VITAL Mi That service makes soli surveys. M hi n il In U (he flrnl of a ser if o urllt'ir liluillin little-known phaie of farming una ranching aollvlly In this area, Uir nail ronervtlon dis trict, KU. Note.) Ily IIALK HCAKtlROUOH Ona of the least undoralood but most vitally Important agricultural development ol recent year and lino thut doesn't subsist bv govern liirnl liiindoul In the growth of Ilia holl conservation district by which liirinorn nnd rancher are uhlo to put some piirpnuo and direction to their individual work at Improv ing their lund. i Three . auch districts ' exist In Klamath County, on of them pret ty far along In development and the other two atlll young and strug U ling to get along, . The strongest and of course the oldest, In the I.angell Valley aoll conservation district which was created In 1041, auperlmpoaed on what waa then a rather remote and poor section' of the county. 11 ha the Jump of several yeara of experience and pioneering on the other two, the Poe Valley dlnlrlct which wan aet up In IMS and the Klnmnth district which wan formed In 1IM0. The Lnngell Valley dlnlrlct by recent action IncrouKcd IU size to where It In now bigger In area Uian aom countlea In Oregon and In coming yearn It will be a focel point for the attention of resource conservationists In the Went. It has been selected m Oregon's pilot district for experimentation and by whatever means are necessary and feasible the lands within the district; to determine and better might be formed around the atate. appointed by the state Committee. The balance of power, then. Is directly vested In the district It self, not In any outside agency. words, the district can command pay for Its work. Formation of a district also Is rel range surveys and the Ilka aelen. atively easy. Any 25 or more land owners or owners of 70 per cent of the property within the territory proposed as a district can petition the stat Boll Conservation Com mittee asking that a district be created, A publlo hearing Is held on the subject and then an - elec This state Committee la com tlflo studies that the individual rancher probably wouldn't ', be trained or qualified to do for him self, to determine the. capability of the aoll and practices which can raise those capabilities. The service works out baslo farm plana which ranchers can use to gulda themselves In cultivating the re sources of the land. Any landowner In a soil conser vation district may request the Soil Conservation Service for auch a study and baslo plan for his place. Whether he uses It is up to him. , - , the capacity 01 encn acre 01 land, whether It be for crop raising, pasture, grazing, timber or what ever use, Boll conservation districts exist In all states, Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico governed by local law. The laws and setups differ from state to state. Here In Oregon the Legislature enacted a soil conservation dlnlrlct law back in 1038, Its provisions are simple: The law sets up an agency of the state, a Boll Conservation Com mittee, with the function of gen as a political subdivision, tne posed of five persons, three of them designated by law. They are (1) the director of the state agri cultural experiment station; (2) newly created soli conservation district can enter Into agreements or contracts, own and mortgage proof of what can be done to Im prove both publlo . and private scientific effort. What la a aoll conservation dis trict? It Is a legal entity, just like a municipal corporation, a school district or an Irrlgutlon district, with powers similar to those of other municipal corporations ex cept that It doesn't have the au thority to levy taxes. file purpose of a soil conserva tion district la to try to Improve li property, borrow money, lurnun farming and engineering equip ment and do practically all the things that, say, an Irrigation dis trict or a school district can do, except that It can't levy a tax. But In lieu of that authority, the the vice director of the state ex tension service; and (3) the state engineer. The other two Commit teemen are farmers appointed by the Governor. Tile state doesn't furnish any tion, wnn only property owners within the proposed district eligible to vote. If a majority of them sanc tion the proposal, a district la cre ated within pre-determlned boun money. Neither does the federal law will allow a district to receive gifts and to require contributions of money or services from those persons who are receiving or are to receive Its benefits. In other government, although It does fur daries and It's in business. Property owners within the dis trict elect three of their number nish technical assistance through the federal Boll Conservation Serv ice, a branch of the Department eral supervision of districts that as auaervlsors and two more are oi Agriculture. SOIL CONSEBVATON DSTBCTS T In Tiro- Will Ily FRANK JENKINB Prom Portland: "A holdup mull was cuplurrd In live minutes here Sunday night be i'iuim) he tried to escape by driving his car the wrong way on a one way Htrcct The robber wan inii'Hurd bv two pnlicumeli, who ovnrtook lilm and forced him to the curb. He gut out of the cur, handed over 1123 and a loaded uulomutlc, nnd snid: 'Okay. I'm Hie one you want'." I can understand the poor Kuy's befuddled mood. Thill's what It does to you when you got caught itolng the wrong way In one of ihene one-way street grids. At leant, It's one benefit of the "yntem I'd never llioimh of. Maybe It will eventually snip the cops t hane-robber type ol crime In our unc-Wuy-strcct lowns. I'm intrigued with this dlnpatch from Midway, Alabama: "You'll look a lung time before finding another hoonegow like the Midway Jail. It's on wheels, sits In a Negro woman's front yard and puts Its occupants up for public Inspection. "The tail, which resembles en animal cage more than It dors a lockup. Is a discarded convict wag on, Since any passorby can ace who's in It. the Inmates usually are sublect to quite a bit of ridi cule from persons on the outside. "Mldwav folks find It satisfactory though, VERY FKW OF THEM EVER CET LOCKED UP." It's the ssme Idea, you see. as the STOCKS which our Pilgrim forbears used as deterrents of eer- tnln tvnes of crime. I've never been sure It wasn't a mistake to do away with the slocks, and thla Alabama adaptation of the ays- tern more or less confirms my itvnlenl nnllnn ' In these modern daya. It doesn't matter so much what vou do. What really matters la OETTTNO CAUOHT AT IT. When you get put In the stocks and exhibited in tne nubile snuare or clapped In an exaggerated monkey cage like the cllv lull In Midway, Alabama, whore everybody- 1n town , can rnme by and kid the'llfe out of you. IT MEANS BOMETruriui I'm not aurprlseri that relatively few people ever eel locked up In Midway. Tf I lived there. I'D WALK THR STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH!' Another thmieht. Pn vnii reckon neople who OFT CAUOHT AT IT trv to kern their names out of the nsner In Mldwav? With a system live theirs, It wouldn't make much dlf'erenre. Prlvie memo to mvself! Write the Mldwsv editor and see what his experience has been. Tils Mldwav tall Mr Is so 'm hie In its 'upftnmenlnli. n LAN TASTIC IN ITS POSaiBIMTTER ef hrlnglnir shout "renter reneet fnr low. that I can't seem to leave the i.torv without squeezing It com pletely rtry. The dimatch roes on: "No claims have been rnarte shout the e(I being even remotely enenne.proof. "Not so loni ago, elehl nersons ont thrown In It to cn'ibllsh some thln In the wv nf a tenanev record. Seven rt them nrnmntlv rlnned nut the floor "vt evnpeil. The ejghth WA" TOO FAi. He got stuck ap1 couldn't iret ntil." Th nnor fnl m"n! He's the butt of all the Jokes. He keeps outgrow- (Continued on Tags 4.) A CHANGE OF SPOTS is in store for the marquee taken down Saturday by workmen from above the sidewalk at the Pine Tree theater. The metal structure that has carried names of many motion pictures since it was put in 1022 will go to Bly to be used on a theater there. The. building being remodeled for a store and office buildings was put up by Hart Brothers, Sacramento, with Howard Pen-in as the architect. It has been used consistently as a theater with the same name. Present owners are T. B. Watters, Dr. Ralph W. Stearns and Charles L. Moore. ' Farmers Worried Over Late Spring And Heavy Runoff; Field Planting Delayed But Hopes Held! or Good Late Yield Herald wm'RtWs KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1852 Telephone (111 No. 2113 bsfi C !il (Die Actress Kidnaped, Beaten By Thugs; Held Prisoner In Luxurious Home By Men HOLLYWOOD Actress Anne Sterling was beaten up and kid naped early Monday by four thugs she said held her captive in a luxurious home lor an hour and a halt. Later she lapsed Into uncon- sclounnesH. Sheriff's deputy Bert Keenan said that Miss Sterling had been beaten and bruised from her eve- brows to her toenails." The actress told him that she recently received a telephone threat. Afraid to stay alone, she (olliW Third Child Survives Snow Storm Dead Buried As Tornado Area Mourns rarm honor v Everyday eltlaens don't have too much to lose te wet, uncom fortable weather, bat farmers do and they're bealnnlnc to worry about II. , Bprlnr Is aeveral weeks late al ready tthooch technically It began last Thuradayl. and Ihere'a so much runoff water and leftovers from heavy winter anowa that the farmers can't get Into the fields to beiln Dreoarlnr the war., for planting. Bo far this stream year (which began Oct. 1) a total of 14.09 Inches of water has been precipitated in rain end snow. The normal pre cipitation at this time ol year is less than 10 inches. County Agent C. A. Henderson takes an optlmlsUe view of the situation: Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Overcast and occasional rain Mon day through Tuesday. High SO, low 37. High Temp yesterday 47 Low last night 37 I'reclp March 23 ... 0 Since Oct. 1 . .... 14.09 Normal for period 9.05 Same period last year HM I Additional Weather on Page 41 ; ti 1 If f iff AWii)i':!&aiiii 1 SHOOTING THE BREEZE this morning were Gary Coats (left) of 410 Tory and Larry McNab from the Chelsea Addition. ' He aaVa 'late fjlanllnss barring frosts auita often produce higher yields. nut in other phases of farming and ranching things are little difficult. J. D. Vertrees, livestock and poultry specialist In the County Agent's office, reported lambing miserable and uncomfortable and there has been some loss in calving because of weather conditions, s CALVES HURT He said calve Buffered' from pneumonia, and some froie to deslh shortly after being dropped. Lambing percentages, however, are high, Vertrees said. Poultry are suffering some, too, he added, since weather like thla Is hard on brooding. Early pasture nlantlncs are helno- held up, ground preparations are yet to begin and fertiliser applies- Four KF Men On Draft List Four men from Klnmnth County, one a native of Ireland not vet naturalised, are scheduled to leave here April 8 for lnduotlon Into the armed foces April 9 at Portland. iney are Qeorge Wilbur Small- wood, 3G, of Oold Creek. Mont.: Jnmcs Lawrence Schulze, 24, Bly; Jeremiah McAuliiie. 34, Baldwin Hotel, Klamath Falls: and David Charles Vincent, 20, 22S E. Main. mcauuiic. in this country about two years and taking preliminary steps toward naturalisation, said he wants to go Into military serv ice, the selective Service office re ported. Some weeks ago two un naturalized Irishmen In Lake Coun ty refused to- be drafted, citing provisions In a friendship treaty between the united States and Ire land. Five Rescued In Boat Upset PORTLAND Ml Five Portland- ers were rescued from the Willam ette River after their boat capsized in tne wash oi an ocean-going freighter Saturday. Nenrbv fishermon In small bonts pulled members of the P. J. Tor mey family to safety. Barbara Chancy, 21, still was missing, how ever. Tormey dove back toward Ure boat, floating upside down, He broke out a cabin window, and pulled Miss Chaney to safety. The Tormevs were disconsolate over the fact that their dog. who hsd been with them 14 years, could not be found. It was 45 minutes later, when the boat was being towed to shore, still upside down, thst they thought they heard a scratching noise In side the boat. Another window was broken out, nnd out came the dog, wot but lively. An air pocket Inside the submerged boat apparently had saved the nnlmnl. ROADS CLEAR Salem Wl Pavement was bare on all Oregon highways Monday as warm rains washed all the packed snow off of the mountain passes, the Oregon Highway commission reported. tlon have yet to be made, Ver trees noiea. m general, tarming is Just plain behind schedule. A year ago, he noted, dusting operations were underway at this ume on ciover root weevu. ims year there is still clover under snow. All bugs and Insects, Vertrees said, are dormant at present and aren't causing any damage. He added that clover can pull out ol the weather slump awfully fast, and probably will. Early pasture and grazing areas are behind In spring development, too. Crested wheatgrassea were Just coming out of the snow this week end. SEED READIED Henderson said there were a number of farmers preparing seed In the cellars for spud planting. but little work could be done In the fields. He said that by this time usually farmers are ready ing ditches, headgates and other ouisiae equipment (or expected heavy spring use. Farmers haven't oeen aoie to oo mat yet, either, to any extent. "There's nothing In sight that Is damaging." Henderson said, "and tho soil moisture will be excellent once we do start planting." He noted that larmers who were originally planning to plant winter wheat hove changed their minds and are thinking In terms of spring wheat planting now, as soon as they can get the soil. Henderson said the long winter had depleted and erased almost all the' old haystacks In the countv. and many farmers were now feed ing concentrates an expensive proposition. Atom Plant Threatened By Blaze TRAIL. B.C. Wl Disaster by fire threatened one of Canada's atomic energy operations for 45 minutes Sunday night. Firemen Quickly brought under control a 'fire In the transformer room or the hydrogen section of s I chemical plant at nearby Warlield no w uMuriner was ae&mjyea out ne one was rvrt. - Officials or consolidated Minim and Smelting company, bicirei lead-zinc chemicals producer In the worm saio, an investigation is planned. The chemical plant Is part of the company's huge operation' in this area. Some heavily-guarded plants in me aisirict proauce neavy water for atomic energy. There was no Indication whether the plant hit by fire Is one of those engaged In the production of heavy waier. If the fire had licked into the hydrogen action, the resulting blast might nave oadly crippled Cans da's atomic energy program. The fir in the transformer knocked out telephone and tele graph communications over a wide area. Circuits as far away as Nel son, 50 miles to the northeast, were affected. At the same time, a tremendous power surge brightened lights throughout Trail, a city of 15,000 about 400 miles east of Vancouver. Warlield Is a mile from, the center of the city. Ho reason for the power surge couia oe given went to the apartment of a friend, Ann Jackson. In the vestibule of Miss Jackson's apartment house, the actress con tinued, "four men grabbed- me, took me to the underground ga rage and beat me. . . And kicked me They also slugged me with some kind of blunt Instru ment." She said they then drove her to luxurious house near the Kimset Strip and beat her again "even more viciously." bne said one of the men told her they were doing it to teach her lesson. Miss Sterling said she flnallv managed to escape, but didn't say how. Later, when she i heinr n. amlned by Dr. Henrv W. Enhraim she became unconscious and was rushed to a hospital. Miss Sterling and a former room mate fashion designer Yolanda Elliott, recently opposed each other in court in a dispute over a fur sioie. Miss Elliott wan acnnlttsri nf charges that she stole the fur piece iviu miss owning wnue they lived In an apartment together. ouusequenuy, miss Elliott sued Miss Sterling for $100300 dam ages, charging malicious prosecu tion. This suit is still pending. Planes Bomb Cows With Hay ELKO, Nev. W Big Air Force planes from four states were to oomo ' tne snowy ranges of Ne vada Monday with hay for starving uuiuc. a new siorm temporarily grounded the operation Sunday. C-54S at Oreat Falls, Mont.,' C-124S at McChord Field, Wash., and a C-83 at Denver were alerted to augment hnylilt cargo planes irom nanuicon neia, north of San Francisco. In contrast to Saturday's success in air-dropping 18 tons of baled nay to cattle isolated in remote areas, only one crew -got through Sunday's new blizzard. It dumped hny In the Ruby Valley east of Elko. Eight ranchers In Elko County have called for air-drops to some 7,000 cattle. Some 82 other cattle owners were relying on 25 Army bulldozers from Ogden. Utah, to clear lanes through the snow to 190,000 menaced stock. Saturday, and Sunday, these bull dozers and a rotary plow cleared approximately 100 miles of roads In the critical Northeastern Neva da area. Another 600 miles remain to be cleared. The ground work was expected to continue nil week. It was hoped the aerial opera tion could be concluded Tuesday. The costly rescue work Is being' financed by a $100,000 allotment of President Turman, He declared the sector a disaster area. The aerial phase was hazardous at times. Cargo planes were forced to worm their way between canyon walls to drop the bales near the starving herds. .. -. .' VTC Allotment For Work OK Weyerhaeuser Timber Companys Kiamatn rails orancn has been awarded a $174,000 material al lowance for expansion work In the second quarter, according to. an Associated Press dispatch from Washington this morning. The allotment was one of. sev eral announced late yesterday by the National Production Admini stration. The allotments totaled 29 million dollars. Hugh Campbell, Weyerhaeuser assistant manager here, said today the firm had not yet been officially notified of the allotment. He said the firm had several applications pe-.dlng before the NPA and that he did not know what particular Job the $174,000 allotment covered. . It is posible the allotment' covers a portion of the work on the new hardboard plant Weyerhaeuser has announced win oe built here. Appeal Pleads DP Admittance KEY WEST, Fla'. Wl President Truman asked Congress Monday to open immigration gates to admit auo.oou additional Europeans dur ing the next three years. Many escaped "victims of Com' munist tvranny" would be included. This -request highlighted a 4,900 word, three-point program drafted at the little wnue House asking Congress to: "(1) Provide aid for the un fortunate victims of oppression who are escaping from communist tyr annv behind the Iron Curtain. "(2) Continue our participation in the International effort now be ing made to assist in the migration and resettlement throughout the world of a substantial number of persons from the overpopulated areas of Western Europe. "(3) Authorize additional Immi gration into this country, on a lim ited basis, to aid in alleviating the problems created by Communist tyranny and overpopulation in Western Europe." Finnegan Gets Jail, Fine ST. LOUIS IB James P. Finne gan. personal friend of President Truman, was sentenced Monday to two years In prison and fined $10,000 for misconduct as internal revenue collector here. He was convicted on two mis conduct charges by a federal court jury Marcn la. Federal Judge Rubey M. Hulen imposed, sentence after denying motion for a new trial. The 51-year-old ex-collector was sentenced to two years on each of two charges, but the terms are to oe served concurrently. His attorneys previously had an nounced they planned to appeal the case In the event their motion for a new trial was denied. Finnegan was released under $5,000 bond pending a motion for an appeal. The heavy-set Finnegan was tense, his face flushed, as he stood before Judge Hulen. Only a few mlnuts before the Judge had sharply criticized Finne gan as a public ouiciai wno vio lated his trust. LAKEWOOD. Wis. Two five-year old youngsters perished in the wlnterbound wilderness' of the Nicolet National Forest after becoming lost in a storm, but a third child was found alive Mon day, huddled with her dead com panions in an abandoned outhouse. Little Mary Ann Church 3. was found alive at 10 a.m. by two searchers snowshoeing through the heavy new snow, and rushed to Dr. J. F. Dougherty at Sluing oy sneriti s oiticers. Dr. Dougherty said she recov ered consciousness, drank a little milk and greeted her mother, then was sent to Oconto Memorial Hos pital where her condition is fair Sheriff Joseph Foral said that searchers at first thought "a spark oi ine was leit in tne otner two children, but they were pronounced dead by Clarence McMahon, assist ant coroner of Oconto County. The dead were Mary Ann's sis ter catny, and their cousin, Stev en Kennedy, both five. Sheriff - Foral s office said the three were, found huddling in an outdoor toilet on the- grounds of a closed: resort in the wlnterbound Forest. ' The three 'youngsters were- min ing since mid-aftemoon Saturday. no nave oeen sougru, oy rranareas oi spawsooe-oorne searcners. v. ' The children, two of them five and the other three, wandered trom their home on the forest's edge to watch a porcupine Just as a snowstorm started. There has been no trace of them since. The early spring storm, lashed (Continued on Page 4.) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. M) The living worked grimly at burying and rebuilding Monday in six tornado-torn, flood-afflicted southern states in which 235 died and' 1,100 were hurt. In small, partly-wrecked church. es throughout the region Sunday half-dazed people clustered for fu neral services sometimes for whole families. The normal sabbath still of .mail towns was broken often by the rau cous chugging of bulldozers labor ing at me aeons, tne rattle ef trucks and the clumping of boards" being piled. Survivors of the disastrous week end picked at what was left of tneir homes searching for some' thing salvable, often under the Idle gaze of hundreds of sight seers who jammed the stricken areas. ' . DEATH TOLL , At last count, ami it dk at hw Incomplete and often time. inc curate, the death toll stood a Ar kansas, 131; Tennessee, 64; Mis sissippi, 11; Kenucky, 8: Missouri. it), and Alabama. 5. Arkansas alone rennrtrf vn' In jured and 1.425 families, thousand homeless affected by the ten-ibis winds. . " .-. In basemenU of ' ehnreh.. schools and armories Salvation Ar my and Red Cross workers struggled manfully to feed, house ana ciotne tnose left desolate. - An accurate estimate of damam was impossible but It was expect ed to reach into the tens of mil Hons of dollars. HOSPITALS FULL In hospitals doctors and nurses. eyes red-rimmed from lack of sleep, worked to near exhaustion to aid the Injured. Hospital capa city was strainea to tne breaking point. Arkansas Gov. McMath, an- pealed directly to President Till man tor funds to help the state rehabilitate itself. . tie also wanted the President for his quick action in ordering federal agencies to- make a quick check of the damage in all the stricken ; areas to , ascertain the need. ' ; - Near Lexington, Tenn;, Sunday they burled a family of six, lift ed from their homes and hurled 300 yards to death. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs! Ge' (Continued on Page 4.) Fund Drives Forum Topic Tonight's "Build the Basin" for um bids to be one of the most In teresting yet held in the public service series sponsored by the Herald and News and its radio station. KFLW. Topic for tonight's forum, which goes on the air at 8:30. is: "Are we having too many fund drives and It so, what can we do about it?" The six-member panel selected to tackle this important question Is comprised of: Mrs.- Herbert Graham, Klamath Falls housewife and church wom an; Q. Roderick Durham, Salem, executive secretary of the Oregon Chest:- Dr. Frank Trotman, mayor of Merrill: Ernest Taylor, treas urer and office manager of the Palmerton Lumber Company; Boo Perkins, Medo-land Creamery sale man -who has taken an active in terest in the fund drive problem: and Lynn Roycroft, president of the Klamath County- Community Chest. As usual, . a special telephone crew of six persons will be on hand at the Herald and News to handle questions and comments from the listening audience. Stockman To Tour US Bases WASHINGTON I Rep. Stock man (R.-Ore.) left Monday for a month-Ions Inspection of military installations in tne near ana rar East. Chairman Cannon (D-Mo.) of the House Appropriations Committee told a reporter he had asked Stock man to obtain "special Informa tion the committee wants on aev eral spots." He did not elaborate. Stockman's office said he would visit Japan, Korea, the Philippine islands and uie mut-mast. The Oregonlan, who has an nounced he will not seek reelec tion this fall, was described by Cannon as the "only member of the committee with the time to undertake the trip." G. RODERICK DURHAM BOB PERKINS ERNEST TAYLOR DR. FRANK TROTMAN ., i -j "i;s 4 $'WA V xl a i MRS. HERBERT GRAHAM LYNN ROYCROFT i i 't I I i t i i -)