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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
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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.
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W5ips At War
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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.
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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. .
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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.