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ONCE IN A WHILE THEY BITE These pictures were
taken along the lower end of Upper Klamath Lake as the
sun took some of the chill out of the air and fishermen
responded to the call of Spring. The right hand photo
shows Frank Jackson, OTI student, taking his ease while
wailing for a strike, and the upper shot is of Hay Duell,
1820 Fremont, with" a lS-ini-h trout he caught.
ii The
lly FRANK JKKKINS
From WoMhlngton:
"DlMippolnUtm rrop planting
pronprrtft hnvo ralwd (he nu"Uon
of whft.hfr the government should
change home of Its farm policies
to encourage greater production
and to cmwerve supplies.
"An agriculture department sur
vey lil week Indicated that crop
acreage will be smaller than Inxt
year, DKSl'lTE HKCItliTAKY
BRANNAN'8 CALL FOR LARGE
J'LANTINGS.
"Uranium says the survey points
to a serious livestock feed situa
tion which Is likely to result In
smaller supplies of meat, eggs and
milk."
That's an example of what we
rail "planned economy." It Is
based on the theory that political
bureaucrats can think for lha peo
ple better than the people can
think for ilwmoclvca.
. I wonder, '
The Wall Street Journal during
the past few days has been dig
uing into an Interesting scandal
about roll nxr corn In OOVKHN
ME NT GRANARIES In Illinois. It
seems Uint away back In 1MB the
government stored corn with pri
vate storage men. The corn began
to rot. The Illinois storage men
abhorring WASTE, as most pri
vate Individuals do) protested.
They wanted the government to
DO SOMETIIINO about It. Sell the
corn for feed while It still had
some value as feed. Anything to
slop It from rotting and going to
waste.
The government, the Journal
aavs. did nothing. So a lot of the
corn has rotted. Tho Investigation
ao far has covered only stored
corn In Illinois. The amount In
volved In Illinois Isn't very large.
But one can't help wondering what
has happened over the corn belt
aa a whole,
i If stored corn Is being permitted
to rot in Illinois, how much corn
Is being permitted to go to rot In
ALL the coin states
The corn, aa I suppose everyone
tinlcralaiKls, was bought bv the
government TO KEEP THE PRICE
UP. The theory was that the gov.
eminent would buy In the fat years
and sell In the lean years. Thus
we would maintain what the the
orists cajl "an ever-normal gran,
cry."
In THEORY. It was a hotsy-
toLsy Idea one of the best. Never
any feast. Never any famine. Just
uniform and beautiful prosperity
nil the lime. Never too much.
Never too little. Always JUST
ENOUGH.
The dickens of It ' Is that It
COULD HAVE WORKED. It could
have worked If the burcaucriils
had been as pure In heart, as self.
,less, us utterly devoted to the wel'
fare of the people as they pre.
tended to be.
Annarentlv they weren't. The
only explanation of this Illinois
(Continued on Page 4.)
Mimm
Hard Work Following Lean
Land Values For
(This la the second of a series
of articles dealing with a little
known phase of farming and
ranching In this area, the aoll
conservation district, Ed. note.)
By II ALIO HC'AnnitOl OII
As was mentioned yesterday,
there have been created In Klam
ath County In recent years Unco
Koll conservation districts. The Lun
aell Valley district was first creat
ed in llil I, and now encompu.'sos
around 750.000 (three-quarters of a
million) acres. 'Die Poe Valley dis
trict came along second and Is
second In size. It was established
In 1046 and covers about 105,000
acres. The Kliiiniil.h district was
formed In 1!M and comprises
about 20,000 acres.
Tho basic work of all throe la
tlty same to determine tho best
capabilities of each piece of ground
and try to iiistltiilo management
practices which will better those
capabilities. In other words, to
Los Angeles
Fire Takes
Six Lives
LOS ANOELE8 lfl Fire which
flashed swiftly In a six-floor skid
row lintel killed at least six men
Tuesday.
A night clerk who run through
the corridors knocking on doom,
then hurried Duck to his jiwltcn
board to warn others by tele
phone, was credited with saving
many lives.
An estimated 150 were In the St.
George Hotel, at IIS East Third
St., when the blaze broke out at
3 a.m.
Police said 10 were hospitalized
with burns or Injuries.
The night clerk. Lcland White
house. (7, aald:
"The first I knew of the fire
was when someone called down
from the fourth floor when he aw
smoke. J ran upstairs. I went down
a back stairway from the fourth
to the third floor.
"Then I saw the fire. It was
coming from room 312 at the rear.
The door waa open."
One of the occupants of 312, Iden
tified by police as A. D. Bern
hardt of Seattle. feU or Jumped to
his death 111 an alley.
The other occupant. Emll Mon
gee. was in a hospital with criti
cal burns.
Until they could .question htm,
fire department arson investigators
said they hud no Idea how the
blare started.
Fire Cnptaln Claude Conlnn 'aid
a check showed that the hotel's
second flour fire hose was ao rotted
It was not usable and a weight
balanced fire escape ladder at the
rear, leading from the second floor,
to the ground, wns wired up.
Asked about this Manager Floyd
Porter, 58, told a reporter:
"I don't know anything about It.
I've only been manager for a
month. Besides, that's the fire de
partment's business."
The hotel Is Just off Main St.,
has a permanent population of
about 80, and caters chiefly to
men transients.
Of the dead beside Bernhardt,
all suffocated.
Two were Identified tentatively
as J. R. Moore and Charles Ellis
Black, addres-ses undetermined.
Tito elevator operator. Little
Chief White Eagle. 71. a Yanul In
dian, and his wife, a Cherokee,
were asleep In their sixth floor
room.
"I tore the screen off the win
dow," said Mrs. Whlto Eagle. 51,
"and we Jumped three feet to a
fire escape."
The blasie was the third mntor
fire of the night. A few hours carll
cr, a 'M00.OOO blaze swept a two
story business building a few
blocks away, on Broadway, Rutting
a clothing atore, dress show, cw
elry store and restaurant.
One wing of the Bel Air Country
(Continued on Page 4.)
make tho land more valuable.
It Is long range work, under
taken now by Uie people on Uie
land for future benefit.
Tho Langell Valley soil conserva
tion district, because it is the old
est In the county, the fourth old
cut In Oregon, and because it has
been selected as Oregon's pilot dis
trict for experiment, will be Uie
subject of this article.
The original Langell Valley dis
trict was created by vote of land
owners March 12, 1941, and It was
of 32,722 acres located In the valley
down toward tho California state
line In an nrea which actually did
not have a surfaced, all-weuUicr
road. Lund down there In 1041 was
selling for about $40 an aore while
over In the Mcrrlll-Mulln area not
very far away as the crow files
lnnd was soiling for $260 an acve.
An Irrigation district operating In
the area was broke and the farm
ers weren't having much luck at
Improving their lot.
Basin Panel Brings Out Theory That
There Are Too Many Fund Drives In KF
By WALLACE MYERS
'Are we havlnr to maJty fund
drives and If to, what can: we do
about It?"
A "Build the Basin" panel last
night took the unanimous stand
that we are having too many
drives and that the best answer
is a single, united drive. '.
Such a drive, popularly, gnown
as the "Detroit Plan" would lump
ail worthwhile health, weltare and
character building agencies Into
one annual campaign.
Hundreds, of phone calls flooded
Uie Herald and Ncws-KFLW switch
board during last night's forum
broadcast; not one pnonea com
ment nor question was opposed to.
the unified drive proposal.
The fund drives forum aroused
such listening audience interest that
there were requests for the hour
and a half program to continue an
extra hour until 11 p.m.
Last night s panel or six waa
comprised of: Mrs. Herbert bra
bant. Bob Perkins, Ernest Taylor,
Cons Slated
For Tule Camp
About 50 McNeil Island federal
prisoners ore to be sent to the
Newell prison camp "within a few
weeks," McNeil Warden Fred Wil
kinson announced Monday.
The men are to form a labor
corps to help rehabilitate the camp
there for possible use as a sub
versives detention stockade.
The Bureau of Prisons has taken
over the military area of the old
World War II Jap Internment
camp.
Wilkinson also said the labor
force would be augmented by short
term prisoners Irom Jails oi. North
ern California and Southern Ore
gon. The camp is one of six being
set up in various parts of the coun
try for use In event of an emergency.
Langell Valley Soil
The U.S. Soli Conservation Serv
ice at Uiat time had some equip
ment, an RD-8 Caterpillar tractor
and dozer, a 12-yard carryall, a
80-foot lundplano and other land
working machinery, and It turned
that equipment over to tho new
district for use. It was put to work
on tho land, making Improvements
advised by the Soil Conservation
Service and in 10 years tho results
were strikingly apparent.
In those years, with Uie work
largely confined to the Irrigated
acres of the district, a total of
7,336 acres of land was leveled,
over 54 miles of drain ditches four
feet or more In depth were dug,
Improved irrigation practices wcro
Instituted on 10,331 acres.
Land values In the area went up
from around $40 an acre in 1941
to $260 an acre In 1051, and it
wasn't all due' to Inflation. By a
ratio of probably three to one, the
increase In value probably was due
to the work of the soli conserva
Dr. Frank Trotmatt. Lynn Rorcroft
and Itoderlck Durham, of Salem,
executive secretary of the Oregon
Chest.
SCHOOLS
Starting the panel on Us round
of brief opening remarks, Mrs.
Graham criticized the conducting
of fund drives In the schools. The
young- housewife, mother of two
school children ana a lormer ri
president, said she did not minx
school children understood the true
spirit of charity. She suggested that
Instead of direct solicitations In
school rooms, collection boxes be
placed In Uie halls or that school
solicitations be stopped altogether.
The other five panel members con
curred In Mrs. Graham's opinions.
Boo rcrxins iota oi ine mtt
of the Detroit Plan In other cities
and outlined Its operating policy.
Ernest Taylor, treasurer of the
Palmerton Lumber Company here
told how employes of that firm
had adopted a plan remarkably
like the Detroit Plan. Under this
plan, employes have 50 cents de
ducted from their pay each month
and tlie company makes a sub
stantial contribution to the fund.
The fund Is adminstered by a com
mittee of five employes. Taylor
says all but four of more than
400 employes have voluntarily
adopted the plan. No solicitations
are now allowed In the plant and
offices. Taylor says the plao has
raised more than three times as
much as In any previous year un-
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Partly cloudy Tuesday afternoon,
fair Tuesday night and Wednesday.
High today 55, low tonight 30. High
tomorrow 58.
High temp yesterday
Low last night
Prcclp March 24
Since Oct. 1
Normal for period :
Same Period last year ..
49
29
. ,T
14.(19
9.08
12.58
(Additional Weather on Page 41
Start Paid Off In Higher
tion district. Langell Valley im
proved lands increased in value
faster during the 10 year period
wan did the best lands ot tne high
ly regarded McrrlU-Malln area.
The slzo of the original district,
was enlarged Jan. 1, 1943, taking
In some adjacent land, and anoth
er chunk of acreage was brought
Into the district Aug. 31, 1045.
Finally, last Feb. 4, a huge step
was taken. At the time the district
covered about 125,000 acres, and
the enlargement made It upwards
of 750.000.
The district now Is big and
sprawling. The California line Is Its
southern boundary; the Luke Coun
ty lino Is the boundary on the
north and east; the western boun
dary Is Irregular but It extends to
Just short of the community of
Sprague River.
The towns or communities of Bo
nanza, Lorclla, Beatty and Bly are
within the confines of the district.
It overlays about 300,000 tores of
der the old direct solicitation plan.
Itoderlck Durham said the prob
lem of too many fund drives was
a "very hot one all over the
state. He lauded the Palmerton
setup and said he believed a uni
fied drive was the best answer to
the problem.
Dr. Frank Trotman saw lack of
education as a major factor in the
allure oi many drives. He ex
plained, for Instance, that some
persons had the mistaken idea that
blood collected by the Red Cross
was sold to users. He pointed out
that "not one cent" is' paid the
itea uross ior tne oiooa it gives
to the armed services and home
town hospitals. Only charge Is for
laboratory work in connection with
Reds Explain
Truman Slip
MOSCOW (ifl It's not corrup
tion in the U. S. government that's
costing President Truman votes In
c u r r en t presidential primaries,
says Russia's Literary Gazette.
Corruption, the Gazette explain
ed Tuesday, Is such a customary
thing in Washington that no one
gets excited about It.
The votes against Truman, the
magazine went on, are against
Truman's entire policy "which
has pushed the nation along the
path of bloody adventure in Korea
and preparation for war in other
ports of the world."
The Gazette did not mention Gen.
Dwlght Elsenhower's' triumphs in
the Minnesota and New Hampshire
primaries.
It told its readers that the Amer
ican voters hod no choice, for the
Republican and Democratic rjar
ties are both the "agents and ser
vants of the monopolies," but that
Uie vote against Truman was a
"vote of protest against the policv
of Wall Street, which is alien to
the interests of the people." .
Conservationists
privately owned land, plus land
controlled by several federal agen
cies (Forest Service, Bureau of
Reclamation, Bureau of Land Man
agement), the Klamath Indian res
ervation, the State of Oregon and
Klamath County..
This vast district Is governed by
five men: Louis Kandil, chairman
of the Board of Supervisors; Wil
liam Burnett, sccretarv-treasurer:
Walter Smith, Lloyd Olft and Peter
Hriczlscsc.
It has obtained, in addition to
the original equipment loaned and
finally given the district by the
Soil Conservation Service, a D-1
Caterpillar tractor, a 12-yard carry
nil, a 40-foot landplane, sub-soiler
and other smaller equipment and
machinery, and employs two equip
ment operators full time.
The district Is solvent, It hires
out its equipment and manpower
to farmers within the districts at
a rate high enough to pay the op
erating and maintenance costs plus
the transfusions.
SOCIALISM THREAT
Lynn Roycroft, president of the
Klamath county community unesi,
said the increase In the number of
health drives appeared to be "driv
ing us toward socialized medicine. "
He cued tne "perennial laiiurc
of the chest to meet its quota and
said some sort of united - drive
mlcht be the solution.
During the program, the Herald
and News was rapped for not prop
erly educating the public to the
need lor tne various agencies see-
Inr funds. (Editor's note: Witb
more than 20 annual fund drives
being put on here, the Herald and
News devotes as much time and
space to each as the editors deem
advisable.)
Durham, the state chest head
explained that big organization
Job would be necessary for setting
ud a unified Detroit nan drive.
He suggested the Klamath Com
munity Chest directors and Klam
ath Chamber of Commerce direct
ors meet in joint session and ap
point a committee to make the
necessary county-wide survey.
He said that such surveys were
now being conducted in the Coos
Bay area ana mat results mus lar
showed an "overwhelming" desire
for the Detroit Flan.
Chinooks Going
To Capital
ASTORIA l.fl Columbia River
Chinook salmon will be served in
the newly renovated White House
next month.
The President's wife will serve
three large Chinooks to wives of
senators and cabinet members at
the annual luncheon she gives for
the ladies.
Arrangements for the salmon
have been completed bv Mrs
Wayne Morse. Guy Rea. president
of the Chamber of Commerce, said
after receiving a letter Irom Mrs.
Morse.
She wrote that upwards of 120
women would attend tne White
House affair.
something to sock away for new
equipment and replacements and
still at a cost to the farmer which
is probably less than he couia con
tract the wont outsiae.
There Is nothing forceful or pun
Itlve about the workings of the soil
conservation district. Landowners
don't have to cooperate or ask for
help If they don't want to. If thev
don't want the Soil Conservation
Service to make surveys and chem
ical analyses of their soil, nobody
forces It upon them. And if they
don't use any of the district lacil
ltlcs they don't have to pay for
them.
But the record speaks for itself.
In the first 10 years of operation,
landowners In the district spent
something like $555,650 for range
seeding, pasture seeding, water
stnrace. drainage, land leveling, lr
rlgatlon system Improvement and
soli-building.
And land value Jumped from $40
te $250 in acre.
By The Auoclattd Pre
Federal rcstrlctiorn were lifted
late Monday and State officials
anld promptly that aome Oregon
World War n veterans might get
their state bonus checks within 60
to 90 days.
Oov. Douglas McKay, when In
formed that President Truman had
lifted credit restraint restrictions,
said: "We will go to work right
now and ask for bids" on bonds to
finance the SO million dollar pro
gram. The president Monday directed
Mobilization Director Charles E.
Thieves Get
$600,000
From Truck
DANVERS, Mass. lift Three
gunmen robbed an armored mon
ey car Tuesday of about $600,000
cash, all the money in the vehicle,
while it was stopped in this quiet
town about 20 miles north of Bos
ton. Danvers policeman Alanson
Burnham said the truck was un
attended while guards were In a
drugstore.
Lawrence Johansen. who was In
charge of the truck, estimated the
loot and said most of it was in
small mm.
The car. owned by the United
States trucking company, was be
ing used to deliver money to banks
and business concerns in various
communities of Massachusetts'
North Shore.
FLEE SCENE
The three robbers fled in a black
Buick sedan which, less than an
hour later, was found abandoned
in Everett, Just north of Boston.
One man was seen leaving tne
car, but disappeared quickly,.
The truck was parked in Maple
Street, Uie main business street in
this community, Just across from
Uie Danvers National uanx.
Police said their quick, early
Investigation indicated the back.
doors of the truck were len un
locked or open.
Johansen sain ne naa aeiiverco.
Drobablv a million dollars to banks
and business houses before amv-.
ing here to make a delivery to the
Danvers National Bank.
COP CLOSE
The robbers car sped off Im
mediately, almost knocking down
Patrolman Edmund Noonan who
was on traffic duty in Danvers
Square -about 200 feet distant.
It circled around Danvers to get
back onto U. S. Route One which
runs from Maine to Florida.
It sped towards Boston neiors
It was abandoned.
The car was reported stolen
from a Boston steelworker, word
ing on a Maiden construction Job.
Maiden adjoins tvereu.
Everett nolice later located wit
nesses who, unaware of uie rob
bery or the part the car played
In It. had seen men "shifting large
bundles" from it to another car, a
black Pontiac.
The transfer was speedy and so
was the departure, in an undeter
mined direction, ol tne rontiac.
The registration of the second
car was not known Immediately.
SEARCH FAILS
The trans-shipment was carried
out at Broadway, Everett, part of
U. S. Route One, and Marie Street.
Police searched the area with
out success.
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation quickly assigned special
agents to the case as soon as it
was reported Federal Reserve
(Continued on Page 4.)
J
ft
ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL at Klamath Union high when
caught by the photographer this morning were Helen
Dowdy, Keno Road, and Sharon Outler, West Klamath. ,
Both are sophomores.
Wilson to terminate the "system
of review and approval of proposed
state and local financing by volun
tary credit restraint committees."
It was a regional credit restraint
committee which held up the Ore
gon veterans' bonus by ruling It
Inflationary. After that, financial
concerns refused to bid on the Ore
gon Donus bonds.
QUICK ACTION
The president's action removed
that obstacle and L. O. Arena of
Salem, a member of the State
Bond Commission, said the state
might be able to start paying the
uuuus wibiuu ou aays.
But H. C. Saalleid. sunervl.w
of the bonus bond division of the
State Veterans Department, said
it uuKiib ue at. least, uu aays Deiore
the checks would be in the mall.
The bonds must be advertised
for a specified period, a date of
bidding set, the bids must then ba
studied and one accepted, and the
money advanced. ,
Arens said If Western bond
houses were low bidders, th pro
gram would move fas'er than it
easterners got the bonds.
FINAL DEAL ,
McKay said State Treasurer Wal
ter J. Pearson is In New York
where he Is making final arrange-'
ments for a 15 million dollar' state
highway bond issue. McKay said
Pearson will ask for bids on the
veterans bonus bonds while he la
in the east. ,
Saalfeld said his office has Tti
ceived about 60.000 bonus annlloo.
tions 40,000 of which have been
approved and the rest awaiting ap-
proval. He said the remaining 70-"
000 to 80,000 qualified veteraniC
have until Dec. I to file appllca-v
tions for the bonus which provides
for payments up to $600 on the"
basis of $10 a month for domestic
duty and $15 tc month for overseas
duty.
He asked veterans who already,
have filed their applications not tor
write his office asking when the-
oonus win oe paid.
We'll get the monev to the vet..
erans as fast as we can. Arrange
ments are being made with the
secretary of state's office to gel
checks into the mall as soon as
possible for those who applications
already have been approved," he
said.
McKay said most recent esti
mates indicate the program will
cost from 50 to 55 miUion dollars.
earner estimates set the figure at
44. million. , .
" An Initiative "petition to repeal '
the bonus measure may have been
doomed by the president's direc
Uve. '
W. R. Glesy, Monroe, Ore., seed
dealer, and secretary of the "No
Property Tax Bonus Committee of
Benton County" said his organiza
tion has only about 6,500 of the
required 28.286 signatures neces
sary to put the repeal measure
on the ballot. The signatures must
ce inea oy juiy 3.
BLOCK. POSSIBLE
David O'Hara. head of the state
elections division, said the bonus
program could be blocked only by
a vote oi tne people, state omciais
Indicated the bonus will be at least
partially paid before the election
Is held.
Gelsy said his group will con
tinue to circulate petitions, how
ever.
f
Forest Okays
County Use Land
The Deschutes National Forest
has okayed a special use permit
to allow the Klamath County Court
to use and maintain 20 acres of
land Just southwest of Chemult for
a dump and refuse ground for
residents of the Chemult area.
The ground is to be cleared of
timber and other inflammable ma
terial, and refuse Is to be disposed
of by burning or burying.