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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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Telephone ill!
No. 2855
Marines Cut
Off Enemy
Attack Try
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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."
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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
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