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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1952)
MS? MAW raMlin I'm The rrrffyyn If rr.r nrnfrni n-i, n r - - By FRANK JKNKINH Today's word from Washington! "President Truman Hid this niornlMii lie la eoimlderlng calling mi extra session of coiiureita lo ask lor' a stronger price contrul Inw." It appears tlm I Price Htablllier Arimll line I)1 Uio President Unit prlcea limy got out ol control and skyrocket. It appears also Uial be tween now and Hcpleinher 1 OI'B (Ulllce ol Price Hlablllsellonl inuM rclrnne more than hall ol Ha la.UOO employees In Washington and In about 100 Held ofllces. Could It be that Mr. Arimll (Ilka all itond bureaucrats! looks upon REDUCTION Of IIIH BTAFF a Uie worst calniully tlml could hap pen and wanta lo head It oil? I wonder about tills prlci bind' nens. I auiipone everybuily wonders about It. Intra are an many coil' tuning angles to It, And ao many conlllcting Hones. For example: While all the nulltlolnna aro yell' I iib bloody murder about tlie sinful rise In prlcra (which, they contend, la dinned by the actions ol a wick rd congress that wouldn't hoed Uie wishes ol the President and hi ainiolntlve bureuucralsl the Guar inly Trust Company ol New York, which keep a price Index ol Its own, aaya In lla latent uiiiietin: Uio ueneral level of bnnlo coin modllv. prlcra cnNl'INUKU TO DECLINE durum the 30 dnya end' lug on July lb. The wholesale price Index of Uiln coinnnny lor July Is atanil at 110 a. nhowlnu a decline ol I V pomu IIELOW tho June llg lire, This In llir NINTH CONHKO UTIVK MONTHLY RKCEBSION registered by the Index." The report continues: "The Index numbera (ol whole. Kale prlcra ol banlo commodities! lur .July and comparable months are lollowa: July IBS! 1031 June IMS ... .. 1" I July lllij HO 2 "Eight ol Uie cominndltlrn In rludrd In Uie Index drcllned durlnK the period undrr review, while an equal number advancrd and alx re mained at Uie level reported a month alio." It la at leant worUiy ol note Uiat Ihe bureaucratn who are acreaminK about the RUE In prlcca are poli tician! who seek to discredit the cotiKreaa Uiat wouldn't give thrm more power, whereas the Guaran ty Trust Company, which aaya prices have been DECLIN1NO. la merely aerklni to give Information lor Uie guidance ol the bunuieas nun who are lu euitomera. i tl' the extreme. I don't like to be cyn ical. I'm deeply aahamrd of It. I'd give anything to be able lo led otherwise. But I find I almply CAN'T awallow ANYTHING that cornea out of Washington and IIA8 PO LITIC AU ANGLKS aa Una price business certainly dors. What wouldn't I give lor national leadership that 1 can BELIEVE anil TRUST! But enough of politics. Let's turn for a moment to Korea. The temperature rose to 100 on the Korean front yenterday. Hardly weather for hard fighting. And yet, during a 1 3 1 a hour period, one ad vanced pout on the central front changed hands three times. At the last word, red troops held Ihe po sition. If you think fighting your way up a hill under a biasing sun Isn't hot and desperate work, Just' try It aome time. Add to the heat Uie lact Uiat at any moment you may be out down by a oommle bullet or a splinter from a commie shell or a commie hand grenade. But our boys over there do It. Thrv do It unhesitatingly. They KEEP ON doing It. I can't help thinking Uiat If we on Uie home Iront would tacklo our problems In the same spirit that our boys on Uie lighting Iront tackle theirs we'd soon have every- thing running smoothly and effi ciently. . Koreans Elect Syngman Rhee FUSAN, Kores W Aging Pres ident 8yngman Rhee waa swept back Into nlllce by nn overwhelm Ing majority In nearly complete unofficial returns from the Ro publlo of Korea'a first direct elec tion of chief executives, i nhee's choice lor vice president Ham Tal Yung, a little known Presbyterian minister piled up a commanding lend over eight op ponents In Into returns from Tues day's election. The 77-year-old Rhee puttered In the garden of his palatial presi dential residence in Seoul as the vote count, gathered over police communication cbannels, assured his return to office for tour years. OLD SIX-INCH WATER MAIN pip ft being replaced now with a 12-inch main, accounting for the deep ditch which hat been put in S. 6th between Main and Klamath thit week. Next Mon day the dltcSii to be extended aerott Klamath Avenue and en to Walnut Street. Carrier Jet Plane Blast Kills Nine WASHINGTON WV- An explo slou ol a Jcl plane abuurd the U.8. currier lloxrr In Korean waters killed nine men and Injured an ununiiounci-d number uf others, Uio Nuvy reported Thursday, Twelve Jet planes were destroyed by raging ilrcs that followed the explosion. Helicopters and llloboiils picked up 03 crewmen driven overboard by the flames. A Naval olflcer said the explo sion occurred oil llio count of Ko rea Tuesday night. Hie !f7,000-lon currier normally carrion a crew of 3, IKK) officers and men. No enemy action was Involved. 'Ilie olllcer who reported the la lallllrs enld he did not know how many men were Injured. lie said damage lo the ship was comparatively slight. Just what canned me Jel plane to explode was not known, officials SBKI. It Is believed that an accumu lation of gasses built up after a land, cuuned the blast. 'Ihe plane at the time was on the hsngur deck. The fire which followed was de scribed as "bud." NAMK.H W1T1IIIKLD Niimrs of Ihe deed were with held pending notification ol next of kin. The nine dead Included one ol llcer. Ilie Nuvv said thul a sinter snip, the lion Homme Richard, will take the place ol Uie iioxcr in Korean operations. Ilie itnxer is 4o procera to ine NavaL base at Yokusuka, Japan, lor repairs. 'mo commander oi me ocvemn Fleet has ordered a court ol In quiry into the disaster. ine court investigation wm pruo- ably begin soon after Uie carrier reaches the base. The Boxer played s prominent role In World War II. At Uie start ol Ihe Korean war It crossed the Pacino in eluhl days and seven hours with what was believed to be Uie largest number ol planes ever earned on a carrier. It also net a Pacllic record oi seven dsya and 18 hours on a re mm trlti In Kan Frsnclscu. The carrier began a Uilrd lour 01 Korean duty April 1. Jets Continue Air Victories SEOUL. Korea. Ml The U, 8, Fifth Air Force said Its Bnbre Jet pilots Thursday shot down lour Russian-made Jets and damaged five In the fourth straight day of let bailies over North Korea. On Uie ground, grenaoe-unsing South Korean Infantrymen won back a Cenlrul front height called Capitol Hill three hours alter they had lost II at dawn. A U. 8. Eighth Armv brteitng olllcer said 11 was the sixth lime In two days Uiat Uie ateep hill had changed hands. Thursday's toll of Communist Jets boosted the Reds' losses to 16 MIOs destroyed and It damaged In lour days. U. S. losses, II any, will be announced later In a weekly summary. One MIO was shot down and one damaged In two battles near the Ynlu River around noon. Two more were destroyed In a buttle near StnulJu. Sabres shot down one and damaged Utree In a clash south of StnulJu In North west Korea. Fiercely chanting Chinese troons backed by heavy artillery lire seized rugged Capitol Hill about 6 a.m., after losing about 200 dead and wounded. But soldiers of the South Korean first regiment swept back up Uie rugged slopes. U.N. artillerymen and warnlunes helped keep Uie Communists at bay. Tlie sec-saw battles for Capitol Hill were fought in sweltering heat. Wednesdsv was the hottest day ol the year 106 degrees at some places on the from. X-RAY BOX SCORE Yesterday .................. ..1,029 To Date OHO Goal 14,000 Tomorrow'a Schedule: Honnnia pcstolfice. 1 to 8 p.m., I'ST. - .... Q . - Price Fits Cents 22 Pages KI ' Til FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1951 Telephone Sill No. ZS90 : . . Report Tells Damage of . Steel Strike WAHIIINOTON I A Defense Mribilixutlon report, censored be fore II was published, suvs 25 mil lion mun-uavs oi work were lost In the steel strike, knocking mili tary production a whole year off Its Hi Hie. Ilie renort to President Truman was mode by Acting Defense Mo bllir.er John R. Sleelinan. who re leased excerpts Wednesday alter deleting secret data. utceimun estimated 25 million man-days of work slloned bv dor- mo- the Idleness of 600.000 striking sieei workers. fitoppsges In sleel-uslng Indust ries before the M-dav strike was settled boosted his total of idle to peruana Muo.000 men. "The effects of Ihe ateel stoo- page will be felt heavllv lor the next three to six months." steel- man said, "and will not be com pletely worked out of the military promicuon program lor an entire vear." DELAY PROGRAM He added that the lmnact will delay the planned program lo step up production ol many major Items. Ha estimated steel output this vear will be about 93 million tons. 11 per cent below 1951 and Uie lowest since 1919. There were some bright spots, I. The new T-48 medium lank Is now rolling off the assembly line. 2. lolul warplnne output contin ued unward, despite the strike. 1. Serious loss of perishable foods was avoided. Aside from the military phase of mobilization, the report also said: 1. After removal of price ceilings from many Items, no commodi ties climbed as high as the celling level. 2. Easy-payment credit reached a new high ol tl1.3O0.0O0.O00. The report also said that draft calls, now running about 30.000 a month, will Jump above 50.000 In October and stay that way until June 30, 1053. Blaze Rages In California EUREKA. Calif. W Firefight ers battled Thursday to keep under control a raging 600-scre brush and timber fire near Klamath. Mora than 250 men. using bull- rfn.nr IntiV t,mlr an1 hinH Innta are fighting the blare which broke out Monday during logging opera lions. Bert Lewis, state forestry headquarters dispatcher at Fortu ne, said all available equipment was being rushed to the area In an efiort to encircle the lire, centered about six miles southeast of Kla math. The blaie was reported almost under control Wednesday. Eagles Plan Blood Drive Hie Klamath Falls Eagles Lodge is to sponsor the next visit of Uie Red Cross bloodmoblle here Tues day, Aug. 13, and 225 donors are needed. The hours this time will be from 4 p.m. to t p.m., with the blood unit operating at the Eagles Lodge. It is lor Eagles, members of Uie Auxiliary, families and friends. The auxiliary Is to act as hostess group, and will handle Ihe canteen according to Uie Red Cross office here. Eagles are recruiting donors and appointments may be made either with them, or by phoning the Red Cross at 7184 or Mrs. Madeline Swaney, blood chairman. at 3213. f Sr i ! 1 ' - 'l '-f ''.' J I '. afca'.aLwir- Build the Basin No. 2 Pollution Problem In Klamath Lake May Be Solved By Fish By WALLACE MYERS Wanted: A battling game fish with a voracious appetite for blue green algae. This angler's delight should also have a healthy liking for tempera tures In the Upper Klamath Lake. Such a fish could very well make Uie big lake one of the world's top resort and recreation meccas. Upper Klamath Lake, with a 94 mile shoreline is the largest fresh water lake west of Uie Rockies. Few readers of this paper have to be told that it Is one of the most beautiful bodies of water In Uie enure nation. uui mere is one nig mult; an over-abundance ol algae has the lake water resembling something asm to cneap restaurant soup. II you have a queasy stomach a close up view of the murky green water Bobco Starts Street Work The Bobco Paving Company yes terday started work on its Job of repairing Klamath Falls streets. The comDanv. which went into business Just about Uiree months ago, has located a plant at S. 6th and Washburn and was low bidder on Uie city's street-patching Job. its price was sie,5'o. city Engineer is. A. (Tax ) Thomas said the contract with Bob co for Uie work has not been signed yet, but the company was notified to go ahead with Uie work. Tho contract was held up while the new firm obtained equipment lo enlarge Its mixing plant. Thomas said the work may take about two months. Street work Is late this year be cause tho city went through the procedure of calling for bids twice, the first time getting Just one bid for the repair work and the sec ond time Just two. Another big loo now underway is the replacement of an old six- inch steel casing water main run ning along S. 6th from Main to Walnut, being done by the Oregon Water Corporation. Tho old Dine in the block be tween Main and Klamath was In stalled in 1909 and In the next block down in 1910. It is being replaced, with 12-Inch cast Iron mechanical Joint pipe, the first of that particular type used here by Uie water company, and will tie In to a 10-Inch main at Walnut Street. Graham Brothers la doing the excavation, with Fred E. Seuttcr operntlng the power shovel, and Ralph Nelson is loreman on Uie Job for Uie water company. At the alley between Main end Klamath the excavation had to be put down about seven feet to get under a concrete tunnel nesting Una owned by Consumers. Heat ing Company. teeming with undulating algae might give you an uncomfortable urge to oop. If you'll pardon the expression. Eating fish taken from the lake In the summer usually makes one long for a nice steak. Strangers with a yen to swim take one look and decide to go hiking. And on Uiese warm days, persons living and working near Uie lake are wont to go about wrinkling tneir ouenoed noses, TERRIBLE You may have the idea by this time that algae are terrible pests. Not so. The tiny blue-green marine plants may be pesky in the Instance ol Upper Klamath but they're not undesirable pests; on the contrary, algae is very necessary to healthy lish and larger marine life. Big trouble In Uie Upper Klamath Is Uiat we have way yonder too much of the stuff. It Is of Uie utmost Importance that nothing be done to hurt the lake's fish and wildlife value. The lake is a vital link in Uie Pacific Flyway, the migratory route trav eled by ducks, geese and other fowl. Certainly, nothing must be done Uiat would seriously disturb tins natural pattern. PROBLEM The situation Is one of the tough est problems confronting Klam ath County Chamber ol Commerce. Question is: how can Uie algae in tlie lake be reduced to an inoffen sive qunntity without harming fish and wildlife? In cooperation with state and fed eral game experts and sportsmen, the chamber has been wrestling with the problem for several years now. Chamber Mgr. Frank Tuck er has accumulated voluminous flies of correspondence and pamph lets gathered in consultations with scientists at various colleges and universities. Until a recent letter came from an Oregon State college professor, all effort toward solving the algae problem was centered on finding some chemical that would econom ically and Inoffensively reduce the algae to the desired degree. There aro chemicals that will kill Ihe algae. Best known of these is copper sulphate, often used In irrigation ditches; trouble is ih this one that it also kills just about everything else in the water. Most desirable of the chemicals now seems to be a concoction labeled "2, 3 dlchloro naptho qulnone " Research by three University of Wisconsin prolessors, Dr. Folke Skoog,' Gerald Serloff and George Fitzgerald shows that this tongue- twlsUng solution will effectively re duce algae content without harm ing anything else in the water. But the stuff Is expensive . . . expen sive lo the point It would cost at least, i50.ooo a year II used in Upper Klamath. In the midst of all this chemi cal talk. Prof. R, E. Dimick, head Introduction of fish and wildlife management at Oregon State, has dropped an entirely new Idea. This has to do with Uie game fish with an appe tite for algae we mentioned at the beginning of this piece. Let's forget about expensive and experimental chemicals for Uie nonce, says the professor, and try and lind a good game fish Uiat win eat Uie algae and also provide anglers with a new sporting foe. The professor's suggestion Is so intriguing Uiat the chamber chiefs and their iriends are at the mo ment in something of a dither. Wouldn t it be great if some fish could be found that would thrive on Upper Klamath's water and algae and further be a battling challenge to anglers? Sounds almost too good to be possible. And maybe it is but ti uie cnamoer's enthusiasm holds, we're going to play this theory to Uie bitter or sweet end. RESORT CENTER Because of Its location and size. Upper Klamath Lake could easily become a resort center Uiat would make Sun valley look like an over- site motel. Is our enthusiasm run ning away with us? Well, let's take a look at what we would have texcept for Uiat pesky algae): Plenty of room for any number of resort hotels on a beautiful lake surrounded by majestic and pic turesque mountains, year-round resorts, with water sports In the summer and unlimited winter sports, boating, fishing and swim ming at the front doors, skiing and bobsleddlng at the rear doors. Granted It's only a dream us vet but certainly not the type of fan tasy that comes from an onium pipe. The chamber of commerce is tro. Ing all-out on Uie idea and we suggest Uiat you not scoff your neck out too far If you're a Doubt ing inomas , , , This dream Just might come true. Where's that FISH? Lhds Write To Saucer Drivers SOUTH BEND. Ind. Wl This address on a letter stumped Post master Frank C. Kettrlng "Mars- men, Planet Mars, In care of Mars rosunucc. In the letter, two South Bend boys asked the men of Mars wheth er flying saucers come from their planet. "If they do," the letter said, please send one down and tell them to land in South Bend." The bova had even thought of foreign postage complications. A note on the envelope satd: "Balance of postage to be paid by Marsmen." Greek Army Opens Fire . On Bulgars BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. oT L'nlted Nations observers on the Greek-Bulgarian fron tier said Thursday that big forces from both countries are ready for action. They said the situation is "very dangerous." ATHENS, Greece OH Greek troops opened fire Thursday morn ing on Bulgarian soldiers on the Greek-claimed border Island of Gamma. In the Evros River, Uie Greek general staff announced. A communique said the Greek fire from machmeguns and mor tars was not returned by the troops irom Greece s soviet satel lite northern neighbor. The attack began at 8:30 a.m. (An Istanbul dispatch said that a top Turkish official at Adrlan ople, Turkish border town 10 miles from Gamma, reported that Uie firing continued for about an hour and a half, stopping around 10 a.m.) The attack came after Bulgarian troops had been noticed on the island during Wednesday night, the announcement said. COMMUNIQUE Earlier the general staff had Issued a communique saying no Bulgars had been seen on the island after expiration of an earlier Greek ultimatum demanding Uiat all Bulgarian troops quit Gamma by 8 a.m., Wednesday. Press dispatches from corres pondents in the area, written after the expiration of the ultimatum but apparently prior to the Greek at tack, said those on the Greek side of Uie frontier still could see uie Bulgarians on the Island. Thursday, army announcement said the United Nations peace sub committee was present when the Greeks attacked and Uiat Just prior to opening fire, the Greeks warned the Bulgars by loudspeaker. BULGAR ATTACK The Island was the scene of a Bulgarian attack on a Greek pa trol July 27. Three Greek soldiers were killed. Reporting the incident to United Nations headquarters, the U. N. Balkan sub-committee condemned the Bulgarian action. (Greek diplomatic sources In Is tanbul described the incident as local, one of a series of flare-ups in the area over the past live years. The Gamma dispute arose wnen Uie Evros changed Its course. The Greeks insisted the boundary re mained Uie same. The Bulgarians arirued it shifted with the river and part of Uie newly created island was theirs. The Evros rises in Bulgaria southeast of Sofia. It flows alone the Greek-Bulgarian border and the Greek-Turkish bor der and finally Into the Aegean sea.) McKay Denies Long Reprieve NESKOWTW. Ore. W Got. Douglas McKay will not commute the death sentence of Wayne Le Roy Long and the convicted killer will die Friday morning in the new state prison gas chamber at Salem. McKay, vacationing at t n l s beach resort, said he would let Uie law "take its course." He said he understood Dale Ja cobs, Long's attorney, was com ing here Thursday to appeal for a commutation, but Uie governor said "the answer Is no." The only time a governor has authority to use executive clemen cy in such a case is when he finds Uie convicted man has not nad a fair trial or new evidence is un covered, the governor said. "Long had a fair trial and there has been no new evidence,'1 Mc Kay added. Informed of McKay's stand, Ja cobs agreed that Long had been given a fair trial but said he would make the trip here anyhow, be cause we leel we owe it to Long to make this one last etfoiy." He said no court appeal was planned, and Uiat his request to McKay would be made on the grounds that Long might become a useful In mate at the prison. Long, who has made many un successful attempts to escape, was convicted of the murder in June, 1930, oi waiter KucKer, a Port land carpenter. He killed Rucker to get his truck, used later in Uie robbery of an east side branch bank. Long was wounded and captured by FBI agents as ne tied. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Fair through Friday. High Friday High yesterday . Low last night 63 0 17.29 12.43 14.84 Freclp last 24 hrs Since Oct. 1 ., NorniBl for period ... same period last yr (Additional Weather en Pare I.) President Yants New Control Law WASHINGTON W President Truman said Thursday he la con sidering calling an extra aesalon of Congress to ask for a stronger price control law, . He told a news conference that no decision has been made, but he has Uie matter under consider ation. If It Is necessary to call a special session, he declared, he 'will call It. A decision will await develop ments, he added. Truman declined to comment on reports that Ellis O. Arnall is pre paring to quit aa price stabilizer. Arnall went to the White House Wednesday bearing his resignation, effective Sept. 1. and a report to Truman that food prices again are rising sharply. Arnall said he told the President It may be necessary to call Con gress pack into special session "If food prices continue to get out of hand and skyrocket." CONCERNED The nrlci Ivmk nM Truman "was very attentive he said he was quite concerned about mj fiamg prices. Armttll rAaA , V. n . 1 , j . -" win. lie BISO U18- cussed with the President "Uie ln- auequate controls law written Just before the end of the session of Congress." A mflU said he tciwaimA ).. act is "very weak aue to crip pling amendments." Amonir llwu f-r.tr, v.- tioned the decontrol by Congress. vi iruiis ana vegetables In raw and processed forms. fice of Price Stabilization (OP8) ., u" WIU" ne called an effective Job because of a slash by Congress In Its operating funds. Between now and Sept. I OPS "just release more than half of its 12.000 employes In Washington and In about 100 field offices. SKELETON CREW "With V.l.t. - . ..... the Job (of Inflation control) Just can t be done," Arnall eaid. i""1.1 sald 1,6 toW President iood prices increased a record 1 V, tv usiween June IS and July 15. He said that even after the Ko rean outbreak food prices went ud only one per cent a month. Among factors affecting the In crease In Uie cost of living. Arnall jsaid. Is the widespread drought In ""'" "wa wmcn is anarpiy re- """'"it supply ox xresn xrutts and vea-etahlMi inw Mn.h,- v . I said this will create shortages. nam ne aiso reported to Tru man Ihftt hlo-hAr m-lpa MillnM steel, copper and aluminum will tend to force living costs up. On the subject of the drought ef fects th V.Unn.l t-n , Sociatlon ealleH Ai-noll' n,(i-ii.- of shortages in canned foods "ri- UICUIOUS. Carlos Campbell, the associa tion's executive secretary, said there Is every indicaUon the 1953 pack of fruits and vegetables, plus a large carryover from the 1961 nack. will insure fttvnte.nnrm.1 supplies. Campbell added that prices ap- nflttntltf hnv ntohlliMrf nrl (h,l canned foods are celling for about 7 Vi per cent below price ceilings In effect before Congress decon trolled these foods. Cake Named To Ike Siaff DENVER m Ralph Cake, for mer Oregon Republican national committeeman, Wednesday was named to the personal staff of Gen. Eisenhower, GOP candidate for President. Cake, who arrived here Wednes day to begin the assignment, will be an aide to Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, chief of Eisen hower's political staff. The Oregon man was a p re-convention backer of the general and took part in campaign strategy conferences after Eisenhower re turned from Chicago, where he was nominated. Cake was Oregon committeeman for about 12 years. He did not seek re-election this year. 9 O'clock Spatial ' ! f VERN BRONKEY, 2251 Gar den, Standard Oil 'truck driver, greets the- 9 o'clock Photographer thii morning. m 'I
