Youth Forum Again Tonight
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ARNOLD GRALAPP
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Day's km
j. By WANK JENKINS
Today's problem:
Where you gonna uil it niter
you shovel 11 oil?
Foolish qucHtloii:
Wliut wish tho year of tile big
storm buck In tho lBBO's? Was It
lHU4'i That's the (lute tliut seems
to run In my mind. iTIml wm bo
lorc my time, but I've certainly
liiard a lot o( In lie about It.)
It must have been rugged,
Fairbanks (Alaska):
"The temperature skidded to 00
below 'ro timidity ,11
una 7B below ul Snag, on the
Alimkii-Cuiiuillnn border itnd niuny
Interior Alanku points reported
tradings of 7(1 .below or colder
A dense Ice fox which
always forma when the mercury
drops below minus 43 reduced visi
bility nl nlKht to About 30 feel.
"llecuuiic of the difficulty of
starting cold engines, drivers are
keeping their motors running 24
hours ii cluy ... If dellverymen
lurry Willi loud of groceries they
Iihvo apples nn hurd as rocks, eggs
Hint smash like glass and tunned
goods Unit liecr.o find btile the
conluiner Con of beer
freeze in Icjis than 45 minutes."
Why print all that frigid stuff?
Here's why;
When we hear of somebody who
Is more uncomfortable than we
tire, 11 m ii ken us all feel better.
'Hint Is why newapupers print and
radio, stations brondcn.it nrws of
rough weather ELSEWHERE.
Aren't people funny?
They're funny In so many ways.
They'll do little menu, ticky, sell
lh thing and then they'll go out
and GIVE THEIR LIVES In some
liooin and unxciiisn cause.
Whatever you do, don't aell peo
ple snort, . ,
i Another one for the book:
Yoateidny morninii, Tom Wal
ters and I were out shoveling snow
off our from walks. The white
stuff was coming down as If Old
Mother Uoose were picking all her
ganders at once. When we got
within hulling distance, what do
you suppose we ami
We leaned on our shovels and
spent a hnlf hour chewing over
ways nnd means to SAVE THE
BASIN'S WATER!
At that moment, water wns run
mug out of people's ears all along
inc racnic coasi.
We-l-M-l-1, let's keep our sense
or biiiiuicc.
Up ut Klitmuth Agency, they
huvo a cross-cut of an 800-year-old
pine trco whose rliiRS tell us tlmi
at more or less rcgulnr Intervals
(luring ull Uioae eight centuries wet
cycles and dry cycles have alter
Haled but In one period bnck In
the 1700 s there was a drouth that
laMcd lw years.
All over this Western country of
ours, water Is the basis of all of
our wealth. How to use our wnler
to the best advantage Is the biggest
problem we nave.
K raw a
Man Feared
Jule Inmates
PORTLAND Wl Yoshlo Maru
kuml testified In federal court
Suliii'dny that he gnve up his
American citizenship because he
loured reprisals from . other war
time Inmates at tho Tulo Lnkc
Jppunese Relocutlon Center.
- Marukaml, 31, Is suing to regain
His American citizenship,
He testified through an Interpre
ter that he was born In Seattle In
1020. 8hortly after that his family
took him to Japan, he said. He
returned to the U.S. In 10:0 to
avoid draft Into the Japnneso Army
lie testllled.
He was placed, along wllh other
West Coast Japanese, In relocation
centers during World War II. At
Tulo Litko ho renounced his Ameri
can ciuzcnsnip because of pressure
Irom oilier Inmates, no said.
Marukaml said his wife whom
Jie met at Tule Lake now Is In
Japan where they were deported
after the war. She too has filed
suit to regain her citizenship, Maru
kaml said.
Griff is Resigns
Spanish Post
WASHINGTON WMStanton Orlf
fid resigned Monday as ambassa
dor to Spain, saying ho had almost
reached the ago. of 65 and wanted
to rotlra to prlvnto life.
Mr. Truman In accopting the res
ignation, praised him for his "out
iilnndlng" contribution to govern
ment. Tho President said the reslg
nation would he effective on a date
to be established later.
In private life, Orlffls Is a Now
York Investment broker,
MKET rOSTI'ONI'W
A meeting. of tho Klnmnth Court
ly Homo Extension Committee, or
lgliiinlly scheduled for tomorrow,
hail been postponed lor one week
until Tuesday, Jan. 26, tho Home
Extension office reported this
moraing.
CARROL HOWE
REV. GEORGE ALDER
MRS. EDITH KINGDON
DOT AM FLEMING
CHICK QUINOWSKI
RAY BIGGERS
WATKB CONTENT HIGH
MEDf'ORD m Water content
of snows In Oregon Indicate on
excellent wator year, for western
teetlons of tho state.
rno water content of Cascade
summit snows was 178 per cent
abovo normal and Santlam. 180
per cent higher than average.
Three snow courses In Southern
Oregon show wnter content to be
365, 283 nnd 312 ucr cent above
normal, ...
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New Panel
To Answer
Questions
Seven parsons tonight at 8:30
p.m. on the Herald and News
KFLW sponsored "Build the
Basin" radio forum will try to
determine what Immediate action
can be taken to solve the Klamath
Basin youth problem.
Publlo demand last week after
the first forum on how to build
better citizens required that a fol
lowup on the problem be made.
Panel members for tonight's dis
cussion Include:
Arnold Cirilnpp, superintendent,
city schools: Carrol Howe, super
intendent, county schools: Rev.
George Alder, president Klamath
Ministerial Assoc.; Mrs. Edith
Klngdon, president, KUH8 Parents
Patrons; "Chick" Qulnowskl;
KUH8 senior; Dot Ann Fleming,
Henley senior; Ray Blggers, presi
dent. YMCA.
KP'LW Manager Bud Chandler
will again act as moderator of the
hour-long program, with assistance
from Stan Announcers Floyd
Wynne and Hank Henry.
Six persons have been lined up
to channel questions to the panel
phoned In to the Herald and News
.switchboard (Bill).
No Alcoholic
Candy For
Children
BKRN. Switzerland Wl The
Swiss Nutrition Commission has
published a nationwide appeal
against the snle of llquor-fllled
candy to children of school age.
The free sale of chocolates
filled with cognac, cherry, bran
dy or klrsch to children caused
them to be "over-excited" at
play and In traffic, led to undue
fatigue In class and Introduced
them to the evils of alcohol at
an early age, the commission
aald.
The commission appealed to
parents, teachers and shopkeep
ers to protect children from al
coholic candy and guide them to
wards "the true sources of
strength and health."
Woman Dies
Lost in Snow
A trail of blood spots on fresh
snow at the Rudolph Cacka ranch
two miles north of Hatfield lead
officers to suspect foul play early
yesterday morning In the death of
a 24-year-old Negro woman, Aire
Rogers.
But after lengthy Interrogation,
two men, John Willie McNeil, 37-year-old
Negro, and Donald Mc
Ouff, 34, a white man, were re
leased from custody.
Dlst. Atty. D. E. Van Vactor
said the woman was evidently
drunk, got lost in wind and snow
sometime bctore 8:30 a.m. buiv
day while looking for an outhouse
and died In the snow of exposure,
The woman's body was dlscov.
ered by McNeil about 7 a.m.. af
ter he awoke and didn't find her
In his cabin.
McNeil told the district attorney
he and the woman had been liv
ing together since 1943 as man
and wife, but were not married.
GIN PARTY
McNeil told Sheriff Red Brttton
and state police, he and his girl
friend started drinking gin about
3 p.m. Saturday.
They were Joined by McGuff.
who worked with them for Rudolph
Cacka, about 0:30 p.m.
McGuff has lived in the area
about six years while McNeil and
the Rogers woman came here from
Woodland, Calif., last October.
After one fifth of Kin was con'
sumed, mostly by the two Ne
groes, the trio went to Merrill
about 7 p.m. for groceries lor Mc-
uuii.
Stores there were closed so they
went back to Tulelake arriving
there about 8 p.m., McNeil told
the Sheriff.
Thev went back to McNeil's cab'
in on Cacka's ranch, the old Gaines
place, and finished off another
iiftn 01 ain aoout muiniKni.
McGuff said he went across to
his cabin and went to sleep. Mc
Neil said he also went to bed and
the Rogers woman stayed up to
finish some washing.
Sheriff Brltton and other 0111-
cers believe this Is what happened
after that.
After wring nor out the wasnmg.
the woman, wlmout shoes and clad
only In a dress and blouse, started
out the cabin door to an outhouse
some 40 feet away.
BLOOD SPOTS
She apparently got lost In the
driving snow and turned to the
left, coming to McGuffs cabin.
That's where the blood spots start
ed.
Sheriff Brltton said the Rogers
woman apparently struck her left
thumb against the cabin wall and
11 started bleeding. She had cut It
with an axe while chopping kind
ling Saturday afternoon.
The blood trail lean orouna mice
sides of the cabin, then across a
small ditch and Into a four-feet
deep canal. , ,
Marks on the canal banks
showed the woman went up and
down the canal about fifty. J""
several times. On the third at
tempt she apparently goi 10
top of the canal bank and lay
there exhausted.
There was a small pool 01 uioou
where she had rested.
Then she evidently crawled about
10 feet from the canal, fell lace
down, and died of exposure.
Thnre were nn marks of Vio
lence or bruises on her body, Sher
iff Brltton said. , ...
Th hodv was taken to warn, s
Funeral Home where County Cor
oner D. George Adier was senco
uled to perform, a post-mortem
sometime today.
STEWARDESS CHORES
NEW YORK Wl Renortlna It had
20,000 applications last year from
girls who wanted to be steward
esses, American Airlines notes that
the average stewardess walks 133
miles ud and down airplane aisles
during a year, handles 388 children
and pours 8,833 cups of coffee.
Spirfeiin) Figtt Fbi
Fr lure Hiiesteiils
Price Five Cents Vtn
U.N. Raids
Stopped By
Red Defense
SEOUL, Korea I A United
Nations raiding party swarmed up
a Communist-held hill In Western
Korea two times early Monday,
then pulled back to the main U.N.
line after being stopped cold by
Red riflemen and mortar crews.
Eighth Army Headquarters said
the raiders backtracked part way
down the hill northwest of Yonchon
after running Into intense small
arms and mortar fire.
Allied patrols surprised 30 to 40
Reds In bunkers on the snow-
swept Eastern Front, killing 24 and
cupturlng seven.
Snow and low clouds grounded
most warplancs. But Allied and
Communist Jets tangled over North
west Korea for the seventh straight
day. Fifth Air Force Headquarters
said no hits were reported In the
brief, five-minute battle.
Sunday two MIGs were shot down
by American Sabre Jets.
Snow Blocks
Basin Roads
Weather conditions, mostly snow,
gonerally fouled up schedules
throughout the Basin today as a
continuing snowfall buried the
area.
All county schools were closed
down this morning as snow blocked
roads, preventing buses from oper
ating. City schools, however, did
Ntart off on schedule, but later
this morning some may have been
let out for the day.
City School Supt. Arnold Gralapp
said a count would be made this
morning to determine the number
of pupils in attendance today: he
sgid a flu and cold siege had been
felt in some schools late last week.
Highway 62, through Crater Lake
National Park, was reported bare
ly passable this morning, and mo
torists were advised to stay off
the road.
RECORD
A record 168-inches of snow was
measured on the ground at the
park headquarters, more than ever
before measured In January.
Since yesterday morning, 28
inches of snow had fallen in a 24
hour period. The heavy fall had
forced the closing of the Anne
Springs-Rim Village road, rangers
said.
Only leven automobiles passed
through park checking stations
over the weekend.- They carried a
total of 19 people.
City Fire Chief Roy Rowe called
on residents to be extra careful
during the heavy snowfall oeriod
since it will take fire department
equipment several minutes longer
10 traverse distances in town.
He said it would help a lot If
residents would also clear snow
from around fire hydrants In their
neignoornooas,
DEPTH
No official dentil of snow was
reported in town today; but the
Bureau of Reclamation rain gauges
at the Copco powerhouse on Link
River showed almost one-half an
inch of precipitation had fallen
from midnight Saturday to 12 last
nigni.
Postmaster Chet Lancrslet ha
called on rural box owners to
clear away snow from In front of
mailboxes so deliveries mav be
niaae on scneduie.
100 much delay, he said, niav
mean tne caning oil or deliveries
before thev are complete becans
there Is not enough money In the
locar postofflce allocation, for over
time payments to employes.
SNOWBOUND
Saturday nleht. following- a has.
ketball game at Merrill, thn nn.
nanza high school basketball squad
and pep club was snowbnunri in
rtiiirnuin .rails.
Bus Driver Helen Nnhle liHns.
lng the students home, co'uld nnt.
get past uicnc. and turned back
to Klamath Falls where students
were put up In the Wlnema Hotel.
Some 23 students were aboard
the bus; they got to Bonanza late
yesterday morning.
J-ne weather bureau predicted
more of the same this morning
for the Klamath area snow flur
ries through tomorrow.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Fall, and
vicinity and Northern California;
Snow flurries Monday through
Tuesday. A little colder Monday
night and Tuesday. High Monday
.10, low Monday night 15. High
Tuesday 25.
High temp yesterday t- 27
Low last night 17
Preclp Jan. 20 40
Since Oct. 1 ...10.05
Normal for period
5.99
I Same period last year 9.90
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
Vote
HST Asks Congress
For Bulging Budge t
By CHARLES F. BARRETT
WASHINGTON Wl President
Truman Monday sent Congress an
$85,444,000,000 spending budget, an
unprecedented figure except in
all-out war. He said It was "a
heavy burden ... the price of
peace."
To lawmakers talking loudly of
economy In this election year, the
President outlined an 11 billion dol
lar expansion In armed forces
spending to more than 51 billion.
Including a start on building the
Air Force from 90 winas to 143.
And he gave notice, in a budget
preview for reporters, that a new
five to six billion dollar five-year
Power, Water
Figures High
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON fPi More than
$261,177565 Is Included in Presi
dent Truman's budget for Oregon
and Washington power and water
projects.
By far the biggest chunk: Is the
$166,406,865 sought by the Army
Engineers to build and maintain
more than a half dozen rivers and
harbors and flood control project
in the two states.
This Is more than one-fourth of
what the engineers propose to
spend in their entire nationwide
program during the 12 months be
ginning July 1.
Bonneville iower Aaminisvration
is down for $67,696,400 to continue
construction of its widening trans
mission grid, and an additional $6,-
600,000 lor operating ana mainten
ance. Bureau of Reclamation re
quests for the two states total $20,-
474.000. of wnicn 2U minion is ear
marked for the Columbia Basin
Project.
The Engineers' budget again in
cludes five million to start con
struction on Ice Harbor Dam,
which has been rejected twice by
Congress.
Spring Work
Increase Seen
WASHINGTON (fl More work
ers are out of lobs now than in
December, but the government pre
dicts an increase in employment
by spring.
And desnite the January drop,
employment is still high for the
nation as a wnoie.
Secretary of Labor Tobin said
during the weekend a nationwide
survey showed 16 large areas have
less employment, only two have
more than Inst month.
Hardest hit are important pro
duction centers like Detroit, Flint
and Grand Rapids, Mich., and
Fall River, Mass.
Tobin gave these reasons for so
many being out of work now:
Growing shortage of materials
for civilian industry, forcing pro
duction cutbacks as In the auto
mobile industry; lack of consum
er demand for some goods; and
normal winter lulls in construc
tion, food processing, textiles and
tobacco.
The outlook for spring Is bright
er, he said, because:
Defense production will gain mo
mentum; government and industry
lioDe to shift defense contracts to
unemployment areas, even If it
costs more money; and seasonal
spring and summer jobs will re
open. Cities which had a balanced la
bor supply but are now classed
as having a surplus include Seattle
and Spokane, Wash.
Five Plunge
To Icy Death
ODESSA, N. Y. HI A weekend
ice skating and sledding party
turned into tragedy when a
20-year old college student and
four children disappeared through
a soft spot In the ice on Cayuta
Lake.
A search party of 120 men re
covered ' the five bodies Sunday,
When last seen Saturday after
noon, Allen Sibley, a Cornell Uni
versity Junior, was skating on the
lake, towing two sleds bearing the
children.
A volunteer fireman found a
child's mitten near the only open
break In the ice.
MONOAT, JANUARY 21, 15S
lite
expansion program for atomic en
ergy facilities will go to Congress
toon.
This isn't included in his budget
for the fiscal year starting July 1,
Mr. Truman saU, because it would
be spent later in connection with
some fantastic weapons.
He said bis foreign aid program,
under especially heavy criticism,
"is vital and indispensable ... in
the total fight for security and
peace." Mr. Truman called for ex
panding total aid from $6,868,000,
000 this year to $10,844,000,000 next
fiscal year, with military aid alone
Jumping from four to eight bil
lion. 'LONG WAY"
His budget, he said in his an
nual 'message, "is carefully
planned to carry us a long way
forward on the road to security."
He warned there is grim evidence
"the Kremlin would not hesitate
to resort to- war in order to gain
its ends."
- Mr. Truman said without new
taxes, his budget- for the fiscal
year beginning July 1 would plunge
the government $14,446,000,000 fur
ther in the red.
The deficit for the current, fis
cal year was an estimated $8,201,
000,000. .
Then he repeated a call for about
$4,600,000,000 "at the verv least"
in additional revenue a call that
apparently feB on deaf ears when
no ursi urged more taxes last
Wednesday in his economic report
iu congress. - ,
This time the President didn't
pitch his plea as strongly as he
did last week nor did he specifi
cally mention rate increases as he
am in nis economic report. He
emphasized "loonhole" nhippincr
The President told reporters, how
ever, he wants the same rates he
asked for last year, when Congress
cut his new tax program from 10
billion to about $5,400,000,000.
This would mean approximately
a five per cent increase In per
sonal Income taxes, an Increase in
the normal corporation rate from
52 to 55 per cent, and more ex
cise sales taxes,
Mr. Truman tacked onto his
budget a reduced flock of "fair
deal" measures, including a fair
employment practices commisslmi
anathema, to many Southerners.
expanded social security benefits
and federal aid to schools.
BYPASSES
' He did not mention two contro
versial programs he plumped for
futilely in his last budget the
Brannan plan of farm subsidies
and national health insurance.
Overall, national security pro
grams would take 76 rente ntit rf
every dollar, the President said
and non-defense spending would be
slashed one billion dollars under
the current year.
He called for 600 million dollars
in appropriations for civilian de
fense, including construction of
bomb shelters, and said continued
refusal by. Congress to provide it
"could be a fatal gap in our se
curity structure."
Other highlights were proposals
to add 7.000 stents to the scandal.
hit Bureau of Internal Revenue, ex
tend GI benefits to Korean War vet
erans, increase funds for government-built
defense housing more
than ten times, boost postal rates
by. 500 million dollars, and start
tne long-proposed St. Lawrence
Seaway as a "strategic necessity."
The President said without new
taxes the national debt would in
crease to $374,932,000,000 by June,
iM just unaer ine present legal
limit of 275 billion.
These huge red ink entries are a
matter of "grave concern," he said
and Congress ought to realize the
risks involved. He said he was
forced to abandon his goal of "pay-as-we-go"
for the defense program
when Congress gave him only a
little more than half of the 10 billion
in tax increases he sought last
year;
Next fiscal year's snendlncr esti-
mate of $84,444,000,000 compared
with a revised estimate of $70,881,
000,000 for this year, ending June
30, and $44,633,000,000 actually
spent last year.
THIRD BIGGEST ' "
Spending in the new fiscal vear
would be the third biggest in his
torytwice the size of the first
postwar years, bigger than the first
full year of World War II. topped
only by the two peak years of that
war.when the .federal flow of dol
lars passed the 95 billion mark.
It would amount to $550 for ev
ery man, woman and child in the
nation. The projected national
debt would be $1,768 per capita,
Huge expected deficits would con
trast with a $3,510,000,000 surplus
last year.
Despite the increase in spending.
Mr. Truman proposed only $84,
260,000,000 in the appropriations
from Congress for the next fiscal
year, ten billion less than he asked
for the current year.
Telephone Mil
No. 2710
Demos Seen
To Kefauver
By JACK BELL
PORTLAND, Ore. W) Political
ly volatile Oregon appears headed
toward Truman-vs-Kefauver and
Eisenhower - vs - MacArthur presi
dential nomination races.
In a state where politics are so
mixed up that Gen. Dwight D. Ei
senhower's name might appear on
both Republican and Democratic
ballots, puzzled Democratic lead
ers appear to be turning away
from President Truman and to
ward Sen. Kefauver ID.-Tenn.).
Monroe Sweetland. Democratic
national committeeman, told a re
porter that in the absence of word
from Mr. Truman or Frank Mc
Klnney, Democratic national chair
man, be is going ahead with plans
to put a slate supporting the Pres
ident in the field for the May 16
Oregon primary.
At the same time, however,
Sweetland said a slate of delegates
for Kefauver for vice president al
so may be entered.
William L. Josslln. Democratic
state chairman, said that he has
serious doubts" that Mr. Truman
plans to seek another nomination.
He said he regards Kefauver as
having strong support among Ore
gon uemocrais.
Gov. Douelas McKav hearilnsr a
slate of Elsenhower delegates on
the Republican ballot, told a re
porter ne minus me general will
win uie primary contest here han
dily. Oregon Is looked upon as a piv
otal state because Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York went on to
win the GOP nomination In 1948
aftr defeating former Gov. Har
old E. Stassen In a primary bat
tle here that year.
F. E. Epton, Portland real es
tate man. SaVS hff nlrpnriv hue fnl.
lected enough signatures to put the
name of Gen. Douglas MacArthur
on the Republican ballot.
unless ne gets direct word tn the
contrary from the five star gener
al himself, Epton told a reporter
he is going ahead.
Most politicians seem tn thlnV
that while MacArthur has tremen
dous personal popularity, he is not
niteiy to matcn tne reputed vote
getting ability of Eisenhower in
the GOP contest.
State Supreme Court Justinp Wol.
ter L. Tooze. one of the chief sup
porters of Sen. Robert A. Taft in
Oregon, said he doesn't exnect. nnv
slate to be entered here for the
unioan.
Taft forces apparently are con
centrating their efforts on attempts
10 get secondary support from del
egates who might be elected, with
out contesting in the preferential
primary.
Under Oregon law. the delegates
are pledged to vote in the conven
tion lor tne winner of the preferen
tial race as loner as he has 9
chance. Oregon has 18 Republican
convention votes and 12 Democrat
ic votes.
Sum
Switching
EVERYBODY'S DOING IT this morning. The photographer
caught Mrs. Clark Blair, 534 N. 9th St., shoveling snow off
her front doorstep.
Reclamation
Policy Hit
By Groups
By HALE SCARBROUGH
A cannon-size birdgun has been
drawn on the Bureau of Reclama
tion for its proposal to open for
homesteadlng parts of the Tula
Lake wildlife refuge.
At Santa Cruz, Calif., Sunday
according to the Associated Press
the associated Sportsmen of Cali
forniaan organization claiming
membership of 10,000 hunters and
fishermen went on record:
1. Opposing reduction of acre
age of the Tule Lake refuge to
provide nomesteading tor the Bu
reau of Reclamation.
2. Urging the U.S. Fish and Wild
life Service be legislated control
of all land in established wildlife
and waterfowl refuges in the na
tion, rather than the Reclamation
Bureau.
A similar stand has already been
taken by the Klamath-Modoc chap
ter of the Izaak Walton League
here, and outdoor writers have .
leaped to the defense of the mil
lions of birds which stop over
yearly at the Tule Lake and Lower
Klamath refuges to provide this
area with some of the best water
fowl, hunting in the country.
Tt'LANA FARMS
The nub of the controversy ap
parently is the application of Tii
lana Farms for a two-year exten
sion of its lease on 2,314 acres of
farm land which Is located on the
Tule Lake refuge, but It goes, on
back into established Bureau of
Reclamation policy of breaking Up
the land holdings into small home
steads. i
Tulana had the land in Question
since 1945, and its lease expired
Dec. 31. Tulana has applied for a
two-year lease extension, citing
certain so-called contract violations
by the Reclamation Bureau which
should entitle the big ranching con
cern to the extension.
The matter was sent back to
Washington for decision. --.
Last octooer. tne Kiamatn of
fice of the Bureau announced that
Tulana would not get another
lease, that the 2,314 acres would
be offered in 18 small plots to be
leased on a veterans preference
basis.
Then in mid-November the local
office announced a reversal, that'
Secretary of the Interior Oscar
Chapman had ordered a two-year
extension of the Tulana lease.
A total of 95 other small plots
were put up for lease last month
and went for $50 an acre or more.
As of today, no final decision
has been made on the Tulana
lease.
SEARLES STAND
Some time ago the Tulelake Re
porter printed from a Reclama
tion Bureau directive an exerpt
quoting Undersecretary of Inter
ior Searles that:
"The Bureau of Reclamation
should pursue energetically estab
lished objectives of subdividing
withdrawn public lands into units
suitable for homestead entry under
reclamation law ..." and speci
fying that the two years of the
Tulana lease should be used In
readying the land for homestead
lng. The Tule Lake refuge comprises
about 30,000 acres, and continua
tion of the homestead policy ac
cording to Jim Thomas, Associat
ed Press outdoors editor would
lop off an estimated 10,000 acres,
eliminate the Tule Lake public
shooting grounds and wipe out the
feeding and resting grounds of hun
dreds of thousands of geese.
Lower Klamath is similarly in
danger, according to the sports or
ganizations. Henry CLineschmidt of
Redding told the Associated Sports
men of Caifornia that the proposed
elimination of the northeast re
serve of the Tule Lake refuge
would be just a start. Next, ha
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