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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1952)
Spud S tortage Spark Hut ate 001 faw fmsem READY FOR BLOOD When the Red Cross Blootlmobile set up shop at the Armory thin morning, b final check was mndo by Ernest Cayman (left), Portland, Bloodmobilc at tendant; and Mrs. Robert Cooper, 000 Kldorado Avenue. Ill The Dart lei By FRANK JKNKINS Tho Hague (Holland : General Elsenhower tuld the Dutch cabinet lotUv hr came to Kurope out of a sense ot dulv mid Ihat la the onlv wiiv tie will arcepl public office In hit own country. "I will aspire to no public oil Ice In Din United States." he Mid. 'mid will only accent one out of a aeiuie of duty. Tint sense of duly must be coinmunlcnted to me bv the great political pnrtv to which I have given aucb allegiance a a soldier can." Personally. I like that. I like It because I Uilnk Ike meana it. If he didn't mean It. It would be ten time worse than uaelcsa. If he dnea mean It, II will be won derful. The big trouble with government In our country, it I ace it. la that i ha ulruKtilc far tvjhlte office hat htgnerated Into atruigle for per jwiihI or GROUP power. That haa been going on all over the world all down Uirough hlatorv. and Uie r.et mult of It haa been BAD. Only In the orcaalonal (olden Interval when OOOD AND ABLE men have accepted public office out of a sense of duly and have given their bent to the job have the peo ple made proareaa toward peace with liberty and the Inestimable blrsalngs that no along with peace and liberty. How can we know that Ike I the man we need? We can't know It. We'll just have to take him on faith. If we do take him, and hope for the beat. AND Give him the beat WE have If he becomes our leader and Klves us the best HE haa. A loval leader who Rlvea his best to his followers needs loyal followers who will give their best to the leader. From London: "Ivy Wlckens Is a free woman after Retting a divorce on Rrounds of desertion. She told the court her husband had himself committed to a mental hospital shortly after their marriage, and for 20 years has efused to come out." Maybe the Ruy la smarter Uian he sounds. There was Solomon, far example .generally described as the wisest of the kiwis of Israel, son of David and Bnthshcbn. He savs (Proverbs XXI 9 1 ' "It Is better to dwell In a corner of Uie housetop than with a brawl lug woman In a wide house" Miiybo this Wlckens woman Was a brawler and her husband sought (he relugo described by Solomon. cAvonlng a mental hospital as Iho i:arcst modern approach to tho wide nnd sunny housetops of an cient Israel. , On second (and soberer! thought, I don't like that suggestion. It sa vors of Uie cynical male philosophy expressed In the French phrase, "Chcrchei la femme," meaning that If you Ret Into trouble and vent to find out why search for the woman who got you Into the hoi water. That school of thought holds that women are responsible for ALL the trouble that men get Into. It Is very old. There was Adam. He got Into trouble, and when called upon to explain he up and said: "The woman she tempted mo." Adam ought to have been r.shumcd of himself. Tho millions upon millions of generations of men who have followed him and have lined his samo old excuse ought to be ashamed of thomselvon. I rather imagine that If somo research out lit would turn In and make care ful studv of all the trouble men have got Into In these thousands of centuries It would bo found'Uint for every mess of trouble women got men Into there was another mess of trouble that women GOT MEN OUT OF. Anywny, the men haven't too much to be proud of In this world they have been running so long. I'm coming to think that probably we'd boljicr tnke tho women. Into tho Job of (running the world In an Increas ing big way. Thoy cortnlnly couldn't do much worse than the men have done, UN. Guards Battle Red POW Rioters PUKAN. Korea I Communist war prisoner rioting spread to a I'unan ramp Tuesday and flared In two new but minor revolts at Molence-rlddcn Kole Island Camp No. I. One Red POW was killed and 06 Injured In I'usan. One American guard suffered a minor Injury In Uie 2 ? hour battle of club and fists In Pusan Camp No. 10. No shots were fired bv Uie combat-wine United Nations guards although thev were armed. hKTTLK.MK.NT8 On Kole. It wan disclosed that two mild revolts were selUrd with out Incident by Uie new camp com mander. Brig. Orn. Havdon L. Ilontncr. during the first four days of his command. These occurred while high-ranking officers of Qcn. Mark Clark'a Far East Command In Tokyo stud ied reports on February-March Knje rlota In which 80 Red male POWa and one American soldier were killed. One of the minor new Koje flareuna Involved the 400 women prisoners of war and civilian In ternees held on that Island, 30 miles southwest of Pusan. The other was a altdown strike by prisoner Inmates of a U. N. Command hospital and their prisoner-doctors. NO VIOLENCE Boalner settled both with persua sion and firmness. There was no violence, no shots were fired, aad no one was Inlured. he said, At Seoul. Oen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of the U. 8. KIghlh Army, said Ihe Pusan out break resulted from "an attempt bv fanatical Communist prisoners of war to resist proper medical treatment of patient inmates of enclosure 10." All the prisoners at Pusan pre viously were reported to have been screened. Scout Leader To Aid Court Appointment of Donald P. Adams, field executive. Bov Scouts of America, Modoc Area Council, as probation officer of the Klam ath Count v District court, was an nounced Monday by Judge M. A. (Nick I Carter. Judge Carter said Adams was to serve voluntarily In rehabilitation of youth appearing before tho Court. Adams has had previous ex perience In that line In Yakima, Wash., before coming here. Judge Carter said Adams will have the powers of a peace olflcer In carrying out his duties. Clergyman Over Son SPIRIT LAKE, Wash. UH Res cuers paused on a mountain path Monday night as a grief stricken clergyman intoned Ihe last rites of the church over the body of his ton who died In an Icy crcvasso high on Mount St. Helens. The youth, 20-year-old Arthur .TcNSett, slipped Into tho narrow chasm at Uie mountain's 8.000-foot level while on a climbing trip with three companions Sunday. Ho lived a number of hours talk ing to his companions, as the slip ping Ice eased him deep nnd deep er Into 1he crovasse. Meanwhile, climbers fought frantically to res cue him. ItCCOVKRY Late Monday, expert mountain- era wore, lowered 76 feet Into the frigid tomb and1 recovered Uie young University of Washington student's body where It lay Incased In ico. The father, tho Rev. Thomas K. Jessett, met I ho somber party as It descended through fog and rain lo this mountain Inke, In Southwest Washington. Ho opened the Episcopal Book of Common Frnyor and rend in a strained voice: Dance Spot Tax Halved By Council By IIAI.K SCAKHItOUGII In this day of constantly rising luxes, the decrease of one Is a noteworthy event. And the Klam ath Fulls City Council Monday night gave Its approval to a mens ure which In effect cuts a tax In half. 11 happens to effect onlv three business establishments In Kliim ulh Falls. The Council passed an ordinance which sets the license lee for dnnc lug In night clubs at 1250 a year. That fee replaces a 8500 a year Ikitior-and-dunclng license the city previously assessed and which the Oregon Liquor Control Commission l.ulllfled recgilly with a ruling that OLCC and Tinl the munlclijatlttei has the right to charge liquor license fees. The license for night club danc ing at present applies only to Mola tore's. the Ponderosa Room at the Wlllard, and the Winemu at pres ent. TIME TILT The aublccl of daylight ssvlng lime came before Uie Council again Monday night, this time In Uie form of protesu ot Uie Coun cil's action In establishing DST lor Klamath Falls and recommending lis businesses and citizens go along. The protests came from Uie Klamath Counlv Pomona Orange. Henley Orange and - from John Simmons, past department com mander of Ihe Spanish-American War Veterans. The action of establishing DST was termed a 'direct violation of the letter and spirit" of state Inw, among other things. But Klamath Falls remains on DST. Blsuchera from Recreation Park were to be moved to Conger Field starting todav. and are to be put into ahspe on the latter field. But until thev are made safe. Recrea tion Director Bob Bonney said he would post a guard to prevent them being used. OK Transfer Companv equip ment Is being used In Uie moving job. NO BIDS Bids for traffic paint'' and rental of equipment to the Street Depart ment were due Monday night but none waa submitted. The Council now la free to shop around for the paint and equipment. Other Monday night action of the Council Included: Approval of 88230 worth of build ing permit. Approval ot 10-mlnute parking tone to be established on B. 6th at the Model Cleaners, operated by Oene Williams. Decision to proceed with the Improvement of California Avenue between Upham and Delta, and to abandon the proposed improve ment of the lower end of Radcllffe. In that connecUon, City Attorney Henry Perkins ruled Uiat there was no way In which the city could bond Itself for the cost of paving adjacent to eight city owned lota on Radcllffe. and would hnve to pay cash It the work was done. That stymied the project. Approval of a broom sale to be conducted by the Toketee Lions Club Saturday. Call for bids for audit of the city's books and for gasoline, oil and bosrd of prisoners, for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Epoch Flight Date Marked NEW YORK tifl This Is Uie 25th anniversary of the start of Chnrles A. Lindbergh's epochal so lo flight from New York to Paris. Lindbergh was a little known mail pilot when he set out from Roosevelt Field on Long Island on May 20, 1927. He was acclaimed by the whole world when he set down his plane "The Spirit of St. ouls,' at Le Bourgct field 33 !j hours later. Now 60 years old and publicity shy, he lives quietly with his fam ily at Darlcn, Conn. Intones Last Rites s Body on 'Into thy hands, O merciful eav. lor, we commend the soul of this thy servant, now departed from the body , . ." Then the father dropped to his knees, faced the sky; "and- cried: "My sonl My sonl My son!" He rose and shook hands with each ot the eight ski patrolmen who had affected the near-Impossible recovery. .. . Two of the rescuers, Jim and Louis Whlttttkcr, twin brothers from Seattle had been lowered by ropes into the crevasse to recover the body. They said II was wedged tight ly between the walls of Ice. They said the crevasse opened wider beneath them. They could not ace the bottom. . BODY FREED They had to cut the Ice away from the body to free It. It was raised 75 feet to the rim of the crevasse by ropes. Dr. otto Trott, wno was with the ski patrol party, said the boy had been dead about. 12 hours. He died of exposure. ' ' Young Jessett apparently had been able to ' break, his tall only 15 feet beneath the surfsoe snow. 1ve Cent 14 Paget MSFSees War Truth Fear i Held Truce Block Cause MUNSAN. Korea W United Nations truce negotiators Tuesday accused the Communists of ''seek ing every vicious means" to block a Korean armistice because of their "fear of the truth." The especially bitter 62-mlnute session at Panmunjom produced no progress on the lone issue blocking an armistice what to do about captured Reds who do not want to return to Communist ter ritory. The Communist want them back. The truce delegations will meet aguln Wednesday at 11 a m. (6 p. m. Tuesday P8Ti. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy. clos ing out his last days as head of the Allied truce team, aald that in 10 i months of negotiations "I have not heard such vicious, de grading propaganda as that thrown at u today." Joy declared the Allied stand that no prisoner be forced to re turn to Red control Is governed by the humanitarian principles of the United Nations. The U. N. command will not repudiate the principles on which the Untied Nation was founded, Joy added. Silly Snatch Stupes Stuck CORVALLIS t A psnty snatchlng party didn't quite come olf.at Oregon State College Mon day night as co-eds joined campus police In thwarting a raid by 250 men. Less than a dozen of the stu dents, bent on lingerie larceny, got Inside the two dormitories and three sorority houses which were targets of the raid. Those who did gain entry got the bum's rush from the co-eds before they could claim any trophies. The craze that has hit other campuses throughout Ihe country got rolling at OSC shorUy bclorc midnight after a series of phone calls told students to gather in front ot the Memorial Union Build ing. Trundling ash cans, washtubs, horns and, other noisemakers, Uie raiders first rushed Waldo Hall, a women's dorm. About 10 managed to get inside, but the women, aided by L. E. Darling, assistant dean of men, and two campus policemen, shoved them buck outside and locked the doors and windows. The raiders moved to Sackett Hall, the other women's dormitory. But there none gained entry. From there they started down sorority row, stopping first at the Alpha Chi Omega house. A few got Inside there, but the organized sorority sisters threw them out. Some windows were broken at the Delta Delta Delta house, but there as at the Alpha Omega PI house, none of the men got Inside. The raiding party gradually dwindled away as it moved from house to house. Fraternities, at the request .of Darling,: called their members from the group. Darling said he did not know whether disciplinary action would be taken, but that the group would have to pay for the broken win dows. Mountain But, Ironically, he had the only rope In the student party with him His companions, Dick . Craln, Ford Oliphant' and ' Bruce Rabv, said they could see him lying In the snow but were unable to reach him. Fessott said he believed he had broken his arm and could not move. As the youths desperately sought aid, Jcssctt sunk lower and lower. Several hours later, Oliphant was let down into the Ice shaft on a rone borrowed from other climbers on the mountain. " He was lowered to about tho 80 foot level the end of the rope but was unable to see his trapped companion. GROANS He heard several groans. From thon on Uiere was silence. Jessett was trailing the party down Uie mountain after an ascent to the summit when the accident occurred, The three students said he van ished Into n hole no more than 2 !i feet noross. The body was taken to Toledo, aome 30 miles north of here, and thence to Seattle KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Railroads Unions Study Plan To Settle Dispute By ROWLAND EVANS JR. WASHINGTON (fl Three big railroad unions Tuesday' studied a labor peace plan the White House hopes will end a three-year dispute on the nation's railroads. The engineers, firemen and con ductors, with a combined member ship of more than 150.000 were handed the contract proposal bv I Presidential Assistant John R. btcelman Mondav afternoon, bo were the railroads, and they ac cepted It quickly. The unions were set for all-day, separate sessions. But thev agreed Votes Approve School Budget Returns from 15 of the 17 Klam ath County School District polling places show that district voters approved bv a wide margin the 1952-53 county school budget of $1,370,747.04 and a property . tax levy outside the 9 per cent limita tion ot 8334.628.1J. The- -vote from the ! poll on the budget was 481 to 68, and on Uie tax levy 458 to 77. Crescent Lake and Weyerhaeuser Cinin 4 had not renorted the re sult of balloting this morning. The election was held Monday In all elementary schoolhouses of the district. Individual location votes were (first set of figures are on the budget, second set on the tax levy): Bonanza 33-8: 33-9: Peterson 46-4 46:4: Fort Klamath 21-3, 20-4: Keno 9-0. 9-0: Bly 31-19, 30-20; Falrhaven 25-0, 23-2; Shasta 48-3, 49-3: Mslln 39-7, 40-6: Merrill 31-5, 31-5: Gil christ 31-0, 31-0; Summers 14-3. 12-6: Henley 43-9, 43-9: Chlloquln 30-0, 30-0: Sprague River 17-1, 15-3; Altamont 43-6, 44-7. Bug Bilker Busy as Bee Several persons here In town re nnrlnrtlv have been taken In by a springtime bunco game pulled by a man representing nimseu to oe a "shrub and garden expert" lrom Ashland. His method of operation Is to ap nrnnr.h a homeowner and give a sales talk about how Uie flowers and shrubs around the place jieed spraying. He can do Uie work, he says, and at a reasonable cost. But the mosl effective time for the spray ing Is verv early In Uie morning. The homeowners Uie ones who bite are asked to pay up In ad vance, because "I'll oe here so curly in the morning to get the work done you won't even know we're around." . That last statement is very, very true according to siveral persons who have fallen for tt e dodge. The their depredations unmolested. Purged Nurses Kill Selves HONG KONG (IP) A Red China dispatch said Tuesday five Canton student nurses killed themselves Saturday after leaving a Joint sul olde note saying they had been forced to denounce their parents in a Red purge. The Independent 'Sing Tao' Jlh rno saia me aispaicn was received from an underground correspond ent. He reported the suicide note ended with this sentence: "We hope to become devils aft er our deaths and seek revenge on the Communist executioners." Worm Turns SAN ANTONIO, Tex. I There II was on the complaint A hit-and-run pedestrian. Eugene Burton, 21, told police that he was waiting to get Into a downtown service garage and his car momentarily blocked the side walk. A pedestrian trying to get past smashed his fist through the car's ventilator window. Kicked a dent in the door, knocked the chrome' from the front fender, reached down and bent the license plate then fled. , . , . TUESDAY, MAY 20,' 1992 Threat Accent. to' act as One on final aeeentnn- or rejection. POINTS Steelman's proposal, submitted on a take it or leave It basis. wouio, ao uiese things: 1. boost wages for men In vrd service by 37 cents an hour, of nmcn m cents is already being ptld. 2. boost wages for men who work on the open road that Is rt In Ihe yards by 22 54 cents an hour, five cents of which Is already In effect. 3. Give the train unions sub stantially what they wanted on a highly controversial working or operating rule Involving crews which take a train through a divi sional point. A change In this rule demanded by the carriers was described by union officials as the major obstacle to settlement. They said that If the carrier demand went Into effect workers hi many cases would have to travel twice as far and move their homes to new terminals. The carriers had wanted anv disputes over I n t e r d I v U ion a 1 runs automatically submitted to binding arbitration. But Uie Steel man proposal doe -not-Include a provision to that effect and sub stantially meets union demands. HOURS 4. Lay the groundwork for a five-day, 40-hour work week for men in the yards who now work if, hours. The 40-hour week would take effect on three months' appU cfctlon by the unions provided a neutral referee appointed by Presi dent Truman decided enough man power was available to meet management requirements. A four-cent pay boost would go to all men switching from a 48 to a 40-hour week when Uie change was made. This four cents would come on top of the basic 37-cent wage boost for all yardsmen. 5. Put into effect a cost of living escalator clause, tleing wages to the cost of living. Wages would go up or down one cent each three months for each one point change in Uie bureau of labor statistics ccst of living Index. Strike Ends. Buses Roll SAN FRANCISCO Wl Pacific Greyhound buses began rolling Tuesday after 79 strikebound days in seven western states. Company officials said main lines from El Paso, Tex., Salt Lake City. Albuquerque, and Portland, Ore., started operating westward at dawn. Commuter service also began out of San Francisco. A negotiated contract grants an Immediate 4.6 per cent pay hike to some 3,000 drivers and station employes; a gradual change from a six-day 48 hour week to five days and 40 hours with no loss In pay, and cost of living increases U Uie federal Index rises. The San Francisco area local of commute drivers voted 128-35 last niht to return to work Immediate ly, completing favorable action on the new contract which runs two years. Some 2,000 main line drivers had approved Uie pact last week about 2-1 and some 600 station employes ok'd It 6-1. The local first rejected the set tlement 104-85, but reconsidered. Rejection by any . one. unit blocks settlement. Main line drivers have received $7.26 a hundred miles; commute drivers 81.63 an hour. Forger Gets Seven Years John Nelson Aday, 37-year-old ranch hand arrested May 7 by City Police for forgery, was sentenced Monday afternoon In Circuit Court here to seven years at uregon state Prison. Adav Pleaded guilty to forging a 8150 check, April 24, In the name of woodrow w. cuaay, Mann rancn er. He also admitted forging Cud dy's name to three other checks. None of them was cashed. ' Records from the Justice Depart ment In Washington, D. C, showed Aday was released from Soledad Reformatory In California' last June after serving 14 months of a 0 to 14 years term on non-suftlclent funds check conviction. Telephone 8111 No. 2824 Beds' Plan In Korea Said Failure WEST POINT, N.Y. l Presi dent Truman said Tuesday the Kremlin's desire to dominate Uie world Is obviously unchanged, "but I believe we are well on the way to preserving our freedom without paying the frightful cost of world war." "The plain fact Is." Truman said, "that the Communists have utterly failed in their objectives in Korea. "The Communist aggression fail ed to shatter the United Nations. Instead, Uie Communist attack has made Uie United Nations strong er and more vigorous and has dem onstrated that it can and will act to defend freedom in Uie world." He added: "But we must also be alert and ready to meet treachery or a re newal of aggression If that should come." SOLID WALL If It should come, the President said, Uie Communists wUl run against a solid wall of free world resistance with the growing might of this country and Its new atomic weapons in Uie key defense position. Truman's speech was prepared for Uie 150th anniversary convoca tion of Uie U. s. Military Acad emy. - The President came here by train to deliver it In the role or commander-in-chief of the armed forc es. - ' This role, providing civilian con trol over the military. Is "nailed down" In the Constitution, Truman noted. And in what could have been an illusion to such steps as his dis missal of Gen. MacArthur he went on to say: "Many presidents, including the present one, have demonstrated that those words in the Constitu tion mean what they say," Seattle News: Veteran Dies SEATTLE UH Floyd Anson Fessler, Sr.."" 59, an assistant fea ture editor of Uie Seattle Times and long - time newspaperman, died in his sleep Monday night. He had suffered from heart trouble a year but was at his desk Monday. He began his newspaper career as an apprentice printer and later owned a weekly newspaper In Burns, Ore. He served with the Oregon NaUonal Guard during the First World War and later became managing- editor of the now-defunct Portland News, a Scripps-Canfield newspaper. He came here in 1929. Fading GOING TO SCHOOL isn't nearly so doleful now that the start of summer vacation is only a few days away. Above (1 to r), Gilbert Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Roberts, 138 Mortimer Street, and Kenneth Arnc, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Arne, 122 Mortimer, prepare to take off for Mills School. ; Fight Asked On Black Marketeers By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON ( This year'a potato shortage seems to be pro viding just aooui as neaiea a ac hate on Uie federal farm programs as did the government project oi killing little pigs to raise pork prices In the early 1930's. Officials say there's considerable criticism ot ceilings on potato prices and a lack of price supports. The pig-killing program raised such a furor that, every time meat has become scarce since then, uie Agriculture Department has been flooded with an avalanche of mall barkening back to those days. That plan, sponsored oy Henry a. Wal lace, then the agriculture secre tary, was designed to boost hoc prices by reducing pork supplies. CAUSE The current potato shortage de veloped largely because farmers cut production 20 per cent last year. Most of this reduction came in the late potato crop uiat por tion which goes Into storage for . use during the winter, spring and early summer. Farmers reduced their output after Congress directed the Agri culture Department to withdraw price supports. Congress did away with supports because they bad cost the government more than 600 million dollars over a 10-year period. Fearing a possible price collapse, farmers turned to more promising crops. wnen It became apparent that stocks might not be large enough prices started moving upward. The Office of Price Stabilization step ped in with ceilings. But until corrected, inequities in ceilings as applied market by market served to divert supplies to aome markets and away from others. lie snonage una been aggra vated by black markets which have given some consumers mora Uian their share. GOTJGERS Price . Stabilizer ' Ellis Arnall urged Monday that the public fight against oiacc maraeung oy refus ing to pay n mora than celling prices..., -.: .i....-.,'.t-.......... In a - statement, Arnall praised the Super Market Institute, the Philadelphia Hotel Association and Uie Philadelphia Restaurant Assa- ciaUon for urging their members not to pay above-ceiling prices. juhbii predicted uie shortage would be relieved in the next four to six weeks by the movement of new potatoes to market. This earlv crop is grown mosUy to Florida, Aiaoama, lexas ana camomia. But the shortage Is not likely to be fully overcome until the intermediate crop is harvested. This Is grown in midland states the Carolinas, Tennessee, Ken tucky, Arkansas, Maryland, and New Jersey. Both Uie early and intermedial crops this year are later than usual a fact that Is prolonging the shortage. Weather conditions and desire of growers to let their potatoes grow to full size are lacwrs delaying marketings. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: rair xuesoay nignt; partly cloudy Wednesday; low Tuesday night 40: high Wednesday 65. -High yesterday 65 Lnw lat nifht A1 Precip last 24 nra, - Z .04 Since Oct. I 15.7 Normal lor period , 10.85 Same period last yr 14.84 s, . . ... ..Wf
