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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1951)
Mlid g If M U mm '0' Fishermen See Elderly Couple Swept to Death CIOI.D BKACI1. (,V) While scores of fishermen Mulched In Iicrlp lrw horrur, au elderly California toupla wero swept to tlielr deaths al Ilia mouth of Uia Rogue river lato yeatrniay, and two would-be res cuers apparently died a Uielr plana crarhrd. 'ilia California couple, Mr. and Mrs. William Grant, In their middle 0a, of Van Nujra, were vlctlma of a wave thai caught (heir dlnabled ' a- IB-tool outboard boat and awept By I RANK JENKINS . In the early nummer of thle nr. a unity of British Quaker-- even peraoiin, all of them business and profr.iaional leaders In Brit ain -vlniled Itun.ila Willi Itumilan perinlnilon. 'lhry aprni two weeks In Momow, Leningrad and Kiev n miei of the Russian Ituverument. Ono of tliein Paul 8. Cadbury, lirud of the century-old private enterprise chocolate company of Cadbury and Fry In England baa Jul reported on the trip to the American Frlenda (Quakers) aerv. lie committee In Philadelphia, Among other things, ht aaya: "Tha nuaalan alandnrd of living Ih about the equivalent of that In Knglaitd, but ttuaalan clllrens are entirely Ignorant of conditions In the world outalde." Me added; "Everyone we met and nearly everyone w In our travela, I In Ruaala) AI'PKARKD CON TENTED AND ADKQUAILLY CLOTHED AND FLD." Aa lo aundarda of living, I think We should bear this In mind; Ruaala la communist. Britain la aoclallal. America la frea cnternrla. I'm aura it will b generally agreed that, MATERIAL 6TAND ARDB OP LtVINO ARE TAR HIOHER, Itf AMERICA THAN IN HITHER BRITAIN OR RUSSIA. Thai being true, there must ba a reaaon. What U lit I, Tbia, X think, la tha answer! ' Communlam and aoclallam ara oheemcd chiefly with DIVIDINQ THINGS UP. Frew antftrnrta la concerned, primarily with FRO- Pucino thinus. it la eeii eivldent that YOU CAN'T DIVIDE IWHAT ISN'T PRODUCED. Bo- Kara In Ire tnterprlee America, where our fn-al thought la to PRO DUCE IT. we have mora things than they have In communlat Rus. aia and aoclallat Britain, where they think liral about DIVTDINO IT UP. Thing Ju.it HAVE lo be produced before they can ba divided. Now aa to Mr. Cadbury'a atate nient that everyone they mat and nearly everyone they aaw In oom munlat Ruaala appeared contented anl adequately clothed and lad. Ancestors of mine wera aleve holders In tha Old South. Family tradition Is unanimous that these lavea twho were well treatedl V.'ERE CONTENTED AND WERE ADEQUATELY CLOTHED AND ft.U. But who wants slavery? We didn't. Wa fought a bloody and terrtblo war to get Tjd of It, Bo I'm not too greatly Impressed with Mr. Cadbury'a statement that the Russians he and his party ssw were contented and wera well clothed and fed. With all It faults, I'll choose America's , free enterprise. Oetting back to Britain for a n-oment, I don't envy tho English their aoclallam. They can have II, so fur as I am concerned. But they do havo one thing that Is admi rable. I refer to the genuine love and respect they feel (or their royal family. Did you nee that picture In laM neck's Life of the F.nKll.ih couple kneeling bcalde the gate of Buck ingham palace and praying simply and earnestly for the recovery of their king after his serious operation? It wnH touching and It was Im pressive, It told a TRUE story, 'lho English feel that way. Hint Is something whose exact' equivalent we can't nave. We have no king. Ood willing, WE NEVER WILL HAVE A KINO, We aren't that kind of people. But I enn't help winning we could have whut caused that Unit 1 iMi couple lo kneel beside the Buckingham gute and pray for the recovery of their monarch. It It wonderful. It provides a foundation upon which true patriotism can real. About the nearest approach we run have to It under our system la to find again leaders whom wo cun respect and trust. Smaller Cars . Suggested WASHINGTON, IIP) Bin, Ful bright D-Ark soyn auto munu fitcturers might help In saving Kinrce materials by reducing the sire of American cars, At hearing on defenae materi als ' Friday before the senate banking committee, Fulbrlght, said he thought auto makers could lct two onrs out of the mate rials used now for one. He asked Defense Produollon Administrator Miinley Flelschmnnn why DPA doesn't ask "Ford and General motors" to shrink their cars. Flclachmann said that was up to the makers, that DPA doesn't, like to go beyond setting mate rials allocations. them out to ara. 'Ilielr bodlri were recovered. Roy Radar, about to, pilot and airport manager, look olf about an hour after Jhe accident with Vance Bcott, about 2b. of nearby Wedderburn, aa obaerver. They hoped to locate Mr. e"d Mra. Orant and If oMble to direct reacue ellort or to llml the bodies. LI.AP A they alarled their second sweep past the river's inoutli, their engine quit. Dr. R. L. Erlck aon, a local phyalvlan, aald he aaw one of the men Jump before the plane hit the water, But breakera were cranhlng hard agalnat the beach ISO feel away and no trace of either man was found In a night-long patrol by doeni of volunteers. A diver managed to get a line attached to the plane wreckage but night but it failed to hold and Uie partly lifted plane set tled back into the water. Mra. Oram's body waa found two mile down the count near lliintrr'a creek and her huaband'a body waa found at 3 a.m , near Cape Sebastian, atlll larlher south. rAiMiitt: Thero were an estimated 2s to 50 fishermen surf canting and a large number of boats on the river when Mr. and Mrs. Oiant, at about 4 pm, decided lo quit for the day. But their ainall outboard motor (ailed and Andy Moore. full-Ins- near by, took them In tow. Orant nianagcd lo gel their motor alarled and called to Moore lo cast off. Orant then headed toward the dangerous river bar In a circling move to go back up lha river, and his motor failed again. Suddenly a wave caught the boat, flipped It over and tossed Mr. and Mra. Orant Into the wat er. Tha current took them awlflly out lo aea. f Holdup Shot Kills Butcher OODEN. Iff) Oeorga Warren Cray, bulcher In a local market, waa (sully shot, early .today, aa the etore owner and a gunman atrutgled over posies! on of a gun which the latter was attempting to hold them up with. . After tha shooting Uie gunman was disarmed by Thomas Cromp ton, market owner. Qray's wife struck the thug on the head with a can of ayrup. Oray was hit In the chest by one of the three bullets discharged when Cromplon grabbed the would-be robber's arm. The robber had alruck Oray on tha head with a pistol after Oray had punched the gunman and made a threatening gesture toward Oray'g wife. While Crompton was calling the police, the robber grabbed a bot tle of aoda water, anuuhed a front window and escaped. Police are still seeking htm. TIBET BALKS NEW DELHI, India. (PI The Times of India says Communist occupied Tibet has not yet rati lied its treaty with Red china and Is asking for modification of the terms. The treaty was algned In Petplng May 33. aBaBBBBBBBBBaaBHaBBBBHaaBaBBaBaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBa NIPPED Klamath's Cal Gilmore (76) almost got away on this play, but Doug Crippen (44), Medford quarterback, reached out to haul him down in tho nick of time. Bob Walker (23) Is shown coming up fast in case Crippen missed. Doug Campbell (96), Pelican guard, can be seen in the background. (Story of Klamath's 13-12 thriller over Medford In sports section). V"1 M O Price Uta tenia 14 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OKEflQN, gATUDAY, OCTOIttK. 11, Hit Telephsae till Na. 1114 Spud Prise o7wm (Emtiiaue Presidential Tilt Begins Shaping Up lly Hie Aaaoclalrd Treaa Piciimluury maneuver in the lDu: battle for the pirMtlrncy arc nhapiiig up all over the atute level. At Auntln, Texas, a liberal fac tion of 'lexoa uual!y-.'plll Demo cratic party uathnred at a political b'caklust today to hear a speech by Agriculture ttecy. Biannau. Hie voup calling themselves "Volunteer Democrats." was re ported deeply concerned over the renewed threat ol a "StuteV Right Democrat" upruing like that which itomlnalcd Its own ticket In 1048. ARGUMENT At Oklahoma Cltv yc-.lrrday, Oov. JolinMun Murray said he would listen to Uie arguments ol such southern Suites' Righlera who are talking about a breuk with the present national administration. But Murray declined to associate hlmrvell either with the Slates Rights group or the Truman ad ministration for next year's nation al convention. He said he thought that of all the snullirrn states only Arkansas and Florida "will not be itlcnllllcd with any such (States' Rights movement." Although Texas didn't go along Willi. Ihe southern bolters In IMS, the volunteer Democrats frankly fear the party organization under Oov. Allan Bhlvern. National Demo cratic Commllieenmn Wright Mor row and Bute Executive Chairman R. E. Wheat might go so lar as to bolt next year. Shivers, Morrow and Wheat re ceived belated imitations to to day's breakfast gathering but de clined. WARRIv.S In the OOP camp, Oov. Warren of California threw down what amounted to a challenge to con servative Republicans In his state. At Sacramento, the three-term governor 'who calls himself a pro gressive Republican, aald he wel comed a reported movo by party leaders opposed to his policies to field their own delegation at the June presidential primary. Howevar. Warren made It plain that he United rival tickets with out lmnllcatlons as to his own plans. He was his parly's IMS csnamaie lor vice president, and is generally expected lo announce for president next year. Allied Group Yoos Egypt LONDON, ifi-Egypt was Invited today lo Join with the western powers and Turkey In setting uo an International force (or Middle East defense. A main base would be the 8ues, now in bitter dispute between Britain and Egypt. This was the driving diplomatic followup lo Egypt's threat to out law tho Brlilsh guardian forces in Ihe Sues canal area and Britain's vow to fight If EevDt tries to rm. move nruisn treaty-covered troops hv fore. W t&f .nc Tax Dollar Goes : ""VNNN j icxeoLt u.n A"" I j Sl'a' I CL ears, rm sa isiatei diiti. f j eauatt giaiiwai um ue"Y.it.otv -a...-1) rm rtTaat.tTC. Klamath Total Record High - By RALE 8CARBROVGH Klamath county's proper ty tax bills (or 151-52 will be In the malls Tuesday, about 40,00 of them, and the tax collecting division of the therlM's office will be ready to start taking payments on the largest total bill In the county's history. The tax roll, was" turned over to the collector's office by the assess Two Injured In Collision Two nersons were IrealaH af Klamath Valley hospital last night for minor Injuries following a two car collision at 8. 6th and Home- .boot 11 n I J.8..60. . Pm ncieasea alter treatment were George Bray and Clarence L. Ophelm, both X Bonanza. Bray had lacerations to both legs and lost several teeth. Ophelm, opera lor of one car Involved, had cuts of one leg. Hubert D. Perry. Bonanza, a pas senger In Ophelin's car, was not icported as Injured, Leonard F. Barkee, 25; 5244 Cot- I lTf ' .th 9iiwI vehicle, ! T . ,5a.,?y . ,te vouce for (allure w J ,e,B u' ""' waj-. . Police reported Barkee was trav eling east on 8. 6th and made a left turn In front of Ophelm's car. Both vehicles vera said heavily damaged. ' Potato Queen' Ball Tonight MERRILL Six pretty young po tential winners of the Klamath ba sin potato, festival crown wIU vie (or honors, at the annual queen's elimination ball, scheduled (or to night at' the Merrill community hall from 10 to 3. Dancers attending the' ball will select their favorites ballot boxes will be set up under the pictures. CANDIDATES - . The candidates are Velms Reese - 16 Dorr Is; Leah Dye, 16, Bonanra: Betty Lou Gober.-17.. Henley: Polly Haynes. 17. Tuleluke; Wilms Tau'.fc 17, Merrill and Barbara Salyer, 15. Malln. Baldy's band will play for to night's ball, as well as for the harvest ball next Saturday night. The girl selected oueen tonight will rule over the 15th annual po tato festival next Friday and Satur day, and will be presented with a wardrobe and lewelry. Her court will also be awarded outfits. Final preparations are underway now (or next week's parade and barbecue; the climax ol the festi val. ' PARADW-. KlamathV 1951 rodeo- oueen and her court wfTrhonor the Merrill potato queen by riding in the pa rade, which will include Hosts and the KUHS and Henley high school bands. Street decorations are up. and trophies ara on display at the Mer rill pharmacy for awards to win ning competitors in the festivals exninits. . The potato exhibition, which this year will be held on a statewide basis and select a state champion, has alrady got competition from uie central Oregon spud growers. HIGH WAT COUNSEL PORTLAND. Ifl-Clliford W. En field, 33, Salem, Friday was named, chief legal counsel for the state highway commission suc ceeding Joseph M. . Devers who died. September 30. Tax Bills ment department October 3, and since that time the bills have been in preparation. Ihe grand total assessed against property this year i $3.978,ta8.. That's a lumo of better than a ihlrd of a. million dollars from th leoo-ol total of t3.ei7.3TO and is an Increase' o( better than 109 percent over the tax bill of nine years sgo lM2-43) when the total was 11,760,431. IN LINE The general cost of living has advanced at pretty much that same rate in the past nine years, so the tax bill can hardly be con sidered out-of-line even though it might be considered excessive. where does the money go? The blearest share goes to the school districts; smaller chunks go (or city governments, roans, drain. a and irrigation districts, parks, fire districts and general county operating expense. rr the 13 978.928.89 to be col lected, the school districts will. drag down $3,141,231.97 on their. rax levies pius sjia.ww.av marked for Ihe schools but col lected as a part of the general county tax. 'mat. mates a- total of S3.430.376.87. and figures out that of every property tax dol lar collected this fiscal year is Klamath county, the public schools wm get eo.s cents. OPERATIONS The second largest whack: goes to the county as current expense operation of the various departments.- That i: S493.55D.74, or llltle less than 13 percent. . The third share of the dollar in sire goes to the various irriga' tlon and drainage districts, 3t8,' 133 for an even 10 percent. The fourth largest piece, of -the tax dollar, about S.S percent, goes xo rue .various municipal govern ments (Klamath FaUs, . Bonanza, uruioqum., Mann and Merrill). They get a total of S353.410.90. Klamath Falls' share o( that: Is- S327.H7J4; Bonanza gets SS405.4S; ChlloQUln ?0!4.38: Malm $7056.81; and Merrill S13.410.99. : ROADS. lounty roaos, including a spe cial road fund tax, wUl be dealt in lor about g:03,000, or 53 per cent, and the various park, (Ire and cemetery districts over the county will get 3 percent, or some $69,800. The remaining monev,' around 1 percent of the total 'bill, goes to such activities as the countv library, armory, fair board and ire patrol. Police Hold Two for Army Two men are held , (or return to armea service authorities, one in; the county Jail aral Uie other in tne, city lockup, for' being A ITUu, Richard Allen Adams. 31. 2603 King, was arrested by state- po lice yesterdav afternoon In a sub. urban restaurant. He is reported A WOL from the air force. In the city iall In John McCulch- eon, 19, said AWOL from Ft. Mao Arthur, Calif. He was arrested at Klamath Annex (or being drunk and taken to Klamath Valley hos pital . for treatment of minor in juries received In a fight. . unoer questioning. Aicuutcneon told-officers, he was wanted by the army, r Harvesters Slowed By Vet Ground Klamath spud prices were still on tho upgrade today as reports came In of S3 per hundred, for Immediate delivery, with an esti mated one-half of this year's crop still In the ground. Today's price was way above last year's ending price of in the neignoornood ol S2.60. and was quite a jump over the prices which were being offered to weeks ago at S3.15. Last year's price, described as "pretty ordinary," was paid on the greatest potato crop in Klam ath 'history. DROP However. "USDA "estimates this veer predict drop of about 12 percent in Oregon spud pro duction, and early reports in the Klamath country show yield's are cot up to last year's level. Thv USDA predicts) th. national potato production to drop 33 per cent this season. Idaho production has been torecast to drop 19 per cent, while Washington's crop hai been predicted to (all 36 percent short of last season's production. Local buyers report Ihe slums hi the Idaho market may have, a oireci ocarina: on ine ntgner apud price this year in the Klam- atn country, idano usually mark ets on the Los Angeles market, but there have been reports of Los Angeles buyers coming into uie local semng areas. Wet ground was slowing down nicking operations today, though several sizeable acreages had been completed. SHORTAGE ' Mgr. Guy Barker, employment service, reported a small shortage in pickers, but said generally the supply of labor has been keeping urj with the parade. nareer estunaiea some zooo pickers were working in the Klam ath and Tulelake areas, more than 1000 of them outside helpers, r A tew acres of barlev. esneclal- ly in the Williamson river area. weTe -reported to stiu be tmhar vested because of- Wret weather. Otherwise, barley in- most of the basin is in the bins. Royalty Gets Big Ovations TORONTO. W Sources closest' the royal couple said today. Prln-. cess Elisabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh could hardly believe the enthusiasm of Canada's welcome, were thrilled by it and never had seen anything, like- it. - - veteran reporters described the welcome (or the heiress presump tive to the BrlUsh throne as "fantastic" and a Canadian pro fessor of psychology called it 'mass hysteria." More than 600,000 persons turned out in this- city of 700.000 to cheer Elizabeth as she and her consort moved slowly through the Jammed streets yesterday. Earlier more than 300.000 per sons hsd swarmed around the couple, waving British (lags, shout ing and laugmng as they passed through small cities between Ot tawa and Toronto. Officials estimated more 1 i 1.200,000, of Canada's 13.5O0.00U people, have hailed the princess during tne first (our days or her projected 30 day tour of the dominion. yiiiiniijiaaa,. uj BMMaaawiwaiaaaaaBtrc NEIL. KUJAC is today's subject for the Nine O'Clock Special cameraman He lives at Malin and was in Klamath Falls at that early hour for a music lesson. He plays the clarinet. Neil is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kujac. . Yank Unit Cut Up in Advance On East Front U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS Korea (TP) United Nations infantry supported by tanks and artillery gouged out new gains on the western and central Korean fronts today as fighting flared with renewed savagery across Korea. The U.S. 24th division and two South Korean divisions Football Scores Mich. State Marquette 20 14 N. Carolina S. Carolina . Cornell ' 21 6 42 6 33 14 13 7 Harvard Michigan Indiana Princeton ; Pennsylvania Columbia Yale Illinois Syracuse '. Dartmouth . Army 14 0 41 20 28 Atomic Blast Believed Near LAS ' VEOAS. Nev., WV While the army tacked up "don't, talk" signs r in saloons and. gambling halls.' this town bussed with ex citement and speculation today over, the forthcoming atom bomb tests in tne- .Nevada badlands. Already the civil aeronautics authority has Issued warnings Id pueis coniempiaung iugnts witrun a 300-mile radius of Las Vegas. In' Carson City yesterday, top atomic energy commission offi cials spent 80 minutes' in confer ence with the governor of Nevada. With the days of the blast ob viously drawing near, army Intelligence-tightened, up its security network, in an attempt to prevent the spread of rumors, founded or otherwise. ' . To guard against security leaks by any of the 6000 troops, from Camp Desert Rock,' the army post ed notices in bars and other pub lic places. ' . "Whistle while you work but don't' talk. The enemy may be listening." the signs read. - All this preparation was the harbinger ol history's first atomio war games, confidently ex pected in this city of odds-makers to occur early next week. About 1000 soldiers will participate in the test. The CAA warned all pilots who may be aloft near the blast site to "be on Uie alert- for special notices which will restrict flights in certain areas in- the interest of safety." . The AEC has ordered all live stock removed from the region and has warned all unauthorized persons to keep away. gained up to nearly two miles along a 22-mile front in th center. Allied artillery pounded a day-long rain of high explo sives on Chinese Communists positions above Yonchon in the West. VA (Irst cavalry trooper moved unopposed onto a hill form ing the eastern (lank of a Vital ridgeline scarred by (our days of iightlng. . . One battalion of the cavalry was badly cut up Friday. NONEXISTENT A captured Red officer on tha eastern front said the North Ko rean army the one that started the war 31 months ago now waa "practically nonexistent." American and French troops on Heartbreak rldae in eastern Ko rea scorched the last Reds out of their suicide bunkers en the slopes or tne riageune s norinern. most peak. The peak. Hill sol. was captured Friday. Allied officers said the mopping up actionvas . among the bitterest iignta oi tne war. - American . 8abra' Jet petroled Mig alley in northwest Korea but drew no challenge from Russian made MIO jets. Fifth air (one Warplanes pounded Red road and rail lines. The central front drive on Kum song was led by tanks and aup ported by artillery barrages.- Tha Allies- were threatening the Reds' main supply area, arid headquar tern (or eastern and central Korea. niDAHTF.B I Farther to the "West the caval- lAirvmen were on the move again I after a disastrous day Friday. A battalion of the seventh) regiment Gen. Custer a old . outfit was shattered and cut to pieces by waves of attacking Reds west of Yonchon. Remnants of the. battalion were-. rescued, but only after gome ground was lost. Chest Report LuncheonSet First- of three, report luncheons for heeds and- workers - of the Klamath county community chest campaign, is scheduled for Moifia day at in 00a sc. the winenm-1 hoteL At that time.. Co-chairmen George: Mclntyre and Nelson Reed nope to- nave close to SO percent of the needed ST7.370.00,. checked in by division leaders Contributions from the medlcsl division, headed by Mrs. Lyle W. Rothenberger, nudged close to tha $500- mark with many yet to ba heard from. Mrs. Rothenberger. is assisted in this work by Mrs. Ray W. Oldenburg. Mrs. B. C. Johnston. Mrs. K. A. Moore, Mrs. Estin Kiger, Mrs. Robert Thomp son. Mrs. James Kerne, Mrs.. John D- Merryman and Mrs. Greer Drew. The medical group (alls under the division headed by Mrs. Percy Murray and represent-', ing camp tire girls. Arnold Gralapp.' superintendent of public instruction in Klamath Falls, took on another Job with: the chest as head of education, division and today was completing the task o( contacting schools. In each school children will, receive "Fearless Fosdick" funny book, Al Capp'a donation to Uie nation al chest drive. The Fosdtcks- re-' place the red feather which have been distributed to the students In the past. Whether- or not child Is a giver, he still gets a trea sured Fosdick funny book which depicts the chest in action. At OTI. Bob Smith of the per sonnel department. Is making con tacts with students and (acuity alike. An excellent response came from On last year, including con tributions of, art work. . Assassination; Attempt Fails CARACAS, Venezuela, Ml. The government announced today that "terrorist elements" of the ou'- lawed Accion Democratic at tempted to assassinate the ruling military Junta last night. It aald the attempt (ailed. A communique said an unre ported number of terrorists hurled ' a bomb at the country's rulers ' as they were leaving offical cere monies at the. Plaza de Colon (Columbus plaza). It said the mill-, tary police foiled the attempt. The communlaue said other ter rorists seized government build ings in the towns of Rio Carlbe, Tunapulclto and Cnucedo but soon lost on control 01 mem. a aam . two persons were killed and one wounded. Weather - FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and northern CalKarnlai Occasional ahowers, clearing ta nlght. Low tonight It, high to morrow J. . High Friday ..-.-. H Law last nlghl . , Freelp Oct. 13 -. Preelp sine Oct. t -.- J. Normal for period ; . M (Additional Weather n Page I.I
