f?Tr ro)fn IfL &UuUl LTQUXJ I B EM in tik Day's lews By UtANK JKNKINH Hie cciimm liuroiiti cNllnuitt'H tlmt (in December 1, 1U), the pop Kliillon o (lit, U.H. was 155,6711,000. On April 1, 1050, l)V actual count lit iiiiwm. It whs Ml, 132,1X10. That's ii Kiilti (if nearly 4 1 j miliums In u year mid ii hull. We're iintlliiK la bo a big buy Iii.'it, went we 7 Do you rrindiibiT, nwiiy biuk In tlio blue 3u's, when wo were nil In Uio dumpM, the crystal-bull-tin wore Idling us thitl. Ihn iiruk ill our population hud hrni rciu'lu-d mid llicronlter we would BUI' HACK' Olhor erystul-biillcia llicn added Ihut In Uio near luliiro American Industry would bo top-liruvv oil the ultle ol production ol good lor old Mere wheel chillis, crutches, lull iin'iit bottle unci mich. Miimiliic Unci o( biiby bungles, diapers, nursing hollies mid things ol Una on, ihi-y Mild, would bo headed ,or bankruptcy. " About nil I cim think ol to sny "Is: llctil llchl Ilili! Anvwny. phooev on the erynliil-bulli-rhl I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT 1H OOINO IX) HAI'lUSN IN 'IIIK PUTUHS;. I wnnt the fun ol meclhiK II nn It conirK mid lick Iiik It If It hun to be licked. Something to think about: The slate tux commission tcllH us Unit TAX-EXKMI'T properly In Orcgull now tolillH 17.10.650,685. mint's' rotmhly three-quarters of K billion dollars.) Ol the non-taxed three-quarter ol n billion, the federal govern inent owns, 111 round numbers, 431 millions, iicliool districts 78 rfnil llon. Hie slate llsclf 07'j mlllloitn nnd churches nnd religious organ isations 'JTj lllllllolltl. Cynical tliouidit: Suppose we exempted EVERY THING Irom luxation. What would happen? More on the tnx subject: The U.S. chamber ol commerce estimates Hint If President Tru man's new iS-bllllon-dollar lodernl budget U npproved by congress Hie head of every American lam llv will have an exlra debt or tax burden of added to the bur den that already rest on the back ol hla neck. Oregon would get off a Utile bct ler than the average. Tho Presi dent's proponnls lor Increased pending would add 107 million dollars to Oregon's federal tax to tal, or 1210 per family. rtcallfitle question: If you ara the head of a family, do you think ths extra upending will be worth to you what It will coat you? A SEAnOHINaQUCiitlon . In Vour necessary and unadvold bio dealings with government, would you rather do the bulk of It In Washington? Or would you prefer to have to go only to Salem or Sacramento? I can answer that one promptly. I WANT GOVERNMENT KEPT A8 CLOSE TO ME AS POSSIBLE. I feel safer that way. Here's one to think about; In Britain they've Just conduct ed a poll to ace which day of tho week the British like the most. Hundnv was a heavv winner. Those who preferred Sunday ex it Ineri thitl thev like Sunday's r11 passive, leisured, do-as-you-plctiac" atmosphere. Uneasy thought: Do you reckon that's what's wrong with Britain? A "passive, leisured, do-as-you-please" atmosphere may be pleas mil, but It doesn't get you very fur ahead."' Instead of going nhend, Brltnin Is slipping backward. Cougars Killed By Woodsmen EUGENE im Joe Jackson nnd Melvln Allen, two Lane County woodsmen, llguro there will be 720 extra deer for hunters to stalk this lull. Hint's because they've killed nIx cougars slnco tho first of tho ycur. Hnorlsmen claim a cougar cuts a Vleer every three dnys. Tho men collected $00 bounty for ench cougar. BEAUTY MAKERS Bernetta Tracy (loft), 2525 Apple l&ite St., and June Dyer (with phone), 2520 King St., paused from their work at MuricPs. Beauty Salon this morning to smile for the cameraman. I'rlee live Cents H Taxes Farm Sabotage Inmerica Threat Seen ; Border Inspection WAHII1NUTON Hi Comptroller Clcuerul Llndsuy C. Wurrvn told miiiitors I''riduy he hud ordered u "lull mid coniplelo InvestlKiitlon" of shoiluges In tho Aurlcultuio Ue pui'tiiient's Kniln ntoriiKO pi'OKi'uni, utter his auditors louud shortngns of more than :i,t)(IO.i)00 In a slnulc oldie ul nallnn, Texas. Warren testified bclore the Sen ate Agriculture Committee. Secrc- ECenfycky Jets Battle; Ships Shell Red Beeches BKOUL, Korea W1 Jet planes fought over Northwest Korea Fri day lor the fourth successive day. U.S. Bubre Jets screening thiind- erlet strikes against Red rail lines and supplies louuht brlelly with elements ol a formation of 120 Communist jets. Ono light of four MIO-ISs broke through the screening Sabres and inudc a firing puss at the thunder- Jets, then bended for home. No duniagc was reported. Tho Air Force reported three Mills downed and seven damaged In Uie previous three, days fights. Allied losses are reported only weekly. Action along the frozen 145-mile 'around front followed the same oulet pattern of the past two months. Tho only fighting Friday morn ing reported bv the U.S. Eighth Army was along the Eastern front An Allied imtrol louuht Willi en trenched Communists west of flcarlbrrnle Kldge for an hour and a hull before withdrawing. The U.S. Cruiser St. Paul re. turned to action off Kosong Thurs. duy. Tho St. Paul's guns hit Red entrenchments with 135 rounds and the supporting destroyers Hammer and Marshall added another 100 rounds. dipt. R. A. Oano of Pipestone. Mum., reported Uio St. Paul de stroyed six Red bunkers and dam uged eight. More than 100 miles north of the 38th parallel the US destroyers Doyle and porieriicin ana inc Cnnndlnn Destroyer Athabasknn touched off big llrcs near songjun. The Athnbusknn moved so close In shore sailors on her decks raked a building with rifles and machine- guns. Ex Pitcher Dies At 75 THE DALLES, .Ore., .Tl A one lime prolesslonal baseball plnyor, who also held a Carnegie heroism award, died Thursday. He was W. A. Salisbury, 75, resident of Itowcnn, west ol here. In 1001 he pllched for Portland In the Pacific Northwestern Lea gue and Ihc next year he was taken by the Philadelphia Phillies, but wns released in mid-season. In 1011 ho saved Archie O. Runis- den, a telegrapher, from drowning In Ihe Willamette River nt Albany and received a Carnegie Hero Com mission bronze modal nnd $1,000. His widow nnd nine children sur vive. KLAMATH FALLS, OKKCiON, tury of Agriculture Bninnun and a down assistants waited their turn to explain the cases under probe. Hen. Anderson (D.-N.M.), former secretary ol agriculture, closely questioned Warren nnd his auditors on why Ihcro had not been pros ecution of the ahorlugcH, or why there hud been delays In prose cution. Involved In the Inquiry wns gov Slots Spud Price Rollback To Go Into Effect Saturday Farmer's price on Klumath po tatoes will bo rolled buck more than l,5(i when the scheduled Of fice of Price Stabilization ceiling prices become effective tomorrow. Growers were receiving upwards of $5 per hundred pounds of po tatoes the first of this year; the OPS order will roll the price back to 13.6!). Oregon nnd Idaho growers, how ever, don't think the announced ceiling Is fair and hnvc sent a group to Washington D. C. where a 21- Truce Talks ill Stalled By OI.K.V C'l.KMKNTS MUNSAN, Korea Truce ne gotiators kept tempers In check us they wrangled fruitlessly Fri day over terms of a Korean armis tice. Tlie only outburst came from a Chinese delegate who rclcrred scornlully to America's Allies as "running dogs." MuJ. Gen. Claude Fcrenbaugh made his dally-plen that the Reds promise not- to build ' airfields 1" North Korea during a truce. The Communists replied, as usu al, that their pledge not to send combat planes across the Yalu during a truce was sufficient guar antee. In nn adjoining tent. Rear Adm. R. E. Llbby tried vainly to get Ri.l negotiators to accept volun tarily repatriation of war prison ers. Forum To Be Held Monday Another panel of seven persons has been selected for next Mon day night's airing of the Herald and News KFLW sponsored panel discussion program, "Build the Basin." The topic of discussion will be How Can We Best Put Our Youth Idens Into Immediate Action?" Slated on the panel are Carrol Howe, superintendent county schools; Arnold Oralapp, superin tendent city schools; Kay JBiggers, YMCA president; Rev. George Alder, president Klamath Minis terial Assoc., Mrs. Richard King- don, president KUHS Parents Pa trons and two high school students. The student representatives will be selected by student bodies of the city and county systems. According to KFLW Mnnnger Bud Chandler, Mayor Robert A. Thompson was Invited to partlcl pntc In the discussion, but de clined because of pressing City Council business Mondny night. Chnndler said Mayor Thompson promised to be available for a radio forum nt a later date. Rodeo Board Plans Meet Thci'o won't be a Klamath Bnsln Roundup this summer unless direc tors show more interest thnn ihev have been, said Bob Robblns. Rounduu Association nresldont. In. day. Robbins said he had been unable to get enough directors together for a meeting to make arencrnl plans for this year's roundup. Only five of the 14 directors showed up for a meeting sched uled Wednosdny evening. Robblns sHld the five fnlthful directors were Kimer Bnisiger, Don Rice, Hunk Ring, Charlie Rend and Robblns. Another meeting has been cnlled for Tuesdny. 7:30 n.m.. at the Wll- lard Hotel. "If enough directors don t show up for this meeting I guess wo just won't hnve a rouudup this year," said Robbins. ' Weather TOItKCASTi Klamath Falls and vl.lnlty and Northern California. occasional snow Friday night and Saturday, somewhat warmer High both days 22, low tonight 15. High Thursday 14 Law last night -4 Preelp Thursday ......,., 0 Preeln since Oct. 1 9.85 Normal for period 5.79 Last year, period 9.14 (Additional weather on rage 4) -o HtlDAY. JA.NX'' ernment owned grain and other farm commodities, obtained In the farm price support program. It was stored In elevators snd other storage centers and the short ages or "conversions" arc blamed by Brannan on "Individuals ol the grain trude," not Agriculture De partment employees. Both Anderson and Sen. Aiken (R.-Vt.) referred to the shortages page protest was filed with the ops yesterday. Klamath growers Scott Warren and Louie Lyon are in the capital meeting with OPS officials now. The statement, according to Chairman Roy Snabcl, Redmond, of tho Calllornla-Orcgon Potato Marketing Agreement Control Com mittee, is to do a "selling job on the OPS." A historical Northwest premium, Snabcl said, allows that Oregon potatoes on a live-year average have been Irora 00 to 80 cents per hundredweight higher than the prices In other stales. "We are not flphting the celling itself." Snabcl said. "Probably it was needed. It was getting to be a runaway market. But we are fighting to get a celling at a fair price for this area.'' The growers would like to raise the proposed ceilings by 76 cents to VI .41 per hundred pounds to the grower. Also sought in the statement Is a month-by-month Increase In (he potato price to allow for storage costs and shrinkage. According to roports here, that would run some thing like 25 cents for the first month and a dime Increase each month thereafter. r. It cost 10 " lo 13' 'cents per hun dred pounds per. month to store po tatoes here, not including labor costs for movliig them In and out. Rosalee Back On The Job II was fust like being a girl again. "Rosalee" the Southern Pa cific's huge rotary snowplow was called out of retirement last Mon day, after 16 years of standing idle. The job she, and a similar steam powered plow, was given was a Dig one, loo. The two 150-ton plows were dis patched to Donner Pass to help free the Southern Pacific's drift bound streamliner, City of San Francisco. The Inst time Rosalee saw ac tion wns back In 1936 the year oldlimers call the winter of the big snow. Sanford Selby. SP Klamath di vision roundhouse foreman, said me two plows were sent irom here Mondny, and at last word Were still at Donner Pass. Engine 7209, commonly called Rosalee, was manned by Machin ist Everett O. Loznr, 2032 Apple- gate, and Engine 7221, was In charge of W. L. Zoll. Sending of the two huge plows to Donner Pass left the Klamath division without any snowplow, so me Sf oorrowed a plow irom the Union Pacific, Selby said. Power Output Here Taxed Cnllfornla-Oicgon Power Com pany facilities are being taxed to tho absolute limit In an attempt to provide ample electricity for domestic heat and Industrial uses, Copco's Klamalh Mgr. Sam Rltch- ey snid todny. Despite the industrial power cut instituted several weeks ngo, Ritch- ey snid every possible kilowat wns needed to meet the great demand. He explained .that much of the heavy power pull now was due to the severe cold and the resulting heavy heating load. Basin lumber mills were put on a i power curtailment schedule In mid-December, the Schedule cuts mills' power supply by half from 8 to 11:30 a.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Copco says thnt all attempts to secure additional power from other sources have failed. Franey Funeral To Be Saturday Recitation of the Rosary will be hold for Sheriff Jack Franey to night at o m ward s chapel, and funeral services will be conducted Saturdny, 9:30 a.m. from Sacred Heart Church. Rev. T. P. Cnsey will officiate, nnd military honors at Mt. Calvary Memorial cemetery are to be hnn died by American Legion Post No. 8. Sheriff Frnncy, 52, died Inst Tuesday night. ' Telephone 8111 No. 2717 Tightens Spokesman for the Agriculture Department and Brannan previous ly had disclosed some of these as "stealing" and "embezzlement." 1 shortages and said prosecutions had been started In some of them. They Indicated that the short ages represented a relatively small amount in widespread 10 billion dol lar farm loan program. Nabbed Raids Nab Gambling Equipment LOUISVILLE, Ky. 11 The FBI launched a surprise statewide roundup of costly gambling ma chines in Kentucky Friday. ay eany aiternoon, iso acvices valued at about $500,000 had been seized and nearly a score of war rants issued. The drive started in key cities and fanned out into smaller com munities, the Federal Bureau of Investigation office here reported. Warrants were Issued for nearly a score of persons, the FBI said. An FBI agent reported 99 per cent of the machines seized were the kind known as "one-arm band its." He said the others included payoff mechanisms. in WashUiaton. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover described the Ken tucky roundup as a continuing drive on violations of the federal law against interstate transportation of gambling devices. He described those arrested as dealers in gambling machines, Il legal under Kentucky law as well as uncier tne federal statute. FBI agents and local officers, traveling with vans, he said, made rapid seizures in private and public clubs, cafes, and various places of amuseoicm. Demos Fight Tax Boost WASHINGTON W One of the Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee reported Friday they sre practically solid in op posing another general tax increase this year. With the Republican minority lined up against a boost. Congress apparently has written off anv nos- sibility of favorable action on Pres ident Truman s request for approx imately five billion more tax dol lars. ' Under the Constitution, all reve nue legislation must originate in tne House, and tne Ways and Means group is in the driver's seat. By all present indications, it will keep Its foot on the brake and off the starter. Ways and Means Democrats held an informal conference at which sentiment was sounded out. The member who reported solidarity against an increase asked not to be quoted by name. British Meat Ration Cut LONDON Wl Another morsel of meat was whisked off the hard pressed Briton's bare dinner plate Friday. Announcing that the present ra tion 19.8 cents worth a week per persons Will sink to 16.32 cents, Food Minister Owilym Lloyd George blamed lagging shipments from the Argentine and Australia. But ne softened the blow sngntiy by upping the bacon ration from three ounces to four. That means each Briton will be entitled to about four razor-thin slices a week in stead of three. Here's what the weekly ration will buy: . . A chunk of low-grade stewing steak about the size of a baseball. Or a slightly bigger portion ol low-grada scrag end of lamb for stewing. Or to small lamb chops. Or a chunk of prime beefsteak the size of a packet of cigarets. DeArmand To Run For Delegate BEND Ml - H. H. DeAnnond, for ninnv years active in Oregon Republican circles, said he would run for delegate to the Republican National Convention, July 7 in Chi cngo, as a supporter, of Gen, Dwlght D. Elsenhower. neArmond nltended national con ventions in 1932. when President Hoover was re-nominatea, and in 1936, when Gov. Alf Landon of Kan sas was named. FILES SALEM Iff) State Rep. Jack Greenwood. Wemme Republican who represents Clackamas County, filed for reelection Friday, Cows Feet Sore, Judge's Heart Cold, No Dough LITTLETON. Colo. W -Dam-ages for mental suffering can not be claimed because your sore feet, District Jivlge Harold H. Davles ruled Friday. Olenn and Ada Page charged their neighbor, W. H. Lane, build a "spite" fence along his property, causing them to drive their dairy herd over a longer route to pasture, resulting in loss of milk production, sore feet for the cows and mental anguish for the owners. Judge Davis threw out the mental anguish charge on which ;hey asked 15,000 damages. Three Hurt In Plane Crash HOUSTON OT'I ThrPB .r.ttmr, of a B29 bomber were hospitalized early today after their plane crashed into a ditch, smashing its nose and splitting in several seg- None of the hospitalized were se riously hurt. There were 14 per sons aboard the Air Force plane coming In for a landing In thick fog at Ellington Air Force Base near nere. A board has been appointed to Investigate the crash. The plane was from Spokane, Wash. Hospitalized were Capt. Raymond G. Kretchmer. Diane commanripr and pilot, face and head cuts and a fractured right leg; First Lt. Ralph C. Marsh, co-pilot, face culs and multiple bruises; Sgt. Leeman M. Tankersley, central fire controller, hip and leg cuts and multiple con tusions. Food Poison Total 102 PORTLAND, im Oregon had 102 cases of food poisoning last year, most of them from six count ies. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, stole health officer, reported Friday that nine separate outbreaks in Benton. Clackamas, Harney, Jackson, Mar ion ana Multnomah counties ac counted for 96 of the cases. The remaining cases affected only one hcjsuii ui a lime. He said none ofthe poisoning in volved botulism. The foods charged In the cases ranged all the way from cream puffs to chill and soft ice cream. Temp Warms Overstate By The Associated Press The weather warmed up a bit in Oregon Friday. Failure of the Highway Commission to get a re port from the chilly region be tween Burns and John Day helped, too, In making the temperature report look less frigid. The weather bureau's coldest re port was minus 9 at Burns and the next was minus 3 at Ontario. The highway department, whose thermometer at Seneca on Thurs day showed minus 24, on Friday had only a minus 6 at Lakeview as its coldest. Aside from the sub-zero readings, weather in Oregon was pretty much normal with a few snow flurries in prospect for the eastern part of the state and occasional showers on tap in the west. Diamond Match Buys Willits Firm NEW YORK, Iff) The Diamond Match Co. has acquired the retail lumber yard and building mater ials store of the Willits Lumber Co. of Willits, Calif., it was an nounced Thursday by Joseph E. Duffey, Diamond vice president. It gives Diamond a total of 110 retail lumber yards and building supply stores, with 74 of them in California. ' ' M THEY'LL LEAD THE PARADE Bob Rice waves a make shift baton while Jean Jameison, a victim of polio, looks on. Tho pair will lead the grand entry parade, before the Eagles marching groups, in the Eagles March of Dimes Dance tomorrow night in the Eagles hall. The dance is for members and any number of guests who care to attend. The grand entry is at 10 p.m. Thousands Flee Homes In Face Of Wild Water - -it SHIP AHOY! Edward Boidetti of Los Angeles hails pass ing motorists to rescue him from his stranded auto at a flooded intersection in Hollywood. Hundreds of motorists were forced to abandon their cars as heavy rains caused the storm drains to overflow flooding streets and highways. NEA Telephoto LOS ANGELES fP) Two thou sand families were ordered evacu ated Friday as a night of deluging rain poured floods into flatlands south of here. The sheriff's substation at Nor walk announced that the Coast Guard, moving 10 miles inland from tne macule, would undertake to move the 6.000 or more persons from the path of rising waters. The emereencv centers in the communities of Norwalk, Artesia and Hawaiian Gardens, southeast of here. The Coast Guard moved up irom Its bases at Long Beach and San Pedro with boats and amphib ious equipment of all types. Another critical situation in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles proper, apparently was well in hand, although some 200 families had been taken from their homes in the Reseda area. As (welcome "sunshine broke through the clouds shortly after dawn, the picture through much of Southern California was one of rushing torrents, mud-closed high ways ana stalled cars. By S a.m., the ntorm had brought 4.17 inches of rain in Los Angeles in 18 hours. Higher amounts fell on foothill communities which ring the city and despite flood control channels and spreading basins, the immense volume of water was rip ping out roads and cutting into can yon banks s it rushed toward the Pacific. Churches and schools which In most sections were closed to class es for the day were pressed into service as evacuation centers. For the second time this week horse racing at Santa Anita Park was cancelled because of rain swollen creeks around Arcadia. Heavy snows were falling in the mountains, with the mam route from here to San Francisco. U.S. 99. closed between San Fernando and Bakersfleld by nearly two feet of snow. The Weather Bureau said the worst of the current storm has passed, but that another now mov ing down the Pacific Coast is due here by Saturday night. It fore cast intermittent rain, occasionally heavy, through Wednesday. Friday's downpour boosted Los Angeles' rain total to 17.40 inches, two inches beyond the normal for an entire season. Despite the dam age, the moisture was welcome as or HI replenishment for underground supplies sapped by a seven-year drought. Well levels have been fa IV ing throughout Southern California. Despite a respite in the rainfall rriuujr morning, uie nc&uict u- reau said the danger will continue as choked mountain creeks rushed into the valleys. SDreading basins have been built at the moutlra of many creeks to conserve as much of the flow as possible. The entire state has been plagued by the worst storms since the turn of the century uils ween. Virtually all main railroad and highway routes across the Sierra have been closed and there Is gent eral transportation chaos. LOS ANGELES Iff) Two worn en storm drowning victims in the iiooa-swept pan-Jdernuuua; viiiey were tentatively identified Friday as Tacoma, Wash, women. Their husbands were missing from their submerged car and feared drowned. , . - Papers in the women's handbags identified them as Mrs. Gladys Mc Carthy, 41, and Mrs. Ruth Muir, 30. both of Tacoma, police reported. They had been registered with their husbands at a motel nearby. Their car, carrying Washington license plates, had slid oft a road near San Fernando and was jam med in a flooded culvert. The women's bodies were found., in the baric seat and notice said they believed the two men were washed away in the flood. At Tacoma, relatives said that Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mulr, apart ment house owners at Titlow Beach there, and Mrs. and Mrs. Thaddeus McCarthy, both 41, tavern opera tors, had been vacationing several weeks in California and were on their way home. The ages of Mr. and Mrs. Mulr were given as 65 and 60 respective ly. There was no immediate ex planation of the difference between Mrs. Muir's age of 60 and that of the Mrs. Muir in the San Fernanda dispatch. SAN FRANCISCO Ufi Southern Pacific workmen, having rescued passengers and crew from the City of San Francisco, faced the gigan tic job Friday of freeing the snow blanketed $3 million streamliner. The S. P. has 350 men working on an around the clock schedule in the high Sierra's Donner Pass area, where the luxury train has been trapped since Sunday. Ironically, the first job is to free four snow plows which became snowbound in initial efforts to free the City of S. F. The rotaries any one of which normally could have cleared the way for the train block approaches to it from both east and west. Mountain crews were working to ward the streamliner from both di rections, hoping to bring it out be fore another severe storm can pile on more snow. , City Youths Go On Air Klamath youth viewed the news here Friday when officials from radio station KOMO Seattle, pro duced the program "Youth Views the News" from Klamath Union High School auditorium. The program was recorded and will be released over a special hook up of U Pacific Northwest radio stations, including KFJI, Sunday evening at 6:30. f ' A panal of four KUHS Students Beverly Eels, Trudy Bramlett, Tom Murdock and Leroy Porter discussed topics covering President Truman's State, of the .Union message, the Korean peace situa tion and the professional boxing situation. Millard Ireland was moderator, Bob Hurd was the show's producer and Bill .Vandermay was techni cian. The program is sponsored by Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. 1 SKATING TONIGHT Skating is scheduled again at the Moore Park rink. The City Recreation Dept. this morning stated the rink would be open front 2 to 10 p.m.. today for skatlnj.