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By FRANK JENKINN
Well. It's over. 1 wasn't watch
ing llic clock, but II must have
happened about quarter ol eleven
thin morning, It wuh fairly obvious
by Tursdav Ihnt It (U going tn
happen, Aiid bv Wednesday night
It wiui prnatlcallv certain.
Tlie shadows cunt bv the turbu
lent sessions ol Tuesday and late
Wrdneivdnv accurately lurclold tile
coiiilim event.
How did It happen?
History repented Itself.
The old bhvo way to the new,
There was brief moment, of
course, of elmlon. But as these
wordii are written, only few
inlnulea after the final vote. 1
Imagine elation Is already being
succeeded bv a sense of drove
responsibility.
f'oliticHl campaigns are waned
with promises. Of necessity. Uint
Iha.t to be. Promises are enallv
rvade. But carrylnii them out li
another mutter. That requires
courage and wisdom.
It . Inkcw FORTITUDE.
Ai one of General Elsenhower's
lollnwera. I'm sure he tiuii what
It lakes. But I'm equally sure that
at thla moment his mood It a
eolemn and aerloua one. II In up
to hint now to make good. And
these are grave davi In our na
tion's life.
But when itravo decisions have
to be made, he 1 capable of mak
Inn them. Ha proved thai when
he took upon hla boulders the
responsibility of deciding to pom
pone the Normandv Invasion for
a day because of unfavorable
weather, Hla country' fale could
have rented on that decision. But
he dlnn't shirk It.
Once hla decisions are made, he
Is capable of carrying them out.
The success of tho Invasion proved
lhat.
We've chosen an able man ' as
Ihe Republlotn party's candidate
fo- President ln'USlt year ct deci
sion. Now a word for the loser.
There have been plenty of
Charlies that Senator Tail, as the
pilot of the steamroller, would bull
hla way through to victory at any
cost. So far aa he la personally
concerned, II aeems to me, these
chorees have fallen flat, He waned
a hard-hitting: campaign, but I
can remember no personal blow
of his that was below the belt.
With tho ambition of a lifetime
King In ruins at his feet, he came
forward frankly and I'm sure sin
cerely to shake Ihe hand of his
successful opponent and to pledge
his best efforts In what la now
common cause.
That, too, lakes fortitude.
It takes good sportsmanship.
There was another (Treat Ameri
can who set his heart upon the
Presidency Henry Clay. Three
times he sought It In 1824, In
1832 and In 1844. Three times he
lost But hla name Is written tn
the panes of our history as one of
our Illustrious sons.
I'm sure the same will be true
of flenotor Tuft He Is still a sena
tor. We'll NEED him In the sonate
In the critical years thai face us.
There has been much talk to the
effect that the heal and the pas
sions generated In this pre-onven-tlon
Republican campaign will de
stroy the Republican party. I don't
think so.
It It true thnt the convention 11
' .vll-wss tense and emotional. The
delegates nt times were strung to
a high pitch. There were moments
when It looked like a free-for-nll
might break out on the floor that
even the police couldn't quoll bo
lorn violence was done.
I think those were GOOD signs
not bad. It Is In moments of high
rmollnn thnt men rise to their best.
We must remember lhat the mlr
scle of birth Is accompanied bv
pangs. What we saw there on the
convention floor at Chicago were
the birth pangs of a new and
flghtingly sincere Republican
party. .
Polio Strikes
East Oregon
ONTARIO, Ore. W Five polio
cases In the Ontario area in the
last three weeks have put the dis
ease In the epidemic stage, Dr.
1,. A. Mnuldlng, county health, ol
' fleer, reported Thursday..
There was one death, 16-year-old
gli'l who died June 39. The
other four persons, all youngsters,
tie out of danger.
Mnuldlng snld polio Is considered
i epldemlo whenever there Is more
thnn one case smong 30,000 per
sons. The Ontario roa baa about
10.000 residents.
The two most recent cases were
reported early this week.
No Pictures
Herald and News 'photog
rnphnr Don KetUer. has been
oalled out of the city by the
denth of his brother In a Texas
plnne crash and during Keillor's
absence there will be no Nine
0'Oloclc Special pictures.'
KLAMATH FALLS, OKKGON, FKIDAY, JULY 11, 1032
Ffames
WILLING I'ANDS WEREN'T HARD to find when it cms fo
hauling hoi fo fight the Ellington Lumber Company bleie last
night. Several fir departments and scores of volunteer!
pitched in to battle th roaring flamei.
Windstorms,
Lash County
Hurricane weather high winds,
flashing lightning and electric at
mosphere struck the Klamath
country late yesterday and last
nil! In. lenvlng varied conditions In
Its wake. ; -
CAA anemometers "recorded
gusts ranging up to 60 miles an
hour last night, with a bottom
registering
hour mark.
At least 10 smokes were reported
this morning by lookouts on both
sides of the slatellne, started by
a heavy eleclrlcnl storm that played
over the southwest tkles through
out the night.
Heavy rains were reported In
some pnrts, mostly below the state
line. The Tulelake Ranger Station
marked .up more than one Inch In
rainfall within on hour period,
and reports from Cnnby snld more
than 1.1 Inches of rain toll within
a 30-mtmite, period. .
Klamath Falls felt 'biit a few
scattered-' drops U any of rain
fall. -....' i
LANGKLL VALLEY . ,
Upper Langell Valley-reportedly
suffered a houvy cloudburst, Mnlln
had a fair rainf nil, Merrill had a
sprinkle. ' - -
Wind appeared to. do tho big
damage, eiipeclrilly In farming
arena. Troos fell throughout the
Basin, one onto a barn belonging
to Walter Bliss, and) the hny was
reported blown olenr out of a field
belonging to Frnnk' Gardner, in
tho Crystal Springs area, windrows
woro roportcd to hnve been blown
right Into Lost River. Other hny
fields were reported converted to
straw fields when the leaves, were
ripped off, especially in fields- on
tho ridges,. .... , .,
FOREST FIRES
Modoc Nntlonnl Forest reported
a half dozen smokes this morning,
and the KFPA was working sev
eral others. The county. fire warden
headed for Btukel Mountnln, south
of town, to handle a fire spotted
from Poo Valley, 'but a cloudburst
flooded the area t.beToro he oould
get there, ' , i . - '
Power outages' were frequent In
some suburban- areas, with high
winds playing hnvoc with trees and
oowerllnes. 8nnrks were often seen
leaping' several' Inches fronv high
voltage, lined -to the bonding
ornnencs. 'iTansioi-mers in ninny
outlying sections were blown, ac
cording to reports: ,
Farm Work
Slackened
Agricultural employment slack
ened up 30 por cent Inst month
over me same momn a year ago,
according to a, report from the
Klamath Fulls office of Ihe State
Employment Service,,
However, n heavy demand for
hay hands Is expected during the
next few weeks. During June, 138
placements were made In agri
culture as against '193 the same
period a month ago. '
' Some 144 weeks Were claimed
In unemployment benefits . last
Woods Fires
month, as against 383 a year ago.
Strike Mill
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Oregon Heat
By The Associated Press
Moist ocean air cooled most of
Western Oregon and Washington
Frldnv. but fire hazard In mnnv
pnrts of the forests remained high.
Ihe eastern parts of the states
remained hot, as well.
In British Columbia. Onltano
Village, on the Island of the same
name nines from Vancouver,
was saved from fire Thursday
night after a hard bnttle. The
flames had spread from a 45-acre
lire, biggest in the Pacific North
west. . .
Entry -bv permit only, was es
tablished in 17 Snoqunlinle Nation
al Forest areas as It had been
earlier In a few nntlonnl forest
areas of Oregon, where hazard al.
ways Is high In hot. dry weather.
similar action Is expected for sev
eral areas of other forests.
Southwest Oregon wns viewed as
one or the danger points Friday
ano Saturday because of forecast
thunder storms coming at a period
of low humidity. Oilier mountnln
areas oi Oregon were expected to
get some thunderstorms, too, and
Eastern Washington was to have
tnem Saturday.
The heat wave had been. pushed
out of the coastal area and east
ol the Cascades. Spokane Frldnv
expected a top of 93 which wns 6
degrees under Thursday's high
Saturday's forecast for the eastern
part' of the two slates said It would
be hot nulte so wnrm.
,, Thursday brought 101 readings at
four Northwest cities: Wnlln Wnlln,
aicimn. Pendleton and ontnrio.
' Conslnl points were nil cool In
the low 60s.
Seattle. Frldnv morning, had a
little unexpected drizzle In parts
of the oltv which was too light to
ue measurable, , . ,
Langlie Last
Wilson Hope
,' PORTLAND' W) Attorneys for
Utah and Turman Wilson say only
wasnmgton uov. Aruiur ts, hung
lie can save the brothers from
death on the gallows for the 1950
Slaying or Jo Ann uewey.
The Ninth U. s. Court of Appeals
wiped out one of their last hopes'
Thursday with , an order vacat
ing an Indefinite slay of execution.
The stay was granted July 3 to
give me court time to determine u
their was prooable cause lor ap
peal from a denial of hnbens corp
us. The court decided Thursday
there was no probable cause.
Irvln Goodman and Bnnford
Clements. . attorneys or the Wil
son brothers In their long court
bnttle. snld In a statement here
only Gov. Langlie "can now de
termine whether Turman and Utah
shall live or die on the gallows.'
Goodman said he hnpod th gov
ernor would commute the sent
ences to life Imprisonment.
Utah and Turman were convict
ed In March 1950 of the slaying of
18-year-old Miss Dewey. Their ap
peals have been carried twice to
the U.S. Supreme Court, Each
time the court refused to review
the case.
MEET CANCELLED
Roald Lodge, No. 39, 8ons of
Norway has cancelled tonight's
Wave Fading
meeting,
Teleph
No. 3887
High' Winds
Whip Fire
Over Stacks
By HALE 8CARBROUGH
A spectacular wind-driven fire
last night destroyed several hun
dred thousand board feet of stacked
lumber on Ihe Elllngson Lumber
Company planing mill yard, but an
even larger amount of lumber and
the mill Itself was saved from the
flames.
An accurate accounting of the
loss and damage had not been
made today. Some of the. lumber
piles burned all night and all this
morning.
Almost every piece of fire equip
ment In this Immediate area was
pressed into service and at the
iieignt or tne lire two nunarca men
or more firemen, mill workers and
volunteers were involved In the
butlle.
WIND CUST3
The fire broke out In the south
west corner of the sprawling lum
ber yard about 9:15 p.m., Lawrence
Mueller, night watchman at the
mill, said, and frenzied gusts of
wind drove the flames toward the
north and east.
At one time the wind had thrown
sparks two hundred yards or more
and ignited brush some distance
beyond the stacked lumber.
The Elllngson planing mill, erect
ed about four years ago. Is located
Just off Memorial Drive south of
town, near the Klamath River.
The flames roared through about
two dozen stacks of heavy rough
lumber, most of It fir. and at one
point was only a few steps from
the main mill building.
CORRIDOR- ire-' '-- -
t, ;,.--.'-
Finally, when enough ho6e was
on the ground, firemen worked Into
a 35-foot corridor dividing the lum
ber stacks and managed to limit
the flnmes to the western section
of the lot.
If Uie fire had jumped that corri
dor and for an hour there was
every Indication It would it prob
ably would have taken the rest of
the yard.
Firemen and volunteers did. an
excellent Job of standing against
the flames In that corridor and fin
ally after the wind calmed the
blaze began to burn Itself out In
the stacks already arire.
Several persons who live In the
vicinity of the mill said the fire
started in the southwest corner of
the yard. An open burner was lo
cated at that end of the lot and
whipped great showers of sparks
from It.
THREE HOURS.
The fight lnsted for almost three
hours before the flames could be
considered under control. As a spec
tacle, the Elllngson fire was a par
allel to the fire wnich last Septem
ber destroyed the old Ewauna and
Big Lakes box factories on S. 6th,
but It was considerably more costly.
destroying new lumber while the
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Indian Pay
Due July 27
KLAMATH AGENCY A payroll
Is now being prepared for the
distribution of 394.400 to members
of the Klamath Indian tribe July
31.
The per capita payment of S200
will go to 1,973 persons listed on
the roll as eligible.
Money for the per capita pay
ments comes from the revenue of
tribal timber sales.
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AS SEEN FROM A DISTANCE, flamet jumping from burning lumber ttacki lit up the iky more brilliantly than did an electrical ttorm that was going en co
Incidentally with th EJIingion planing mill tira latt night.-This pictur wac taken trom several hundred feat, away. The glow of the flamei eould b seen
Againit the iky from all over town and hundradi of motorists juit drove by to take look, 1 . i Photo by Sam Thompson.
DWIGHT D.
Opposing Fortes Start
Repairing GOP Harmony
CHltAGO W Gen. Dwleht D. 1
Eisenhower called on Sen. Robert
A. Taft Friday shortly after his
triumph over the Senator for the
Republican presidential nomina
"on. ,,
He arrived, for what was an ap
parent tefforl to smooth over the
bitterness of the' convenuon con-
tesl, under police guard and tne
- iwo went imo private coiucrcucc
.ro, ... lh
street from his Blackstone hotel
quarters to Tail's suite In the Con
rad Hilton hotel.
The place was jammed.
Officer Kills
Self, 3 More
HOUSTON. Tex. W A jilted
Air Force officer killed liis sweet
heart, two hospital guards and
himself at a nurses home here
Thursday night as screaming nurs
es watched.
The orgy of blood and gunfire
occurred on the second floor of
Memorial Hospital's nursing home
where men are not allowed.
The officer Capt. Rennrd Hay
wood of Ellington Air Force base
near here had forced his way at
pistol point Into the nurses' sanc
tuary. Besides the 34-year-old Haywood,
the dead are:
Miss Carroll Cooper, 24. pretty
junior nursing student from. Oil
man, Ala; - .' , c. v.'.
Robert 'Peterson.:' 64K .'guard.
Houston. .' - , -. ;
J. C. Fair,- 69, guard, Houston.
A nurse- eyewitness, .Miss, Sue
Grantham, 19. said Peterson, was
killed instantly and that Fair lived
onlv a few minutes after Haywood
shot Uiem down as Uiey ran to the
aid of Miss Cooper. ,
After shooting the two guards,
Haywood barricaded himself and
Miss Cooper in her room, waving
a German Luger pistol In the air.
As hastily summoned police en
tered the room, the . nurses said,
two more- shots were fired. Hay
wood shot the girl in the head and
then turned the powerful pistol to
his own temple, -... .
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EISENHOWER
General Elsenhower wore a light
grey suit and white shirt. He
was bare headed. .
Elsenhower and Taft came out
of their conference at 11:15 a.m.
PDT. .......
Taft appeared first with Gener
al Elsenhower behind him. They
walked side by side as-they walked,
into the lobby of the ninth floor.
A party of about 40 or 50 per
sons stopped for a minute behind
the two men.
Elsenhower and the Senator
chatted amiably, both smiling
broadly as they posed together be
fore television cameras. What they
said however, was lost In the gen
eral uproar;
"You'll win the election," Taft
told the general at one point.
Finally a measure of quiet was
restored. Taft himself held up his
hand and pleaded for quiet.
"I want to congratulate General
Elsenhower on his nomination and
assure him I will do everything
possible for him in his campaign
and after he wins the election,"
Taft said.
Eisenhower, who had taken the
initiative In this dramatic bid to
heal party wounds, said he had
come across the street "to pay a
call of friendship on a very great
American."
Just a few minutes later, Elsen
hower had returned to his own
headquarters In the Blackstone Ho
tel, just across the street.
"I have no statement to make
at this time," he said, "I have
just been across the street to pay
a call on Senator Taft to extend
to him an invitation to cooperate
with me." - i
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Partly clouded with scattered alt-,
ernoon and evening ihundershow
ers Friday and Saturday. ' Highs
both days 83, low Friday night 55.
High temp yesterday . ... . t 91
Low last night . ' 60
Preclp yesterday 0
Since Oct. 1 17.11
Normal for period .13.17
Same period last year 14.84
(Additional Weather on Page 4.1
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Victory Comes
On First Ballot
By The Associated Press
General Dwight D. Eisenhower today won the Republi
can Presidential nomination. In a dramatic climax to a ding-dong-
fight with Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Eisenhower
crashed through to the GOP accolade on the first ballot.
On the roll call, Eisenhower first received 595 votes to
500 for Taft. But before the vote could be announced, Min
nesota threw to the general 19 votes it had first given to
Harold E. Stassen. That put Ike across with 614 votes. It
took 604 to nominate. Texas and other states which had split
their votes then began jumping. It was a landslide in the
end.
And this feuding, wrangling 25th Republican National
Convention pulled itself together into a vociferous show of
unity behind the five-star general with a roaring demonstra
tion around and around the big hall hired by the stockyards.
nep. b. tarrou Keece, .
Southern campaign manager
lor 'J ait, said: "Of course I'm
going to support the nominee
but I feel Eisenhower's man
agers should apologize to Sen
ator Taft for their conspiracy to
stigmatize htm."
The convention floor was In an
uproar at that point as state after
state rushed to toss its votes on the
Elsenhower.bandwagon.
Elsenhower himself was not In
the hall. As custom dictates, he
had waited at bis hotel while the
convention's rank and file decided
who should lead their effort this
year to break 30 years of Demo
cratic national rule.
With him waiting for the returns
were Mrs. Eisenhower Mamie to
the general and three grandchil
dren. David 4, Barbara Ann 3, and
Susan, six months. They are chU-
Secret Steel
Talks Start
PITTSBURGH l Ton level
secret negotiations In the 40-day
old steel strike were underway
Friday in this steel capital.
Alter their first meeting Thurs
day, spokesmen for both Industry
ana uie uu sieeiworters were
tightllpped.
A union source said a second
meeting would be held at an un
specified, time and place Friday.
" There Is every indication that
most of the issues of the long
strike were discussed at least gen
erally at the first session.
Ostensibly the meeting was
called to talk over the industry's
request to get iron ore production
moving again. But a union spokes
man, when asked if other issues
were taken up, smiled, "You may
assume that."
Philip Murray, president ot the
CIO and the Steelworkers, and
General Counsel Arthur Goldberg,
head the union team. Among in
dustry leaders present were Vice-
president John A. biepnens oi u.
Larkin of Bethlehem Steel Corp.;
and Ben F. Moreell, chairman of
the board, Jones and Laughlin
Steel Corp.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Price
Administrator EUls Arnau indi
cated the government will answer
in several days the latest demand
for higher prices from the steel
industry.
The Wierton Steel Company, at
Wlerton, W. Va., filed notice July
1 for a $5.50 per ton ceiling hike
on its product and unless the oi
fice of Price Administration ob
jects the boost wlU go Into effect
July 21.
More Work
In Oregon
SALEM W Employment In
Oregon during June exceeded that
for June, 1951 the first time this
year that employment was higher
than for a corresponding month of
last year.
The State Unemployment Com
pensation Commission said 473.600
persons were employed In non
farm jobs during the month, or
3,900 more than in June, 1951.
Employment In the lumber in
dustry was 88,800, a gain of 200
over a year earlier. It was 7,000
less than the all-time high mark
of August, 1950.
t.'ft(!'Cttt.',
dren of his son, Maj. John Elsenhower.
The balloting capped a week of
maneuver In which Elsenhower's
strategists won the opening skir
mishes and exploited, them to take
we araoa prize. -
The turning point had Its begin
nings In the pre-convention prelim
inaries ol last week.
The long, uelv Argument aver
delegate contests in which the
words "steal." "thief," and even
stronger were commonplace had
their effect on many delegates,
U not on the GOP National Com
mittee.
This was evidenced at tho
lng day of the convention last
Monday.
Taft came to Chlracrn Mnflriont
and riding high. Through months
of long, hard campaigning mile
iicr in ue up ana down and
across the country he was far
out in front of Eisenhower In
pieagea delegates.
But on the opening- 1v Ihm VI.
senhower forces with support
from backers of candidates Earl
Warren and Harold Stassen whip
ped the Taft men 658 to 648 In
test vote on a rule regarding vot
ing by contested Taft delegates
from the South.
SEVERE DEFEAT
It was a licking from which Tft
never recovered.
uut o: mat breach In his atrate-.
gic lines trickled not only dele
gates from Louisiana. Texas and
Georgia he had counted on it cost
him, too, many votes among un
committed delegates who conclud
ed foni. .Ihis initial muscle feel-..
ing that Ike would come home
the winner.
For Elsenhower, the GOP's tap
to its leadership Is another big
moment of a packed decade in the
life of a one-time Kansas farm
boy. now reached 61.
Little more than 10 years ago.
when, as the march of World War
n was sweeping toward the Unit
ed States. "Ike" was an army lieutenant-colonel,
unknown nationally-
The swift years since have seen
him direct the Allied drive that ,
defeated Germany and Italy, head
Columbia University, and finally
command the armies being built
in partnership with European Al
lies to defend against the threat
of Communistic aggression.
COMMAND '
He gave up that command and
returned home only last June lor
a fast - moving campaign that fi
nally overtook Taft.
For Taft, the defeat Is a bitter
end to his third real try for the
nomination.
Now 63, he has said he would
not try again and so with this
decision here his dream of follow
ing his father. President William
Howard Taft, to the White House,
is destroyed.
"Bob" Talt was already a pow
er In the Senate when Elsenhower
was just one of many younger
officers in the Army.
Taft's name went as a favorite
son before the 1936 GOP conven
tion. He sought the nomination in 1940.
and was licked to the roaring calls
of "We Want Winkle."
In 1944. he stepped aside so an
other Ohloan. John W. Bricker,
could have his chance.
Bricker was beaten by Gov. Tho
mas E. Dewey of New York but
took second place on the ticket.
The GOP went down to defeat.
Taft made another effort for the
nomination four years ago.
Dewev whipped him.
And it was Dewey, sitting in
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