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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1952)
r nthe - r- r By FRANK JENKINS Foanemloi: The Canadian dollar advanred flva thlrty-ecoiiln of cent today to 1,01 In terms ol American dol lars. It waa (lie hlKhenl price lor I he Canadian ilullur nltice 1034, when went to l.03'U. Tfow'oome? Two i reaaons, Americans are Mwndajg more lit Canada, ao on supply and demand the Cnadlnn dollar Rora up In terms ol Hie American dollar, Tlie other reaaon la that the Canadians have bal anced their budiiel. spending no more Uian they take In, ".waking o( money: The French Irano now buy less than ONE-EIGHTH an much In lenna ol the American dollar en It bought at the ond ol World War II. Whyf Again two reasons: 1. The French buy far more abroad than Ihev aell abroad. Bo, on supply and demand, their cur rency depreciate In value, 2. Tlifv spend every year more than Ihev take In In taxes. They BORROW THIS DIWEUl'.NCE Iruoi Ihe Bank of France, which then Mart It presne and prints paper francs to make up the difference. What la tho net tesult? Tina la It: FRANCE 18 BANKRUPT. Weather note: rciirnn a-ol another dose of hot weather today. It was so hot In London .that as a special conces sion tlie Lord Chief Justice per mitted Ilrlllfh Judges to doll lliclr traditional while wins. When , tho heat uhMilfi British tradlljon. It's REALLY HOTI Good advlrei Won't scoll at Brltifib tradition. Traditionally, the Utuii-OUKV TIIK LAW. ' i Tliat's alt to tlie good. ' Old fogy. opinion (sill) entitled to some rospeeo: ' II we hsd loUoweil more closely the traditions etaoiu,iir , Founding Fathers, wod all be bet ter oil. Msn-bllea-do note: Claude Hammond of New York City stood beside the road this morning trying to thumb a ride to the Newark airport. A bin sedan carrying three men stopped. One ol lliem asked Hammond to Identi fy himself as a responsible cillaen. When he tot out his wallet to do so the guy GRABBED IT. lumped tisrk In the csr nd It sped away. Man's Inhumanity to man ion both skies of the fence makes countless thousands mourn. , Doc-bilrs-man note: , Farmer Lulgi Cosla. living near Rome, N.Y., came to town yester day to gel spruced Ui for the Fourth. Hi bought snappy new suit, hsd his gray hair tinted back to Its original brown, got a shave and kit the works and went home smelling sweetly of shaving lotion, massage pomade and such. Todsv he's all bandjuted UP. XI dog , .FAILED., TO . iftOOClNJZB HIM and ssnk lU teeth In him as a suspicious character, ; , Come clean, now. , When you meet an old bird with his hair freshly dyed, and maybe with a new permanent wave, and smelllnr of all the bottles In the barbershop. I'll bet you feel the same ijrge as Coata'i dog. OF,BF Files Time Law 8AI.EM I Tho Oregon Farm era Union Monday filed an Initia tive petition which, If approved by voters at tha November election, will make standard time manda tory throughout Oregon. - The measure Is the first Initia tive to be filed this year. Four or five more are expected to be filed before the - July 1 deadline. The Farm Bureau measure would repeal the present law which asys the state must have standard time unless the governor proclaim daylight time to conform with neighboring states, The new meas ure calls for a flat prohibition against the state or any ictty or county, government adopting fast time, i ....... ROUNDUP RIBBONS are bloueming out all ever ihe Bailn. Above, little Judy Ra Gregory, 815 E. Main Street, pint a ribbon en Bill Duffy at Roundup Headquarter!. Duffy had uit ligned to participate in-two redee eventi. Selegat hp COP Issues lly The Associated rress The Republican National Com mittee, In the opcnliik round ol argument over convention dele gulii contents walked out ol a Chl ciiko hutcl biiilroom Tuesday whore ciiiiipiiis had been set up to lele v!c Ihe proceedings. Officials said the committee might decide, In a dlllereul meet ing place, to allow telecasting. However, It wsa obvious those ruiiiiing the meeting didn't want the cameras operating while the television question Itsell was being argued. Supporters ol Oen. Dwlghl D. Elsenhower for the presidential nomination have demanded that the whole dispute over contested delegates be televised. Some supporters ol Ben. Robert A. loll have been cool to the Idea, but Tall said Monday TV would suit him II It was all right with the nutlonul committee. L'ONTKHTS Seventy-two delegate poits are being contented between the two ton candidates lor the nomination. Whatever tlie national cominll- Ltee decides Is sine to be appculed through channels the convention a credentials committee and then the national convention Itsell. The Associated Press tabulation ol OOP delegates, based on avowed nnd' conceded alignments lor the 1 1 ml ballot, shows 476 lor Tslt and PAUL S. CAMPBELL NewYMCA Chief Named Paul 8. Campbell has come here from Portlsnd to take over as YMCA executive secretary. He tills a vacancy crested by tho resigna tion several weeks ago of Cecil Kollenborn. Campbell Is a veteran of 22 years' YMCA work. He began his career In Ban Francisco allor graduation trom the College ol the Pacllls. Alter seven yrsrs In Ssn Francisco. 'Campbell Went I Eureka eg execu tive secretary, in ivsi, ne wok chsrge of community extension work for the Portland YMCA. Sev eral years ago, he became associ ate general secretary In charge ol Qram and boys work at Pori. . Tills Included supervision ol all camping activities. FAMILY Campbell la married and the lath er ol three sons, Doug, 14, Bruco, 7. and Bobby. 3. Tlie family has taken a residence at 6643 Cottage Avenue. The new Klamath "Y" boss sees "great possibilities" here snd sp pears anxious to get tlie ball roll- Uig toward nis goals. Probably because of his put camping experience, Campbell Is expectally anxious to set up a camp program aimed at helping youngsters not now Included In other camp programs. help He say three camping experts of the Portland YMCA havo vol unteered to come here and help with onmp activities. Campbell Is in complete accord with tlie Klamath "Y" directors' view that the "Y" should be a family organisation rather than one confined to boys and youths. He points out that women and girls now comprise approximately 27 per cent of national YMCA membership. 1 s . es, TV 408 for Elsenhower. Nomination re quires 604. In another prelude to the open ing ol the convention next Mon day, Ben. Eugene Mllllkln of Colo mbo eniorged ns cliulrmuii ol the subcommittee which will draft the party's foreign policy platform plunk, Mllllkln Is a Tall supporlci. The Colorado senator, as chair man ol the lull ulatlorm-wrltlng committee, divided up the work among subcommittees and named himself chairman of the foreign policy group, 'Hie 106-iiiember national com mittee made some prellmlnsry ar rangements Monday for hearing the delegate contests. PKE-IIEARING The pre hearing conference up with an agieeinenl to allot sn hour snd a half to each side in the Loulslsna and Texas wrangles. 'Ills other contests will be srgucd on the unusual half hour each bunls. The 72 votes at stake Include 38 In Texas, 18 In Florida, six In Loulnlsns, lour esch In Georgia and Mississippi, one each In Jtan snn and Missouri, 'Ihe contests will be called up slphsbellcslly this week, beginning Willi rioriaa anu worsuig wrougn to Texas probably the hottest of all. Elsenhower backers say the Texas delegation was stolen by Tail lorces. Tncy, In turn, claim the pro Eincnhower Tcxena are ically Democrats In disguise. TAFT ON Hl'F.NK Tall was on the scene directing his lorces. Elsenhower In scheduled to srrlve Saturday Irom Denver. I Some ol the general's advisers, ! like Ben. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., ol i Massachusetts, were on hand, snd ; others, like Oov. Thomas Dewey ol New York, were expected soon. Anoher GOP piesldentlal aspir ant, former Oov. Harold Bias- sen ol Minnesota, flew to Chicago i Irom New York. i Hie convention resolutions com mittee, which haa the task ol draft ! Ing the 1UM party platform, called l up people with axes to grind lor ' tius on how to do It. The CIO released a copy ol the suggestions It plans to put before the committee. It cslln on the OOP to disown the Tult-Harlley labor law as one way of winning workingmen's votes. Tlie AFL statement, to be de livered sboui mld-alternoon, was not available. Elsenhower Is scheduled to leave Denver by train Thursday, with several appearances on tap be tween his departure then and ar rival in Chicago Saturday. These Include talks Irom the trsln'a plsllorm, a national tele vision show and an sddress on the steps ol Nebraska's capltol at Lincoln. UN Repulses Red Attacks; SEOUL. Korea (A A beefed up North Korean battalion attack ing through deep mud hit Allied lines along a half-mile front In the Heartbreak. Ridge sector of East ern Korea Monday night. But It did not penetrate U.N. positions. An Army spokesman said "they came up In front of our positions ana urea at us . . . but they did not try to penetrate our lines." The Eastern front has been rel atively quiet In recent weeks In contrast to savage fighting In the west. More than 760 North Korean Beds attacked on the east sllpe of Heartbreak Ridge and at three other points In the same sector after 1,300 artillery and mortaH shells fell on U.N. lines. Allied troops won Heartbreak Ridge last fall In one of the blood iest battles of the war. Continued rain and low clouds hampered aerial operations Tues day. . ..'. A Navy task force led oy we battleship Iowa steamed close to shore on the East Coast of Korea and shelled factories and other Red Installations at Chonglln. The Eighth Army said estimated Communist casualties last week totaled 1,636 dead, 1.430 wounded and 33 captured about 600 more than the previous week. New Police Judne Named Mayor Bob Thompson early this afternoon announced appointment ol Frank Blackmcr as City police Judge. Blackmcr, a veteran city poiicumun wno mis been uny desK man for several years, has applied for a leave of absence from the force. The police Judge lob was vacat ed Mny 1 when Bob Elder re signed. Since then, Dr. J, c. Hunt, city meat nnd dairy Inspector, has oeen acting judge. Tho lob is elective and Mayor Thompson said In announcing BincKmer a appointment that Black mer planned to run for the office in the November election. Two or tnree other persons are reported as considering the race for the lob. The Police Judge in Klamath Falls has a good many more duties tln the name Implies. Actually, the no llco Judge Is charged with most of the work and responsibility of a. city clerk. Blnckmer was unavailable for comment on his new post at press time today, .. Sports Bulletin v WIMBLEDON, England (VP) Shirley Fry of Alt ron,'0., joined thro Call forniant In tha Wimbledon saml-flnali today to assure an aJI-Amarlcan field in tho women'i singles champion ihlpi. ; ' . (Early ttory In sports taction.). Price Flre-fenl. 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1952 Telephone till Ne. 285 Steel ROUNDUP ROYALTY wai feted last night by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Above, Queen Marianne Hetlelcson looks over a Roundup program with Jayceet Barney Cavanaugh (left) end Prei. Gail Oiborn, The Jayceet put out the program this year. The Roundup princesses are (I to rl Carol Hamilton, Barbara Jean Anderson, Sharon Finchum, Pat Nicholson, Aurelia Patter son, Anne Curry and Janet Dierdoff. Last night's party! dinner-affair, was held at Jeneds." , Car Crackup Fatal to Man A Santa Monica man was killed this morning about 6 o'clock when his westbound car hurtled over the bank 300 yards Irom the 68 Cafe near Orescent and smacked a tree. He waa William Jennings Byars, 116 Calera Canyon, Santa Monica, age not given. , Byars was alone In a 1948 Ply mouth sedan registered to Elisa beth Crlawell, (H6 38lh St.. Rich mond Calif. Two reefer trucks hooked onto the car and pulled It apart to get Byars out. He died just a few minutes alter he was removed from the vehicle. State Police said. Carter Delays Resignation Klamath District Court Judge Nick Carter will stay on the bench for another month. Carter's resig nation was to have become effec tive at midnight Inst night. But lute yesterday, when lu was apparent Ihere would be no successor, to tn,ke over today. Garter offered to extend the effective date of his resignation to Aug. 1. Tlie County Court nnd Acting Ooverpor Paul Pntlerson accepted Carter's offer. (Patterson is acting governor while Gov. McKay Is in Texas attending a governors' con vention). Carter Is ODcnlng n collection agency here. He said today he was 'taking care of the Judge's office and "doing a little work for Carter on the side." Gov. McKay several days ago ap pointed attorney Clarence Humble to succeed Carter but Humble re fused the appointment. McKay' Is expected to return to his Salem office about July 16. Mrs. Michaud fats 5 Years CARSON CITY, Ncv. Iffi Mrs. Jen nne D'Arc Mlc'naud, 36-year-old self styled brains of tlie $1,600,000 Redfield burglary, has been sen tenced to five years In a federal women's prison. Federal Judgo Roger Foley pro nounced sentence Monday. Mrs. Michaud' probably will be sent to the federal reformatory tor women at Aldcrson, W. Vs. 8ho will become eligible for parole alter serving 20 months. - , ; Judge Foley also sentenced two others Involved In tlie bizarre burglary ol La Vere Rcdtlcld's Reno mansion in February. Leonn Mie Olrdaho, 40, Reno cocktail waitress, convicted ol transporting $11,000 of ; the loot across state lines, was sentenced to a year and a day In a. federal women's prison. ; Benton Henry Robinson, 63,' a dude ranch handyman and Mrs. Mlchaud's contnet with the under world, was sentenced to four years In prison. , Sap O : : - ,o . Strike a,. - :.M'c 11 Cowboy Enter Rodeo Here Several world champion cowboys have already signed for the Basin Roundup rodeo and more entries were coming In at a fast clip today. There will be fright fodeo per formances Wednesday and Thurs day and the usual big afternoon show on the Fourth of July. - The rodeo entry list now reads like a Who's Who of the cowboy field. Among world champions al ready entered are: Deo copenhaver, lgsi saddle Drone champ: Gene Pruett, 1948 saddle bronc champ: Chuck Shepard. 1951 champion calf roper: Dan Poo re, 1951 bulldouKlnv champ: and buck- shot Sorrells. 1963 all-around Cal ifornia champ at Saunas. ' EXPECTED Jim Shoulderss. last year's na- Ceilings On For Lumber WASHINGTON UP) Ceilings at Ihe manufacturers' level went Into effect Monday on lumber and rail road ties produced from Western pine and other softwoods in 12 Western states. The Office of Price Stabilisation snio me order applies to aoout one - fifth of the lumoer oro lined in vlis country. It provides uniform ceil ings lor all producers who have Ibcen operating under tlie Rcneral celling price regulation of January, 1951 The new cellln it applies to lumb er cut from Pondcrota pine, sugar pine, Idaho white pine, lodgepole pine, inland larch, . Engelmann spruce, Incense cedar and inland red cedar, and to railroad ties mnde from these species, -,- Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are among the states af fected. . . In another announcement, the OPS said a -second regulation, et fectlve immediately, seta ceilings mr direct mill sales of softwood plywood, faced with' .hardwood. Merrill Boy Said Missing Pvt. Lowell Snapp, son of Mr, and Mrs. Ervln Snapp, Merrill, has been reported missing In aotion by the Department of Defense. Young Snnpp Is a graduate of Merrill High School, end was an all-around athlete there. He has been In the Army for Just one year. His parents received a telegram Saturday reporting he was missing and said only that an explanatory letter was to follow, The letter has not yet been received. Mrs. Snapp was Visiting her mother In Oklahoma when the news arrived, and flew home, arriv ing only yesterday morning. Snapp Is tlie brother of Ursal (Jack) Snapp, former Northwest middleweight boxing champion now attending UCLA. , Another brother. Charles,, vas killed In World War II. tt Breaks Champions tlonal cowboy champ who was also Klamath Basin Roundun ehanioiin. had not shown up yet at noon to day but Is expected to enter be fore tomorrow night's opening per formance. More rodeo stock was brought here yesterday by the Christenson Brothers, of Eugene. Some stock has been corraled at the fair grounds for the past two weeks and should be rarin' to go tomorrow night. ' The Christensons say they are bringing the cream of their nationally lamed rodeo stock here this year. Announcing this year's rodeo will be one of the highest ranking mike handlers In the business. He is Pete Logon, who has for several years worked such rodeos as the Boston Garden, San Antonio. Hous ton and Cheyenne. SPECIALITIES Besides the regular rodeo events! several specialty acts are pro grammed. There will be two girl trick riders, Bety Dollarhide and Marie White: two rodeo clowns, Sherman Crnne and Ted Billings (Crane will show his dancing mule, Hula, and his bull-riding monkey, Hotcha): and on opening night, there will be Owight Moore's Mon grel Revue, a trick dog act. Trail Blazer girls, aided bv little Judy Rae Gregory, today began a 1 campaign 10 sen ttoui. a t jjoiis The girls were out In colorful cos tumes along the downtown. business streets. Lost Rancher Still Soiioht Search continued todnv for John Hobbs. 63,, Kirk rancher missing since Saturday afternoon. Hobbs, overseer at the Dr.' Warren Hunt ranch, near Kirk, was last seen about 5 p.m., Saturday, when he rode off on his horse to see about some cattle. Sunday afternoon. Hobbs'' horse was found still under saddle and with signs of having been, in the water. Hoof prints on the bank of the Williamson river about one mile above Kirk indicated the horse had been in the river. Yesterday, the river was dragged at that point but nothing was found. Chlloquln Peace Justice Walter Ztminermann said there was some 16 feet of water at the point the horse entered the stream Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Fair through tomorrow. Low . to night 43, high tomorrow 80. i High yesterday 67 Low-last night . '. . ; 37 Preclp yesterday t Preeip since Oct. 1 .......17.11 Same period last year . ...... 14.84 Normal for period -12.05 (Additional Weather on Pace 3.) Seen Company Asks For Price Hike k PITTSBURGH W A big steel company which granted 25-cent hourly pay boosts to lis non-striking employes asked the govern ment Tuesday for a price Increase while the striking CIO - United Steelworkers tried to sign up more small firms to new contracts. Weirton Steel Co., a subsidiary of National Steel Corp., asked governmental permission to raise its price a ton to help cover increased labor costs. There was no Immediate reaction from price control officials in Washington. The company, an important pro ducer of tin plate and other pro duct with 11,500 employes In Welr- lon, w. vs., and uieuoenvilie, O., last week signed a contract with the Independent steelworkers for a 16-cent hourly oav boost, nlus nine cents in fringe benefits. The company does not bargain with the CIO-USW. HOURLY RATE ; ' Weirton employes earned an average of $2.11 an hour in May. counting premium pay, compared with about $1.95 lor the USW members. . -The USW has signed more than 30 smaller steel lirms to new con tracts Dasea on the recommenda tions of the Wage Stabilization Board. But none of the six largest steel " producers have come to terms jrfith. the umoiv-ond approxi mately 600,000 U8W men remain idle In their month-long walkout. Latest to sign is Harrisburg (Pa.) Steeli Corp. which employs i,2so workers. The plant will re sume production Immediately. The firm signed a pact Monday night calling: for a wage Increase of approximately 15 cents an hour. modified union shop, six paid holi days and three weeks vacation an nually for 15 years service. The modified union shop means new employes must Join the union but can withdraw between their 20ih and 30th day of employment. SMALL COMPANIES Meanwhile, leaders of the union are meeting with other small com panies across the nation but the sessions are closely guarded sec retsnone of the companies has been Identified. - , One big reason for the secrecy Is that the stselworkers' chief, Philip Murray, fears the big pro ducers will bring pressure to bear on the smaller firms and block possible agreements. The big companies. like U. S. Steel Corp., the nation's top pro ducer, are bitterly opposed to the union shop issue. It was one of the recommendations the Wage Stabil ization Board made when It at tempted to avert the costly strike. MRS. ROBERT MITCHELL and her son, Richard, 5. war aarly shoppers this morning. Tha Mitchells have recently bought tha Mack's, Hamburger- Stand on. Main- Street at Etplanada.. CI rater Power Co: Manager Testifies Technical discussion of th. Call fornla Oregon Power Comoanv'a operations consumed most of Tues day morning s Federal Power Carr mission hearing, with John Boyle of Medford Copco vice president and general mansgaer, testifying. The hearing was moved from the . Armory to the Fremont School au-1 dltorlum because of pour acoustics ai me Armorv and tne a za nr the audience was greatly reduced. WATER BIGHT . ' Boyle and Copco attorney Greg-. ory A. Harrison put into the rec ord photostat copies of water rights claimed by the power company tin ner wpicn n is operating on una River and Klamath River now. showing lights to various amounts of water lor use at various places aiong we sir earn. They Includes right to 205 second feet (the old Moore right) dating back to 1906, used at the Copco. west side plant; another lor 165 second feeL alga in l.lnlr Rh. another of 1.000 second leek being used at the east side plant In Link River; and a Tight to 812 second, feet at the Keno plant. vopco s application, the subject of the bearings, la for 1,250 second feet continuous flow down the river lor use at its proposed Big Bend NO, 2 develoDmpnt vn mil...' downstream Irom Keno, - ... - . The company would pond the flow above the proposed dam lor 7, ""v lo ,lor enough water to allow discharge of 3,600 second feet through its power plant for 12 hours. The plant is planned to produce 60.000 kilowatt nt txical energy. , MAINTAINS .'; . ,.. ' ' ; ' The company maintains - that what It want In not vo- . a fast right on any mor water than " .J8 ,alrely "sing. Also, Boyle said, the company's peak demand Is in the winter months, when ir rigation is not being carried on, ' farm interests nave expressed' opposition to the Copco plan to ' fear that present and future irr ra tion uses would be jeopardised. Boyle r testified the company WDUU.. VI linK.lf, TIM,- ..I. ' Boyle said. - - He discussed the company's ef forts to get more firm power for distribution through Its system, and said It had contracted with Paciflo Gas and Electric for 15.0CO kilo watts, to be taken from the PG&E n m . c ... tAj agreement that nothing In its plans on the river would curtail the right of the United States, Irrigation dis tricts or other users of water on the Klamath Reclamation Project. He also said the company might be agreeable to some extension of the 7-mill power rate a 1917 agree ment with the United States stipu lates be made available for lrriga- -tion- pumping in this area. Exten sion of the rate could be offered certain other . sections of Klamath County, but not to Butte Valley or Shasta Valley. Boyle saki. EXTENSION ( He declared that the company would have to have extension of Its 1917 agreement with the United States, by which Copco regulates Upper Klamath' Lake, for the life -of its Big Bend No. 2 license if it were to go ahead with the Big Bend project. - Big Bend could be In operation within 18 months to two years after the license Is granted, and the re mainder of the seven-dam project on the Klamath within. 10 years-' ;,:v
