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Hire Is a question thtil l being
widely iilscussfd III America tuduy:
Hid President Truman have clcur
ulhnrlty. under lliu Inw and III"
lonAtlliillon, to scire Ihr atccl
niiinu which Hie private proper
IV? Thnt I don't know. II Is ones.
iiuii that will hnve la bo answered
by Hie courts,
Ilui
l.nw or no luw
(loimtitutlon or in roumllutton
HE HEIZKIJ TIIKM.
t .rt ' look ill li imrallel cum:
llm bold bruiser Uiillsla linil no
i lenr authority under Uie luw or
Ihr constitution lo jwtlse Uie ureal
i.rmv u( (.'till A
llul tin BrI.rcl it.
l.nw or no Inw, constitution or no
constitution. IIK'H 11 1
Our liovprniiiiint now holds Die
I minimis niul 11 holds Uio sled in
uiuiliv. Alteudy wo've Inkrn n long
y lfi luwalU rtoclall.tlit.
huimuoo we Mib.i'lttcd lo a rrf
rtdulmn voir 1 1 1 1. auction'. "Klinll
We or Hlwill We not llnvc Soclul-
I in In Uio United Hlnlcn?"
'llm vote, In nurli n l'f, would
he nbolll 10 lo one AUAlNbT. llul.
ukiuu II u step et n time, wr
nil C1KT UHIC1) TO TIIK IIJKA OK
iioCIAMHM. Wo dol.'t want It. bill
II It In ted to u persistently In
i mull doses we tun coma In llmo
to lolerule II.
Alexander Potie, In hbi Esnay on
Mnn. tell ui truly:
"Vice u i. muiiiirr of so frlgl'il-
f 11 1 mrlll
"At to be htited needs but lo bo
'ernj
"Yet, seen too oil, familiar with
lirr luce.
"We tir.it endure, then pity, then
KMWt AC.'K."
II can be thai wiy Willi social
I in
Let s look al Uie siiblecl of steel
ptofits. Our President nays they're
M-nndnl'ii.ily biu. Hlrrl siaikennien
admit profits of nboul ID billion
dollars-- but. they oav, ol the 19
killlniis about II billions (JO TO
1HE GOVERNMENT IN TAXED
II the ffovrmntem iMiurezaa Uia
lirofits out of the olerl industry. 11
will lose tne w Diinons in uis
inoorv It now rolleeui from nrlvale
itrrl makers.
That raises lhl nuesllon:
II UIO aovciiiiiiviit lunvn Min i
billions It now vela from steel
v here will It no to pet the money?
Ton know where u will no. IT
WILL GO TO THE REST Or U6.
We'll have to pay more laxea lu
make un the lima.
If you have doubts on that point,
take a look at Orcitan, where Uie
kovrmnienl own about half of our
total land arm. If we could TAX
JvLU THAT PROPERTY wed b
Tallinn pretty. "- . . -
AnoUier question:
Who owns the tied Industry
perhaps we'd better say who did
own the steel Industry belore Uie
aovertunetil aetxed it?
In me case Ol atrci, i ao noi
have Uie fliurrc belore me. Bo
let's take Uie telephone which also
Li struck and which niluhl be
srlted. Tne American Telephone
Teleurapli Company now has more
than a MILLION stockholders,
which Is far more than the total
number of Its emploveea.
I Imsuine the same situation ex
I.Ms In mo case ol ateel.
That Is to say:
In sclztnir the ateel Industry. In
order lo make nood demands
of Ilia steel workers for more psv,
President Truman favored one
class of people against another
class of proplr an.1 he did It by
EDICT and not by law.
Why?
I presume II was because he
lliouBh: the crowd he favored has I
more voIiiik power than tne crowd
he hurt. That Is the POLITICAL
way of settling such thlniia. Per
sonally. I think ne iimireu ii out
wrong and hurt more people than
l,e helped. Anyway, that's bad
theory on which to run a country
like mis.
fin fur, Uili piece has been high
ly crlllcul of President Truman,
llul the limit isn't nil his. Congress
shares the blame lor the trouble
Marled with the stabilization law
tluil was ennclcd. by coiiKresa.
It was a JOKE, Everybody knew
II was a lokc. It was fuller of
I Dies thun a good 8wlss cheese. It
was enacted just ihrad ol an elcc
I on campuWn and the underlying
-ftiit.m lor Us enactment was to en-
i .hta everybody lo go home and
h'itho voters that "wo passed a
:llilH'ition law and now every
body la nroleelod against. Infla
tion."
What happened was exactly what
i.lwaya happcua when-half-bukrd
l ava are thrown together lor pure
Iv political iiurpose-i. Piicus went
up and wages went up rind nobody
aid anything about It There wasn't
much rnybody could do about It
under the law Unit lind been
I. assert.
Tiling.-, went irom una to worse,
ni'd 'ivcnliially Iho slltinllon
ri iicheU a crisis In the, atcol strike.
The point'' This Is It:
II we are lo have the kind of
!ovrnmcnl we want, we must
inve TOP MEN IN CONORESS a
f ell as a-top man for President.
Troops Bask
in Warm Sun
SEOUU Korea Ml Allied In
funnymen bunked In warm spring
iiiii'lilne Thursday ns U.N. air
craft hammered Red supply lines
mil Installations In North Korea.
Action rJong- the buttle front con
ilnitrd light.
A U. 8 Eighth Army briefing of
'Iccr said Wednesday was one of
:he most active since mtd-Fcu-
'iinry. The temperature went above
10 fr the first time this year and
iomtyiiiicd warm Thursday.
Steel Spokesman
Charges Seizure
Political Payoff
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MIKE DE CICCO, I'urllmul
tire distributor iiiid t-nntli-dale
fur Demotralit Na
tional ('oiiimillfi'maii, was
in town today and plans to
foe back April 17 to spend
a couple of days r;imiai",n
ing. lie is opposing Monroe
Sweetland of Portland,
present Demo National
Committeeman.
N. California
In Storm Path
BAN PRANCIUCO i.fi - Given an
advance Innfare nf thunder. Iluhl -
tum nnil ,, , ,,, M(irm v(d
j .t .i. , .
i.ii t...,.,. - .... m
wrrp tnrrrms n, the valleys
mnA llr Hlrrra
I.lgliliiing Wednesday nighl
gouged a hole In the celling ol the
R. J. Carls home In Campbell,
near Han Jose, and wrecked a tele-
vhinn set
In the aarne area, a Ilu'hUitng
boll luit missed the old city hall
at Um Cialos and rh.ped a redwood
tree lb vnrrU away. Tim bolt singed
Ihr face of a passerby, John fllva.
Hall us big as marbles fell In
Runnrvale for 10 tninuus.
The midtlen storm washed out the
Pacific Coast Le.igue baseball
game between Ban Francisco and icomment at a news conference on
Oakland at Emeryville. a steel executive's charge Uiat he
The game at Srcramrnlo with I pelted the mills In "a corrupt po
Porlland was delayed 30 minutes luteal deal" with the CIO.
!by showers
The sioriii knocked out several
Pacific (las and Electric trans
formers In Ranta Clara County.
Hie big thunderclaps rallied wui
dowa in South Peninsula communi
ties from Ilurllngmne to Redwood
City.
To the north of Sun Francisco, a
heaw hall storm "billed Sonora.
Light rain fell In San Francisco.
Few Smelt Try
Sandy Venture
PORTLAND W Smell hung
around Uie mouth of Uie 8andy
River for a couple of days but
no more than a handful ventured
upstream. Then Thursday, Sheriff's
Capl. Earl Stanley said "every
thing seems to have disappeared."
The amrlt, he said, were neither
in Uie Columbia nor the Bandy so
far as could be seen. He said he
had no Idea where thry were.
I The amrlt, he said, were neither p,riod last year 12.5a
I in Uia Columbia nor the Sandv so
far as could be seen. He said he
had no Idea where thry were. ' (Additional Weather on Page 4)
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HAVING A CUP of coffee this morning at Walt's on Main
was C, L. Bornamann, Bonanza, salesman for Western
Auto. The waitress is Violet McDonald, 536 Pine.
NEW YORK i A stel Indus-
try spokesman asserted angrll'
Wednesday night Unit Prcsf
Jrummi Imd abused till pow
lorled facts unci puld oil
lo the CIO" In Ilie nf
rMiireiu-A n riuMtii.
v.
ot Inliind Hlci'l Co . l
uovrrninriil'ii kcUurn
mllln a "corrupt pollllcul o A
Attld:
"Tliui evil deed, without preen
drill In Aiiirrltuii history, din
churned a political debt lo the CIO
"Phil Murray now Klvia Hurry
H. Truiimn a recclpl niurkcd 'paid
In lull ."
ItltOAIM'ANTH
KHiidull's no - hold.-! . hnrred
address Industry's llrst forniul
comment on the seizure wvi
made over four major radio and
four major television networks,
'file seizure, Hiindnll said, wus
done "wlthuul the sllKhtcst shadow
ol legal rlKlit "
He noted Uiat Truman hud said
the it eel Industry made 119 So
profit on each Urn.
Tills, the steel spokesman said.
ttus a "basic misrepresentation
and didn't Include Ihc fact "lh:.l Elsenhower lo Is the over
lie iTruinnni lakes at least two- whelnilnu invorlie to pick up all
thirds of that awuy In luxes." j drlcfiules In Thursday s conven
Hr added: I uon 0j Kansas Republicans In Tiv
I'ltOHT TKl'TII
The trulh Is that In terms ol
net prolll. by which I mean the
money the company has left alter
all co&t are paid Uie steel coin-
pnnle.n made per ton less
llinn one-third of that 119 ISO that
the president talked about."
Klnborntlnir on his "corrupt poli
tical deal" statement, Randall suld
on,, of Uir principals was the WsjjD
Stabilization Hoard which recom
mended a IV cenla an hour
Increase lor the CIO United
Sleclworkers.
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I MCrY JClUUbK
WASHINGTON m The steel
Industry mel wilh r. new setback
hursduy In Its court fljhl against
government seizure of Its mills.
I.nwvera for lour mulnr mm.
, panics Bethlehem. Republic
Youigstown Sheet & Tube, and
ljmir, j, Lauuhlln nlrarird In vain
,n u district court for Immediate
hrurlngs of Uietr suit for an In-
junction.
Judge David A. Pine ruled that
he would not advance Uie suits un
der court rules. .
The rule allow M days for the
defendant. In I his case the govern
merit, to reply to a suit.
In other development:
l. President Truman declined
2. However. Phlllo Murray. CIO
president, called the atatement by
Clarence B. Randn, president of
Inland Steel Co., "a malicious and
deliberate lie . , . An Insult to
President Truman and me."
Weather
FORECAST: Klamath Falls and
rlrlnltr, fair Thursday and Thurs
day nljhl. mostly fair Friday with
considerable high cloudiness. Low
tonight St, hlfh Friday 62. North
ern California, few scattered thun
der showers central part, slightly
cooler In extreme north Thursday
nlrhL
High Wednesday 7
l-ow last nlrht 33
Preclp Wednesday
Preelp slnre Oct. 1
Normal for period
Period last year
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Oriole
Of Underdog
Py The Annorlated Preiia
Hen. ThII lound lilmwll the un-di-rdOK
'lliurnduy In Ihr New Jer
hry content hkiiIiiM Orn. Eii-n-howrr
lor 38 OOP convention delr
Kutr and the Uhloun x buckcr
ure nol unniippy aboul It.
Thin nlluutlojl lirew out ol Tull'n
uiuiuccrwiltil atU'inpl to have hl
nuine mken off the bnllol In nrzl
Tuesday's presidential preference
primary.
The New Jcraey court Mil "no"
Tuft Irudlnif with New Jeracy's
Gov. Drlaroll over the Kovcrnor it
support ol Klncnhower. refused lo
cumpulKn.
Ho their arc no dolrulc candi
dates for him officially on the bal
lot, ullhouBh 11 people Mipiiorllim
him are candldulcii for seaU.
KANHAS
pikn.
Nine of his sunnorters will be
rhruen without a flight. Elscnhov-
' rr's forces will have to battle a
. jtn mtin (or the other spot,
Kansas district conventions al-
ready hnve chosen 12 delegates.
ten lor Elsenhower, two lor Tail.
Tall however, seemed to hold
the upper hand In a scries of dis
trict Republican conventions open
ing In Kentucky Thursday to select
porters planned to flht lo send
unlnstructed delegates to Chicago.
Tour district conventions arc be
ing held Thursday, three Friday
and one Saturday to choose two
delegates each. The atate conven
tion opening Saturday will choose
Uie other four.
NEW JKHSEY
This Is how Relman Morln.
As
sociated Press roving political re
porter, found Tuft leaders rea
soning In the New Jersey fight:
"Tafl has very Utile to lose In
this situation and should the
unexpected happen everything
to gain. Even a sizeable total of
popular votes In New Jersey for
Tail would permit his backers to
claim a moral victory." "
Harold E. Stamen also It on the
New Jersey ballot.
TaffS -charge thnt DriscoU had
promised to remain neutral In the
election was supported Wednesday
night by Charles Edison, former
Democratic governor, and Albert
W. Hawkes former Republican U.
8. Senator. DriscoU later broad
cast a denial of their statements
Sen. Kefauver Is the sole entry
In New Jersey's Democratic pri
mary. But several delegate candi
dates have said they would sup
port Gov. Stevenson ol Illinois.
FRONTRUNNER
The Tennessee senator's solo ap
pearance on the ballot in most of
Uie Democratic presidential prim
aries so far prompted Sen. Humph
rey of Minnesota, a favorite son
Democratic candidnte, to say that
others seeking Uie nomination
"may soon find It Impossible to
overtake" Kefauver.
Humphrey told a reporter in
Washington he still hasn't made up
his mind whom he will support lor
tne nomination, but he added: I
certainly don't want to stop" Ke
fauver. Two other senators Lehmnn
(D.-Llb.-NYl and O'Mnhoney ID.
Wyo.l disagreed with Humphrey in
separate Interviews. Lehman snid
he thought the race would be wide
open down to the July convention.
O'Mnhoney said Uir Democratic sit
uation would not Jell until after Uie
Republican convention.
The GOP convention starts July
7, the Democratic July 21. Both
arc In Chicago.
CALIFORNIA
Filing for California's presldcn-
tlal primaries closed Wednesday
night with two In the Republican
racu and Kefauver alone on Uie
Democratic slate.
Stnsscn fnllcd to get Uie required
12,309 signatures. Thnt left Warren
facing Rep. Thomas H. Werdel of
California In the GOP race.
Kefauver campaigned in Califor
nia Wednesday and moved up to
forunna. ore., inursaiiy.
A footnote was written In this
week's Illinois primary in which
Taft and Kefauver scored resound
ing victories.
Forest Fire
Season Here
8ALEM Wi The forest fire
season Is here more limn a
month ahead of normal. Control
measures went Into effect In West
ern Oregon Thursday.
Acting Gov. Paul L. Patterson
ordered the restrictions for the
area north of Douglas County and
west of the crest of the Cascade
Range.
The restrictions rcnulrc loggers
to get permits before burning any
material, to post fire watchmen,
provide workmen with fire tools
and put their wenther Instruments
In operation to determine when tho
humidity drops brlow 30. Logging
must halt whenever tho humidity
goes that low.
Such restrictions normally arc
not applied until May 15.
W. K. Hagenstcln, chief forester
for tho Industrial Forestry Associa
tion, pointed out thnt humidity fell
to 20 In Westorn Oregon Wednes
day, Ho Urged loggers to exerclso
caution so Uiat fire outbreaks like
last spring's, can be avoided. Some
12,400 acres were burned then.
KLAMATH FALLS, ORKOON,
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FIRE SCENE This is the interior of a gutted house at
422 Mt. Whitney, residence o the Donald Lee Smith fam
ilv, which burned in the early morning hours of April 2.
Smith, 24, is in the County Jail on an arson charge and
has admitted putting the torch to his own house to collect
the insurance.
Man Confesses
Starting Fire
DonaJd Leo-''Smith, 24 this morn
ing in CirsUilourt readily adiull-
'leq setting fire to his home at 422
Mt. Whitney the morning of April
2 to collect 96.500 In insurance on
the house and furniture.
Represented by Attorney J. C.
O'Neill, Smith waived grand Jury
Indictment and pleaded guilty to
cnarge ot arson in the first degree.
The charge, on Jivlctlon, carries
a prison sentence ol two to 20 vears.
O'Neill asked that Judge David
R. Vandenberg consider granting
probation to Smith for several rea
sons; that Smith had never been
in trouble before and Uie only rea
son he committed the act was be
cause he was heavily oppressed by
debts.
FAMILY
O'Neill also mentiined that Smith
had a wife and three small chil
dren. According to District Attorney
D. E. Van Vactor, Uie fire and
plnn to collect Insurance was care
fully thought out ahead of time.
The district attorney pointed out
that when Smith bought the house
about a year ago, only (2.500 In
surance was carried on it. But last
March 8. according to Van Vactor.
Smith put an additional $1,500 in
surance on the house and added
$2,500 on the furniture
The day of the fire, Uie D. A.
said. Smith was working at a mill
in Roscburg. He called his wife
from there. Van Vactor said, and
urged her to stay that night with
relatives here in town.
Then Smilh lef". Roseburg about
8 p.m.. drove here, set the lire .
aim rciurueu 10 rucuuig.
'SUSPICION'
'ire uniei noy Kowe ennea tor
an investigation when he noticed I
the pipeline to tne on neater in
uie iiomiooui i.ii.i , u.u.u.ci.,- glm(, jts Iorces ga,hered strength festival.
ed- : at the El Alio airport garrison I Students from Ashland. Central
Investigation by Cf.pt. H. W. How- on a plateau 2000 feet above La Point. Eagle Point, Grants Pass,
nrd and LI. J. E. Tucker of the paz. and launched a ni-ht attack Klamath Falls. Lakeview. Med
State Police arson squad revca ed ov bright moonlight on the rebels 1 ford. Myrtle Creek. Oak Grove and
Smith had touched ofl the fire Willi i jn the cantai citv. : Prospect are slated to participate
a match after oil from tanks out-
side the house had poured all over
",or- , ,
Smith was arrested in Roseburg
luesnay oy uie iwu on. b rum...-
officers and brought here the sume
n'lrht
When Judge Vandenberg ' asked
Smith this morning what would
have happened If his wife and chil
dren were In the house when he
set the fire, Smilh replied he
checked first to make sure they
were not there.
CHILDREN
Smith told the judge he had two
boys aged 6 and i years, and a
girl 3 years old.
He said he hnd worked here for
about four or live years at nester
son's mill before Inking employ
ment at a sawmill in Roseburg.
Judge Vandenberg stated he
wanted to consider the case further
before passing sentence.
B-25 Wreckage
Spotted
GOLDEN, Colo. IX) The shat
tered wreckage of a Texas-based
B-28 bomber wns located Thurs
day on the heavily timbered slopes
of 9,703 foot high Golden Peak,
eight miles northwest of here.
There was no sign oi uie in me
area. The plane carried 11 passen
gers and crew members.
The craft, based at Randolph Air
Force Bnse near Snn Antonio, Tex.,
apparently smashed Into the moun
tain while under full throttle. 1
Tlll'K80AV. APRIL 10, 1052
ISackfirc
BRECKENRIDGE, Minn., UB
When Hugh Wing, used car deal
er here, offered to deduct $10 for
each child of a car buyer, he did
it without knowledge of Mike Lei
nen's family,'-
A Janr.ej -n ear" Fan-mount,'
wr b. Lelnen read Wing's news
paper ad. It also stipulated that
the buyer must bring the child
along when he picked out the
car.
Lelnen drove In with his chil
drenGale. 13: Gerald, 12: Vir
ginia, 10; Ronald, 9; James, 8:
Mitchell, 7: Clelus. 6: Carroll
Ann, S: Paul, 3; and Mary, 1.
Lelnen picked out a 1936 car
priced at $95. With license and
title transfer, the deal came to
$103. Lelnen gave Wing $3 and
the famiily drove home In two
cars.
Rebels Battle
Bolivian Govt.
LA PAZ. Bolivia. Wl Bolivia's
Army-officer government rushed
troops from 155 miles awav as !
fighting continued through "the!
night in a revolt trving to over-
throw the junta regime which !
seized power 11 months ago.
The reoels are backers of Victor
pRS Estenssoro, exiled leader of
Uie National Revolutionary Party
iMNR) who won the most votes
among six candidates in last year's
presidential elections but never
gained office.
Brig. Gen. Antonio Seleme. In
terior minister In the military
junta, turned against his fellow
officers and helped lead the revolt
iwnicn oognn al dawn wcdnet.'ay.
At least 18 persons were killed and
60 Injured during the first dav's
fighting
Mnt 'nf th Armv ronnri.Hi .
ralmd loyn, (o ,ne militnry re. !
Radio anneals fnr nrv.ra anri
'students to join the rebels drew
I little response. Residents of La Paj.
: B city of 300.000, crouched in their
.homes behind tightlv shuttered
doors and windows. 'The streets i
remained emnty except for troops
and truc'tloads of armed civilians.
Built 12,400 feet above sea level.
La Paz is the world's highest
capital. Gunshots cracked sharoly
through the thin mountain air.
oeverni parts of tne citv were
reported badly damaged by" mortar
Congressional Candidates
On Next 'Build the Basin 'Program
Next Monday night's "Build the
Basin" radio forum will take a
somewhat different tack.
All five of tho men who are can
didates for Congress from the Ore
gon 2nd district hnve been Invited
to face the KFLW microphone for
an interview that probably will be'
irankiy political.
The public will be able to ask
the questions, through Moderator
Bud Chandler.
Giles French, Republican, from
Moro; Ben Musa, Democrat, from
The Dalles, and John O. Jones,
Democrat, from La Grande, have
Indicated they will come to Klam
Telephone Sill
No. 2792
Pickets Hit,
Miss N.W.
Phone Units
By The Associated Press
Pickets appeared at telephone ex
changes In a dozen or more Pacif
ic Northwe.it cities Thursday but
were withdrawn from four other
places in an apparent quick shift
tlrategy.
Pacific Telephone It Telegraph
generally were staying, off the Job
at exchanges picketed by striking
Western Electric Co. workers,
members of the CIO Communica
tions Workers union.
Exchanges were picketed Thurs
day at Portland, Eugene and St.
KLAMATH SCENE
There were no pickets at the
Klamath Falls telephone ex
change this morning and work
was going on aa usual. Manager
Charles Seavey said no Western
Electric employes were .working
there when the strike was called.
Helens, Ore., and is at least nine
Washington cities.
These are Aberdeen. Hoquiam,
Raymond and Longview, where ex
changes are operated manually,
end Oiympia, Yakima. Centralia,
Chehalls and Shelton, all with dial
systems.
Pickets were withdrawn from
Spokane and Beliingham. Wash.,
and from Albany and corvains,
Ore., where they first appeared
Wednesday.
In Portland Arne Gravem. Inter
national union representative, said
tactics "will vary from day to day
to keep the company guessing."
Company spokesmen in r-oruana
and Seattle said supervisory em
ployes were seeking to maintain
normal service.
The company reported ail cans
were being handled at picketed
Washington points Thursday morn
ing with the exception of Yakima.
There only urgent long distance
calls were being accepted.
Jap Airliner
Hits, 37 Die .
TOKYO HI TJ.8. ' Air Force
sources said the crash of a Japan
Airlines plane 65 miles south of
Tokyo Wednesday killed all 37 per
sons aboard, Including three Amer
icans. The Americans were Ernest O.
Stewart. Hialeah. Fla., pilot; Ray
mond G. Clevenger, Great Falls,
Mont., co-pilot, and Capt. ti. L,.
Reed. Wichita, Kans., a passenger.
The plane was a two-engined
Martin 2-0-2 on lease to Japan
Airlines from Northwest Airlines.
It crashed into Mihara volcano
on O Shima -while on a regularly
scheduled southbound flight from
Tokyo to Fukuoka, Kyushu Island.
O Shima lies on the southern air
and sea approaches to Tokyo.
A U.S. Air Force search plane
sighted the wreckage Thursday.
Two para-medics of the Third Air
Rescued Squadron 'chuted to the
1 island later and reported they
found no survivors.
Japanese sources said the crash
was Uie worst In Japanese civil
aviation history.
Among Japanese passengers was
Takashi Miki. president of Yawata
: iron ana oieei, .lapau s largest
steel company,
Music Session
Set Tomorrow
Klamath Falls plays host to an
expected 350 Southern Oregon high
school students tomorrow here for
the annual Southern Oregon Dls-
trict solo
ensemble competition
in Uie comneHtion which begins at
9 a.m. at KUHS.
Adjudicators for the festival in
clude Rex Underwood, University
of Portland: Ira Lee, University
Oregon: Charles W. Lawrence, Un-
iversity of Washington; Stacey
Green. University of Oregon and
Normal Street, Benson Poly iPort
landl. Several dozen Klamath students
alone are slated to compete, ac
cording to Director Andrew Loney
Ijr,
ath Falls to appear on the pro
gram. Lt. Ernest Hinkle, Republican,
of The Dalles, will not be able to
appear. He is still In the Air Force,
stationed In New York.
The fifth candidate Is Sam Coon
ot Baker, Republican. He reports a
prior engagement lor Monday
night, but may be able to make a
switch In his program to appear
on the radio forum.
The five men are seeking the
Congressional post being vacated
by Rep. Lowell Stockman.
The listening publio will be invit
ed, to question these men ou any
River Rages
In Streets
Of Pierre
PIERRE, 8 D. ' Waters et ',
the muddy Missouri River, on Its
worst spring rampnge here In 71
years, raced four feet deep through
the malt, street of this capital city
of South Dakota Thursday,
At mid-morning the flood waters
hit a stage at 25 feet the pro
vlously predicted crest and con- t,
tlnued their climb. The water has '
driven 1.600 of Pierre's 6,700 per
sons from their homes.
Heavy damage to the main Pi
erre business section was certain.
The Dally Capital - Journal sus
pended publication and the Pierre ,
Associated Press bureau, housed '.
in the same building, moved to '
higher ground in Uie telephone ex
change. NO PIMPS
The last of Pierre's four munici
pal water pumping stations was
knocked out by birth water early
Thursday.
A 1,300,000 gallon reservoir sup
ply was believed enough to last
several days If used sparingly,
A touch-and-go battle to save the
city power plnnt continued after
an upsurge of water Inside the
LanrlhnfrvnH htillrlin ana threat
ened to leave the stricken city -without
light and. power.
crews orougni uie water unaer
control, at least temporarily.
Two fire scares Wednesday night
one from a burning motor In -rescue
boat added to the con
fusion. A car also caught fire. A
gas storage tank was swept loose
tut s National Guard "duck" took
It in tow before it broke.
Pierre's main residential district,
part of Uie business district, and '
the capitol building itself are on
higher ground.
In Fort Pierre, a smaller com
munity Just across the river Irom
Pierre, some homes were sub
merged. SURRENDER
the flood waters nalted on all but
two business buildings.
Telephone company employes
battled all night to keep water
out of the phone building and were
prepared to cut a hole in the
roof. If necessary, to lift out ex- -pensive
installations.
The only other building being;
sandbagged In Fort Pierre was the
Stanley county courthouse, which
contained Red Cross headquarters.
The Red Cross nad to move irom
its first flood quarters, now under .
Service Set
Maundy Thursday, commemor
ating the Lord's Last Supper and
washing of his disciples' feet, will
be celebrated In most Klamath
churches and by a few other or
ganizations. The First Presbyterian church
tonight at 7:30; First Congregation-,
al plans Holy Communion at 7:30
p.m.: first Methodist church plans
a Holy Communion at 8 p.m.
Klamath Lutheran church has.
slated Holy Communion lor 7:46
pjn.
Sacred Heart church has sched
uled a Holy Hour service for 7:30
p.m., while Adoration of the Bless
ed Sacrament Is underway all day
Holy Thursdy.
Scottish Rite has scheduled Maun
dy Thursday services for 8 tonight
at the Masonic Temple.
Baptist Meet
Ends Tonight
The Baptist Sunday School con
vention, in session here since Tues
day, winds up tonight with a ban
quet at Jened's, starting at 5 p.m.
A total of 404 persons have reg
istered for the convention from
Oregon and Washington. Sessions
are being held at the First Baptist
Church. The Klamath Baptist As- '
soclatlon is host.
Theme of this morning's session
was "Going after every member
nf .varv fnmllv" anil ma tnpmat
of the afternoon session was
"Training facilitates the task."
Mrs. Roy Gueck and Mrs. Ben
McCollum were In charge of ar
rangements for tonight's banquet.
Chamber Hears'
San Jose Plan
Russell E. Pettit. manager of the
San Jose, Calif., Chamber of Com
merce, discussed Industrial expan
sion yesterday before a noon meet
ing ot tne Klamath County Cham-
oer ox uommerce.
The session was held at the Wl-
nema, and 101 persons attended-
Pettit discussed industrial devel- i
opment at San Jose and pointed .
out things that could b done hers
to encourage the location and ex-
Ipanslon of industry.
to Appear
subjeot pertaining to their proapeo- ,
tive duties if sent to Washington '
from this district, whether lt b
local needs and wants, foreign pol
icy, military spending, corruption .
in government or any other tonic
a Congressman must Interest him
self in. .
- The public service program Is tc
be broadcast over KFLW at 8:30
p. m, Monday, sponsored Jointly by
the Herald and News. -.
It probably will be the enly oc
casion prior to the May 16 prU
mary election In which a majority
of the Congressional candidates of
the district get together on one
platform or in one radio studio.
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