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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1052
Bafense Chief Assures
Solons US Keeping Up
With Red Plane Types
WASHINGTON ( Secretary of
Defense Lovett testified Monday
that the United States now has
better fighter aircraft than uie
Russian MIOs.
'H Indicated, however, It may
take some time to equal and pass
Boviet aircrait production.
Lovett engaged In a crisp ex
chana-a with senators over rela.
tlve Russian, and U.S. air strength
during a Congressional hearing on
the proposed 152,100,000,000 mili
tary ouogei ior ivoi-oi.
The defense secretary said any
cut in this spending program would
"Increase, beyond the realms of
prudence, the calculated risks al
ready taken" in planning the pro
gram. Sen. O'Mahoney, presiding at a
Joint hearing of a Senate appropria
tions subcommittee and the Senate
House Economic Committee, raised
the air power question.
.- "A year ago we had complete
command of the skies in Korea."
Higher Wages
Pose Tax Cut
NEW YORK Wl Benjamin F.
Fair less said Monday his United
States Steel Corporation could meet
wage demands and hold its pres
ent prices but this would result
in a 60 per cent reduction in its
federal income tax payments.
Falrless added that such a wage
increase, if allowed to spread
throughout American industry,
could result in a net loss to the
government "conservatively esti
mated at 11 billion dollars."
He said the ultimate "cost of a
wage increase would come out of
taxable income.
U. S. Steel's estimated federal
taxes for 1951 are 398 million and
its state and other taxes $75,730,666.
In 1950 the federal tax bill was
S4 million and state and local
$62,(65,217, a company spokesman
aid.
The nresident of U. S. Steel said
.the- government then "will be ob
liged to lift the lid on prices if for
no-other reason than to protect its
tax revenues and to maintain its
own income."
Falrless presented his arguments
against another pay boost for steel
workers in a statement before a
Wage Stabilization Board panel
seeking to prevent a strike in the
steel industry threatened for Feb.
as.
Record Snow
Depth Noted
A three-man snow survey crew,
back in Klamath Agency, has re
ported a record 101.2-inch snow
depth on Sun Mountain, and a wa
ter content of 33 inches.
The crew, Vic Sisson, Conrad
Shetland and John Hall, all mem
bers of the Klamath Reservation's
Forestry Department, reported this
the greatest fall during the past
12 years when measurements have
been taken.
The January survey indicated an
ample' supply of irrigation water,
they announced.
In 1950 snow depth on the moun
tain was 62 inches, and the water
content was 18 inches. Last year
snow depth reached 73 inches and
water content 24.
O'Mahonry said, adding this is no
longer true.'
He asked Lovett when the De
fense Department expected to
match Russian alrpower.
Lovett, replying, said that after
World War Two the United States
"went to sleep" on Its defenses
while Russia pushed ahead.
"We did not demobilise in my
opinion we disintegrated," the Pen
tagon chief said. As a result, he
added, "we have to run faster now
for several years to make up a
deficit In aircraft."
O'Mahoney asked if the Rus
sians' MIO 15 Is "better than any
aircraft we can send" to Korea.
Lovett replied that the United
States has better aircraft "In test."
He said the F-86 is "a superior
plane" although It weighs about
one-tnira more tnan a Aua and
has a slower climb.
Sen. McKellar. D-Tenn., wanted
to know how long this airplane
testing must go on.
"I think we ought to put our best
foot forward In Korea," he said. "I
think we ought to do something
out mere.
Lovett, to explain the time need'
ed to develop a new tvre of Diane.
said he would show a chart on Just
one contract "that is classified,"
This brought a quick warnina
from O'Mahoney that "a represent
ative oi me Russian News Agency
Tass, is in the room."
Jean Montgomery, reporter of
Congressional affairs for Tass, sat
at ine press table.
Cars Collide.
Driver Cited
Charge of failure fo yield the
right of way to another vehicle
was levied against Melvln Fltt
hugh, 38. Dunsmulr, following a
minor accident at the Lakevlew
Junction at 12:05 a.m., Sundav.
State Police reported Fitzhugh
ran through the stop sign on Ore
gon Highway 39 at the Junction
and hit a car driven by Jack Al
sup, Klamath Falls. There were
no injuries.
Cited for being drunk on the
highway and driving while intoxi
cated Saturday afternoon at S. 6th
St. and Altamont Dr. was John
Patrick Hammond, 24, Merrill.
State Police reported Hammond's
car knocked down a light standard
at the intersection.
City Police arrested James Bran
amon, OTI dean of men, Saturday
night for violation of the baste rule.
Police reported Branaman's car
smacked into a parked car at 1920
Main owned by Robert L. Royse,
615 California Ave.
Branaman forfeited $25 ball in
lieu of appearing in Municipal
Court Monday morning. He report
edly suffered a cut lip and was
given first aid treatment at the
scene.
Car Blows Up As
Cigarette Lighted
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS. N. J. Wl
Harry Vallo lighted a cigarette
Thursday while driving his auto
ana:
There was an exolosion heard
four blocks away.
The car burst into flames and
crashed into a tree.
Vallo suffered second and third
degree burns before he could leap
from the blazing auto.
Police said the cause was leaking
alcohol fumes from a warm air
heater. Vallo said he had smell ed
alcohol fumes Just before the blast.
No security is Involved." Lovett
said, spreading out a long chart u!
an airplane contract. It showed
that on Just one contract, 106 sub
contracts may be let. Lovett said
this was "Just the first tier.
The subcommittee quit at noon
until tomorrow.
Earlier, Lovet told the senators
that even the $52,100,000,000 de
fense figure is a cutback from ortg
inal estimates.
He said the Defense Department
nas urnen a -realistic attitude,
has made new economies, and in
stead of attempting to reach cer
tain goals in 1953 or 1954 it has
delayed them and funds asked now
will permit a program merely "ex
panding toward these goals."
He listed these goals as 21 full
strength divisions for the Army:
408 combat vessels and 16 carrier
air groups for the Navythree full
divisions and three air wings for
the Marines: and 143 wings for the
Air Force. All three services would
have "the appropriate support type
UUU5.
Winnie Ruth
Still Sought
PWnFMTT Art I.Tii Th yU
for Winnie Ruth Judd, red-haired
trunk murderess of 21 years ago.
spread throughout Arizona Monday
with police admitting .they were
baffled by her disappearance.
Officers from border to border
nave Deen alerted to watch all
points of entry into the state and
Mexico where some think she may
be headed.
"We have no clues." Sheriff L. C.
Boles of Maricopa County stated.
"and nnnK nf th iiciinl Hrc re
ceived have panned out."
W nn Hllth AH rillhKAH 4h. t'TH
ger Woman" after she killed two
muiucu ana uismetnoerea tneir
hnriUe In 1091 ha. ali..J
vua. UN G1UUGU V.C,).-
ture since escaping from the State
nuspuai ior insane Saturday night.
Kh nivnari at thirri e.nru ata
window In hr worri .
48 foot rope improvised from re
straining straps ana disappeared in
the night. Police are still checking
reDorts she flpH in h art .ninraj
sedan waiting nntdri ,.. ....... ,
barbed wire hospital fence.
ii was ner iutn escape from the
institution-.
Theories of her whereabouts va
ried Widlv T.t .Tnhn Slai.n-h,.,..
officer in charge of Phoenix police
convinced she was still in Phoenix,
and would probably turn up at the
home of one of her many friends.
But Dr. M. W. Conway, director
of the hospital, said be thought she
-uiua .ry to gei to Mexico. She
once express. . ricio h. - ,
to work in a leper's colony in South
"Thprc, Ic nn rf.nkl u. l i .
..v uuuw, anc uau out
side help," he declared.
Elizabeth. Duke
Stay at Lodge
NAIRORT TTanv. rn n.u
Elizabeth and the Duke of Edin
burgh Wff "at hnma" f tr-
for the first time Monday. They
broke their royal tour or a five-
aay siay tneir first at the quiet
mountain lndff oHvn tr,m k .v..
u B-.u u. W.C
colony as a wedding present.
Elizahath nri ha. i j
, .... uiuubihi uruve
Sunday to the lodge. In the foothills
vi muun. xienya near nyeri.
They will sail Thursday for Cey
lon. Australia, anrt Nam 7jalan
The trip home to England will
take them by the Panama Canal
and Bermuda.
(NEATthphoia)
" SHE'LL TRY AGAIN Actress Elizabeth Taylor, 19, shown above .
with Michael Wilding during a recent visit to New York's Stork
Club, announced in Hollywood that she will wed the British actor
as soon as Wilding is divorced. She said she would nfarry the 40-year-old
Englishman becauso he likes "football games, horseback
riding and listening to records."
(NEA Ttlephatt)
MAY HEAD OLYMPIC TEAM Brutus Hamilton (right), Univer
sity of California athletic director and track coach, chats with Rob
ert Kane of Cornell University at the Olympic Men's Track and
Field committee meeting in Chicago. Hamilton is expected to be .
named coach of the 1952 American Olympic men's track team.
Firemen Plan
Historic Ball
MERRILL This year's Fire
man's Ball, Feb. 23, will be the
45th, and according to Fire Chief
Tom Chatburn Jr.. the event is be
lieved to be the oldest such affair
in the state. -
Extensive plans have been made
for the ball which always draws a
large attendance. This Is the only
funa-ralsing event which the volun
teer fireman sponsor during the
year, and all proceeds go toward
purchasing new equipment for the
department, which at present num
bers 30 members, with two trucks,
one rural and one city. The Rural
Fire District is now in the pro-
whlch will be put In use some
tune this summer. A radio has
been ordered for the rural truck,
and will be used In all emergen
cies, and In conjunction with the
Suburban Fire Department in
Klamath Falls, which has a radio
equipped truck.
Assistant fire chief Is Larry Reed
and other newly-elected officers
are Robert Merllees, president;
Dale Moore, vice-president; Alon
zo Hodges, secretary.
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BmltiimllliMsant
BASIN MOTORS Proudy Presen,s
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thong without Mhn. Whita
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BASIN MOTORS
Committee Advises More
Sheep for U.S. Market
JOHN KAMPS ' I ' Government agencies and rnnch-
By
WASHINOTON l This country
nteda to raise more sheep If It
wants to avert an extreme wool
shortage In cue of war.
8o saya that Joint Commlte on
the Eoonomlo Report, a group of
senators and representatives who
have been studying the wool situa
tion. .
The committee reports that three
fourths of the wool used In this
country la being Imported over sea
lanes 5.000 to 1.000 miles long,
which would be out In any world
war,
U. 8. ranchers are raising only
about half the quantity of wool re
quired for military use In World
War II, and their production Isn't
even enough to fill current mili
tary needa, the oommlttee aald In
its recent report,
Wool consumption In the U.S., In
creasing annually, now totals more
than one billion pounds a year.
The committee said U.S. ahearera
clipped 260 million pounds of wool
from about 32 million aheep In 1951.
The wool poundage was the third
smallest In the past 30 years. The
sheep total was considerably small
er than the average In the mid
twenties and much smaller than
the all-time high of 49 million In
1943.
The committee aald:
An Improved price support pro
gram is needed. Cattlemen benefit
ed more than sheepmon last year,
and "wool growers cannot be ex
pected to meet our needs for do
mestic wool if returns from altar.
native enterprises are more favor-
me man tnose from sheep and
wool."
More "qualified and reliable"
sheepherders should be recruited
to eliminate a manpower shortage
which la partly blamed for the wool
production drop.
era throughout the nation should
follow the load of tlioao who have
successfully fought predatory anl-
nuns in some areas, uy neveioping
new poisons and other coiHrul
meaaures.
flail and ranoa ennaervntlon nro.
grama on publlo and jitivate lauds
snouia ne intensiiiea. r euerai agen
clea and ranchers have miwlo "sub
stantial progrosa" In Uila field,
"but some 82 per cent of the pub
llo domain range la atlll eroding
and ounorUmttlca to Increase live
stock on much of tills lund are
diminishing
Also called tor are Improvement
In production practices, farming oi'
tlcloncy and marketing,
"Operators who have adopted Im
proved management pruutlcos are
producing more Inmb and wool per
awe than are those who have not
adopted such practices, the com
mittee said.
"More Intensive efforts should
I made to dotermlno the elfect
of various Improved practice on
operators' costs, production and In
come under actual ranch condition
and In the dissemination of such
Information to wool growers."
Tho committee feels research Is
Important In:
Developing farm flocks, In new
irrigation areas: Improving breeds
to provide heavier luiiiba and
fleeces of better quality; production
of fall lumbs by out-of-scason
breeding through use of hormones;
knowledge of mitrlllvo require
ments of sheep and tllgrstlve phy
siology to enable ranchers to pro-
us
duce more wool and Iambi troi
euoh feed unit, .
Controlling poisonous and noxious
weeds; developing Improved for
age species; Improving feeding
prnotlces; determining eriects or
vurvlim rates of stocking on the
carrying capacity of different types
of ranges; reneoamg uapieiea
rung; ' detecting and controlling
livestock dlaeasos.
"Get ut that rut Mefkf Cell
looue Dele, Realler akeur heme."
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Honor Citizen
To Be Named
A new "Citlcen Of the Year"
will be named tonight by the Mer
rill Lions club following a dinner
In the ret-raatlnn hall it. a,iu ....
ceed Dr. Frank E. Trotman, named
(as, year.
Choice is based on community
service.
About 100 guests are expected.
THEFT
TOKYO im Confucius said:
"Thou shalt not steal."
The Confucius Tabernacle in
Central Tokyo reported Mondav
that 700 copper slates worth SI. 100
bad disappeared from its roof.
DELAYED
SEATTLE If) The Navy trans
port Oen. Simon B. Buckner, due
here late Monday from the Far
East, has been delayed until Tues
day morning. The ship, with 1,159
passengers, was delayed by a stand
by for another vessel with a sick
crewman.
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