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Second To
87s Record
WABHUtGrrON. Dee. ft A
final efrtoaltur department survey
hawed yesterday that crop produo
ttoa thla rear wm second only to
Uat yean record.
The big volume produced ur-
pluaea In some crop and led the
(oeanunent to propoea reestablish
men! of prewar eontroU to bold
Vwn production next year.
No longer do postwar shortage
TTTRALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
TUESDAY, DEC. 20, 1M9,
The big showlnc wee the reault
of uniformly large production of
wioat crops, with only a few either
utetandingty larger or amaller than
Ne.1
Ooro the No. 1 crop from the
Una point of alar and Importance
to the food supply was estimated
at l,T7.000.0O0. -mil wai t per cent
below last year record of 1.83.000.
000 bushels, but 11 per cent abort
average.
Production controls of some kind
or another already hare been an
nounced or are expected to be an
nounced toon for next yean crops
of cotton, major types of tobacco,
wheat, peanuts, soybeans, rice and
potatoes.
Acreage
The crop acreage harvested this
fear was the largest since 1933.
Kaeord crops were shown this
Tear for rice, dry beans and pears,
but relatively large crops Included
soybeans, (rain sorghums, peanuts,
otton. cottonseed, wheat, oats, flax
toed, tobacco, apples, peaches, cher
ries and sugar cane.
It it bettered that the petrified
forests of Arisona onoa had 10.000
but that this rock was eventually
eroded tway.
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Eugene to Punish Parents
For Misdeeds of Children
OBSERVER Looking Uko a
sjarasnarj. the statue ofJohn
Bjadnttrt autfluUmtj as wuisjiwa
I ail sua ass the caprtoTt Statuary
Be. It la the first new coat of
taw for flat baa SB M
EUGENE. Dec 30 l When a
child turns Into a budding burglar.
whose fault Is It?
"The parents'." decided Eugene's
city councilmen this week. And they
backed up their decision by passing
an ordinance that the parents
not the child should be punished.
"It's fairly stiff punishment, too:
up to 1200 tine or 100 days In Jail
for a parent judged responsible for
conditions which hare led his child
into delinquency.
Eugene is the largest Oregon city
to base penalties on the growing
growing sociological theory that
a child takes the criminal path be
cause his parents, unwittingly or
not, hare shored him that way.
In a Gallup poll taken last spring
the majority approved the Oregon
(it started in Baker. Ore.) "parental
delinquency" plan. Social workers,
increasingly, blame parents. And In
Chicago this week a Judge bitterly
condemned the parents of a much
older criminal.
Judge Julious Miner, hearing the
trial of a 31 year-old mother who
had strangled her Infant, called the
mother's parents before him.
"I hare been shocked by the testi
mony about your treatment of your
daughter," Judge Miner told Mrs.
Chester Lamont of Astoria, Ore. "No
one is mora responsible than you for
the fact that she Is on trial lor
murder.1
Murder or other serious crimes
would not come under Eugene's
new parental delinquency control.
It applies only to the light offenses
with which a child usually starts
a delinquent career: petty theft.
disorderly conduct, other misde
meanors.
Eugene thinks It will work. It has
m the small city of Baker, Ore.
where Police Chief Guy T. Church
creamed up the idea two years ago.
Church was being plagued by a
wen-age eiuo known aa the "Fan-
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ther gang." whose purpose was
stealing, and whose entrance re
quirement waa theft and the killing
of a certain number of caj.
The members used an abandoned
movie house to hide loot from their
thefts. The boy who committed the
moat crimes was rewarded by elec
tion as leader.
"After taking these boys Into cus
tody on numerous charges of bur
glary and house breaking, and turn
ing them over to the Juvenile courts.
It seemed to us that little was
gained by convictions." Church
said.
It occurred to him to try punish
ing the boys' parents. Instead.
Backed by Mayor Menzie McKim.
an ordinance was passed August
11, 1MT. providing up to $300 fine
and 100 days In Jail for parents
whose children commit misde-
manors.
The "Panther gang" broke up.
Baker's delinquency rate dropped
sharply: some estimates wert as
much as M per cent.
It worked to well that the ordi
nance has been Invoked only six
tunes In the two years since.
No parents bare ever been Jailed.
Twice the maximum fine was
levied, but suspended later and the
parents put on probation instead.
One father paid (SO because his
son caused continual trouble. A
mother paid 36 after her boy was
found drinking on the street. And
aome other parents were fined the
same amount because their young
sters wert tossing beer bottles from
a car.
The town of Lakevlew. ore,
copied Baker's ordinance this sum
mer. Other towns are considering
it
But Eugene, a city of some 38.-
000. will provide the first major
test.
To Buy or Sell Use the Want-Adsl
Bids Opened
For Oiling
Sprague Road
The state highway department
yesterday opened bids for 17.91 miles
of surfacing and oiling on the
River road between Chlloquln and
Sprague River.
Low bid for the Job waa that of
J. M. and M. J. Conlry Construction
company of Portland, the firm which
did the widening and surfacing Job
on the Merrill highway this fall.
The Conlry firm's bid was 1123.04.
A street surfacing project at Chll
oquln on Chocktoot street was bid
in by the E. C- Hall construction
company of Portland at 13170.
Unemployment' Aid
Filing Scheduled
The United Etatee, employment
service will begin Itinerant service
for tho filing cf claims for unem
ployment compensation In Beatty
and Bly on Thursday, according to
Jack Almeter, manager of th local
bureau.
All claimants living In tht
Sprague River end Beatty areas
will meet at the Beatty start at
C30 Thursday morning, and those
living in Bly area will meet at tht
Jack O'Neill, place at 11:30 a. m.
Thursday.
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Philadelphia
Yule Spirit
On 2 Fronts
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. M ()
Dont tall Charley Willie there's bo
such thing a ChrUunat spirit.
Charley workers In tht Philadel
phia Inquirer library. Months aco
he and his fellow workers decided
to chip In quarter each week
to crests a Christmas party fund.
Th nam Sunshine club was cho-
Two month ago, Charleys three-year-old
daughter waa critically
burned in a gas stor mishap.
Without taking formal rot, th
th Sunshine Club gar Charley th
I1S0 in th club treasury to help
defray medical apenaea. And the
scheduled party at a Philadelphia
restaurant waa cancelled.
Restauranteur Prank Palumbo
heard the story and tonight Charley
his daughter well on the road to
recovery will Join his friends at
th party they planned, with Pa
lumbo picking up the check.
Klamath's
Delinquent
Taxes Low
Klamath county's delinquent taxes
for the years from 13 through
1MI amounted to only 0M per cent
of th total roll, according to
summary compiled by the state tax
commission.
The county's percentage of col
lection over the years was the third
best in the state. Only Morrow coun
ty with 0 U per cent and Wasco
with 0.73 had lower delinquencies.
Highest percentage of delin
quencies during the period waa In
Curry county, 4.3 per cent. Lake
county a percentage waa 1.37.
Italian Film
Voted Best
NEW YORK. Dec. 30 (v A poet-
war Italian film Is the best picture
of 1W, says th National Board of
Review of Motion Pictures.
Choice of the film. "Th Bicycle
Thief." was announced yesterday by
th board's Committee on Excep
tional Pilma. Th morie'a director,
Vlttorto de Blca, waa named the
year's beat director.
Also listed among th year' bast
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