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Newspaper Page Text1 fifiM (mo)T (P AMfolAI il Tli. dfficS Iv'-.X-i.r'.v.l M?V. - -11, M il I I Ms lM MM lly FRANK JKNKINN H1I11 I the picture Hal Iloyle not nl Iks yesterday, llor Ihe vol had rnnie mid Iks wn IT. Ho ay III hla cnluinn: "I will never furuot the look on III (leneral'a (net a he nut by Ilia aide of Manila on the cuiivim lion plallorin, waned HI by lliauii miilit. From now on win or low In November they will have a gold llnll life. "I UiouKlil tiler wm Hula sad lies In his countenance when hit famous grin relaxed, a II hs rea lised Uiat lia now In really kind ol primmer ol thn people lie In campalgiUnf to aervo." I llilnk maybe, llnl, you lr.od lilin up e little wroiiH. I'd guns Unit there on the lut lorm In Chicago Ika wua going bark to th day lie arrived III ton Iiii lo lake charge ol Operation Overlurd, 'I1i late of Ilia country bad been placed In lila hands (or II Ihe Invasion tailed goodncas knowa what mlulil happrn. The falluro ol an operation ol Hint slr.o cnulil menu lotnl tleloiit. II Ilia I'l-ANH Inllrrt, the operation could fv'l. And It wu up to Ike to make the plains Mllllona of men would. In under hla command, and tena ol thou anils of them miiiit die In carryliiK out Uie aider It would bn up to linn to five. That la a aobcrlnii Ihrouiiht lor anybody. It limit have brrn a particularly Miberltifi Uioughl (or tlio compara tively young man who had been only a colonel when the war began and now waa a (till general W'llli Hi late ol great nallona and the Uvea o( millions ol men hanging upon hla ability .to do hla Job. Well, thcro on llin platform In Chicago, Ike wan only a burk pri vate in Hie POLITICAL world who had suddenly been elevated lo (our Rtar rank. Do you nlnme him, Hal, lor loosing pretty aerloiu aa he anl there with Die top ln.ilgnla ol hla party frekhly pinned upon hla ahoulilera and tile weight of hi country's future renting on the bark ol hla neck? I don't. I think he waa Juil being hlnuietl and acting natural. I'd like to add thai all lk liaa lo do Irani here on out la to be hlmnclf and act natural. That' what we all want him to do. We're alck and weary of poliiiclana who think always ol Uie politic thing to do and hardly ever ol the right and necessary thing. Thai's what we want lo gel away Ironl. What did you think of young nirhard Nlxonf I wan Immeiutcly Impressed with him. He stood there In the glare ol Ihe spotlights and delivered hla aneecn ol acceptance aa lite rte- publican party's candidate (or Uie vlre'prenldcncy eaaiiy and grace' fully and courteously, Hla refer ence to BenaUir Tall waa a master piece ol gentle thoughtlulneaa. Hla pal on Ihe back Inr rugged old Joe Martin waa junt right. I Uilnk lie's comer. Aa humble follower, I'd like lo make a suggestion to General Elfeiihowcr, Don't set this gifted young- man up on the shell to be LOOKED AT but not IriiKted and USED. TRAIN HIM OAHWULLY for Ula ob ol Prcaineni wnicn, you Know, ue he might have lo fill. Handle lilm aa you would a young officer on your stall who allows GREAT promise. You know how It la. If the cup lain gels the one that bears hla number. Uie firm lieutenant must have what It takea to handle the captain's Job In Ihe pinch. And ao on up the steps ol rank. You know how It was with you. If you harm I been trained core fullv for whatever might happen. you couldn't have taken over aa you aid wnen in an amazingly short time you rose Irom Uie com' mand ol a regiment to Supreme Commander of Uie Allied Forces In Europe. If we have made one minor mis take that la graver Uian the others. II Is In Uie way we have handled our vice-presidents. In choosing them, we've never thought of them as anything but window dressing' That'a wrong. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and T.clnlty and Northern California: ai stirred clouda through Sunday with alternoon and evening thunder shnwera, High tomorrow 83, low tonlihl U. i High letup yeslerdsy - 85 Low last night 68 I'rerln yesterday 0 Hlnce Oct. 1 17.11 Kama period last year ...... H.M 'H W I asaaaaraaaaaasssssssa,! XL . 1 fa I A COUPLE OF ELKS, Bill Houston (In nun garb") and C, M. Gllmor Itb Impatitnt patineH, combined hiifronlc talents to gag up this picture to boost the visit of the Red Cross blood mobile to the local Elks Lodge next Tuesday.-The club wants to let new Klamath Falls record for the number of blood donors obtained. : ' . ( ' Chamber Plans To Build Membership ny WALLACE MVKHM The Klamsth Chamber ol Com tnerce'a "llullil the Basin" cam paign moves Into Uie chamber ex pansion phase Monday; this could well bo the moat Important such action In the Klamath Country' history. 'Ilila expansion phase Is alined at practically doubling the cham ber membership . , , and thus, Its strength. II that goal la achieved It will mean the actual launching of the "Uulld the Basin" program. BTKKMITIIKN Broadly speaking, "flulld Uie Ousln" Is plan lo atrongUien and Wreck Kills Navy Officer A head-on truck auto colllson on highway 101, lorlv miles north ol Eureka, tale yesterday took Uie lllo ol a Navv Lieutenant and sent Ills wile and two young daughters to an Areata hospital. Dead Is Lletiteani James G. Ca hlll, 211, son of Mrs. Jess Knighton of this city. The lamlly hsd visited here for two weeks before leaving Thurit day fur Han Ulego where the navy man has recently been trana lerrcd from Memphis, Tenn. Tile naval olflccr'a car, accord ing lo reports received here, smashed Into a northbound truck that had pulled out ol It lane be cause a car lull ol tourists blocked the rosd ahead. Humboldt County Coroner Lloyd Wallace reported Uie accident. The unidentified driver of the tourist car slowed and alopped In Ihe northbound lane, blocking the road on a sharp turn. Two follow ing trucks were forced to halt and the first one hsd pulled out of lis lane when It collided with the Cahlll car. The officer was killed outright. Hla wife, Nellie Mae. suffered severe head cuta and her right leg was altnosl severed. She wss re ported In good condition lata last night at Trlnllv Hospital, Areata, lollowlng several blood transfus ions. The couple's two voung children, Constance 3. and Anna? 6 months suffered shock. - Mr. and Mrs. Knighton left Im mediately tor Areata. They oper ate 1'st's Csb Bervlco here. Eliingson Loss Set At $35,000 Thursday night's lira at the El iingson Lumber Company planing mill destroyed anproxlmately 4.00, 000 board feet of stscked lumber, according to estimate of R.P. El llnitson. head of Uie firm. The loss wss around 135,000; The lumber burned wss Just about a fourth of the amount slacked on the big yard. Almost Uiree hours of desperate work bv firemen, mill hands and volunteers prevented Uie flames from spresdlng over Ihe entire yard and possibly taking the mill Itself. The mill was not touched by the flames, and could have been oper ated yesterday. Eliingson said. However, the dav waa spent In clean-up work and the plant will be buck In operation Monday. Eliingson snld the fire might have been controlled without too much damage except for a power outage that prevented nutting the mill's electrically operated pumps into ac tion. A limb of a tree crashing through power lines on Riverside knockedotit the power. . Ihe high wind which Initiated the power outago also helped spread the flames through - the stacked lumber and made the Job of fire fighting extremely difficult and hazardous. Equipment from Stewart-Lenox, Suburban, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Oregon Tech and Klam ath Falls (Ire departments and the Oreat Nnrthcn railway was matched against the flames. I proteot existing Klamath business iiu rnnuuibcn iu hi him, m.c area grow through drawing new Industry to the Klamath country. Huccessful activation of this cam paign demands a much larger and stronger Chamber of Commerce, After several gobfeau with cham ber directors, this I the writer's thumbnail picture of Uie directors thinking: The Klamath country Is. and ha been for some tlm. completely out of the lumber boom period. As the lumber Industry has gradually slowed down, agriculture has In cressed so Uiat the overall business volume ha remained fairly steady. But now, business activity here Is mora or lens static . . And there Is little reason to expect any major business growth In the near future. NEW INDUSTRY That la, there I little reason to expect It unless something Is done to attract new Industry. At this point Ihe chamber direc tor' thinking, "Build the Basin" began to take form. Chamber Man ager Frank Tucker ay the need for such av program wa glaringly apparent to him when he first came here. And Tucker deserve a full measure of credit for the directors' action la backing Uie Idea. Such a program as "Build the Basin" Is by no means unique; It la a normal chamber function such as Is carried on bv hundreds of chambers all over Uie nstlon. Why hasn't such a plan been put In clfect here before now? NOT NORMAL The blunt truth Is that the Klam ath Chamber of Commerce has not been a normal chamber. And Uiat la Uie reason for Uie membership drive starling Monday. The Klam ath Chamber, a compared to cham bers In area of similar atxe, ha only about half Uie strength It should hive. This year, for Inslsnce: Uie Klam ath chamber had a budget of 115,- Longview has SJ'.ooo; Eugene, H7.000: Capser, Wyo.. 33,000 , . . and ao on down the line. The writer baa had' quite a bit of experience working with and observing chamber of commerce as a newspaperman In other cities; my reaction after studying the Klamath chamber aetup la one of urprlsa that Uie chamber ha been able to accomplish as much an It has with Uie meager funds avail able. DEVELOPMENT ' "Build the Basin" Is designed to explore and develop all phases of Uie things necessary to Indus trial growth her. But before tht program can be launched with the vigor it should have, thai vigor will have to be supplied by Increased membership ana increased parlicpallon by the existing membership. That 1 about where Uie chamber Board of Director stand at the moment . . . Ready to kick off the membership drive Monday. I Alma and problems of "Build the Basin" will be dlacusaed In articles during tha next several daya.J , . Fund Starts For Cummings Funeral services for little Roxle May Cummings were held this morning. Tha 7-year-old girl died In an early morning fire Thursday which destroyed the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Cummings, Since the tragedy, Klamth peo ple have rallied ti aid and com fort the Cummings family, sending money, household goods, food and clothing. Headquarter for the collection has been set up at the Red Cross olflce In the Klamath Armory, and contributions are being taicen tnere. The Red Cross office, however. Is closed this weekend. In Its place the Yellow Cab Com pany Is picking up donations free of charge, persons wishing to con tribute this weekend mav call 2-1334 or 8171 thll weekend, or 7184, Uie Red Cross, starling Monday. la. "a, Ci S.Q V a.,.,,. iu.. ... - .... T , r T -1MI mJ Flio Fir Cents 14 KLAMATH FALLH, OREGON, HATIJRDAY, JULY 12, 19M Telephone 1111 No. 7M W5ips At War ft V "MV WINNER AND LOSER HANDSHAKE Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, winner of the Republican nomination for presidency, is congratulated with a handshake by smiling Sen. Robert A. Taft, rhe loser. They met at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, shortly after Eisenhower had been nominated. Forest Fires Hit Klamath Torealer were- In the act of quelling- more than 30 amHU forest fires In the Klamath Basin -yesterday and today all of them started by lightning. Modoc National Forest counted 22 fires altogether as a result of Thursday night's heavy electrical storm that thundered across the southern portion of the Basin. All those blazes were reported con trolled. Including one spotted by plane In the Devil's Garden area. The electric storm, abating yes tenlay during the day, picked up once again last night, blasting through Ihe eastern part of Uie county and up through the Klam ath Indian Reservation. The KPPA located one blare last nlirht. and the Indian Sendee was putting down four Isolated blazes this morning.- The Lava Beds National Monu ment reported three small fires. The Modoc Forest's fire tally looked Ilka this; Hsodv Camp district, 8 "res; Doublehead iTulelake) 6 Big Vol ley 4 and South Fork 4. Timher Mountain Lookout, ac cording to District Ranger George Fischer. Tulclake, reported 200 lightning strikes during Thursday's storms. A striae is cuunwru time lightning strikes the ground, and Its point of contact is logged for reference In case a fire follows. Crater Lake Road Opened CRATER LAKE The north en trance highway to Diamond Lake, opened at noon today wllh three miles of controlled one-way traffic, Chief Ranger Lou Hallock an nounced. ' The traffic control Is to continue until 8 p.m. tonight, and tomorrow and Monday the roadway is to op erate from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Tuesday two-way traffic should be underway. Hallock said he would announce the further opening early next The Rim Drive, circumventing Crater Lake atop the lake's rim wav, Is to foci Ihe first snow plows starting Monday, Hallock snld. and probably won't be open for at least 10 days. Heavy snow drifts from the heaviest now year In recent history are blocking the highway. The South entrance, via Fort Klnmoth, and tha West entrance, from Medford, have been open all winter and are In excellent condi tion, the chief ranger reported. A heavy Influx of visitors Is ex pected at the park this weekend, and facilities are In full operation there, Hallock reported. Time Change Next Tuesday's visit of the Red Cross bloodmobtle to set up at Uie Elk's Lodge has had a slight time change, the local Red Cross Chapter office has announced. Time will be from 2- to p.m., instead of starting an hour ear lier aa was previously announced The time wa changed at the request of the Portland Blood Bank, according to Exec Secy. Virginia Dixon. Appointment are being; taken both at the Elks Lodge and at the Red Cross office Phone 7184 or 8181. mMA-mm- Oregoncms in Limelight CHICAOO (PI Oregon' OOP convention delegates headed trium phantly westward Saturday with the political bacon. It was a bang-up finish Friday night for Oregon's 18-vote pro Elsenhower dclegaUon and Uie nomination of Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower found Oregon literally right in Uie limelight. Gov. Douglas McKav. delegation chairman, stood behind Ike on the platform when he came to the stockyards amphitheater to accept tne nomination. McKay was one of the conven tion committee selected to escort the new GOP nominee to the ros trum. When It was all over, the gov ernor presented the candidate a Pendleton wool blanket on which Uie names of all Oregon's conven Uon delegates and alternates were embroidered. Oregon's Sen. Wayne Morse said Eisenhower's nomination "has- re vitalised the Republican party and sustained the sound liberalism that a group of us has been fighting for in tne Kepumican party tor years. We can now march lorward to great victory In November, be cause the Independent voters now have a good reason for voting Re publican." Nine Killed In Auto Crash YAKIMA Wi A spectacular crash of a gasoline-laden truck and trailer rig, a pickup truck and an automobile claimed nine lives in a flaming highway pyre late Friday. Only the father of a family of eight survived and he was in crit ical condition In a Yakima hos pital wllh multiple chest injuries. He Is Lee M. Johnson, 34. who was bringing his wife and six small children back from a swimming party on the Noches River. The wife and five of the children were killed outright In the blazing col lision. The sixth child, Robert, 5, died Saturday. Other child victims were Kathy, 2; Connie, 3; Gary, 4; Jean, 7: and Lee Jr... 8. Also killed In the crash were the gasoline truck driver. Merrill Erickson, 28, of Seattle, and a man tentatively Identified as Donald C. Cnmnbell. 23. Selah. Wash. Johnson was driving a pickup truck. Yakima County Dep. Pros. Don J. Clark said the maohlne loaded with the Johnson family apparently entered the highway directly In front of the gas truck, operated by Eastern Truck Lines. The truck smashed Into the rear of the Johnson vehicle, and the truck, In turn, was rammed by Camubo I s mnchine. The occupants of the Johnson car were thrown helter-skelter on the highway by the force of the Impact. The truck careened out of control, a flaming . torch, and plunged through a concrete bridge approacn and down an einonni ment. Erlckson's body was found In the charred cab of the truck. Camp bell's body was found neor the gas truck's trailer, which did not burn. FIRE A trash fire at 240 Division Street late yesterday called out city fire men who doused 11 oeiore any carn age waa done. Steel Strike Cuts Deeper NEW YORK m Drastic cut- back by - steel-starved manufact urers deepened the Industrial de cline this week. Plant shutdowns mounted with the speed of a political band wagon. As the sixth week of the steel strike ends, more than 1,200,000 employes In industry are out of work. In automobile plants alone there will be nearly 300,000 idle by Monday. Other industry also was hard hit. Layoffs Increased on the - rail roads. Suppliers, railroad car builders, farm equipment makers, appliance manufacturers and pe troleum refiners all suffered In the latest cutbacks. This occurred while the attenUon of much of the nation was diverted by the Republican national con vention. And there was every evidence the worst was yet to come de spite renewed efforts- at settling Uie steel dispute. Estimates of lost steel produc tion have climbed to 12.700,000 tons. Only about 15 per cent of steelmaking facilities were oper ated uns week. Steel users have been forced to live off their inventories, now largely depleted. When the mills roll again, it will take some time to provide enough steel for fab ricators to work on. The - outlook temporarily shook the confidence of the stock market but average share prices rebound ed to hold around tne year's nign. And retail trade remained at about the level of the previous week. Heavy construction contract awards totaled $381,742,000, highest since lost October. . BjjaBJfaMasyiwa jailiinw LHBaaiaiawwwi.w..J jiymPyWy .wwaawyi ffV,.,Te.Jl .nam i ar nnim irahii'iatiriaui inaianinntiawilimM- y i m- '"ffirrinrntm rT it V i'iiiaynrfii"-nrr ' " V" ' CONSTRUCTION HAS STARTED on the new Mt. Lalci Community Church and cornerttone lay. ing cereoniet are planned for tomorrow, 3 p.m. PST. The building should be ready for lervice by lata fall. The sanctuary is being built by Mr. and Mrs. Henry bemon of the Henley district in memory of a son Charles, lost in World War II. Donations of residents of the community will build the Sunday school rooms. Superforts Carry Raids To N. Korea SEOUL. Korea W B-29 Buoer- fortresses took over at dusk Fri day to make an around-the-clock bombing of Communist installa tions In the North Korean capital the greatest Allied air blow of the war. Sixty-five superforts followed waves of fast United Nations flcht- er bombers which left Pyongyang, ine capital, and Its environs In (lames during daylonc raids. More than 1,400 tons of bombs were loosed on the rubbled area In a record 1,254 sorties (individual flights). A record 1.330 sorties a era Inst Pyongyang and other targets Fri day is part of a new "get tough" policy which, began with the anni hilation of key North Korean power installations last month. The old record of 1,283 sorties was set Mav 1. The Air Force called the Pyong yang strike "the largest 24-hour ellort of Uie Korean conflict bv Far East Air Forces on one target area." It came as Gen. J. Lawton Collins. U. 8. Armv chief of staff. arrived in Tokyo for conferences with oen. Mark Clark. U. N. Far East commander, and Gen, Otto f. weylana. Far East Air Force commander, who ordered the air acuon against the Reds. Reds Claim TOKYO Wl The Communist Pyongyang radio said Saturday the United Nations record air strike agaist the North Korean capital rnaay leu in lis wake 2.000 dead, 4,000 injured and 250 missina. The broadcast said an unknown number of captured Allied soluiers in a Red's prisoner of war camp were Killed ana wounded. Kyodo News Service said Uie broadcast specifically mentioned Camp Num ber . Tokyo observers said the Com munist admission of air raid casu alties was the greatest they recal led in the Korean war. The United Nations high com mand said all targets were mili tary installations. The Communist broadcast said tne death tou was heavy among "women, children and old persons.' Sports Bulletins WEIGH-IN Champion Dick Wolfe weighed 1501. Challenger Earl Turner 153Vi in a 1 p.m. weigh-in this afternoon at Dick Reeder's for tonight's Northwest middleweight champion ship light at the Armory. - NO CHANGE PORTLAND m The State Game Commission decided Satur day against delaying the deer hunting season because of forest fire danger. The commission scheduled the season for Sept. 27-Oct. 17 in clusive, the same weeks that were scheduled last year. Earlier the federal forest service had asked the commission to delay the sea son until mid-October. (Early story on Sports page) Work Starts To Repair GOP Unity By JACK BELL CHICAGO I Gen. Elsenhow. er set out Saturday on a Repub lican "shining promise" crusade for Uie presidency. At the side of the 82-year-old general of the Army who won the party nomination by blasting down lour rivals on a sinale ballot Fri daymarched 39-year-old Sen. Richard M. Nixon of California. Hand-picked by Elsenhower and his advisers for No. 2 place on the ticket, Nixon dramatized the new GOP bid for support of the nation's younger people. The CalMornian, a former lieu tenant commander In the Navy, completed an Army-Navy team chosen by Republicans at their 25th national convention. Nixon, waa unopposed for the vice presi dential nomlnaUon. Eisenhower took only one thrill packed ballot to dispose of Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Gov. Earl Waren of California, Former Gov. Harold E. 8tassen of Minnesota, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the presidential contest, FAST ACTION Acting swiftly to organize a cam paign he said will be dedicated "to the shining promise of tomor row,' Eisenhower called available GOP members of congress into a closed conference to discus pol icies. In a colorful take-off for what both he and Nixon promised would be a fighting campaign, Elsenhow er told a crowd of about 10,000 persons who filled only part of the seats in the stockyards con vention hall at the final night session:- 'It Is more than a nomination I accept today. It is a dedication a dedication to the shining prom- ue oi twnoTDW. "To sweep from office an ad ministration which has fastened on every one of us Uie wastefulness, Uie arrogance and 'corruption in high places, the heavy burdens and Uie anxieues which are the bitter fruit of a party too long in power. "Much more. It -is our aim tn give to our country a program of progressive policies drawn from our finest Republican traditions; w unite us wnere we nave been divided; to strengthen freedom wherever among any group it has been weakened: to build a sure foundation for sound prosperity for all here at home and for a just and auie peace in tne world. Aiming at "total victory," Eisen hower said this would include mors itepuoiicans in local and state of fices and GOP control of Congress The nominee promised to make a campaign in "every nook and cranny of this land." He knew, he said, that the battle ahead could not be won by a few or by divided - or uncertain forces. This was a bid for support from die-hard backers of Taft, still bit ter at their champion's knockout. KlVALS f LEDGE Eisenhower's three active but unsuccessful rivals pledged full co operation with him In the cam paign. Said Taft: "I want to congratu late Gen. Eisenhower on his nom ination and assure him I will do everything possible for him In his campaign and after he wins the election." Warren and Stassen also were asked personally to help out and they agreed. MacArthur, the con vention keynoter who got 10 votes pointedly was ignored. He was not an active candidate. Oops.' Wrong One ATLANTA Iffl Alberta Favors, 28-year-old Negro woman, said a strange Negro man entered her apartment Friday night, plunged a knife into her side, looked sur prised and said: "Excuse me, I thought you was my wife." He then fled and she went to ' a hospital for treatment of the wound which is not expected to be fatal. The bewildered victim told police she never had seen Uie man before.