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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1952)
Ml mm INI sqaha mm a r"S ''"''''' ,''.'; "f ,"'''5 'v';- ' By FltANK JENKINS lrra-we-KO-KBln not: "Tim Democrats are streaming Into Chicago ui iioimnula iici dcntial candidate In convention they forecast will be HOUGH, HUGGED. nd WIDE-OI'EN." That's wonderful and I MEAN It. Wnoorelv, no Tongue-in-cheek business. No aecret hoping that they'll net Ihemsalvea marled up In a ol tight that will aend them homt clawed and bitten and bitter ly angry at each other. That would make It eaay for Uie Republicans, but Hie last IhliiK on artli the Republicans need thin year In an EASY campaign. If Ue la to win In November, with a Re- Cublicun house and Itepublloan mu le behind him, It can come about onlv II EVERYBODY who believes in him and brllevea In what the Itepublloan parly can and WILL do under hla leadernhlp gel out and worka and votea a nobody hna worked far a Republican victory In half a century. That won't happen If those who would like to aen Ike In the While Home and Republican majorltlea In both houses of congress Ret the Idea ll'a In the ban. Bo I hop Ih Democrata will (rave Chlcauo at the end of next week with their ticket headed bv the bent men they've got and Willi everybody lull of fight. Only In that way can we get the kind of pollllcul campaign we NEED In Uila critical year of decision. If the Democratic national con tention of IU&3 really u. "rough, ruaued and wide open," It will be wonderful becaune for two decade! Democratic, conventions haven't been thai way. They've been RATIFICATION meetings. The nominee ha a been known In advance. The btulneaa of the delegatea haa been merely to put their OK on a declalon already made AT THE TOP. When that waa done, thev broka up, ahook bands and went home. There are elirna that It won't be that way thla year. I think that'a all to the good. Parlv conventions that are nothing more than ratifi cation meetmia lead In time to DYNASTIES. Dvnaatlca and democracy don't mix. For the first time In four con vention I9U. 1M0. 1W and ma there will be CONFLICT at the Democratic national convention that wilt assemble In Chicane next week. Conflict In the sense that there will be present LEADERS WITH FOLLOWINOB. Thla vear It Isn't known In advance who will come out on top. Jo the past It bus been known, . Thai will out COMPBTITION back Into the Democratic conven tion. Competition la a ood thing both In buslnesa and In politics. Thla foreknowledge that there IU be competition In Chicago next week haa resulted In alx avowed candidate Senator Kefauver of Tenneso. Senator Ruaaell of Oeor la. Senator Kerr of Oklahoma. Senator McMahon of Connecticut, Vice-President Berkley of Kentucky and W. Averell Harrlman of New York. In addition, there U Governor Stevenson of Illinois, who Is saving that he won't volunteer but hasn't aald he will refuse to be drafted. That Is enouKh competition to In aura a Democratic convention thai will be nulla different from any in the past. Here's a hunch: WATCH KEFAUVER. On one thing every delegate In the convention that will assemble In Chlcauo next Monday morning can agree with every other delt- "'Thev all wnl a winner. Not onlv are philosophies of government at aiake. MILLIONS OF JOBS will be l slake. Every federal Jobholder want to keep hla Job. Each will know that hla Job will be In Jeo pardy If the Republicans win. There may be conflict of Ideas on other points, but on that point there J i complete harmony. Everybody wants a winner. Winning requires vote. , Bo no matter what the politi cians may think of him, don't write Kefauver off. Whatever It la, he HAS the magic Ingredient It takes to get votea. I'd 1lk to add that even Harry Thuman can't be written off. in advance. This convention that Is going to assemble In Chicago next week Is going to want; first of all, a winner, and If a situation arises In which It appears that Truman Is the most certain winner he will be the nominee. It's Improbable, but not lmpos alble. Bloodmobile Here Tuesday Klamath Elks, their families and friends, are to backbone, tomor row's drive for blood donations dur ing the monthly visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile here. The bloodmobile la to set up ahop at the Elks Lodge, Main and 3rd Streets, starting at 3 p.m. tomor row and will continue to fake don ors until 6 p.m.' The entire top floor of the Klam ath Elks Temple has been set aside for tomorrow's affair, and Red Cross officials are expecting a rec ord turnout of donors. The Elks parking lot, behind the lodge. Is to be reserved for donors' aulos, and a nursery for young, alers Is to be operated. All Elks and members of their families 18 to 59 years of age are eligible to take the physical ohook which precedes actual blood dona tion, though those under 31 must have the consent of their parents. Though the appearance of the bloodmobile hero thla time 1b pri marily for Elks, Red Cross offi cials have Indicated they will wel come other who want to oner blood. .,: , Ike Seeks New Leader For Drive By MARVIN AMtOWHMlTII CHICAOO, 11 Oen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower, the Republican presi dential nominee, aearched Monday for a new campaign manager after reluctantly letting Ben. Henry Ca bot Lodga of Massachusetts step aolde. The general also made ready to leave by plana Monday night for Denver and a vacation. He and Mrs. Elsenhower were slated to Inks olf alter arrival of their son, Ms). John D. Elsenhower, and his wlla from Highland Falls, N. Y. It will be a farewell visit with John, who la leaving soon lor Ko rea. ' I.odge'a retirement from active direction of the general's cam- fialgu had been expected. Elsen lower said he agreed to the move "only because I attach the greatest Importance to hla re-election to the Senate." STATEMENT v Hie general aald In a atatement Sunday night that Lodge who sue ceanlully directed Elsenliower'a bid for the OOP nomination had In formed him he want to devote as much time as possible to tha Sen ate contest In the Bay Suite, where Rep. John Kennedy, a Democrat, Is seeking Lodge's seat. Elsenhower also announced, how ever, that Lodge will continue to have close contact with the gen oral's campaign as chairman of an advisory committee. At the same time, the general officially added to his staff the exe cutive assistant of Oov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, James C. Hagerty. HAGERTY Hagerty will serve as Elsenhow er's press secretary. He also was Dewey's presa man In tha New Yorker's IMS presidential cam paign, and he had an Important role in planning atrategy whicb won the GOP nomination for El senhower last Friday. Oilier appointments announced by Eisenhower amounted mainly to assignment of formal titles to men who- helped direct the cen Hal i pre-convenllon campaign. They Include Arthur H. Vanden berg Jr., son of the lata aenalor from Michigan, as executive assist ant; Sen. Frank Carlson of Kansas aa an advisor: and Thomas E. Stephens another Dewey man as appointment secretary. Also named as sn advisor waa Sen. Fred A. Beaton of Nebraska who had an active role In the late stages of the general's campaign for the nomuiatlon. BROWNRLL Herbert Brownell Jr.. Dewey's presidential campaign manager In 1948 and' a key figure so far1 In the-Eisenhower camp, conferred with the general for two hours Bun day, Afterward, Brownell told news men at Elsenhower's Blaokstone Hotel suite thai he waa returning to his New York law practice but Intended to keep In cloaa touch with the general by phone. As for replacing Lodge, Elsen hower aides indicated the general will make no Immediate decision. They aeem to feel that for the present strategy will be .handed mainly by the general's present staff and by the new chairman of the Republican National Commit tee. Arthur F. Summerftcld of Michigan. Change Set For X-Ray There has been a change In meet ing place for one of several health x-ray organisational meetings scheduled In the county during the next few days. A Bly meeting, aet for Wednes day, 3 p.m. CPDT), Is to be at the home of Mrs. J. Kendall In stead Of the home of Mrs. n.va Campbell, as previously announced Men Needed For Skywatch WASHINGTON Ml Civilian volunteers manned watching posts over the northern United States ivionaay in a round the clock vIrII against sneak air attacks but there were big gaps In the warn ing screen. As more than 150,000 citizens plug holes In a radar network, the Air Force said It needs at least 360,000 more. The, shortage was quickly ap parent. Volunteers showed up at only half of Ohio's 630 observa tion posts. One out of five of Mlchlgan'a 50 posts was manned, with only three out of 13 operating In Detroit. About half of Rhode Island's 34 watching spots were filled, but only one was capable of 34-hour coverage. At Bangor, Me,, Mai. John B. Craig aald the operation Is "not going according to plan. People are Just not Interested." He added that some lookouts are not manned and at others observ ers are remaining on duty 10 to 13 hours. At Manchester, N, H., nerve center for most of New England, officials said there were "many big gaps" with all stations under strength except Boston, which was over staffed. President Truman backed up the air watcher reorultlng drlva dur ing the week-end with the atate ment that every citizen who co operates is helping to prevent the War none of us wants to happen." The President said It was com mon, sense, precaution In this new age In which hostile forces are known to possess long 1 - range bombers and atomto weapons." , Pointing out that avery possible se-'bnd .of warning before an. at tack would save lives and vital facilities, Truman- aald: 9tm L fries live Centa 13 Steel Men Turn Down Co. Offer PITTSBURGH I A spokes man for the CIO United Steel workers reported Monday striking Uh'W leaders regarded the steel Industry's new peace offer as un satisfactory. Company executives tossed the 43-day old walkout Into the Union's lap over the weekend by saying they had made auniestlons for ending the Work stoppage and were waiting for tha unlon'a answer. No formal answer has been forthcoming. Bui a union source declared: "I think It's obvious what our reaction la unsatisfied." The union declined to confirm reports Murray Is debating sum moning hla wage . policy com mittee here about Thursday or Friday to make the formal de cision against accenting the un disclosed company offers. nr.iiuiiAnur The latest negotiations hit a snag after Industry reportedly proposed a watered down version of the union shop tcompulsorv union membership) and other undis closed suggestions for ending the defense-economy crippling strike. An Industry atatement aald: "Those suggestions are still under consideration by the union. There are no definite arrange- tnenla for further meetings." Top steel executives left this steel capital Sunday after an ap parently fruitless meeting with Murray. U. 8. Steel Corp.. Bellweather of Uie Industry, asked the gover nment for a steel price Increase Saturday. This Immediately aet off Uie weekend talks between Murrav and the Industry. UINPUTF. This la the crux of the dispute: Murray wants a union ahop. In dustry la willing to go along on a modified plan If the govern ment grants a price Increase. The union shop In Its conven tional form, requires all workers, old or new, to Join the union. one modification ot uie union shop already has been made part of various contracts signed by tha USW and several small steel com panies. . That plan allows workers, who muat Join the union, to withdraw between the 30th and 30th day of emnlovme.nl. The union shop version now re ported to be before the union for approval Is considered a still fur ther modification of the traditional union shop. It was learned the government has agreed to a price Increase of at leaat 15 a ton to compensate the Industry for wage increases It mav grant striking sleelworkers. Sleel now sells for about (110 a ton. Morgan Stays As Demo Head PORTLAND I Howard Mor gan of Monmouth will continue aa state chairman of Oregon Demo crats. Ho was unopposed for re-election at the groups' meeting here Satur day attended bv Democrats from 33 counties. In the only contested election for the too four party posts. Mrs. Oladys Last, Portland, defeated Mrs. Margaret Cawood, Portland, 31 to 36 for vice chairman. Volney Martin. Portland, was re - elected secretary and Dexter Fairbank, Portland, was named treasurer. Among speakers at the meeting was George Sheridan, chairman of the Pierce County. Wash., cen tral committee. He urged Oregon's 13-member delegation to the Demo cratic convention at Chicago next week to support Sen. Warren G. Magnuson of Washington for the vice presidential nomination. Monroe Sweetland, Oregon's na tional' committeeman and a dele gate, appeared to reject Uie sug gestion when he said: 'Because of a variety of commitments, the Western states are unable to get together on candidates but we all get together on issues common to us all power, reclamation and the admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states." Sweetland said he considered the Oregon delegation Pledged to Sen. "Estcs Kefauver of Tennessee not only for president but should he fall to get tne top- nomination lor vice president. i . Sweetland. who left for the con vention Sunday, said he had ap pointed C. Glrard Davidson, for mer assistant aecretary of the In terior and now a Portland attor ney, as his alternate. Gene Conklln., another delegate, joined Sweetland at Pendleton for the trip to Chicago, They are driv ing. Fatal Heart Attack Told DUNSMUin George L. Peres. 53, New Orleans, suffored a fatal heart attack on the S.P. railway depot platform here Sunday short ly before noon. Peres, on a vaca tion trip with his wife, was travel ing on train No. 13 and had gotten ofr the train here witn nis wne to walk about on the station platform a hit. Peres wan art employe of the Texas and New Orleans railway. Page KLAf. Ike My Visit Ethmmh Planes Hit Front Line Positions 8EOUL, Korea, i United Nations warplanea unleashed with ering assaulta on Communist frontline positions Monday In one of the heaviest close-support davs In weeks. U. S. Sabre Jets probably de deslroyod one Russian-built MIG 15 and damaged another, the Air Force said. In MIG allev duels. Air Force and Marine fighter -bombers swept low over the hills and bombed, rocketed and strafed Red positions near Yonchon. Pyon kang. Kumsong, the Punchbowl and the East Coast. Other Air Force fighter-bombers with planes from the Marines. Australians and Republic of Ko rea, hit supply areas behind the front. RUBBLE LEFT The Air Force said the strike rubbled tiO troop ana supply bunk ers, levelled 28 gun positions and destroved one self propelled gun. four mortara and one vehicle and Inflicted at least 33 casualties on Red troops. In the aerial battles, two Babre lets on a flight of the fourth Fighter - Interceptor wing were Jumped bv alx MIGs over Slnullu and a 38 - plane Sabre flight of the 51st wing tangled with eight MIGs. Sporadic ground fighting center ed on the rugged Eastern front where Allied troops seized a stra tegic hill after a three - day battle and held It In the face of an hour and a half counterattack by North Koreans. INFANTRY ATTACK ... The hill, a few thousand yards from the East Coast, fell after three days of . Infantry . assault. naval bombardment and air strikes. U. S. carrier-based planes Sun day again bombed generating fac ilities at the Kyoscn nyaroeiectic plant, in East Central North Ko rea, one of four big power com plexes attacked heavily by U. N warplanea last month. A navy announcement said the Kvoson facilities were being re paired when Skyraldcrs and Cor sairs attacked them the second lime. Ashland Fire Kills Three ASHLAND. Ore. (jPI A house fire which followed a birth day party early Sunday caused the deaths of three children. They were Roy William Mars- ton, 11, Sharon Lee Decker, 10, and her brother, Sidney Marcus Decker, 9. The Decker children were at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Mc- Brlde Saturday night for Mrs. Mo Brine's birthday party. She Is the mother of the Marston boy who died In the Sire. The Decker children's parents had given them permission to stay overnight at me Mcuriae nome. The fire apparently broke out In the downstairs living room of the two-story frame house at about midnight. The McBrlde's, sleeping downstairs, said they did not awake until part of the front sec tion of the upstairs where the children were s 1 e e p 1 n g was ablaze. They got out but were un- aoie io save uie cnuaren. C. W. Litwlller, deputy coroner, said the children probably were smothered by smoke before the fire got to them. Their bodies were charred beyond recognition. The fire spread for a consider able distance In the tinder - dry brush which surounded the house. 'Zero Hour' Drive to Seven-thirty this evening Is "zero hour" for the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce's "Build the Basin," an all-out campaign to bolster business In the Klamath country. .,.' A meeting Is slated for the Wll lard Hotel ballroom and the cham ber wants all county business men and women, chamber members and non-members, to attend. ' ' Tonight's get-together is the most Important step yet taken in the chamber's long-range plan to strengthen existing businesses and draw new Industry to Klamath. "Build the Basin" has been In the shaping stage for several weeks Now. it is an all-embracing pro gwim aimed at the many problems confronting Klamath's business growth. It's going to be a big? Job, a whale of a Job If done properly. And It's going to require a much larger and stronger Chamber of Commerce than exists now. As compared to other cities ot similar size, the Klamath chamber Is, at most, only about half the site U iP ; .OON, MONDAY, JULY 14, 4E far m, ft IKKaa. " T S 2- eaaaaaaaass- IjtV 41 - . . . .IfJA M SS'fi. S T.i-I korea J&M?xoukmMei LAND BASED PLANES and aircraft from navy carriars struck many parti of North Korea in what tha army officials called a devastating close support action. In addition, army bombers continued raidi on military targets in North Korean cities. Hitchcock Lauds GOP Choice; Raps Taft 'Machine' Action By HALE 8CARBROUGH Regardless of whether the Re publicans win or lose in November, they did what was fair and right at Chicago, says Phil Hitchcock, Klamath Falls state senator who attended the GOP national conven tion last week. Hitchcock was an altamate for Howard- Blll) Dent Jr , of The Dalles, an elected delegate, and also was an Elsenhower man. "I never had an Idea." the sena tor said, "of the ruthlessness of political machines . . . but the tenor of the convention from the very first conflict (over seating contested delegates) was that If the Republicans were to go before the people In November they had to repudiate the things the politi cal machines had done." Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio Was the candidate of the so-called Re publican machines, but he lost out to Gen. Dwight Elsenhower at ev ery vote on the convention floor. The Eisenhower people. Hitch cock said, based their efforts to block and repudiate the Taft back ing on a basis of morality, lnte- Knife, Cars Busy Police Thirty . two arrests on misde meanor charges were made by City Police over the weekend, and a felony count may grow out of one. The arrests included 20 for drunkenness, five for trafflo law violations, six for being drunk and disorderly, and one for vagrancy. A 33-year-old Mexican, Louis Gonzales of Algoma, was booked tor being drunk but may face felony court action for stabbing another Mexican, Jose Sanches, 49, of Lena. Sanches was stabbed In the right shouMer Saturday night during a scuffle at the PasUme, allegedly growing out of a card game. He was treated at Klamath Valley Hospital and later at the City Jail identified Gonsales as the man who cut him. Gonzales had been picked up at the Kanteen a short time after the fight. Sanches said he would sign a felony complaint against his assailant. Tonight in Chambers Bolster Business Here should be. That's the problem that is going to be tackled tonight. The meeting is designed as a klckoff on a broad membership drive. "Build the Basin" will be ex plained tonight and any business persons who do not now belong to the chamber may boost the better business campaign by Joining the chamber tonight. Special teams will be formed in each ot nine business divisions to go out and seek new members. Two leaders, known as "majors," will head each membership team. The nine divisions and leaders are: Agriculture, Fred Rueck and Paul Dalton: automotive and trans portation, Charles Bane and Bob Mest: construction, Ed Robinson and Carrol Colvln; finance, utili ties, manufacturing and wholesale, Moon Mullis and Russ Johnston; hotels, motels and restaurants, Earl Russell and Charles Schuss: professional, Adolph Zamsky and Larry Brown: real estate and In surance, John Blaylock and John Sandmeyer; retail, Noel Flynn and 1953 w NORTH . KOREA WON SAM grity and honesty, and the conven tion in the end did the thing that was right. Another Klamath Falls represen tative at the GOP convention. Mrs. Marshall Comett, was put under tremendous pressure by the. Taft people. Hitchcock said. . but she sleadily refused to go slang even at the prospect or becoming some thing of a Republican boss In Ore gon ... If Taft won. She argued that the people of Oregon had made their choice, picking Eisenhower, in lost May's preferential primary, and she couldn't turn her back on thai choice. Mrs. Cornett is GOP" national commltteewoman for Oregon. Hitchcock said he was very much impressed by the people who were doing the fighting for Eisenhower and in the way they were able to beat back the efforts of the machine-type politics attempted on be half of Sen. Taft. "I don't know whether the Re publicans can win in November." Hitchcock said, "but at least we did the right thing at Chicago." Controls Off Canned Goods WASHINGTON W The gov ernment Monday lifted controls on nearly all canned and frozen fruits and vegetables. Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall pre dicted this will mean higher prices for a number of items. Arnall noted In a statement that the Office of Price Stabilization was forced to take the decontrol action under an amendment - Congress tacked on to the economic con trols law. The amendment, introduced by Rep. Harrison (D.-Va.), specific ally exempted "fruits and veget ables in fresh or processed form from price control." The exemption actually, oecame effective June 15 but OPS officials had been studying the field to de termine how broad the exemption should be. , An OPS official estimated the exemption applies to at least 90 per cent of all processed fruits and vegetables. - William Payette: service and di versified, Alice Vitus and Marlon Grant. - : The Klamath chamber, never anything like a full-strength organ ization, now has only 425 participat ing firms and professional men. There are 1,423 business units in the city limits alone and chamber wise observers say the member ship here should total at least' 1,000. "Build the Basin"' could be the biggest thing that has ever hap pened to business in the Klamath country. Thus far, Klamath busi ness has more or less drifted along on an uncharted course. This new Chamber of Commerce campaign Is aimed at putting Klamath busi ness on a definite course and work ing toward goals bringing new In dustry here. Yesterday, many city and coun ty ministers delivered sermons in conneotlon with "Build the Basin." The day was officially dedicated as the First Annual Civic Sunday, following a suggestion by the Cham ber of Commerce. . Telephone sill No. 2869 Legion Asks Nominee To Convention By WALLACE MYEBS There Is a strong possibility Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower will visit Klamath Falls late this month. Tne Republican presidential nom inee has been Invited to come here in connection with the state Amer ican Legion convention and Ike's headquarters reports the general is -very mucn interested. The Legion convention I to be gin here July 25. Legionnaires here today oulcklv pointed out that the Legion is non partisan and that Elsenhower had been Invited aa a fellow Legion naire. , However. If Eisenhower does come here, there is a strong like lihood the GOP standard bearer will step out of his Legion role long enougn lor a political speech. Klamath Republican leaders to day asked Gov. Douglas McKay to add his weight to the Klamath Falls Invitation. Meanwhile, the Associated Press was attempting to obtain a positive answer from me general. Eisenhower said In his accep tance speech at the Republican convention that he expected to vis- It "every nook and cranny" of the nation before next November. It appears a Klamath Falls visit during the Legion convention would oe a gooa cnoice ior several rea sons: First, more than 3,000 Oregon Legionnaires and their guests are expected to be here for the con vention. (If ' Ike does decide to come here, that number would no doubt be greatly increased.): . Second. Eisenhower's- running mate.. Sen. Richard Nixon, is a Califorrnnn aixr the proximity of the California line would certainly draw a big turnout from Califor nia: - Third. Oregon has been one of the general's strongest supporters. The 18-member delegation to the GOP convention was strongly pro Eisenhower throughout the conven tion and Governor McKay, because of his staunch backing of the gen eral, was honored as one of those selected to escort Eisenhower to the speaker's rostrum for his con vention acceptance speech. Added to all tnat is tne tact that Elsenhower has to select some starting point for his presidential race . . . And It might as well be Southern Oregon. - Reds Request Truce Recess MTJNSAN, Korea W Secret Korean armistice talks were re cessed Monday at Communist re quest, raising speculation that the deadlock over prisoner exchange was nearlng a enmax. The Red requests for a two-day recess was made 3 1-3 hours before the truce delegates were to meet at Panmunjom for their 11th con secutive secret session. No reason for the recess was an nounced. The Communists last asxeo ior a recess July 3 after listening to a lengthy review of the U. N. com mand position.- The next dy the Reds proposed a new plan for settling the prison er controversy and asked that it be discussed to the secret sessions which began July 4. The full truce delegations will meet again at 11 a. m., Wednes day Two Communist letters were de livered to the U. N. command by Red liaison officers. One protested the killing of one Red prisoner ana wounaing oi sev en others In a POW camp in South Korea last week. The second letter demanded an accounting of 4.391 captured Reds listed by the International Com mittee for the Red Cross but which did not appear on the U. N. com mand Dec JO list OI pnsoneis. More Heat For Oregon By. The Associated Press 1 a u-a n'D on m in the. Pacific Northwest Monday with temperatures around 100 degrees forecast for Oregon and Eastern Washington. Weather observers said Western Washington also would catch some of the heat, although the high read me there is not likely to be over 90 degrees. rne iorecaaiers saia incrmume- mlnht pllmh tn 102 ricrra in Western Oregon, and 100 In East ern Oregon ana wasningion. It Is expected to continue at least through Tuesday. The Oregon state forester said most logging operations were working Monday, although some closures might be necessary be fore the end of the dav. No fires Iwere reported. Youth Killed In California VoodsFire A young Forest 8erv!ce fire fight er lost his life Saturday battling one of at least 81 blazes started In thla general area by lightning during the past few days. Robert M. Irwin Jr., 18. Sebasto pol, Calif., was killed Instantly Sat urday about 6 p.m., while working with a crew fighting a fire on the Shasta National Forest about 30 miles northeast of McCloud. Paul Friday, fire control aide at the McCloud Ranger Station, aald young Irwin was killed when caught oy tne tailing lop of a burning tree. A first-aid expert was parachuted to the accident scene but Irwin was dead when he arrived. LIGHTNING The lightnlntr fires have kent fire fighters in this section of South. era Oregon and Northern Califor nia working at top speed since early last week. Hardest hit area has been the Shasta forest with 38 blazes, two -of them along the Pit River still being battled today. All the fires except the two on the Pit River have now been con trolled and all have beea small' blazes, with little acreage loss. .. The Modoc National Forest has counted 35 blazes, the Klamath Forest Protective Association 10, Klamath Indian Reservation seven and the Rogue National Forest has had only one. Several "sleeper" flreg are be lieved to be smouldering and look outs are on full alert at all stations. Cahill Rites Set July 17 Full military honors will be given by the U.S. Navy at final rites July 17 for Lieutenant (Jk) James Edmond Cahill, 39. long-time resi dent of Klamath Falls, killed in. stantly Friday in a truck-car col-, lislon near Areata. The commitment service will be In Golden Gate Military cemetery, San Bruno, where his father, also a navy man is buried. Lieutenant Cahill, was born No vember 3, 1933. in San Francisco, came to Oregon with his parents ai uie -age oi live years and alter a brief residence in the Rogue Riv er VaUey came to Klamath Falls. He graduated from Fremont school and from KUHS in 1941 with high honors. He entered the service in October 1941 and during World War H saw 30 months combat service n the Fljr Islands and tha New Hebrides. He expected to be sent to Japan In the near future. Naval officials, following the ac cident that took his life, stated that Lieutenant Cahill was a. brilliant of.icer with a promising naval career. He had just completed 30 LT. (jg) JAMES E. CAHILL weeks training in electronics in Memphis. Term., and was enroute to his home base at San Diego after spending 10 days here. He was the only child of Mrs. Jess Knighton. The Knighton's left for Areata immediately upon re ceiving word of the accident. - Mrs. Cahill, a former resident of Birmingham, Ala., was critically Injured. Her right leg was nearly severed and she suffered multiple cuts and other injuries. Her infant daughter, flve-rponths-old Ann re ceived a brain concussion and a three-year-old daughter Candace also was hospitalized with less se vere Injuries. They are at Trinity Hospital, Areata. The accident occurred on a curve on Highway 101 north of Areata when a logging truck attempted to pass a carload of tourists parked In the traffic lane. The Cahill car was struck when the truck careened across the highway. The lieutenant Is survived by his immediate family, his mother and step-father, Mr and Mrs. Knighton his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Anna Ford. Klamath Falls, and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mar garet Cahill, San Francisco. , Weather FORECAST Kamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Fair through tomorrow except for scattered thunderahowers In moun tains. Low tonight 60, high toraor row 90. High yesterday 8 Low laat night M Preelp yesterday . ...... Precip since Oct. 1 -...17.11 Same period last year 14. 84 Normal for period laf"" -at -, f a : r
