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City Fathers Gather For
Quiet Session, Building
Permits Total $21,920
The City Council's first meeting
of 1953 was notable only in that
It might be about the last one In
the present arrangement of the
counrll chamber.
A start was ordered on remodel
ing work to revamp the interior of
the chamber. The downstairs por
tion of City Hall for several weeks
has been undergoing ireaimcni uy
Warren Still
In Biq Race
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Wl Gov.
Warren's backers are giving close
study to the political implications
of General Eisenhower's statement
that he would accept the Republi
can nomination for President.
Eisenhower's go-ahead to his sup
porters won't change any of War
ren's announced campaign plans.
California's favorite son candidate
has announced only that he will
not enter the Ohio primary against
Ben. Taft.
However, as Warren himself put
It In Honolulu Monday. Eisenhow
er would be a "very powerful can
didate." The state's vacationing governor.
It is known, had been waiting for
Elsenhower to declare himself.
It has been the understanding
here that if Warren decided to seek
convention delegates outside Cali
fornia, he would pick spots where
he wouldn't have to compete with
the popular general.
Norwegian
Mines Blow
OSLO. Norway, MV-Two violent
' explosions shook two separate coal
mines on Norway's Arctic Spits
bergen Islands at an 11-hour in
terval Monday, killing 15 mine
workers.
In the first explosion, at the Stor
Norske Spitsbergen Coal Mine, on
the West Coast of Spitsbergen, six
workers were killed and three in-
jured.
Later disaster struck the Kings
Bay Coal Mine, 60 miles north of
the first explosion. This time nine
mine workers were killed in the
blast, which injured another three.
District Governor Hakon Balstad
t)f Spitsbergen said sabotage was
unlikely but its possibility "may
not be excluded."
Poor Shooting
Makes It Worse
SPOKANE, W Leonard Gott
schalk admitted, in court Monday
be didn't have a federal stamp
when he shot at a duck last No
vember. But he missed, he told the court:
"I didn't kill anything."
"Bad shot, eh?" said Federal
Judge Sam Driver. 'That makes
t ffense even worse. The fine
Of.. '
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carpenters, electricians and paint
ers and City Hall business offices
probably will move from upstairs
within a few days.
Walt Salsbnry, building insrjce
tor. is directing the remodeling
work, and foe his efforts was
verbally rewarded last night by
Mayor Bob Thompson:
"I'll say one thing, Walt, you've
made a dollar go farther than
Harry Truman can."
The whole remodeling Job is ex
pected to cost around $8,000.
Business coming before last
night's session of the council was
routine. It Included:
Approval of dozens of business
licenses for 1953, everything from
cardrooms to kindergartens.
Approval of $21,920 worth of
building permits, including one for
$30,000 for construction of a church
building at 1918 Oregon for the
Free Methodist Church, Rev. Fred
C. Neumann, pastor.
Reappointment of W. B. Whit
comb as airport manager for an
other year.
Approval of a three-year renewal
lease of the old frame hangar at
the airport to A. J. Steinbeck, at
$115 a month.
Approval of street department
plans to purchase five tons of rock
salt, for $131; a snowplow attach
ment for a truck from the Nelson
Equipment Co., Portland, about
$685; and calling for bids on two
1500-gal. pumps, one of which is
to replace the old city storm sewer
pump on Big Lakes Box Company
property at Ewuana Lake.
Abandonment temporarily o f
plans for a sewer district in the
area between Kit Carson Way and
Eldorado beyond Birch. Owners of
unimproved property declined to
stand the cost of the Improvement.
Approval of purchase of new
equipment for the mayor's office in
in the newly - remodeled down
stairs part of City Hall.
An ordinance drawn up to com
bine two previous ordinances reg
ulating the Initiative and referen
dum procedures in relation to city
affairs was given first and second
readings, and probably will be
passed next Monday. It makes no
change in the procedures.
That ordinance was drawn up as
a part of the work of recodifying
city ordinances going on, and a
number of others of similar nature
are also being prepared. The Coun
cil adjourned its meeting last night
until Thursday, 7:30 p.m., when
some will be read.
ACT TODAY to earn
4 ii 1952!
w y i
First Ted e ral Avi n b s
AlLOAN ASSOCIATION
540 Main Street
THAT PLEASANT voice answering the phone when you
call the Bureau of Reclamation is usually that of Mrs.
Ophelia Mergel (above), 335 E. Main. Mrs. Mergel, along
with other duties, has charge of the telephone switchboard
at the Bureau.
SOCE Teachers To
Hold Class Here
Four faculty members at South
ern Oregon college are offering
night classes at Klamath Falls this
winter in cooperation with the gen
eral division of the Oregon State
System of Higher Education.
on Wednesday evenings. Dr. Bill
Sampson, assistant professor of ed
ucation, is directing a class In
school finance and Miss Freeda Wil
son, assistant professor of educa
tion, is teaching children's litera
ture. Thursday night classes include
biological science survey taught by
Dr. Seymour Fowler, assistant pro
fessor of science and Glenn T. Mat
thews, assistant professor of music,
is offering public school music.
A total of 13 Southern Oregon
Now is the time "to work"
cash reserves to tighten your grip on
security. Savings placed with us
by January 10th earn two liberal -returns
in the coming year.'
stop in and save today!
$73,615.95 IN EARNINGS
PAID OUR SAVERS
DECEMBER 31st!
2'2
CURRENT RATE
PER
Klamath Fall
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
staff members are directing simi
lar night classes at North Bend,
Roseburg, Grants Pass, Medford,
and Ashland.
When George Washington lived
as a youth of 19 on the Rappa
hannock River opposite Fredericks
burg. Va., he often went for a swim
in the stream.
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FLUSHING
REPAIRING
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more
ANNUM
r
City's 1951 Fire Losses
Far Below Previous Year
Fire losses in Klamath Falls last
year were approximately 43 per
cent less Uian In 1950, according
to Fire Chief Roy Rowo's annual
report.
In 1950, losses totaled SUQ.740;
last year's total was $88,803. In
surance paid oif $70,045 of the
1951 losses, leaving a net loss of
$18,758.
The big Oregon Rooms fire.
Feb. 3, 1950, which took a toll
of four liven, accounted for a big
portion of that year's heavy dol
lar loss.
Two lives were lost In fires last
year and in both Instances fire
men believed clgarct carelessness
to blame.
The first fire fatality Vn.i on
Jan, 10. Firemen were culled to
fight a blase In a six-room house
at 1945 Main. After the blase had
been subdued, the body of EwIhr
Felix Graham, 63, was found In
the house.
The second death was earlv on
the morning of Sept. 16. Leroy
Routh, 51, died in bed as flames
swept through his small cabin at
319 Broad.
NO TROUBLE
OKLAHOMA CITY W Police
Judge Mike Foster didn't have any
trouble walking on the Ice which
coated Ouklahoma recently. A
pitchfork was his solution, Just use
It like a cane and dig into the
ice, he explained.
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OUR RADIO MAN, Jim Brady, holds
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mereial license.
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Most spectacular blase limt year
was the big Ewaunn and Big
Lakes Box fire that broke out
about noon, Sept, 16. Hie old
wooden buildings at S. 811) and
Spring Bt's. were In procoss of
being rnr.ed ul the time. The
fire's terrific hent threatened, for
a time, the big Pacific Co-op
across the street. Huko cloud of
billowing nmoko attracted hun
dreds ol spectators. The bluiic waft
finally confined with the O'l'I and
Southern 1'iiclllo firemen aiding
the city department.
Ono of the year's most tragic
fires occurred the night of Deo. 6
It destroyed the new home of
the Norman Chase family leaving
the Chases and their nine chil
dren with little more than the
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