i Br FRANK JKNKINM UERB la n UilereaUng statement: " "Britain's compulsory h tilth system U burdened with rd tape HUT THE MAN IN THE HTRKKT WOULD RIHE TO ITS DKKKNMK IF A POLITICAL PAHTY TRIKO TO TAKE IT AWAY PROM HIM." THAT opinion waa expressed at a meeting In Berkeley Uie other night by a Dr. l-eshs Banks, former chlrf medical offlrer of the British mlnutry of hralth. ho la In Uie United BtaUa on a speaking tour. Ha added: "The man In tha street may Crumble. Wa (BrllUhl ara a nauon of grumblers, anyway. But II you i led to taka Die service away from him, you'd ba surprised at Ilia ever aia EnglUhman's reaction." LP W And m qulta certain that all theatre oaners and managers will agree without hesitation that ha la dead Hint. There waa a time when theatre people gav out a comlderable number of complimentary tlrketa, Aa condition! In their Industry rliamed aa, for example, costa ros to the point where they no lunger could afford turh a practice they began to cut down on their llata of "romp" holdera. Prom all I can hear, the roar fljtt went up from thou who had bees getting Into the shows for Ilea waa terrific. e e WE newspapere used to follow the earns practice We lave awa complimentary subarripltona. Why? I never did know for aure. I think perhapa the practice crew up out of the curloua quirk In human rature that makea It easier for Ul lo aay YES than to aay NO. Anvway, wa did It. We excused ourselves on tha (round that after all once the press aurted It didn't make much difference. In those Cays paper waa very, very cheap and J suppose we reasoned that when we cave complimentary papers to certain people we were MAKINO . R1KND8. Came then the war. And with the war came scarcity and high prices of psper. With paper scarce and the pt ice of It high, we began to cut off our "corona." e ' PHOBK asleeuka and exclamation points and question, markaj and sjuch that end the preoedin Lrs graph of Uila piece are Intended to depict language of the kind one !r.'t supposed to apell out In a family Journal. The language In question waa used by those to whom we had been giv bic complimentary copies and to whom we had been compelled to announce that hereafter It would be Impossible to give any more com plimentary copies. It wasn't all lust plain rough language. In tact, relatively Uule f It waa rough. It waa more on the plaintive aide. People who had been ketung papers tor nothing were Just imply hurt and disillusioned to think that after having been so generous and so thoughtful all these years we had suddenly turned hard and grasping and commercial. They Just couldn't believe It of us. thry said. T'M personally convinced Dial what Dr. Banks says about the Britisher In the street and the free-for-noth-Ing medical service he haa been receiving and how he will feel about It If the service la ever taken away from, him la tha gospel truth. He Isn't going to Ilka It. NOBODY ever likes paying for something he haa been getting for fiee. NEW AUSTRALIAN LEADER Robert Gordon Menzics (above), Australian liberal leader, is slated to be restored to the prime ministry he held from 1939 to 1941. Australia'c labor government, after an eight-year rule, has been oust ed In the national election. Now that Australia and New Zealand have ousted their la bor governments, Britain is the only country within the commonwealth with a social istic laborite government. Price Vive tenia 14 Page KLAMATH PALLH. OREGON. WEDNE8DAY. DECEMBEK It, 1M Telephone Slit N. UM Qtlt'P.N MOTHER IMPROVED LONDON, Dec. 14 Pf Queen Mother Mary, who haa been kep' Indoors for three weeks by a cold -.went for a drive this morning and had tea with King Oeorge at Buck ingham palace. Tha queen mother na u. KF Men Held For Robbery In California TWO men Who said the vera from Klamath Palls are held on suspicion of armed robbery at the Lassen county, Calif, town of Nu bieber today. They are boorrd aa Wilbur H. Blackmon, 1 and Paul McOowan, it. The men were arrested six milea west of Nubieber law last night when their car overturns! during a police chase after an un successful attempt to hold up cafe. Hold u r Try Deputy aticrlf: Jim Knlpea of Lea. sen county said two men entered tha cafe and ordered the girl cash ier to hand oter cash In the MIL Bha refused and the men fled.i Nubieber polL took up the chase which ended when tha car missed a curve and rolkd over. McOowan suffered head and chest Injuries In the wreck and is being kept under guard at a hotel. Blackmon was jelled. The two men are not known to police here other than that the dis trict attorney a office records show Blackmon waa arrested for a traffic violation last eer. Tar SUlea However, an automobile waa sto len here late yesterday afternoon and the owner. Jack R. Hendricks. 1304 Warden, told city police this morning he suspected s man by name of Blackmon. The stoien automobile, taken from 11th and Pine, was a I03& black Ford aedan. Information from Nubieber did not describe tha ear wrecked there. Parents Responsible For Children EUOENE. Dec. 14 PV- Parent! who let their children become de linquents will fire fines or a Jail sentence here. The city council haa approved an ordinance ns' reined after one at Baker making the parents or guard ians of children under 18 responsible for their mtsdtrus Tha ordinance provides for fines up to 1900 or 100 daya In jail. Jews Scorn UN's. Holy City Decree JERUSALEM. Dec. 14 UP) Premier David Bcn-Gurion arrived today In Jerusalem to set up his government in the disputed Holy City in defiance of a United Nations plan for internationalization. The silver-haired, 64-year-old chief of government ar rived Just before noon, with out fanfare or ceremony. drove to a hotel where the flag of Israel was hoisted, and began an Informal conference with his ministers and officials. His arrival climaxed a transfer of government ministers which haa been going on quleUy ever since peace was restored to the city after the end of the Arab-Jewish Pales tine war. In the ahadow of the walls of the Old City, occupied ana petrolled by soldiers of Hsihe mite Jordan, the JsraeU officials went methodically about the busi ness of setting governmental func tions In motion. The prime minister la the sev enth of the Israel ministries to ba installed In headquarters in Jerusa lem. The foreign minuter, however. la remaining in Tel Aviv, at least ior uie time being. Jewish residents of the Holy City aiwaya nave regarded It aa the "eternal capital" of Israel, but these moves, coming so quickly aft er the XI. N. derision lo make this an International area, have been carried out In an atmosphere of deadly seriousness. Todays Palestine Post said It la fully realised Uiat "powerful forces have been set in motion by the assembly's decision." The kneaaet (parliament! closed Its Tel Aviv srsaiona last night by voting overwhelmuujly for the gov ernment's derision to speed the transfer of all offlcaa except the ministries of foreign affaire and de fense to what Prune Minister Ben Ourion called "Israel's eternal cap ital." V. I. Advice Ben Ourion avoided an outright proclamation of Jerusalem aa Is rael's capital, presumably In ac knowledgment of advice from U. 8. Ambassador James MacDonald urg ing against any "inflammatory" ac tion. But the silver-haired premier told a solemn session of the parliament that Israel rejected the U. N. plan to set up an InternaUonal regime over Jerusalem. He said "we arc continuing w'.:h tha transfer of the government to Jerusalem and hope to complete It as soon aa possible." Parliament decided to meet In Jerusalem In 10 daya. (At Lake Success, the 12-natlon U. N. trusteeship council voted to proceed with plans for trying to set up the f ramewoi k of an InternaUon al regime In accordance with the resolution approved by the general assembly. But some diplomats pre dicted the Israel decision to move government offlcea to Jerusalem may wreck the V. N. program. tThe "united 8tatea which with Britain supported Israel In oppos ing Internallonaliullon during as sembly debate waa defeated In move to delay trusteeship council discussions on Jerusalem. The coun cil voted 6-1. with five abstaining, to proceed with work on drswing up a plan for InternaUonal rule of the Holy City. aHSsBHstfHsweavar'-"'---'"--cape "m " . I T; '-si OS I i ft II CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL Nuns from ML St. Joseph's school, San Francisco, watch their charges on a ride at the Empori um during Christmas entertainment for children. Luckless Village Has Food, Clothing Nov But No Employment ' SHALLMAR, Md., Dec. 14 (IPyUle was stirring again todav alone this strine of houses buried between high, tower ing mountains. The 54 families of Shallmar had food and clothlne aitain. . -. -." i. ' , Now there'i only one thing lacking: work. Then they wouldn't need the handouts of food and doming from more fortunate towns. These families are dependent almost entirely on the - operation of the Wolf Den mine that juts into tne run U.S. Renewing Relations Yith Panama WASHINOTON. Dec 14 MV-The United States la renewing diplomat ic relaUona with Panama, withheld since Arnulfo Arlaa took power In a series of government overturns last month. Secretary of State Acheson an nounced the decision to a news con ference today. He said assurancea have been received from Arlaa that his government wiU fulfill Pana mas InternaUonal obligations. That Is a particularly important point for the United Stales since the Panama canal cuts through the heart of the lltUe Latin American country. Acheson noted in a statement that there was no foreign Interven tion Involved In the government changes In Panama. This reference might have bear ing on future American consldera Uon of recognition of the Chinese i Communist government. In the i case of China, the Communists have had outside support from Russia. In his statement. Acheson re called that the United States has "publicly deplored" the means of the political changes In Panama. L,e -"7 I n 1 -' " id (i Mm TORNADO TOLL HEAVY Men dig through the rubble of a building in Hannibal, Mo., looking for their belongings after a tornado struck ths community. No one was killed, but I 1 persons were Injured. Property damage In Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois and Missouri was high, with Arkansas alone estimating more than 1100,000 damage caused by the I twister. ' . No Survivors Sighted About Burning Ship MIAMI, ria, Dec. 14 iPV A coast guard search plane found the burning hulk of the Dutch motor ship Doros 300 milea due east of Miami today and radioed tersely "no survivors sighted." Sixteen men were missing follow ing an explosion and .fire aboard the craft. Eight others were res cued. Cause of the accident waa not determined. A coast guard PBM from St. Pe tersburg said there wss.K any de bris near the smouldering motor ship and no aign of other lifeboats In the area. Badly Burned Coast guard air sea rescue head quarters said a plane planned to meet the American tanker Spar rows Point at Uie Hole-ln-the-Wall about noon to pick up one of the survivors who waa reported badly burned. The Hole-ln-the-Wall Is at the Southern and of Abaco Island In the Bahamas. Meanwhile air and surface craft eonUnued to search tha area In tha hope of locating other survivors. just above them. But the mine haa been closed since last March because there have been no coal orders. Wolf Den and many other mines In the section are "marginal pro ducers. They ara so small or then ce! la such low quality or so hard to get out that they cannot eom- rjete with other operations. W. A. Marshall, broker for the coal mined at the Wolf Den pit. said In New York that the mine will reopen anytime Its coal can be sold. Right now, there isnt a market for It. Marshall once owned the mine. The town got its name by revers ing the syllables of his name: Mar shall Shell-mar.! Unemployment compensa Uon checks helped tor a while, then mot of them ran out last August, cedit. but that limit waa soon reached, 4 Three families moved out after the mine shutdown. But the rest have stayed, hoping for a break in the grim stalemate. A group of miners sat around the pot-bellied stove In the union hall while tha others were palnUng the walls so the room could be used when the hot lunch program for the children Is started, perhaps today. They talked freely of the town's condiUon. Generally they held no grudge against anyone. The com pany had explained the situation to them last March, and they seemed to accept the situation as one they couldn't cope with. But none was ready to move. As one put It. "I was bom Jut up the river, and I guess 111 die here." Oeorge Stonebreaker. a miner for 37 years, said he had "moved to a little shark with a plot of ground up on the hill. But I been sick and haven't been able to do anything with It, Mv woman worked a litUe bit. bu she's off." Tony Crosco, a stocky. 59-year-old digger with white flowing hair, told how he went Into the mines when he waa nine. "I went In with a little pick and worked rleht beside my father." he recalled. "Later they nut me to driving the mule and I drove mules until t was IT. Then I start ed digging coal. 9 smoppEav ltrT Big Search Army Looks For Girl KELSO, Wash., Dec. 14 UP) Searchers, with waning hope, again today forced their way through tangled underbrush of the Ostrander creek area in quest of Ruth Aberle. The 16-year-old Girl Scout has been missing since stray' ing away from companions aunday noon while on a Christmas tree hunt. There is little hope that she will be found uninjured. and a growing lear that ahe la dead. Coroner Gordon Quarnstrom reported last night that Sheriff's Deputy Merle Bevlns had all but given up hope of finding her alive. Won't Quit But Sheriff's Deputy Costa Watts said late last night, as fog blanket ed the area and all but brought the search to a halt, "the search wiU go on. We won't give up." At dawn today more than 100 men headed north from the point where they have established a base camp. They hoped that fottprtnts, found late yesterday before the fog moved In. might lead to the pretty high earlier yesterday played out. The new tracks took off along the North fork of the main stream. The were followed until 10:30 last night. Searchers Seoght Campflrea dotted the rough hill side and a mobile generator lighted the camp where some 100 men spent the night. Sheriff C. W. Reynolds Is sued a call for fresh searchers to day. A Salvation Army group that ar rived Sunday night with the start of the eearch, continued serving hot coffee, and sandwiches prepared in Kelso and relayed to the chilled vol unteer aearchera. . , More than S00 have taken part In the greatest hunt people here can recall. Men of the Longvlew-Kelso unit of the Washington national guard joined loggers, businessmen, laborers and even housewives in the quest. London Hard Hit By Power Strike LONDON, Dec. 14 MV-Wildcat strikers in four of London's biggest nationalized powerhouses called on fellow workers today to spread the strike to every plant in the city, threatening an almost total black out. Some of the 3700 strikers were out in protest against the govern ments sending of troops to oper ate the Brtnudown plant when pow ermen there walked out over a wage dispute. Although the uniformed army, navy and alrforce men were strug gling to keep the plants operating. London's power was seriously cut. The fuel ministry Issued emergency orders similar to those of the war days, ordering the populace to cut electricity use to a minimum. M Per Cent Cut At dawn the four struck plants were putting out only 50 per cent of their capacity, causing lights to go out in some parts of the city and surrounding counties, forcing hospitals to turn on emergency plants and slowing down the city's transportation system. The strike started In protest against a government plant to de duct wage Increases from special bonuses the men formerly received for working In hotter and dirtier places. The strikes are termed illegal by the government and union leaders do not support the strike, Heapltala At the height of last night's black out hospitals without emergency lighting had to light their operat ing rooms with flashlights, candles and kerosene lanterns. In one hospital porters pumped iron lungs by hand to keep two patients alive. At the Dagenham dog track the electrto rabbit wavered and stopped In the middle of a race., Book makers took bets on how many minute it would take before the power would return and set the rabbit going again. Blast Levels Swift (k Cos. Main Offices SIOUX CITY. Ia., Dec. 14 (PyAn explosion leveled the main office building of the Swift and company packing plant today and the death toll was estimated at between 30 and 33. Brig. Gen. Charles Grehl, adjutant' general of the Iowa national guard, said in Dos Moines that guard . . officers told him by phone that "30 or 35 wero killed." Walter W. Lindgren, superintendent of public safety for the city, called it "probably the worst disaster in Sioux City history." . . Lindgren said firemen and volunteers had donned gas masks to go into the debris choked basement where cries of the injured could be heard. Estimates or the number of Injured ran as high as 300. Al Wright, city aales manager for Swift who waa In the company restaurant In one comer of tha five-story brick office building at the time of the explosion, said: There was a big puff. That's al IJtnow." The south side of the office build Ing was demolished and early re ports said the greatest fore of the explosion seemed to come on the first floor. Teff V nknewm Walter Krebs, a spokesman for the firm, said "there Is no telling how many may be dead or injured.'' Krebs said a natural gaa leak map have caused the explosion. The I gaa la used in several departmenta, I he said. All emergency equipment anal units. Including the national guard companies and the naval were eent to the scene. Acting Desk Sergeant Jensen of the Sioux City polio this report: "Everything the city's got has sent down there. All the lance in town, ail the available, th coroner, an naval reserve unit and the naUonal tuard. "We understand there an arcane, 200 injured and some dead but ara don't know how many. All-Owt Aid "They've called for ga una, We've sent those on hand bat kft th department and the naval re serve and national guard an sand ing some down. I understand. -We" dont-inow anything-w about th cause of th blast." Local Fliers Search For Missing Plane Five planes took off from the Klamath airport early this morning to aid in the eearch for a missing silver Cessna unreported since Its pilot, Ray Hyland of Eugene, left the Springfield airstrip last Friday. Plane which took off at :30 a. m. to search the Dutchman peak area 20 milea due south of Medford were flown by Kit Carson and Ed 8c holer. Carson flew an Ercoupe and took along as observer, D. Larvick. Sc ho ler waa flying a Cessna with BUI Bfckev of KFPA. observer. Second Flight A few minutes later Al Mocabee J.-, in a Piper PA-11. with Observer George Wardell of KFPA. Max Menti in a Piper J-3 with Johnny Whitellne aa observer, and Lloyd "Pop Newlun in a Loscombe. with Don Rlnehart, left for the Devil's reak sector 20 milea south of Crater lake, and the Mt McLoughlin and Lake o' the Woods area. Mocabee said the two earlier plane would also fly the Ashland peak. Aspen butte and other Klam ath county area. Planes were unable to leave th Medford airport today to enter th search as weather had closed in there. Mocabee. of Oregon Aircraft Service, has recently been appointed by the state board of aeronautics aa the air desiaTM for Southeastern and tlie Central portion of Oregon to conduct all searches in the area comprising Klamath, Lake, Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Harney and Crook counties. He wlU work In conjunction with the state board and the Air Search and Rescue Unit out of McCbord field. Tacoma. Wash. Hyland failed to file a flight plan after leaving Springfield and it la thought the ship may have crashed in the Cascades during stormy week-end weather. The Hyland party Included Mrs. Hyland. Dr. H. Bllet Scoles of Cot tag Grove and L. VlrgU Fish of Eugene. They wen en rout from Eugene to Los Angeles. BuyCHftlf&AiS.' Roseburg Voters OK Annexations ROSEBURG. Dec 14 Rose burg voter- favored annexation of three suburban areas by substantial margin in a light vote cast Tues day. Breakdowns showed the vote to be 31S to 10 for West Roseburg, 41S to 19 for Sleepy Hollow-Miller addiUon, and 418 to It for Beulah addition. The three areas voted for admis sion to the city last month. They wiU boost Roseburg s population to nearly 10.000, City Manager M. W. Slakard said. Corpse Probe Ends; Clue :i RnlesOut ; Deputy Sheriff Murray Brittom said this morning he had conclud ed hi investigation into th sulcid of a man tentatively identified a Ernest Smth. Seattle, and had de ter mined aa far. aa possible that Smith is the man' correct nam. He ran down a lead yesterday afternoon that the headless and handle body might be that of another man reported missing ben for several days and found that the supposedly missing man was right here In town. Hotel Guest - - - Britton said Smith' was reguv tered at the Pelican hotel from De cember i until December S. His body was found 8unday, December It. In a borrow pit south of town. The head and hands had been blown off by a dynamite charge. Smith ia believed to have worked In a restaurant at Seattle a year or two ago and to have gn t Alaska from there. No relatives have been found. Nw Strawberry Yield High PUYALLUP. Dec. 14 Mv A new strawberry developed In Washing ton Is yellows-resistant and prom ises to out-yield an old favorite, th Marshall berry, by SO per cent, a researcher reported today. Addressing the Western Washing ton Horticultural meeting. Dr. C. D. Schwertae said the new variety, named the "Northwest," may yield nine tons per acre. It waa devel oped by him at th Western Wash ington experiment station here. Meet the People . i (.hi ' (5, ; . r-"::'.! .. v . x- '5 .." " ' " " 3;'-. .. v. p;.-irS. ,-. ,-r. - mmW&X-..'t "-y". Vga. ''.iv'l.alll .Hilling i i i .,.-.'4 RSADY FOR holiday shoppers, Don Phelps takes a firm grip on his pipe while he iweept in front of a Main street establishment-That's Santa Clam-over the right shoulder. i '
