'oMiTi A(gn7 nrmn njn MfiPEA TTA0f
lly FRANK JICNKINN
President Trumnn, announcing
tweeplng ahake-up In Ihe bureuu of
Internal revenue, soys:
"Some persona In the bureau ol
Internal rcvcmio have betrayed the
public irunt reponcd In thorn. The
revolution ol Hint tact hnn coir.e aa
a shock to All decent clllr-ena. I
have directed llmt every elfort be
made lo expose and piiulnh such
persons, wherever they may be
lound." (
Thru he adds: v
'.'IIOWJCVEB, my administration
wiia wine to Die wrongdoers, and
v.uuld have ousted thiun even If
there hurt bean no congressional In
vontlijirtloii." .
You know, I think that's exiiclly
the answer I'd have been tempted
; in make In similar circumstances.
, I'd know It wasn't a enmpctout and
utrlclly truthful statement, but lit
1 were a pollllcli.nl I'd HOI'U It
would loot a lot ol people.
iTVeiilclcnt Lincoln covered thin
hti.Miie.ia of fnollnu the people ahwil
as effectively an It has ever been
done. Dark hi' the urlin day ol
the war between the Males, he
wild to a White House caller:
"If you once torfelt the confl-
ftiti nvi'l- rruiiln t)lf-i l-
C;ilfPIII.
' .1 la true that you may fool
all the people nonie ol the time;
oti can even fool some of the peo
ple all Die time; but you can't tool
all the people nil Uio time."
Provident Lincoln. Incidentally,
wax subjected to bluer and morel
h nn criticism by hla opponent. But
lie survived It all unci curried our
. nation throuuh It itrcatesi crisis
, because I he people BULIEVEU IN
1118 INTEGRITY.
Nolhlnir could make me believe
that Lincoln would have crawled
out from under responsibility for
administrative scandals such as
those which are rock Inn our federal
envernment now with an answer
like Mr. Truman's statement that
lie knew what wax going on all
the time Unci would have fixed It
himself II congress hadn't bulled
In.
Winston Churchill, premier of
fireat Britain (In European gov
rrnmenlal systems the premier Is
the approximate equivalent of our
President) la on the high, seas en
routo lo Washington for a confer
ence with President Truman. He
is reported to be traveling In a
MX)-a-day aulto on the luxury liner
tjueen Mury.
I think If I were the head of a
nation In Britain's financial fix I'd
make Uie trip to Washington In a
aimple stateroom. It would bs a
J ioocI showmanship gesture, if noth
ng rise,
jlritaln, of course, can stand the
' expense. In the staggering total of
. governmental coatr-what' -thousand
pound, more or lesal (A
pound la worth $2.80 American, and
Uie trip on the Queen Mary takes
I about four days, so a total ex
penditure of 1000 pounds for pas
sage money, tips and unavoidable
incidentals would amount to 12800.)
But If Winnie had taken a mere
stateroom Instead of his IJOO-a-day
suite. It Would have said to the
British people that he is willing
and happy to share their austerity.
I think that would have mads them
all feel better.
T sifppoae Winnie and Harry Will
CONFER IN SECRET.
After Casablunca, Cairo, Tehran
and Yalta, I don't think that's the
w ay It should be done. It would be
Inr belter, everything considered,
II Die conference were held In a
big public room, with ALL report
ers present and uninhibited.
I know, of course, that In such
( licumstiinces everybody would
I Ik for Uie headlines Instead of
tnlkliiit turkey. Trial's human na
ture. But, even considering that, it
would bo. better to have Ihe whole
a I nil- conducted out In the open.
I'm aware that such a suggestion
Is radical heresy, but alter the last
war and what followed It I'm gun
shy ol secret conferences.
Best Skating Of
Year Seen Today
Here's good news for Ice skaters.
Bert Slolt, superintendent of
parks, snld lodnv that the Moore
Pii rk Ice rink Is Just right for
skating and that he's looking for
"the best skating of the season to
nlitht." r
Thn continued 'cold spell of Ihe
lasv few days has put the Ice In
"perfect condition" for skating,
fc'tntt added
Hkntlim hours ore from t to 10
p.m. '
If If! iv p2
'.I. Kl ;XkV a sl ft, lJ
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MAIL CALL First Lt. Harold T. Brachtcll of Washington, D.C. (holding mail sack) de
livers Chincso Communist and North Korean prisoner-of-war mail to North Korean mili
tary policeman Lt. Kang Chang. . .
MAYBE THEYRE HAPPY because they're on the inside
looking out this frigid day. The two, apparently happy girls
In the'office of Howard Perrin, architect, 1 121 Main St.
arc (1 to r): Nina Pence, 5241 Alva St.; and Helen Wright,
21)69 llomedalc ltd.
Captain Still
Sinking Ship
Fresh Storm
LONDON W Cup!. Kurt Carl
son was cooped up Thursday In the
cabin ol his wallowing ship while
a new storm raging across the
North Atlantic raised doubts that
the damaged freighter could atay
allont until a salvage tue arrives.
The learleu sXIpiier, hailed by
Cold Still
Grips West
By The Asaorlated Presa
The mountain west, again laslied
by sub-tcro cold In some areas,
continued Thursday digging Its way
out of this week's heavy snow
storms which marooned motorists
and railroad crews on high passes,
snarled highway, and rail travel
and caused, ai IcAit lour deaths in
Colorado.
In addition, two men were miss
ing alter a gigantic avalanche
swept a truck-trailer off Wolf Creek
Pass In Southwestern Colorado Gun
day. The temperature slid lo a numb
ing 40 below during the night at
Praser, Colo., Just west of Bcrlhoud
Pass.
Twenty-one men marooned for
five days on the western side of
Cumbres Pass were taken Wednes
day night to Cnhma, N.M.
Eastern New Mexico, most of
West Texas and the south plains
area of Texas Is locked In Ihe grip
of an Ice storm.
An estimated 1.000 persons, mean
while, were freed when highways
'connecting Utah's Ulnlah Bnsln
wltrr salt Lake city were opened.
The persons had been Isolated slnco
Saturday.
U.N. Captures
Strong Points
.SEOUL. Korea M Tank sup
ported Allied Infantrymen altackril
behind a thundering artillery bar
rage Thursday and recaptured two
strong points on the Western Front.
The sudden outbreak of fighting
In Korea was ordered lo regain
ground lost lo a Chinese assault
Dec. 28.
Today's lighting was llcrcc, but
brief.
The Eighth Army said attacking
Infantrymen wore heavily engaged
for an hour. Then two Red groups
retreated.
In the air American Snbre Jet
pilots reported Communist Jet air
men n re getting bolder and more
skillful. The report enmc after a
clash Thursday In which ono Red
MIO-15 was damaged.
Sticks To
In Face Of
In Atlantic
the British press an ' Captain En
terprise," appeared more con
cerned about the suffering of his
would-be rescuers than Ills own
late.
Carlsen, 37. who refuses to aban
don his ship, the American freight
er Flying Enterprise, is ertbmng
on a slim diet of tea and "bLs ol
dried food," he informed the com
mander of the U.S. destroyer John
W. Weeks, which is standing by.
"You fellows are taking a worse
beating and are suffering more
than I am,' said Uio youihlul skip
per. The American deitroyer radioed
that "preparations have been made
with Capt.- Curlsen for rescue If
required." II was Ihe llrsl Indica
tion that the doughty captain may
not be able to stick out his lone,
Iron-man attempt to stay with the
crewless ship. Its 10 passengers,
one of I hem dead, and crew of 40
wore taken off the ship last Friday
and Saturday, but Cailsen refused
to leave his vessel. .
Metal Plant
Pays Farmers
PORTLAND i.fl Farmers who
started a three million dollar dam
age suit against the Reynolds
Metals Co. Aluminum plant at
Troutdale. Ore., got a 78,225 set
tlement Wednesday.
Only one-fifth of the 98 farmers
who illed Ihe damage suit in Fede
ral Court 2 'ii years ago shared in
the payments ordered by Federal
Judge James Alger Fee.
Ho said they were the only ones
who proved fumes from the plant
had damaged their crops and live
stock. He ordered the aluminum com
pany to pay $20,500 to five prune
growers in Washington, across the
Columbia River from the' Trout
dale plant.
Twelve Oregon bulb growers
were awarded $52,225. Two Oregon
stockmen won a total of $5,500.
Since the suits were filed, Ihe
plant has Installed fume collecting
devices.
Trailer Home Fire
Fatal For Owner
: WARDEN. Washi. (Pi A fire In
his trailer home was fatal Wednes
day to William C. McCord, 41. He
was found dead In the trailer's rear
room.
. He was a U.S. Bureau of Recla
mation engineering aide. His moth
er, Mrs. T. L. Dunsmorc, lives at
newport, urc.
fries Fit Cents J Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY I, 151 Telephone Sill No. 27M
MSI
Icy Street
Cause Of Wreck
Icy streets caused a three-car
accident this morning on Wordn
Bt. in which no persons were In
jured. Two of the cars were parked on
opposite sides of the street. The
third vehicle, operated by Dean E.
Ktcpheas, 1022 Lytton, skidded
sideways down Worden, according
lo City Police, and crAckeu both
parked cars owned by Estella
lleveran and John J. Charles.
Police reported Stephens lost con
trol of his car when he applied
the braxe coming down a slight In
cline. Government
$7 Billion
In The Red
WA8HINOTON I The govern
ment wound up the first half of
this fiscal year $7,467,242,215 in th
red a. deficit about 13 times as
big as that for tne same perion
lust year ihe Treasury reported
Thursday. "
With defense spending up almost
300 per cent, the delicit was the
biggest ever at the half year point,
except for all-out war years.
Heavy Income tax payments in
the next few months, however, are
now expected to reduce the year
end deficit to about six billion dol
lars. At this time last year, the red m
entry amounted to $599,354,042. The
national debt at the end of Decem
ber 1051 stood at $259,460,778,794.
compared with $236,731,304,988 one
year ago.
Total military spending for the
six month period boomed to $19,
078.700,000 from a figure of 87,744,
200.000 for the same period in 1050,
when the Korean War was jusl
getting started. -
Total spending was tap Irom !9,
063.012.755 one year afco lo $31.
278,342,203 this year. Receipts from
taxes and other sources amounted
to $23,809,099,987 this year com
pared w ith $18,463,658,712 last year.
Elk Take Over
Near Astoria
ASTORIA Coast Range Elk,
acting as If they knew their rights,
moved into the fields of Farmer
Anton Aho.
Aho counted 24 elk trampling his
fields, and finally couldn't stand
It any longer. State law prevents
him from shooting them without
a special permit, but he seized
his gun to score them.
His dog Joined in the fun and
went dashing up to the elk. A
minute later he came dashing back,
with the elk in hot pursuit.
Alio fired a shot over their heads.
They ignored It. Alio and his dog
managed to make it back to the
house, where Aho barricaded the
door.
The elk trampled some more
fields, tore down some fence for
koo.1 measure, then wandered
away.
Spud Ceiling
Order Pending
WASHINGTON W The govern
ment said Thursdsy an order to
slap price controls on white pota
toes has been completed but no de
cision has been reached as to when
lt will be Issued.
An Office of Price Stabilisation
aide said the regulation could be
issued "on short notice." Potato
prices ' have been rising rapidly
since septernner.
Price Director Michael V. Dl'
Salle told reporters the order has
not yet come to ms desk.
An Idaho delegation arranged to
see DISalle to protest the proposed
order.
OPS officials said the regulation
being held on standby basis would
allow perhaps 10 to 15 days before
lis effectivo date to give the in
dustry time to make adjustments
to meet the ceilings.
An official said the ceilings would
be sot at a level to meet all legal
requirements of the Defense Pro
duction Act and assure a parity
price to growers. He said there
would be cushion between the
ceilings and parity to allow for
packaging, handling and marketing
expense.
He said also that ceilings would
prrmlt price differentials lor
grades and different areas of pro
duction, Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vlolnlty and Northern California:
Fair Thursday. Increasing cloudi
ness Thursday afternoon and
Thursday night. Cloudy. Friday with
light snow. High Thursday 22, low
Thursday- nlsht 7. High Friday 37.
Low temp last !4 hrs -3
High temp yesterday - X
Precln laat 24 hrs.
Since Oct. 1 .' 8.8S
Normal for period ...4.82
Sam period last yr. 8.47
(Additional Weather sa Pal 4) .
Mlp)S)Is
Enthusiasm
Low On HST
Crackdown
By B. L. LIVINGSTON
WASHINGTON vFI President
Truman's proposal for a "sweep
ing reorganization" of the scandal
scarred Internal Revenue Bureau
got a cautious reception on Capitol
Hill Thursday.
In advance of the return of the
main body of Congress members
next Monday, lawmakers already
In town were divided In their re
action. Few showed any enthusi
asm. With government corruDl Ion
charges already high on the Re
publican list of election-year Is
sues, Mr. Truman made plain his
move was but the first of a "se
ries of actions to insure honesty,
integrity and fairness" in Wash
ington. MORE FIRED
Mr. Truman's statement was fol
lowed quickly by disclosure that
54 more. Internal Revenue Bureau
nenried Th. w t.T "" proposed by the Interior Depart-
reTp;er.ri.3-obu?te?s in" ! "nd XrayT "
the first 11 months of 1951. .moes and their attorneys.
John B. Dunlap revenue com-! Opening a two or three-day hear
missloner said the total for 1951 ' lnS. Chapman cautioned the tribal
was 166. This was a new com-lleaders and thelr lTers to stoc
pilation. apparently on a different to e issue anJ av0'd personal
basis Irom the earlier reports. ities.
The only available information ' Frank George, a member of the
lists 40 ousters in 1950 and 36 in Colville Tribe of Washington State
1949. but a revenue spokesman said I and first vice-president of the
again a amerent Basis was used
in these surveys and that com
parisons might not be completely
accurate.
Congress members for the most
part reacted to the President s m.
organization plan with a "ves, but
" attitude. Some said it didn't
go far enough. Some thought per
uana u went too tar m certain re
specls.Rep. Byrnes (R.-Wis.) said
he hoped it wasn't a "smoke
screen." Other reaction was sim
ilarly qualified. .
The President's plan would abol
ish the offices of 64 revenue col
lectors, substitute 25 "district com
missioners," and create an inde
pendent Inspection service.
Flaming Gas
Gives Show
VANCOUVER. Wash. i Flam
ing gas burned in a Vancouver
street Wednesday night with a roar
Uiat could be heard two blocks.
It blazed high in front of the
Central Labor Temple about an
hour. Workmen finally shut off the
gas main, and firemen turned
chemicals on the blaze.
A sizeable crowd turned out lo
watch the display, but there was
no damage.
A spokesman for the Portland
Gas & Coke Co., explained a spark
from a digging machine touched
off the gas in the main line Just
as a connection was being replaced
there.
Mail Delivered
To POW In Korea
WACO, Tex. 4i Can Uncle
Sam's mail be delivered to an
American soldier in a Communist
prisoner of war camp in Korea?
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Becker re
ceived three letters from their son
Thursday. And in one of them,
dated Oct. 16. Cpl. J. A. Becker,
Jr.. wrote that he had received
a letter his mother had written
him in September. He said he
was "greatly relieved" to learn
his family knew he was a POW.
The son was captured Nov. 2,
1950, and his parents have received
two letters written since then one
last July and another in mid-August.
Lumber Industry Had $14 Million Payroll in
During 1951, Employed Summer Peak of
(This Is the second In a aeries
of articles discussing the eco
nomic present and future of the
Klamath area.)
By HALE SCARBROl'Gn
The estimate reported yesterday
that Klamath county can sustain
a cut of around 330,000,000 board
feet of timber a year was arrived
at locally.
The Western Pine, Association,
which gathers figures and facts lor
the Industry, is a little more con
servative. Ernie Kolbe, chief forester for
the association, figures that a cut
of 275,000,000 board feet a year on
a continuous basis is a safe esti
mate, but adds that there still re
mains in Klamath county a great
deal of virgin, over-mature timber
that should be harvested in order
to bring much of the' forestland
into productive condition.
Western Pine- Association takes
the position that this old timber,
which is frequently subject to the
ravages of insects and disease,
should be'vut in a reasonably short
period of time.
If that were done, the annual
cut could well exceed 300.000,000
board feet until the harvesting of
over-mature timber Is complete.
The U.S. Forest Service,' on the
other hand, reportedly has recom
T
California Puts
Florida Behind
'l-BTTfTirirW r.aHt tm Dunnv
California? Sure, but B-r-r-r-r-r-r!
There's little heat in Old Sol. some
days.
An Arctic-like 42 degrees below
zero was recorded by the Bureau
of Reclamation at nearby Boca
Dam. That possibly was the cold
est reported in the nation Wednes
day. Nevada shivered with these read
ings: Ely -22; Elko -10, Reno 1,
Indians Ask
To Hire Own
Attorneys
WASHINGTON '.4 Spokesmen
for dozens of Indian tribes pleaded
with Secretary of Interior Chapman
Thursday for the right- to select
their own attorneys on their own
terms. ,
The Indians protested restrictions
National Congress of American In
dians, said "we feel the time has
come when we should live our own
lives and the government should
not live our lives lor us."
The Indians are competent, he
said, to select their own counsel
and they would have more peace
of mind if tribal claims cases were
lost il ihey were handled by attor
ney's of their own choosing in
stead ol lawyer "handpicked lor
us." - .
At Bremerton
BREMERTON l.fl Two heavy
cruisers, the Canberra and Boston,
which the Navy plans lo convert
I into the world's first known guided
I missile warships, are at the Puget
sound Navy Yard here.
The Bremerton group of the
Pacific Reserve Feet is busy
readying the 13,600-ton vessels for
a 40-to-50-day trio to the East
where the remodeling will be done.
The Navy hopes to have them
on their way Jan. 21.
The Boston is scheduled to be
drydocked Jan. 7. The Canberra
on Jan. 11 at the Puget Sound
Naval Shipyard for battening down.
The big Job is to remove the pro
pellors to make the vessels easier
to tow.
Three big navy fleet tugs will
do the towing. One tug will go
along to act, if necessary, as a
"retriever," or to fill in if some
thing happens to one of the other
tugs. The names of the tugs and
the East Coast destination are clas
sified as secret by the navy. -
Eighty men and officers have
been assigned as towing crews for
the vessels.
The Navy said in Washington
that some mothballed battleships
may be converted for use of guided
missiles. Five of the mothballed
giants are at the Puget Sound Navy
Ward.
FAILURES
NEW YO?K W Business fall
ures in the Christmas week totalled
163 compared with 117 in the pie
Dun Brad street renort. Thurs
day. Failures involving liabilities of
five thousand dollars or 'more to
taled 124 against 92 In the previous
week and 105 last year.
mended that the annual cut he
dropped down to about 190,000.000
for a period of years until the sec
ond growth has matured, and then
boosted to 270.000.000 in perpetuity.
That recommendation came out
of a forest survey inventory of 1946,
and evidently it did not consider
types of timber which as was
pointed out yesterday were consid
ered waste a few years back and
are now becoming considered po
tentially valuable.
One fact remains: In the years
preceding the war, the. boom years
of logging in Klamath county, and
in the war years, sawmills in Klam
ath county were cutting timber
faster than the forestlands of Klam
ath county could produce it. And
some years as much timber was
ruined by insects or disease as
was beinpr cut.
The situation has changed. Tim
ber is being cut now at or near
the rate it can be reproduced. Vir
tually all cutting In Klamath county
now Is based on some type of forest
management. That's what is called
sustained yield.
The lumber industry In Klamath
county for 1951 had a payroll total
of about $14,000,000, and it em
ployed' during the peak summer
months something like 3.600 men.
That Includes not only the mills
but. logging as well, and the fig
Missile Ships
WM
Stoppage
Too Much
For Nation
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. W)
President Truman again appealed
to the CIO steelworkers Thursday
to cancel their threat of an In
dustry wide steel strike.
Mr. Truman, in a message to
the opening session of a specially-
summoned union convention, ap
plauded the union's decision to
postpone a scheduled New Year's
Day walkout and asked lor a per
manent postponement.
A new strike deadline also would
have the effect of stimulating the
Wage Board to act fast in handling
the steel wage case.'
The New Year's Day strike post
ponement was at Mr. Truman's re
quest to avoid any halt in pro
duction of the vital metal in view
of combined defense and civilian
needs.
The President's message Thurs
day to the convention, addressed
personally to "Dear Phil" Murray,
again stressed mat tne nauon
simply cannot afford a stoppage in
steel production."
Murray and the USW gave, every
indication In this convention open
ing report that he and the USW
Executive Board favor accepting
President Truman's appeal.
Counterfeit
Dimes Found
SALEM Wl State Police, In
vestigating reports that counterfeit
dimes were coming from the state
penitentiary, found 16 ol the fake
coins Thursday on the cotmnon
law wife of a prisoner. State. Police
Capt. Ray Howard said.
Howard said his men picked up
Lucy McGinnis Jackson, 42, and
that she said she got them from
Dewey Jackson, Polk County mur
derer under life sentence.
Howard said Jackson claimed he
found 50 counterfeit dimes on the
prison farm while he was fixing a
fence, and that he gave them to
the woman.
Howard said no charges have
been filed, and that the case is
being turned over to the U.S. Se
cret Service.
Prison Warden Virgil . CMalley
said he would make no comment
until the investigation is complet
ed. Captain Howard said several oi
lh dime were Dassed in various
stores. His officers found a ladle
contaimng babbitt on the prison
farm property, indicating it might
have been used to make the dimes.
Jackson was received at the pris
on Nov. 10, 1941. and was paroled
Dec. 22, 1948. He was returned to
the prison as a parole violator last
August 6.
Captain Howard said both Jack
son and Lucy Jackson lived to
gether in Salem as man and wife
while he was out on parole.
Cold Claims Sixth
Life In B.C.
VANCOUVER, B. C. Ifl The
sixth death by exposure In British
Columbia since a cold wave struck
the province Christmas Eve was
reported Thursday.
James Robertson was found dead
In his rooming house here last
night. The widow was wide open.
Hospital officials said he died of
exposure.
RECORD HAUL
SALEM l.fl Public Utilities
Commissioner Charles Heltzel said
Thursday his office collected a
record $6,862,531 in motor truck
taxes in 1951.
ures are those of the Oregon State
Unemployment Commission.
Years ago, when sawmilling was
roaring along in uninhibited fashion
the employment figure was con
siderably higher.
Back, in 1928 the industry cm
ployed 4,400; in 1932 lt was down
to 1,908; in 1936 the employment
figure was 6,300; in 1942, the year
of the record cut, it was 5,500 and
Just a relatively short time ago in
1946 it was 5,000.
Back in 1932,. you might remem
ber, a good many lumber workers
got 25 cents an hour for a 10-hour
day, and as late as 1942 the mini
mum scale was 80 cents an hour.
The minimum today, what with
health and welfare setups and the
like, figures out at about $1.70 an
hour for a 40-hour week. Gains by
the worker?,' in. the industry have
been great . . . but today's dollar
is a far cry from being the dollar
of 1932 or even 1942 in buying pow
er. Back- In those years, too,- when
the prime object was to saw out
lumber and not make anything out
of it, compiled figures indicate that
an average 100,000 board feet was
s "year's work for a man. For sev
eral years statistics show that re
lationship: 330,000,000 board -feet
cut in 1934,. and 3300 men em-
Veto Threat
. By STANLEY JOHNSON ; '
PARIS OF) Soviet Russia. - In
a surprise move, proposed Thurs
day that the United Nations Se
curity Council Intervene In the
Korean armistice negotiations. It
asked that both. Korea and the
lessening of world tensions be con
sidered at a high level, possibly
by foreign ministers or chiefs of
state.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky submitted the proposal
lo the 60-natlon nolltlcal committer
after a long speech denouncing a
western collective action plan, and
hinting ominously at events to
come in Southeast Asia. -
The American delegation Immed
iately frowned on the Vishlnskv
proposal. Pending official com
ment, b. s. sources said the Sov
iet resolution was lnacceptable.
Tlie American Informants pointed
out that the U. S. favors contlnu
uatlon of collective measures as
an important factor in the U. N.
efforts for peace. They said the
call for a Security Council meet
ing has been made before without
response from the Russians, who
would not recognize Nationalist
China as a member of the council.
The Americans said that since
the Soviets have veto power In
the council,- it would be useless
to brine the Korean armistice ne
gotiations to that body, adding that
the place for successful conclusion
of such talks is in Korea, with the
veto-free General Assembly decid
ing later on a political settlement.
Vishinsky hinted at things to
come in Asia. He accused the
U. 8. of ferrying Chinese Nation
alist troops into Viet Nam, Burma
and Thailand for an attack on
the rjhlnese Reds. These measures.,
he said, would be described as
"defensive' when "military opera
tions begin against Southern Chi
na." This called to mind the begin
ning of the Korea War, when the
Communists charged that the U.S.
was the aggressor, and the Chi
nese intervention in Korea, when
a similar charge was made.
Vishinsky touched only briefly on
the point, without elaborating on
his meaning.
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Search for ; the big Air Force -J
transport which disappeared in this
vicinity 'eight iay ago with eight 4
men aboard, was Intensified today. 1
Two more Air Force planes, two ':
C-45s were expected to arrive from
Mccnora this afternoon-.
Since last Thursday morning,- a '
McChord Field air . rescue team -with
two B-17's and a C-82 "Flying
Boxcar" has been searching for the
lost plane. ;.
Klamath Air Search and Rescue .
Unit fliers and ground crews have ,
been working with the Air Force
team. Capt. Ray Costello is in com
mand of the search base at Munici
pal Airport.
The missing plane was last heard
from when it radioed the airport
here last Wednesday afternoon that
it was flying southward at 10,000
feet.
Yesterday, the aerial search
which had been confined to areas
south of Klamath Falls, was ex
tended Into areas north of the city.
Snow Removal
Fund Needed
PORTLAND W City Commis
sioner William A. Bowes moved
Thursday to get $50,000 for snow
removal as a heavy blanket began
to cover the city.
He ordered sanding crews out,
told the street cleaning department
to have plows in readiness, and
said he would ask the council later
in Uie day for an allocation of $50,.
000 from the gasoline tax fund.
The city has contracts with
number of companies owning heavy
equipment such as bulldozers and
trucks, to supply them when needed
to remove snow.
Although the Weather Bureau,
forecast only an inch of snow for
Uie downtown district, a heavy fall
before noon prompted the prepara
tions, Bowes said.
County
Aroui:J 3,600
ployed in the Industry; 630,000,000 '
board feet cut In 1936, and 6,300
men employed.
But then the factors of Increased
skills, better equipment and war
tune manpower shortage plus ne
cessity brought the average up to
where in 1947, the peak year, the
cut was 874,000,000 board feet and
the employment 5,500 men.
Still later on as remanufacturlng
became more pronounced here,
adding more man-hours per loe,
the ratio between the cut and the
number employed In the industry
closed again to the point that this
year It's back to the old average
of 100,000 feet per man. .
That average may go down still
more, as more remanufacturlng is
done here. '
Most remanufacturlng Is what the :
industry is aiming at making rea
dily usable products out of the
lumber cut and exacting usable by- '
products from the timber and lum. .
ber; satellite operations which pro
vide more hours of work without .
using up any more of the raw ma- ;
terials. , -
That way, in the face of sus
tained yield cut, the industry can
lift -itself up by the bootstraps. a
the saying goes: afford more Jobs .
and more payroll and a more cer
tain economically prosperous future
for itself and Klamath Falls. .
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