Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, April 17, 1952, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmm n Ov luTlie MSIii lly FHANK JKNKINS , Till modern world note: "The innn who admits he If) I .on Angclea' 'phantom gunman,' 'he thuol-and-run aiilcr who him killed one woinuil mid wounded lour, was arrested yesterday and gavo ahar Ill's deputies this explanation for llin acta: " 'When I about' nt wommi I get excited mid iiet a Ihrlll out of It.' " I suppose tliero Alwnyn were peo ple llko Unit, Our modern super perfect communications system possibly Just brings more nf them lei our mienllon these days. Anyway, 1 HOPE Inula II. Muddled thlnklni note The Oregon Council of Ctiurclifs began distributing Ita anti-gambling petitions yesterday ..... I no petlllonn neek to put on the No. vemher bnllol proKaiil to OUT LAW pari-muluc betting In the state." How about lust falling back on ' e constitution or tiik WATE OF OREGON, of which Heriion 4, Article XV readi: "Lotlerlea Prohlhlted. l.nilcrlc. and the 8AI.E OK LtriTBRY ncKCTS. for ANY PUHPOHR WIIATOOEVKK, are prohibited, and the leglalalure RMembly HHALL not may! l'UEVENT tho aiune by pciuil lawa." I'lti-umiil rmliilim note' Kvery time we pas. a Inw nnd i industry aleminrd from wage dl thru full lo enforce II. we tear I'"'!'"- ... ... ... . down reaped lor luw. Every time ilk- M-day strike l.y Wn.lern n leglaHtiir pu.ie. an UNCON- Klerlrlc Installers In 4.1 stales has KTITUTIUNAL law unci get, away Idle thou.nnd of U-lrphone with It. It undermine conslliutlonal i workers who have reluwd lo croi-a government. , I'1'' lln-.., I n. no lawyer, but when y ,? "" '! In Portland. Ore., play a purl-mutuel machine you Wednesday night ordered a strike pay your money, you net a ticket by telephone operators In Oregon, and you take your chance on (tei- i ry eh"ri p.ortll",d T' Unit nnld If that lan't a lottery. 1 don i know what a lolicry la. More pernonitl opinion: e,,!""""' , , . II we want to fumble In Orenon. , TIV u,0,n ll operators return we'd bemer riwl Section 4. Ar- 'K ' ' J',u ',h?rl tide XV of our lt comlllutlnn P" ""'"1w'r9 d r 1 I hate lo Kt conatUulloiia Fl.OUT- EU. Kronomlca noie: "American people 8AVED 13 bil lion dollar lant year, a nhar In. create from the Hj billion they taved In I WO" Mow come? I lou t know, but I ausptcl that In in id 1 9H i Uie MVIiiRa blnao be can about Autuat) a lot of people took a good look al the economic oklea and came lo the conclusion Ihul with Uie federal (overnmenl MM-nillim money with both handa a ami hr-ncllna for bankruptcy at high Mierd a llllle perional cah alaalied away might come In handy aooner or .later. Potitkia .io I ; , Ken. Taft aaya In Bonlon thui rnnniiui that comtrenanien ahould comilder IMPEACHMENT of Pres ident Truman for his selsure of the ateel Induatry. i "I think the selaure of ateel la a valid cne tor Impeachment," he told a nnwa conference. "It la valid for pre.nciitatlon to the house, cer tainly." Under our federal conalltulnn. the To'er of Impeachment l the aole prerogative of the house of representatives. I I think, senator, that congreas would be on very thin, rubber Ire Indeed If. after having ABOl CATKD the authority given to It by Die Founding Fathera In the rnnntltutlnn, It ahould attempt lo Impeach the Preoldent In this par ticular Inatance. Thli ateel crl.il was a long time In the making. It wnn obvious to everybody for week that It waa going to end In a naaty and dan gerous mesa. If existing Inwa are bad. congresa had plenty of time to REPEAL them. If new lawa were needed lo meet the new and unprec edented situation, congress had PLENTY OP POWER to enact them BUT While the crisis was brewing, congress did nothing but alt on Its hands. Advice to voters: If you want a better govern ment, you'd better get yourselves a belter congress. Congress has the POWER to do almost anything Hint needs to be done (within the limits of the con- Itutlon) but for nenrly two de cades It has LACKED THE COURAGE. Maaaafaaaar'-w.ffwp-' II I M HHIa, .'IU,IJ W I1, i-.j'v "".' '. - ' , . I 1 - ml 111 ".I '. I1 M i ' .V JK i i v rSa: ,ri 1 Kl ' lift WHO'S GUILTY? City firemen say the big white frame building at 815 Pine St. was deliberately set afire yester day afternoon. Walt Spawn (above), points to the spot he ind tho firemen found charred paper and burnt matches rfcslde the tinder-dry structure. Spawn, restailrantman, re cently moved his lunchroom from the Pine St. building. Phone Peace Hope Mild; Steel Eyed By The Aaaoclated Prraa There appeared mild tiotn of optimism 'lhuraday negotiator mncln new nllcnipts to aelllo dls iitm Involving thousands of slrlk- iiik cuinniuiiU'nllun workers. At llin same time. In the na tion's lop labor dlnpule, thn govern ment was believed preparing to grunt Philip Murray')! CIO olcol workers a wage hike. But how much ii nil how noon m not dls cloned by Secretary of Commerce Huwyor, boss of the governmental-1 wd uteri Industry. Pence IrtlkH In the strike of . Ifl.Ono CIO communication workera against the Weiitern Elcctrlo Com. puny were to bo remimed In New York. AllhoiiKh ncvcral mn)or la aucs remained In dispute there ap peared Miiiio progress In ncgolia llom. WESTERN I'MON Rut Uiore were no algns of early sellteiucul of llic two week old strike ol 3U.0OO Af'L Coinmer- cm I Telritraptiera Union workers iiHulnnt the Western Union Com puny. A icdrrnl mediator In Washington cullrd lop official of boll) sides In their Ural meeting since the Mrlke started on April 3. iioiii allien in uie coiiiiiiiiiucniiunn - 1 '""""'"" wicaiiiii oui nper. alora when they returned lo work aflrr earlier refuxlnz to crosa Pick- ""' """"" men denied a lockout. They said rervice Is roniinuing despite nick. etlng at Portland and 13 upstate Oregon cities Western Union picket action threatened to postpone Wednesday nlghl'a baseball game Between 81. , Louis and I'lltaburgh at Sports- mun s park in si. louis. MTKF.L SNARL In the aleel dispute. Sawyer met separately Wednesday with Mur ray and Benlamln Falrloas. Dresl. dent of the U.S. 8leel Corp.. pre sumably to lay the groundwork for a government - imposed wage 111' crease. The Wage 8tublllMitlon Board's proposal calls for a flat 17 V cents an hour raisa for the aleel work ers, plus about I litnU ill. frlntre benefits. The board also approved grant ing the union shop that all work era must loin Uie union. The aleel companies rejected the WBB'a recommendations. The In dustry has filed several court suits canlcndinic President Truman had no authority to scire the Industry. Sen. Bridges and several other sponsored a resolution calling for the Senate Judiciary committee to make a full Investigation of the seizure. In Klamath Tliere was Utile change today In local aspect of the strikes BKalnst Western Union and Pacific Telephone nnd Telearanh compan ies, except Oint the picket line has been withdrawn from the Western union office. The office had been picketed by members nf the Commercial Tele graphers Union AFL) from Seat tle. A skeleton force Is keeping Uie ofllce open. Pickets were atlll on the slde- wnlk outside the telephone ex change, but service has not been disrupted. Anti-Gambling Petitions Out PORTLAND HH The Oregon Council of Churches begnn dis tributing Its null-Humbling petitions Wednesday. About 3 000 were sent to all parts of the ntntc. The petitions seek lo put on tho November bnllot a pro posal io outinw pnri-muiuei netting n Uie state. Price rive Cents U Pages Air ih Pentagon's Policy Held 'Pretty Sad' WASHINOTON I Sen. Doug las 1 1). -III. I. a wounded Murine veteran, rose 'lliursdny to accuse the Pentagon of trying to "put n price lug" on the mornlo of tlil-i nation's Hunting men. He called the system "pretty sad." In a frequently emollonul appenl to his colleagues, Douglas urged them to consider abolishing the en tire system of extra "haxurd pay" allowances to servicemen. He auld the system of making In centive and hatnrd pay allowance to airmen creates "an artificial elite, a super-elite and a super super elite." Airmen get HO to $210 In hazard pay a month, according to rank. Douglas said this system and the Marines' Insistence on accept ing only volunteers develops "snobbishness" and "a fulse feel ing of superiority" unfulr lo the Army Infantry, which, he said gets "the left overs" from other serv ices. The while-haired sennlor si 111 bears the scars nf crippling wounds suffered ss a Marine Infantry maj or at uxinawa. He called on the Senate Prepar edness subcommittee to reduce sharply these bonus payments and to make them equal for officers and men with special pay to lliose In actual combat In Korea. "Don't think you get very good men lor money." he aald. "I Just don't think that putting a price tag on men's military service 's a very good Incentive. . . . We very gravely under estimate Uie qualities of men." Defense Department officials de nied al a public hearing Wednes day that "chalrbome pilots" col lect extra hazard-pay allowances for Joy riding aerial missions, an charged by - Douglaa . In Senate speeches. Oen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg.' top Air Force general, and Vice Adtn. J If riuiilv rinutv rider nf Nn- val Air Operations, both challenged Douglas' demands' for a sharp cut support Thursday behind Estes Ke In extra cay to airmen and mcnlfnuver o( Tennessee as "the best In Uie submarine and other scrv Ices deemed extra hazardous. Vandenberg told the subcommit tee that Uie country's reserve of trained airmen already "Is dan gerously small." He predicted a cut would bring wholesale losses of skilled filers which the country cannot afford. Cassady backed him up. Group Studies School Policy State Sen. Phil Hitchcock this morning tabbed the Dr. Holy school districts reorganization bill as being primarily "democratic in Its pur Ke but not necessarily applicable to Klamath County which has well run. Intelligently manned and finan cially sound school districts." sen. Hitchcock was Uie first ol three scheduled urjenkers at a morning meeting of civic nnd school lenders from Lake nnd Klamath Counties meeting at Mills school auditorium under sponsor ship of the Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers nnd the Ore gon Education Assoclnllon. Some 8S persons were in attendance nt he meeting, the first of Its kind neid nerc. NEEDS The Senator pointed out need for reorganization of school districts In Oregon Is great. He highlighted those factors: In Oregon's 3(1 counties there ore currently 1100 school districts. Of these 22-1 do not hnve nny schools, nnd nn additional 26 are abandoned districts without schools or schoolbords, but still hnvinir taxation. Too smnll school districts result in ton few facilities, ill-equipped nnd poorly pnld lenchers. Poor education fnollllles and opportunities nre provided nt higher cost per pupil to the tnxpnyer thnn practical. Tliere nre 11 different types of school districts In existence in Ore gon. RESULTS Overlapping of school districts In one nron ns much ns threefold, often results. Purpose of Dr. Holy's bill, ac cording to Pen. Hitchcock, Is at first a three yenr reorgnnlzntlon period headed bv the State Depart ment of Education At the local level, count" re- organization committees will be formed, with the greai nrenonoer nnee of reprosentn lives from rural nrs . Public honrlngs nnd elections wi'l ha heVI fn!" t,'nn of Ptllfletl districts before they can bo formally ndonted. Other spenkers scheduled for the mnrnlnir session, under chairman ship of Nelson Heed, Klnmnth Union high school board chairman, were County schools Suoerlntendent Carroll Howe . nnd Stnte Repre sentntlve Ed Oenry. Thcv were slnted to discuss otnte school fi nancing. Lunch at the Mills cafeteria was also on the schedule with a question and answer period pro posed for the afternoon session. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaa a II n .mKm'mmm,'mVmmvmmmimM.mm V't'i '.'Ss'i v-; ' ' ': : ""'"J ORETECH ROYALTY Omega Epsilon Rho, OTI craft fraternity, selected the beauti ful bevy above to reign at the fraternity's annual Sweetheart Ball this Spring. The girls are (top to bottom) Queen Elaine Jefffords, of Hereford, and Princesses Audrey Ferguson, Betty Brown and Kay Bowman. This year's ball is scheduled April 26 as a feature of the Oretech visitation program. The public is invited to tour the college lay out April 25. Kef auver Gets Douglas Help By The Associated Press Sen. Douglas (D.-Ill.l, threw his available candidate of our party" for Uie Democratic presidential nomination. Douglas' announcement came just 24 hours after Gov, Stevenson of Illinois declared he could not accept top place on the Democratic ticket. Douglas had been support ing Stevenson. At a news conference.- Douglas also repeated what he has said be fore thut he would not accept the party nomination lor president. "I nni In Kcfauver's army." Douglas said. "1 am enlisted for the duration." The Illinois senator said he be lieves Kefauver has a very good chance to be nominated. However. Douglas said he did not know whether Kefauver could defeat Gen. Elsenhower In the November election. If Eisenhower Is the Republican nominee. Lets let uie people aeciae that," Douglaa said. Families Flee Owyhee Flood ONTARIO. Ore. W The flood ing Owyhee River washed out one bridge, closed two others and chased six families from the nr row Owvhee Val cv Wednesday. A sudden surge in the snow melt sent the river overflowing. It washed out a Reclamation Bureau bridge" on Uie rond lo Owyhee Dam. A bridge on Hlrrhway 201 also was closed after supports were washed nwnv A Union Pacific bridge on the Homednle-Nyssn branch also wns closed. The six fnmllles chnsed to higher ground lived on farms In Ihe vnney between the dnm nnd the point whero the Owyhee flows into the Run It o River, lust south of Nyssn. Thev were able 10 take most of their belongings nnu hvcsiock wnn them. Some sewers were flooded in Ontario ns the Snr.ke rose two feet in 54 hours. A snnltnrv prob lem nrose as scwnf.e backed mio basements. . The wnter covered two-thirds of TPniir Island, two miles downstream from Ontario In the Snake River. Two families were evneunted there. . Weed Seniors, Visit Oretech Thirtv-onc seniors of the Weed, Calif., high school visited tho Ore gon Tech campus Wednesday and were tnken on nn extended tour of the school. The group was under supervision of T. P. Pemberton, Industrial arts teacher, nnd had a particular In terest In technical education. Sev eral of the seniors Indicated they Intend to enroll at OTI next sohool yenr. A day of public visits to the Ore gon Tech campus Is scheduled for April 25, and visitors will be taken on conducted tours-of the plant,: - , .-,'''.. . i " HiaaaaaaMa(BMaaaHMaaaaaaaMaaliiaBaa aMjyiiyailMii i iriiriaj VMATII FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL Stay . BRIOHTON, England m Jo seph Griffin w.s fined one pound 2.6 Wednesday 'lot ' speeding along Brighton s streets ur his mo torized Invalid chair. Griffin's wheel-chair with a motor attached was caught breezing along at 41 miles an hour after passing two automobiles The speed limit lor invalid chairs is 20 miles an hour. The police superintendent ex pressed regret at bringing up ihe case but said his headquarters Was getUng too many complaints of speeding Invalid chairs which over turn easily and were a danger to other road users. : SIG UNANDER . Unander Seeks Support Here Slg Unander, Republican candi date for Stnte Treasurer, wns in KlamaUi Falls Wednesday In fur therance of his campaign for that party s nomination. Unander is from Portland, n nn tlve Oregonlnn. and was chairman of the state Republican organiza tion In 1950. He begnn his career In politics ns executive assistant during Uie term or Gov. Charles A. sprague nnd, In his present cnmpnlgn car ries a high recommendation irom Uie former governor. Unander says he believes him self capable of carrying out the duties or Treasurer, ana also mat he Is particularly well versed, in the work of the State Board of Control, of which the Treasurer Is a member. That board directs the 10 stato Institutions. ' , Unnndei- sld he planned to re turn to Klnmnth County for more campaigning before the May 16 pri mary. Ho Is opposed for the OOP nom ination by Fred E. Robinson of Medford. and Jack Lynch of Port land. WAGE-PRICE DELAY WASHINGTON 11 The Senate Banking Committee Thursday put off until Fridny a possible decision on what to do about the govern ment's wage-price control program. Not enough members showed up to-do business, i 17, 1852 - Down' - Phantom Tells Of LOS ANGELES Ifl The man who admits he is Los Angeles' Pnantom Gunman." the snoot- and-run sniper who has kiUed one woman - and wounded four, gave sheriff's deputies this explanation for his acts: "When I shoot at women I get excited and get a thrill out of it. Evan Charles Thomas, 29. husky, sun - tanned railroad switchman, was arrested Wednesday after a shot In the night narrowly missed a woman in uie Los Nietos dis trict. Thomas attributed the shootings to an unnatural urge, but said he had "no rhyme or reason for choos ing victims." Tho lomas was arrested after depu ties noticed him hovering close as they investigated the firing of a .22 bullet Into the home of Mrs. Joan Hiles, 22, his neighbor. The shot crashed through a window while she watched television and missed her by less than three feet. Fire Destroys 4.500 Homes TOKYO. Friday, April 18 W A raging, wind-fanned fire de stroyed at least 4,500 homes In Tottori, left 15,000 persons home less, nnd wns still burning early today, Kyodo News Agency re ported. It wns Japan's worst post war fire. There were no deaths report ed in the city of 61,000 but at least 140 persons were Injured. ine flames razed Tottoris down town section, including police head quarters, the city's Red Cross hos- puai, uie post and telegraph of llce. two newspapers and several department stores. Police said the flr broke out at 3 I). 111.. Thursdnv in nn over loaded electric wire in the heart of the city on Southwest Honshu Island. It wns quickly fnnned into n ronring conflagration bv a strone southerly wind which blew all day Ranch Sales Reported TULELAKE In a roiinri.rnhln exchange of land Mr. and Mrs. Aioeri ueck sold their, 75 acre ranch one mile south of , town, farmed by their son Irvin Beck. to A. G. Bovd.. No consiflerntlnn on this -transaction was given. .ine ducks in mm Bought, a 240 ncre ranch nt Bonnnzn from iur and Mrs. Loren V. Shepherd who owned It for one year. This is the former Ed Gowen ranch and wns purchased by Shepherd nnd his father-in-law, the late Harry Wil son. Malln. Sale oricn was ifts non Possession will be given at once. Another farm sale reported this week is that of the Roy G. Holmes place of 170 acres at Bonanza, sold to Bernard Jendrzejewskt who will be assisted In operations by his father John Jendrzejewski. The family has lived on the Lakevlew highway -near -the Merrill juncion, 5fioofings Telephone Sill Ne. 27M Minor Vandenberg Says Only Few Kickers WASHINGTON lf Gen. Hoyt c. vanaenoerg sail Thursday tne "so-called" stay-down strike of fli ers Is a "tempest In a teapot." The Air Force Chief of Staff told newsmen the publicity given to charges brought against a "small" number of airmen "Is not indica tive of anything as great as seems to appear on uie surface." And. he said, he does not believe the trouble will continue because uie Air Force stopped recalling re servists invoiuntarily five months ago. The Air Force Is nonetheless con cerned aooui ihe possibility of a serious shortage of fliers to man uie nation s mintarv planes. Vandenberg lists three causes for the situation: 1. A rising death rate ih mili tary flights. 2. Insufficient "hazard" oav for airmen. 3. Reserve officers recalled to duty claim they are being asked to do more than their share. UNREST POINTS Stay - down strikes have been re ported at Biggs and Randolph Air Bases in Texas and at, Mather Field in California. One flier has been convicted of dereliction of duty by & court martial and sentenced to prison. Vandenberg. In tertlmony before s Senate Armed Services subcom mittee Wednesday, said that all of ficers who refuse to fly probably wiU be tried by court martial and face prison terms and loss of com missions He recommended that Congress pass legislation that would provide higher hazard pay for fliers to give mem a greater incentive to man their planes. , ' . Vandenberi? rioted too .that Bus Via is luring its best youths into iiying duty oy offering almost dou ble pay and other benefits. - The latest protest by airmen came from eight Reserve officers at Randolph Field, Tex.' They demanded a Congressional investigation of the base and the entire Air Force reserve program. iney said uie or.se was seeth ing with discontent. DISCRIMINATION -The eight were euoteri as savin? there was deliberate discrimination against reservists In the B-29 com bat crew traininz nroeram at Ran dolph. "We think." said one of the of ficers, "all regulars should make a combat tour before we got back the second time." The sentenced flier is First Lt. Verne Goodwin. 30, of Peabody, Mass. He refused to coDilot a C-124 to England last December, saying ne reared ne wouii be "murder ing" his unborn child if he made the flight. LORD HEREFORD DIES LEOMINSTER. England f Lord Hereford, 86, premier vis count of England, died at his home here Wednesday after a long illness. pmfmwm f!faaaaMMaMMMaaMaaMMM I ; I, i i: ' r. - . s .-X 1 .-.:' , .r-"v.! ? - , . ,i " -' , i iivMaaaaateiaWisMwilJk,' ; ,t A v. THE 9 O'CLOCK SPECIAL came to the photographer this morning in the person o( two Henley High School girls, Rose Ginko and Ruth Green, (1. to r.). The girls were in a group of students from Henley guided on a conducted tour of the Herald and News plant by members of the paper's circulation department. : Cities Face Ruin; Towns Abandoned OMAHA. Neb. (Pi Levees strait- Jacketing the monstrously high Missouri River along Omaha and Council Bluffs, la., atlll held the upper hand Thursday but the situ ation was touch and go. River forecasters continued to predict a crest "sometime Thurs day night" in this metropolitan area of some 366,000 persons. Round-the-clock and almost inch-by-inch vigilance was being main tained along the 23 miles of pri mary levees which so far have kept the raging witters from the two cities. Sand bolls developed but were quickly choked off as the tremen dous pressure kept Increasing. ine water crepi aoove tne origi nal flood wall height In spots to push against flashboard which has been erected In recent days. dui pumps lined ihe spilled water back Into the channel. LEVELS The river level passed the 29 4 foot mark Thursday. Flood stage Is IB feet. The previous record high, in 1881, was 24.6 feet. The crest Is expected to measure 31 k feet. Meantime, the pattern of farm land flooding, evacuations, and levee raising work which the riv er set earlier - upstream was being repeated along reaches south ward almost to Kansas City Fanners all along the valley have moved livestock, machinery and household goods to higher ground. At least a dozen, towns and cities In Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri below Omaha were fighting the water in some fashion or another. Some as large as Elwood, Kas. (population 1200) had been aban doned almost completely to the re lentlessly climbing water. The story was the same as lt has been for almost 10 days as the Missouri, gorged by the rapid melting of heavy winter snows in the Dakotas, began sending Its big gest known load of water down stream, hitting Bismarck, N.D., Pi erre, djj., ana bioux vny, ia., in. turn. Only the locaUons and inten sity are changing. The Missouri, the Mississippi, the Milk in Montana, the Red River of the north in Minnesota and uie Minnesota River aU have hit with punishing blows and have a lot left to deal out. DEATHS At least two persons had died In the floods. Mrs. Rosemary Mohr, 28, was be ing rowed to her home In St. Paul's west side by volunteer ferryman Ed Thielen Wednesday -night, when the boat capsized. Neighbors heard Thlelen's cries and pulled him out but were un able to find Mrs. Mohr in the dark ness. : - .-;',., . Her body was recovered utter from 7 feet of Mississippi River flood water. , On April C. William J. Red Boy, 24. of Poplar, Mont., drowned in the CanonbaU River, a tributary of the Missouri; south of Bismarck, N.D. Flood waters on the tributary were forerunners, on . the ..main stream flood. Mrs. Mohr's death came at the height of the flood at St. Paul. The Mississippi crested ' there Wednesday at 22.2 feet.. Early Thursday Army engineers said it appeared to be falling slightly. Weather FORECAST: Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California, sunny through Friday. High Fri day 70, low Thursday night 38. High Wednesday -, 83 Low last night .. 33 Preeip. Wednesday - Precip since Oct. 1 14.22 Normal for period 8.82 Period last year iU.8S