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Price Rule
Violations
Reported
Reported sales of potatoes above
celling prices In the Klamath Fulls
area ore being Investigated by
agent of the Office at Price Bt
lnilr.ntUiti enforcement division
Iioiii Portland.
Al leant three enforcement of
ficers were here earlier thin work,
led by Willi A. Went, and two
were till here today, weal haa
returned to Portland.
The two are Kermlt J. Osness
nd J. Irvln Borthlck. They were
in the Blukel area thin morning,
and are ataylng at the Caacade
hotel,
NO DETAILS
OPS headquarter In Portland to
day declined to lay exaotly what
type of vlolutlon li suspected or
tinder Investigation, or name any
one Involved, but aald that West
"haa found aomethlng."
Earlier Weat waa reported .at
saying he had found aotne aalea
bv growers at above celling prlcea.
The OPS olllce aald no devlslon
had been made on what enforce
ment action might be taken.
The current price celling (for
February) on Mo. la of an Inch
and aeven-elghth minimum U
J.7( a hundred pounds, and on
No. la two-Inch minimum la M B.
The January celling waa D M and
11.75.
A grower who takea hla apuda
atralght through to the retail mar
ket can get an extra 88 cent per
hundred: a grower who doea his
own ahlpplng can get II cents a
hundred more,
BLANK LINE
Jtut where along the line the
OPS may have incited Infringe
menu has not been dtacloeed, and
the Portland ofltce declined to say
today.
Many growers are reported hold
ing their spuda for a poaalble In
crease In OPS celllnga, and the
Portland office Uils morning re
ported that a declalon on ehangea
In potato price ceilings for Ore
gon and Waahlngton la In prospect
alter an economic atudy I com
pleted In Klamath County.
Vernon K. Malberg, buslnesa an
alyst. Is here now making the atu
dy and at a meeting of growera
at Merrill lent night ha told grow
era there would be no further re
vision ol the ceilings except through
reeommendatldn to- Washington of
the Portland office.
0 rower, left the Merrill meeting
with a feeling that nothing Imme
diate Is In prospect and they might
a a well turn their spuds loose.
SPECULATION
Once Malberg's reports are made
and checked, a matter of several
days, probably, a Washington. D.O.
price announcement can be ex
pected, according to the Portland
olllce. What the decision might be
is s matter for speculation.
Scott Warren of Algoma, who
with Louie Lyon of Malln waa a
member of . delegation of Oregon
growera going to Waahlngton, D.C.
last month, returned with report
of promise that the Oregon base
price (and that of nine other West
ern mates) would be upped to
equal that of Idaho, which was set
20 cents higher.
Fire District
Annexing OK'd
TULELAKE The Modoc county
Board of Supervisors hss okayed
the annexation of a large area of
the Tulelake .Basin In the Tulelake-Multl-County
Fire Protective Dis
trict, according to Super, -dim
Stearns..
The annexation was moved dur
ing a meeting of the board In Al
lures Monday, Stearns said.
. The ares Involved, according to
the supervisor. Includes all the
Isnds In the last three homestead
openings.
Final aclloa on the purchase of
a new fire truck for the area was
deferred until the next board meet
ing Feb. 18. Bids on the ' truck
were tnken, however.
Unander Seeks
Treasurer Job
PORTLAND (PI The number
of Republicans seeking nomination
for state treasurer rose to three
Tuendny when Slgfrld Unander an
nounced his candidacy.
Unander resigned Inst week n
chairman of the Stnte Central Com
mittee. At that time It was ex
pected he would seek nomination to
the stnte treasurer's post.
Other Republican candidates arc
Stnte Sen, Jack Lynch, Portland,
and Fred Robinson, Medford.
Democrat Walter J. Penrson Is
Incumbent. Ho snld earlier he
would not seek the office agnln.
Portland Union
Case Heard
PORTLAND If A National
Labor Relations Board hearing re
sumed taking testimony here Wed
nesday In the case of two plaster
ers who have accused their union
of blacklisting them.
The plasterers, Lee E. Parker and
Robert E. Hollowny, testified Tlieav
day thnt they had been refused
union clearance to work at a con
si ruction project in Salem. '
But the Portland AFL Plaster
ers union local denied the accusa
tion. Union spokesmen said if the
men had been denied work at 8a
em, the Salem local had done It.
The Salem local waa not accused
In the unfair labor practices suit.
Price Five Cents 14 Psges
. ffi
Committee Approves U
New Tulana
Lease OK'd
By Chapman
By HALE SCAKBROUGII
The controverslsl Tulans Farms
lease on 3,314 acres of Tule sump
land Is to be "executed and de
livered forthwith" at the request of
VS. Interior Secy. Oscar Chapman.
That stilted phrasing means that
Chapman has told the Bureau of
Reclamation In Waahlngton to sign
the lease and return It here.
In Washington yesterday, Bureau
officials told, the Associated Press
the Irene would be signed by Rich
ard Boke, regional Bureau director
In Sacramento.
BEGINNING .
Tulana contracted with (he gov
ernment for the land In 1944. The
land was then under water and
the contract stipulated thnt Tu
Una drain and prepare the land
for cultivation. The firm was to
then hsve crop use of Die land
lor five yeara.'The Ilrst crop would
have been put In In 1046 but the
Bureau elected to flood the land
that year as a flood control meas
ure. A second lease for two years
waa executed In 1948. It expired
lost Dec. 31.
Last October the local Bureau
of Reclamation olllce announced
the plot would be broken up Into
18 small plots for lease on a vet
rans preference basis.
But. Chapman reversed that de
cision ' and -ordered a. new two
year lea for the big grain-growing
corporation.
The lease was drawn by. the Bu
reau olllce here and signed by
Dick Henzel as president ol Tu
lana In November. But It still need
ed Buresu of Reclamation signa
ture, and the Sacramento office
referred It to Washington.
Some persons In the Tulelake
sres raised heartv objections to
giving Tulana a lease extension,
holding that the land ought to be
broken up for leasing In smaller
units, and Washington was bom
barded with phone calls and tele
grams against the lease. Rep.
Clslr Engle, who represents most
of Northern California In Congress,
took a hand and requested a hear
ing. He said he "had an audience"
with Chapman but the lnttcr did
not chnnge his mind.
SPORTSMEN
Last month the Associated Sports
men of California end the Klam
ath Modoc chapter of the Izaak
Walton league got Into the squab
ble generally on the side of Tulana
against breaking up the sump
land which Is used each year by
thousands of migratory wnterfowl
of the Pacific llyway and their
entry Into the picture seemingly
sped the argument to a conclu
sion. The 3,314 acres In question Is
not considered eligible for home
steading until at least 1956, ac
cording to the Bureau of Recla
mation, shape It Is still subject to
Hooding ns a water control meas
ure. Additional flood control work
Is to be done belore It Is home-Kteaded.
LnaaJjavU JokCl .'( LWLiaamaiaa.HaKa
HEADING FOR SCHOOL this morning when caught by
the camera were Joseph Kee, 1864 Derby, and Wesley
Ridglcy,, Route 3, Box 421, who are freshmen at Klamath
Union high school.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, W
Triiinaii Keeps
By The Aasoclated Press
The big question will Truman
run? was toyed with but left dang
ling still, by the President Tuesday
night when he talked politics
briefly with some veterans.
Addressing the Veterans of For
eln wars' annual Congressional
dinner In Washington, he touched
(on the ISM presidential campaign.
vviiii a niiiiie ne naiu; '
"When the time comes, I am
going tu try to tell you what the
right result Is. Thst Is not sn an
nouncement." Earlier, the President had said
Cops Felled
By Flu Bug
Police Chief Orvllle Hamilton sat
In his office this morning, fervent
ly wishing the flu bug would leave
town and Feb. 19 would hasten
along.
Hamilton's force has been rid
dled with resignations and sick
ness to the point where only 17 or
18 men of the 26-offlcer staff are
on duty.
Results of civil service exams
to be held Feb. 19 are figured to
replenish the lack of City Police
officers.
Actually. Feb. It Is only the
starting point for hiring of new
police personnel. .
Civil service exams are checked
In Salem process of 10 or more
days and then returned to the Civ
II Service Board here. Recommen
dations on exam results are then
made to the Police. Department
oy uie civil service Board.
References and background ' of
the prospective ' officers are then
checked, their hiring must be ap
proved by the City Council and
certiued by the Civil Service Board.
In the meantime Chief Hamilton
is endeavoring to nurse a cold of
his own and figure" how his de
pleted force of 17 men can police
a 15,000-plus population during
miicc o-nuur aniiis.
Sports Next
Forum Topic
The Herald and News-KFLW
"Build the Basin" forum, a popu
lar weekly radio feature, alma Its
panel ol experts at sports Monday
night.
The subject chosen for the fifth
forum Is: "How Can We Improve
the Value of Sports to the Klamath
Basin?"
The forum scheduled 8:30 to 9:30
p.m. will be designed to take In
amateur, professional and semi-
professional sports In the bssln.
As usual the panel members.
now being chosen, will make In
troductory statements before the
forum swings Into answering of
questions called In by interested
listeners.
The Herald and News will print
tomorrow questions pertaining to
the question. Herald and News
renders enn tnke part in the forum
by checking their answers to the
questions and mailing them to the
Hernia ana news or tirijw.
liBRIARY 6, 1952
'em Guessing
he will, after all. oppose Sen. Ke
fauver. (D-Tenn.l. In New Hamp
shire's March 11 presidential pref
erence primary. This reversed a
previous statement that he would
not stay In the race.
Frank McKlnney, the Democra
tic party's national chairman, said
he hones the President will decide
"within 60 days' whether to stand
for a new term.
McKlnney said Truman dele
gate slates could be filed in state.'!
where the candidates consent is
not required. The other states? He
led that question up in me air
U.S. Casuality
Total Mounts
WASHINGTON (Pi Announced
U.S. battle casualties In Korea
reached 105,271 Wednesday, an In
crease of 270 since last week.
The Defense Department's "week
ly summary based on notifications
to families through last Friday re
ported 63 more men killed In ac
tion and 212 wounded. There was a
decrease of five in the "missing'
category.
This makes new totals since the
war started of 16,333 killed in ac
tion, 76,324 wounded and 12,614
missing.
Accidents Kill
3 Oregonians
.By The Associated Press
Accidents, in Oregon claimed thj,
lives" Tuesday of three persons.'
Two died from Injuries suffered
in traffic mishaps and uie third
was killed in a logging acciaent.
Joe Thomas of Astoria died from
injuries suffered In a two-car col
lision near Hlllsboro Monday. Mrs.
Ruth Helen Will, driver of the
other car, died Monday night.
Robert Sullivan, 31, of Forest
Orove, was killed outright when a
motorcycle on which he was a oas-
senger collided with a car Just out
side Forest Orove Tuesday. Driver
oi ine motorcycle, Walter Jones,
M, xrest orove. suffered minor
injuries. ,
Donald Irwin Bingham, 30, of
Springfield, was killed in a logging
accident at Drain. A log rolled oft
a pile crushing him.
VA 'Regrets'
Turned Down
ISLAND TREE. N. Y. in -Mrs
Ruth Bogen rend the letter from
the Veterans Administration, then
glanced at her husband drinking
his breakfast coffee.
"Dear Mrs. Bogen," the letter
started, "We have learned with re
gret of the death of your husband.
Harold . . ." Then it suggested
she fill out the enclosed forms to
claim his 810,000 VA life Insurance.
Mrs. Bogen, 26. sat right down to
write VA officials Uint her 27-year
old husbnnd was Just starting out
on his bakery truck delivery route.
The postmnn knocked Tuesday,
Bogden said. Just a day after he
received hlsrregular VA partial dis
ability, check.
Bogen said he had no idea how
the VA might have made Its mis
take. KUHS Artists
Win 12 Keys
PORTLAND in Two hundred
Oregon high school students won
Oold Key awards In the Seventh
Annual Scholastic Art Contest here
with girls Polytechnic of Portland
winning 26 of them. , '
Klamath Falls, with 12 winners
topped upstate schools, followed in
order by Salem and Grants Pass.
mere were 4.501 entries.
Among the winners:
Eugene Ocorae E. Schultz.
Jock Gray. Marvin Brabham. Mnr-
Jorle M. Wood and Sylvia Hnlllgus.
Grants Pass Shirley Wildcy,
Byron Newman. Jcrrv Whitsett,
Bill Culhanc, Donna Ray, Betty
Jean Reed, Una May Kcnyon, Den
nis Dunham, Peggy Martin.
rwamaui rails Dennis Todd,
Jim Mattcson, Shannon Oldham.
Tore Janson, Kim Morris, Wayne
Angel, Jane Darton, RoRor Long,
Doris Campbell, Snlly McMahon,
Carl Stewart, Richard Parker.
Roseburg Gary Brlggs, Arthur
Daly, Roger Steeck.
Salem Dick Richardson. Jack
Stryffeler, Jerry Slntum, Jnck
Eyerly, Pnt Rnth, Nancy Llndbeck,
Jnnot Smith, Janet Fromme, Betty
Orlmm, Mnrtln W. Southwlck. .
OREGON JOBLESS
SALEM I.TI Flftv thousand
Oregon residents are unemployed.
compared with 45.000 a year ago,
ine utate unemployment compen
sation Commission said Wednes
day,
...n-.gy. ... 1 1 1
Telephone 8111
No. 2733
Stormy Bill
Now Faces
House Test
WASHINGTON in The
House Armed Services Committee i
Wednesday approved a compulsory
U in venal Military Training bill. I
The vote, taken in closed session,
was reported as 27 to 7.
The legislation Is due to. face a !
House test this month. It provides
for the Induction into a security
training corps lor six months of
training of all eligible males when
they become 18 years of age.
Alter servins: six months, the
trainees would be liable for reserve
duty for seven and one-half years.
The proposed law would go into
effect when passed by the Senate
snd the House and approved by
the President.
However, opponents predicted
they will kill lt when It reaches the
House.
The legislation follows the gen
eral outlines of a program sub
mitted by a special commission
headed by former Sen. Wadsworth
of New York.
The framing program would be
supervised generally by a civilian
dominated commission. Exemp
tions or deferments from the six
months of training would be held
to a minimum.
Officers Nip
Duel Threat
What could have grown Into an
"old fashioned gun duel," accord
ing to State Police, Tuesday after
noon resulted In arrest of 66-vear-
old Tobe "C" Carter, 3619 Can
non, on charge of disorderly con
duct. Carter pleaded not guilty to the
count in District Court and Is held
in the County Jail in lieu of $500
bail for trial Feb. 18.
State Police said Carter alleged
ly threatened Homer Daniel, oper
ator of Swan Service Station, S.
6th St. at Altamont Dr. with a gun
and "cursed him out."
Officers said Carter apparently
had been drinking, got to argu
ing with Daniel and threatened
him.
It Is not the first time Carter,
who apparently has young ideas
despite his age, has brushed with
the law.
Sept. 8. 1950. Carter got 185 days
in Justice Court on three charges
arising from a night-time fracas
at his home.
Carter was sentenced on charges
of liquor to a minor, disorderly
conduct and drunk on a highway.
in that instance Carter admitted
getting a 17-year-old boy drunk
beating up on him, challenging a
State Patrolman to a duel with
pistols and keeping the Cannon St.
neighborhood in an uproar for sev
eral hours.
He was released from custody
after spending some time in jail
and paying off a 1370 fine.
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WHOOPS! As the 20-30 Club held a novel dinner meet at the Willard last night, barrel
house "belles" of the evening were three clubmen shown above. They are (1 to r) Ed '.
Maurman, Terry Tennant (20-30 president) and Freddie Hadlock. The women ruled last
night and entertained their husbands and male friends as "Ladies Night" guests.
V
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ELIZABETH
New Queen Carefully
Educated for Throne
LONDON in The death of King
George VI Wednesday brought Brit
ain its first reigning queen since
victoria died 51 years ago.
And the coming to the throne of
serious gray-eyed Elizabeth re
vived a mild superstition that
Britain waxes fat and prosperous
with a woman's reign.
The belief grew out of the found
ing of an empire by another Queen
Elizabeth 350 years ago. arid its
rich expansion under Victoria in
tne lstn century.
The new queen, only 25 years old..
was in far-off Kenya, an East Af
rican colony, at the beginning of a
five-month tour of Africa, Ceylon,
Australia and New Zealand.
With her was her -80-year old hus
band, 'Philip. Duke of ' Edinburgh,
who cast aside princely Greek ti
tles and became a British citizen
to wed her amid great splendor
November 20, 1947.
They had Intended to comnlete
their empire-cementing Journey by
continuing around the world, with
side visits to the Panama Canal
and to Bermuda, British Colony
off the Atlantic Coast of the United
States.
RETURN
Now they must return at once.
Their son. three-year old Prince
Charles, born Nov. 14, 1948. now
becomes first in line to succeed to
the throne.
The line of succession, in order.
then Is Charles" year-old sister
Anne, and Elizabeth's 21-year old
sister. Princess Margaret.
Death of the king brings back
several traditional royal titles.
Two of them, the Dukedoms of
Cornwall in England and Rothesay
in Scotland, automatically go at
once to Prince Charles.
The courtesy title of Queen Moth
er may pass from King George's
mother, Mary, to his widow. Queen
Elizabeth.
Another title and the most im
portant one Is waiting for young
Charles.
He is expected someday to be
come Prince of Wales, a title re
served solely for male heirs to the
throne. The title is not passed along
automatically, but must be con
ferred specifically by the reigning
monarch.
When Charles eventually Is taken
in great splendor to the historic
ruins of Caernarvon Castle In
KING GEORGE VI
Wales to be created Prince of
Wales, be will be the 21st to hold
the title since Edward I inaugurat
ed it in 1301.
WINDSOR
There has been no Prince of
Wales since the present Duke of
Windsor succeeded to the throne
as Edward VHI in January, 1936.
According to tradition, Edward
I created the title to placate the
stubborn Welsh, who wanted a
prince born in Wales who could
speak no English.
Edward did it. bv presenting a
babe in arms who had been born
at Caernarvon Castle, much to the
annoyance of the Welsh chieftains.
Elizabeth was marked as a fu
ture reigning queen when she was
only 10 and her father became
King.
It changed the whole course of
her upbringing, from that of a rel
atively carefree child to one laden
with the prospective responsibili
ties of reigning over a woria-gir-
(Continued on Page 4.)
George VI
Asleep As
Life Ends
" By The Aasoclated Press
LONDON IAWeary King George
VI died Wednesday at 66, ending a
16-year reign that brought England
the glory and the dregs of victory.
His daughter Elisabeth, 28, lm
mediately became England's sev
enth queen ruler.
Tired and spent by disease,
George VI died in his jleep at Band
ringham, the royal estUe where he
was bom. He had suffered from
lung cancer, but apparently a blood
clot was the Immediate cause of
death.
More than half the world the
bits of England that lie around the
globe and the peoplea that are
akin lowered flags In respect to
the man who became King against
his will but developed Into Just the
steady sort of monarch Britons
love.
The new queen, namesake of her
mother and of the "Oood Queen
Bess" who ruled England almost
four centuries ago, received word
of her lather's death while she was
on a projected around-the-world
tour, now called off. .
Elizabeth was with her husband.
the Duke of Edinburgh, in Kenya,
East Africa.
She received the news tearfullv.
and then started planning her re
turn home. She and the Duke will,
fly here Wednesday. The formal
coronation likely will be In the
early summer, but she already is
tjucea.
The King's bodv is exnecter) in
lie in state in Westminster Hall,
the great hall of the Houses of
Parliament, for several days next
week.
The funeral wiU take place at
Windsor Castle, on a date ti h
determined after Elizabeth con
sults palace advisors and the gov
ernment. The Duke of Windsor, whose ab
dication-for-love in 1936 brought his
brother to the throne, plans to
come home for the funeral. He Is
sailing from New York Thursday.
George VI was the youngest king
to die since William in died tn
- " sc oi di. ueorge VI s
father, George V, was 71 when he
died.
At 25. Elizabeth Is the xernnrf
youngest queen in history. Victoria
was 18 when she began her 63-year
reign. She was the last queen, dy-
There were tears In many eyes
as word of the King's death spread,
just before . noon, but there was
pernaps no more eloquent tribute
to be heard than the oft-repeated:
'He was a good man."
Last September one of the King's..
No announcement was made then
of the actual malady. But subse
quently specialists closely associat
ed with the men who performed
the operation said It wag a case of
cancer. Court sources confirmed
The Klne'x valet .inhn uaMT.n
aid, discovered the body when he
"k cup of tea to his bedroom
at 7:30 a.m. His wife and the
Princess Margaret Rose were noti
fied immediately. Queen Mary, the
King s mother was informed by
telephone in London. The Duke of
Gloucester, brother f h. tri
hurried from nearby Hunstanton to
soiiiu uiguam.
The King and his Queen Eliza
beth, with their two pretty daugh
ters. Elizabeth nnrf Mp rrro rot Ones
had won the hearts of Britain by
their steadfast refusal to seek safe
ly noroaa during world War Two.
It is believed that a blonri rlnt
coronary thrombosis was the lm-
meuiaie cause or me King's death.
Last September, a rureeon re
moved one of his lungs as can
cerous, and the King had looked ill
for a long time. But even his im
mediate family did not know death
was so near.
Weeping crowds gathered at
Buckingham Palace as word of the
King's death spread. Flags were
lowered to half staff. The nation's
radios went silent except for news
bulletins.
Word of the death rami frnm
Sandringham Palace at 10:45 a.m.
2:45 a.m. PST. The British
Broadcasting Corp. announced It at
11:16 a.m. Newspaper extras hit
the streets within a few minutes.
In downtown London women burst
imo tears as tney saw the head
lines. .
The King showed no hint of an-
proaching deoth when he bade good
night Tuesday night at Sandring
ham to his Queen and the Princess
Margaret Rose.
The new Queen's husband, the
handsome, 30-year old Duke of Ed-
mourgn, may receive a new title
In due course. There is a precedent
Queen Victoria's husband, Prince
Albert, had the title of Prince Con
sort. Unwillingly, George " VI became
King by a whim of the fates when
Edward VIII, now the Duke of
Windsor, abdicated rather than
give up the love of the American
Mrs. wains Simpson.
He lived to see Britain lose much
of her empire, and to see his coun
trymen in wartime valor and peace
time austerity.
Now Britain has her first queen
in 61 years. The last was Queen
Victoria, who ruled from 1838 to
1901. And Britons believe firmly
that the country waxes prosperous
under a woman's reign.
The heir to the throne will be
Charles, the 3-year old son of Eliz
abeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.
He is destined someday to become
Prince of Wales.
George's voice sounded husky
when he broadcast his annual
Christmas message, and some spe
cialists saw that as a possible In
dication that cancer, having been
removed from his left lung, was
still present In his right.
Elizabeth gave him a long, anx
ious look last Thursday when she
left London by air on her trip to
Africa. Cevlon. Australia and New
Zealand a trip from which she
was not scheduled to return until
July.
Spectators at the airport felt It
was almost as if Elizabeth had ft
premonition she might not see her
father alive again.
George VI was the first British
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