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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1952)
Tbrawi Draft (Sgwjs aaaaBBBBBBBBjjpajpjBaBBseas 1 By FBANK JKNtlNI Governor Btevrnaon has bran liicllni( a rugged couple u( days in WaKhliiglon. 1 uao ill urd "ruuued" advlnodlv. 'rjecuuae I'm pletly aurt ll' the on bed una i liiniHil to describe hi asperiencc (hero, J They brouiitit in Uia DlK Wheel! nl Um tl department, and tho 111k tlun at the Pentagon. Ilia lata department atrlprd punt told lilm all abuut their foreign policy and huw wonderful It la and Ilia 'alar-spangled delegation (ruin Uia ronlnHun explained Uia Kureaii war to him. Tliav Riiva tlm buy Irum the Illinois uurnllxlda Ilia boll clll ol all tlielr knowlcduo. And then . Alter the group esnlun Ha hud a dial Willi PRESIDENT TKUMAN. What transpired during Hie chat la a ecrel tin red only by Adlal . and Harry. 'Micro were no rent ers present. Ilia network radios had no microphone In the room. No television cameras wera on the lob. It Isn't regarded aa political ly kosher to Invada the privacy ol men tete-a-tetea- Bo wo can only ue what took place. Hut Kliortlv afterward "While House alilea" disclosed that from now on President Truman will probably maka about BIX talks in KEY areas, Thev described "key" areas aa arena In-which III President's style li calculated to do the most liood (and the least harm! lor can didates Truman wants elected to CONGHE8H. These White House "informants" added that Truman DEFINITELY 111 not make ANYTHING LIKE his S5( speeches In the 11141 cam ps mn. Poor Harry I There noes his whistle, stop tour The trip he hsd set ao much store by. The one be told the delegate in Chicago he. was all set to mske as tha ollncher that would Insure another New Deal-Fair Deal term of power. All he i to be allowed to do la to make a measlv half dosen "ad oressea" NOT the rip-roaring, Klve-'cm-he!l Jeremiads he loves. And In these "addressee" he Isn't to be allowed to mention Bteven aon. All ha is to bo permitted to do la utter a few polished, cultured nhrasra on behalf of candldalea HE WANTS ELECTED TO , CON GRESS. They did that to Harryl To tho dauntless little nun who In 1048, Hiving tm hell at the whistle stops from Uie back end of the train, drained ehlnln victory out of the mucky depths of tha Democratic Slough of Dei, pond. One can only aav with Lear: "Oh, Ingratitude: thou sharper than a aerpent'a tooth I" Well. In politics one hat to pleas the customers. Pack In l48. the customer want' ed RAW MEAT. Dewey wasn't Hiv ing It to them. Ekceut for his mir aculous, unexplalnable, never-to-be-forgotten week in Oregon, about all lie was doing was handing out polite, stuffed-aliirt platitudes, Why I'll never know. He proved in Ore gon that he could talk turkey with the best of them, but the minute he crossed the Oregon line- out bound he quit talking turkey. 1 suppose his political advisors told him he had It In the bag, anyway, so why rock the boat. In the closing days of the cam paign, Harry went out and fed 'em the raw meat they wanted and the Tesult Is history. Rut thst was be fore the mink coat era of the Fair Deal. The mink coat era proved to bo rawer than the customers could take. , Bo now, I presume, the Idea Is to sppenr before the customers in a different guise, The guise Is Ste venson polished, urbane, cultured, tolersnt. moderate. Olvlng 'em hell at the whistle stops Is OUT. No more burleycue. Strictly high class drsms this time. That's politics for you. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California! Partly cloudy with mountain thun derehowere tomorrow. High yealer day M, low last night 67. t',ow tonight W..H 57 High tomorrow HO Preclp yesterday 0 i Preeip alnce Oct. 1 17.SB - flame period laat year ............. 14.84 Normal for period - ..... 12. 47 fL uh..'V . ...laWjjlilititifc'aAi.ili.i! IniilUllil , SKYWATCHER Mrs. Glarlvt V . 7 .. . r , of Aircraft which may be i potted from ground observation pott located at her homo. Air Force Sargaants R, E. Ledbetter and H. R. Whaatloy provide tha technical pointi as Kiamarn ground Wbiervation AXEL FLOREN, local contractor and house builder, hai re ceived patent No. 2,603,260 for a shock abiorbent hammer. The typ h it ihown damonitrating her hat tpring handle beneath th grip wrapping. Everyday Hammer Gets Set of Shock Absorbers by IIAI.K tiCAKIIROUGII The hammer, that Indispensable Instrument, hasn't undergone much baalo change since some enter prising Stone Ah man first fitted a rock to a pronged stick. Bo maybe a change is due. ' Axel Floren. Klamath Falls carpenter-contractor, has come up with sn Idea for sn Improvement he hopes will find favor with tool manufacturers. KF Skywatch Plan Develops An Intensive organisation o I Klsinslh's ground observation corn got underway here yesterdsy with Air Force representatives as sisting Oround Observation Direc tor Wallace Ilced In a county-wide plan to revltallso "Operation Bky watch" here. - Air Force But. R E. Ledbetter and 8m. H. R. Whcnllcv. here from Porthind, have been looking down town Klamath Falls over for one, well-placed location lor a ground observation post. iney expntm me worxings oi me "Operation Skywatch" aa ncce.v ssry to nil out America's air. de fense detection. According to Bgt. Whealley, radar Is elfectlve in moat cases, but It can be electronically Jammed by the enemy, and It may not cover areas bidden behind mounliilns and oilier obstructions, or at low elevntlons. He tmld each radar operation Is hlirtilv expensive and demands lots of manpower. Generally, the ra dar net at prenent covers most areas, but small spots aren't get ting mil coverage consequently me the ground observer corps of the Civil Air Defense program. Reed has been working for some time to enlnbllsh a smooth-working operation, but locations cited by the Air Forco some time ago had caused difficulties. Reed culled for help to the Air Force, and Whcutley and Ledbetter were sent In. The two men have a 24-mlnute movie film which they would like to show to local aervlce organisa tions, clubs and other groups by appointment. Schedules mny be made bv phoning Reed at 8059. Tonight the two sergeants will speak before the Olene Orange, and tomorrow will ap)ear ocioro Keno Boy Scouts. Tho public Is Invited to both talks. Next week they will show tho film Tuesday at Fort Klamath, and Wednesday at the Midland Orange. All Interested per sons rany attend. Ervtn. Q4fl Pracnact. tt ehnelfArj Aiit .- - - j ., uiraetor Wallace Keed looki en. He has patented a shock-absorb ing hammer. One of the occupational aliments which plsgue carpenters is that of having a sore hand and weary arm alter a day of hammer swinging. It Is this complaint Floren thinks he has licked. He ha taken an ordinary est wlng hammer, the type which has an Integra) head and shsnk (forged Irom one piece of metal) and built-up grip of leather or some other non-metallic material this type of hammer being popular in the trade in that It does away with broken or warped handles siki naa installed a shock absorber in the grip. Ordinarily each blow of a ham. mer transinta a shock through the handle bito the user'a hand and ud hi arm. The heavier the hammer or harder the impact, the more uie snock.. A day of that Isn't much tun. even for a carpenter who 1 used to the work, and It's the sort of thing thst rapidly takes the Joy out of being a handyman around the home. - - - Th idea of Floren's invention, If It con be called that, Is to gather in the Impact shock as the ham mer Is used. He has three different Ideas for shock absorbers, all workUig on roughly the same principal to give the shank of the hammer a little flexibility underneath the grip and to let the flexibility and a cushion pad the shock. All three work, Floren says. One Idea Is to put the shank of the hammer under the grip In a sheath ol rubber. Another Is to fit the butt end of tbe shank Into a cap ol robber. The third Incorporates a steel spring between tho shank and grip. The theory of all three Is that Hie shock is transmuted from the hammer head up through the shank and is absorbed- by the rubber cushion or the spring. The 47-year-old Floren, a native of Sweden, uses a 20-ounce ham mer; one heavier than Is usually found around the house, and says his shock-absorbing device has proven Itself In his work. He says he got the idea about 15 years ago but Just got around to putting a shock-absorbing ham mer together five years back. His present model Is home-made, ex cept for some machine shop tool ing, and Is the type with a spring beneath the grip. Some time ago Floren applied for a patent, submitting details of each of the three types of shock cushion, and finally he has re ceived it. Now he is looking for someone to produce the tool. An vsrinut 4unat nA tnnAttW (!-- - Jespfe Price aO, 1 Pagra o New Rioting Breaks Out In Egypt CAIRO. Egypt ll Some (.000 rioted near Alexandria Wednesday, killing five persons and wound ing eight others. Egyptian army headquarters Im mediately oracxed down wiw a warning that any more such dis turbance would be treated as "high treason." The rioting broke out at Kafr El Dawar when textile workers tried to act fire to a big plant and clashed with poUce. The riot was staged in protest against low pay. APPEAL Tle army broadcast an appeal lor "complete calm and tranquili ty" and added that any more up risings would be considered trea son "and the full penalties provid ed by; law applied." Earlier Wednesday the chief of Egypt's Moslem Brotherhood said that his powerlul political organi zation would oppose any de fense talks with the West while Britain retains her hold on the neighboring Sudan and . the Suez Canal zone. The Brotherhood's "Supreme Guide." Hassan El Hodelby, an nounced this stand in an interview shortly after the Egyptian cabinet set up seven committees armed with sweeping powers to clean up public corruption dating as xar back as 1939. The latest eovernment action was viewed by inlormed sources as the results ol pressure ior a swiii crackdown from Egypt's military power, MaJ. Gen. Mohammed Ma gulb, and the army. SUGGESTION Premier Alv Mnher had suggest ed the nation's political parties be given time to purge tlielr own ranks, but so far the powerlul Wald party expected to be a chlct larRet of the graft cleanuphas kicked out only six minor party members. The Rovemment also issued a de cree setting progressive Income tax rates that reach as high as 80 per cent on income of 50,000 Egyp tian pounds ($144,000). The now rales become effective next January on incomes earned during 1952. Wiley Urges New Policies ' ROME Wl A call for a re newnl of bi-partisan foreign policy was made Wednesday by Son. Al exander Wiley, ranking Republi can member of the Senate Foreign Relations Cominlllcc. He Is mak ing an on-tlic-spot survey of Eu rojie. ' The Wisconsin Republican would become, chairman of the key For eign Relnllons Committee if the Republicans win in November. Before leaving Washington, Wiley urged President Truman and Sec retary of State Acheson to resume bl-pnrtlsan contacts on foreign pol icy during the campnlgn period. Ho expressed fear that the So viet Union might "mistakenly" feel she could sntcly act when friction between Republicans and Demo crats Is Intensified by campaign ing. Acheson said such a proposal was Important, but passed on to th White House any action on the Idea, ''ptaSB y ypw Packer 1 futJr7f : KLAMATH FALLH, OREGON, WtDNEHlMY, AUGUST 13, 1852 Build The Basin No. 5 Meat Packing Business Crowing Basin Industry By WALLACE MVEBS If you keep both feet on ' the grouua you can't see a giant meat packuig plknt In the Basin very soon; but you can easily, visualize a far larger meat packing volume than now exists In the Klamath. Country. It appears hope Is springing too often In Basin breasts for Swift, Armour or some other of the meat packing greats to locate a huge plant here. It's not an entirely emp ty hope. The future might bring in one of the big outfits. But for the time being it seems we should peg our interests to smaller Inde pendents. Sizable installations such as now exist at Salem and Albany are a great deal more feasible here at present than whopping layouts of the swift-Armour magnitude. FAST GROWING Don't go crawling oft In a cor ner for a quiet cry over this situa tion. Meat on tbe hoof is a big and fast-growing business In the Basin. And there Is every reason to expect meat packing to become a major Basin business bolstered by the usual meat packing subsid iaries, tanning, fertilizer, etc. We have two fair-size packers operating here now and a third was burned out by a plant fire several months ago. Fertilizer and leather work apparently have a secure If small foothold and are slowly climbing. However, we're still slaughtering only a small percentage of our cattle here at home. County Agent Charley Henderson gives these off-the-cuff estimations; of 68.000 head In the Basin last year, 38,000 were X-Ray Drive Said Amazing X-ray takings yesterday dropped off slightly, but not enough to cause concern among technicians here who have been undergoing a fairly heavy deluge of work since a com plete X-ray survey of Klamath County came here. They tallied a total of 355 X-ray takes yesterday 171 at Klamath Basin Pine Mills and 184 at the Homedale Grocery. The total brought to nearly 7,000 the number of takes made in the county since the survey began last month. It is to continue through September 35. . Dr. Gordon C Edwards, acting director of the State Board of Health's tuberculosis lection, said here yesterday there has been an amazing response to the program so far in this county. Meanwhile, a new technician, Phil Young, Portland, has been added to the tech staff here. The moble X-ray unit Is in Gil christ today making retakes, and goes to Madras the next day. Next Tuesday it will be at Klamath Agency for regular shots and more large-sized retakes. The retakes are a double check on abnormal shadows which may appear on the first X-ray pictures. Dr. Seth Kerron, Klamath County's health officer, reports about four of every 100 pictures taken show up some sort of abnormalttes, but that doesn't necessarily mean tu berculosis or other chest disorders. X-RAY BOX SCORE Yesterday ' S5& To date 61174 Goal '. .24.000 Tomorrow' Sohedulei Louie' Grocery, 3543 Summer Lane, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rrfusa sold and 6,000 were slaughtered In th Basin. Most of the rest of tha sales were in th Bay area. FEED GOOD- '' In the matter of feed, a vital part of livestock business, the Ba sin Is in a rosy condition. We have an unusually high protein grass . . grass so good that many of our cattle are fed out for slaughter on grass rather than grain. J. D. Ver trees. Extension Service feed agent pooh-poohs as old-fashioned any no tion that for good meat cattle must be fed out on grain. A steak from a beef fed out on our good Basin grass is as tasty as one irom any corn-fed beef, Vertree says. This doesn't mean that we cant feed out our Basin beef on any thing but grass; we can supply plenty of barley and potatoes for feeding out if the need arises. We can and do feed out on both bar ley and potatoes and we have even imported corn a few times. However, "Morrison's Feed and Feeding," most honored authority on stock feed, rates good grass the equal of corn. POTENTIAL The Klamath Country has the po tential to become one of the na tion's real livestock empires. Ar mour, Swift and the other meat giants are well aware of this And the Klamath County Chamber ot commerce isn t allowing them to forget it. From correspondence with the big packers, the cham ber knows that the big outfits have meir eyes on tne uasm . . . .uut they are not ready to come in here yet. The Big Boys now operate In the roruand ana san rrancisco areas. County Agent Henderson sees very good reasons for them to remain in those locations for some time. In Portland, for instance, packers can draw on the Washington, Idaho ana Montana ranges wim. a lavor- able downgrade for shipping. The one big ray of hope for the future of major packing plants in the Basin Is our location as regards consumer markets. This is an old story you ve likely heard many limes oeiore. Bui you sim ply can't think of the Basin's eco nomic future without basing a lot of your hopes on geography. Look at this meat packing ques. tion wis way: as matters now stand, San Francisco plants supply urban areas in the Bay section and 'Portland plants do likewise in that section. Both, of course, ship to outlying areas until the circles of their trade areas meet or over lap trade circles of other packing points. , , HALFWAY Klamath Falls rests approximate ly halfway between Portland and San Francisco. Since Big Business Is prone to make "big ones out of little ones" whenever economically feasible, isn't it reasonable to as sume that some day the big pack ers might decide to consolidate Portland and San Francisco plants in this central location? Right now, it's important to keep that picture vivid in our minds so we won't be caught napping when Opportunity taps on the Basin door. We now have something less than halt of our vast Basin land under production through irrigation. In round figures, the Basin now has some 260,000 irrigated acres. There is another 350,000 to 300.000 acres awaiting irrigation. We have the water to make these other acres productive. Question Is, will we pre vent someone else from draining off our surplus Basin water before we get around to using it ourselves? It might seem a long jump from meat parking1 to Irrigation water but It's actually only, a short hop. 1 1 Telephone ill! No. 2855 Marines Cut Off Enemy Attack Try i, SEOUL, Korea W . V. 8. Marines Wednesday night threw back a strong- third Chinese coun terattack against Bunker Bill on tne Korean western Front. A Marine spokesman said for an hour and 10 minutes 750 Red troops oauiea uerceiy out xauea to pene trate positions of the Marines fighting from prefabricated bunk ers. Flares dramatically lighted the sky. Marine and Communist ar tillery roared through the dark ness. Chinese sniper and artillery fire began building up at dusk. It reached its peak at 9 p.m. Five minutes later the Red troops charged up the slope. Marines met it with a hall of rifle and machine gun blasts. Marines captured tne ridge early Tuesday morning. That night the Chinese threw 400 men against the Leathernecks. ASSAULT BROKEN Early Wednesday morning a Red battalion about 750 men hit the hill again. The assault was broken at dawn. The Marines said Chinese losses were "very heavy." A Chinese Red broadcast from Peiping said the U. S. 45th Divi sion had been pulled out of the Chorwon sector on the Central Front "after losing over 8,000 men." There was n o immediate confirmation by U. S. Eighth Army headquarters. The commander of tne Marines In the Bunker Hill fight, Maj. Gen. John T. Selden, said the strategic ridge overlooking the Panmunjom truce talks site "is Marine terri tory now we certainly are going to hang onto It." "x i tit r , ' i '7 ' ; " ' V CAKE BAKERS The boys are supposed to da the food pre- i. paring for a tort of church social to be held Thursday evening at the First Methodist Church by tha Methodist Youth Fallow. '.' ship. These cooks are David Haddock daft), 1528 Wilford, .. and Ernest Dennis, 5300 S. Etna. ' Dun Hove Based On Manager Campaign By HALE SCAHBROUGH Mayor Bob Thompson once again haa declared himself not a candi date for re-election to that office. but the question is: How definite does a refusal hava to be before It's a refusal for cer tain? There Is a feeling that Thomp son atlll might be persuaded to stand for re-election on a platform of quick action to provide Klamath Falls with the city manager form of government. About 10 days ago Thompson an nounced that he would not again be a candidate for mayor, that he had neglected his business for four years to serve the city and couldn't MET8KER FILES County Assessor Oils Melaker early thla afternoon filed aa a candidate for the city police Judge's Job. ..Wilbur B. (Red) Whitcomb was the first to file for post and Frank A. Blackmer, now serving aa police judge by City Council appointment, ha an nounced be would also file for election to the office. In the pri mary election, Metaker sought nomination for re-election as as sessor bat was defeated by Tom my Hess, afford to continue, spending tbe time away from his business tha city office requires. rresumaoiy tnai should Cava . thrown the gates open to several persons who are known to be think ing oi running tor mayor them selves and waiting; for a little en couragement. -But none came out. Late last week an ide& tvim to try to draft Thompson for. an other four-year term, and to cou- pio mm witn a campaign to revise the local government to take on a city manager. PUBLIC OPINION Thompson Is an advocate of the city manager plan, and so are a majority of members of the City Council, Arid ior the past few months publio opinion; has been swinging fast to the idea that adop tion of the manager form of gov ernment would be a good bet for Klamath Falls. While this draft fnnvemanf. picking' up speed, Thompson and his family were away on vacation and didn't know anvthino- shout tt That is, until yesterday afternoon. a reporter irom the Herald and News finally reached Thompson by telephone at a Seaside, Ore., motel, and sprung the draft idea on him. Thompson's first reaction was to say "no" flatly, but as the con versa tion went on the refusal didn't seem quite so flat. The mayor declared himself ful ly in support of the manager plan and said he would work to get it up to a vote as soon as possible. But, he said, the job of being may or of Klamath Falls is just get ting too big under the present set up for him to entertain the idea of tackling it for another four years. WIFE'S VETO His business won't allow It, Thompson said, and Kathleen, bis wife, won't either. But ... if there was a city manager ... So the question Is: How definite does a refusal have to be before it's a refusal for cer tain? The 1952 style in politics is to be coy and decline to seek the nomination. That's how Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Gov. Adlai . Stevenson, the Republican and Democratic candidates for presi dent of the United States, worked it. The deadline for filing Is Aug. 20, and Thompson is due back in (Continued on Page Four) (fame (1 1 JiM.V5i-
