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By THANK Jb'NKlNH
Hi big nw Ihli morning In the
reoiganUatlun that eiipnar lo bo
under way In die Soviet govern
mini. 1 don't kuuw what II iiieuni,
Hut I'm pretlv aura ul thin much:
11 doesn't meun any lDfcALlBTlU
t'hamio lor the butter, '
urn bm communist who are do
lull Iho lonhultllug (whatever It In)
mo In power. They nron't uoIiik to
do anything lo iitit Uieiiunilvnn out
ul powor or to THIN DOWN Urn
power they hold (In too lew hands.)
llrro'n a guess:
Old Jon la koUIiik on III ycura.
Thorn have been recurring rumors
that Ilia health Isll'l too Hood. Mai
enkov la amorally regarded tbo
fair-haired boy to aucccrd Stalin.
He's only to. At DO, h baa a lot
ol touub and comiwlrnl (and prob
ably bloody ) years loll. At 7u-odl,
Ihe aand In Blalln'a hourglass la
running low.
It Isn't Improbable llial the So
viet limousine It being readied lor
a new driver.
Thry arem to be making quite
a tc-uo ol It which la strictly In
lh pattern, The critical hour In
dictatorship la the hour at which
one dictator BUCCKKDH another.
Then, If ever, there la danitrr that
the dlaaldrnt elomcnta may atcp 111
and cause trouble.
The Idra, powlblv, la to organize
Iho chaniie ol drlvrra ao smoothly
and ao elllclrnllv that there will
be no chance ol a ruckus among
the WOULD-BE DRIVERS.
H haa, of courae, Ha sinister as
pects (or ua.
Why do thev want a new driver
NOW? Why not let Old Joe djo m
peace?
Do they think war may be near?
Do thev tear Stalin la too old to
run another war7
Aro thev readying a new and
younger leader In advance?
Thev call thla business they're
cooktiur un an "all-union congress
of the communist party." The laat
n waa In 1030-and 1039 waa a
YEAR OF DKC1810N. In 1939.
World War 1 waa coming to the
bollmr point.
Do the communist leadera of Ru
aia Uilnk World War 1 la approach
ing the the boiling point? la that
why they're calling another all
union eoniraaa of the communlat
party?
I dnn't know.
I doubt If anybody outalda Mos
cow knowa,
But thla I WIBH:
I wish our leaderahlp waa such
that we had Ihe lump on Bum I a
tnalead of Ruaala having Ihe lump
all the time on ue. It COULD be
that way. We're the greatest In
duatrlal nation on earth. Modern
wara real upon a foundation of In
dustry. Il la 1NDUHIKY that turna
out the machines and Ihe weapons
with which modern wara are won
and without which thev CAN'T be
won, '
We have the machines and the
Industrial organltalion to turn out
the machines. We have able, brave
and oompetent people. We have the
technical know-how to do the Job.
But our Icadaxehlo haa been fuv
ay and uncertain. At any given mo
ment. Ruaala haa been abla to put
Ihe bee on ua Inatead of ua being
able to put Iho bee on Ruaala. Ev
ery new move that Ruaala makei
FRIOHTEN8 ua.
It shouldn't be thai way.
We should be calm and CONFT
DENT Or OUR 8TRENOTH. We'd
be that way If wo had leaderahlp
we felt we could trust and were
willing to follow.
Paste thla In your hat:
Oettlng that kind of leaderahlp
la the big Issue of thla campaign
vear of 195. Beside that Issue, all
others fade Into Insignificance.
State Travel
Record Due
PORTLAND of) Tourist travel
probably will reach a new hlfth
In Oregon Ihla year, a Portland
Chamber of Commerce official
said Tuesday.
V. A. McNeil, director of the
chamber's visitors' service, said
more tourists were In evidence
than ever before, aome 100 Inquir
ing for Information dally, com
pared with ISO a day Inst year.
He also said highway officials
estimate tourists trulflo Is up on
all major highways In Uie stato,
exoept the Columbia River route.
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TALLEST? The- new Pacific Supply Co-op elovstor, S. 6th
and Spring Stretti, may ba Iho new topper In Klamath build
ingi. II ritei 106 feet above Ihe street level. The picture above
4 wai mapped from the catwalk which carries grain and other
produce from the elevator to the railroad loading. chutes.
Farm Price Question May
Again Be Political Football
WAHIIINOTON W Will farm
R rices become a major Issue on
ow (miners vole for President
this year?
Pour years ago at thla lime,
thry were a red lint political toi'lc
Secretary of Agriculture Hiannan.
had already taken nut aller the
Republican controlled 50th Con
gress, blaming It lor a sharp down
turn In grain prices.
The HrunnsM campaign has been
credited with a major role In ob
taining the Midwestern farm sup
port that hrled I'rraldenl Truman
win his uet victory over Oov.
Thomas E. Dewry.
Insofar as prlrrs are concerned.
Ihe history of 1048 la being repeated
lo a considerable extent thla year.
Farm prlcea as a whole aa
well aa prlcea of many Individual
farm protlucla are lower now than
they were at this time In 1948 and
a year ago.
Yet llllle political attention has
been focusrn on this situation
either by Democrats or Republi
cans. Aome political observers have
predicted Uiat larmera will be
more Interested thla lull In auch
Issues as war and peace, taxes,
government controls, and charges
of corruption and communism In
government, titan In farm prlcea.
Child Dies
In Bly Fire
BLY Three-year-old Junior Mil
ler was latallv burned In a lire
that raced through the vacated Cttv
Cleanera building here yealerday
alternoon.
The child waa the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Marlon Miller, who live
nrxl door to the fire scene.
He waa apparently .In the build
ing with an older sister. Barbara.
10. and brother Kenneth. 6. when
Ihe fire started. Wltnaaaea said the
older children ran from the build
ing.
The Bly Volunteer Fire Depart
ment alopped the flame before
they dealroyed the building, and
found the child's body partly
burned. Cause of the fire waa not
announced, but It was thought the
younnatera were playing with
matches.
The building was vacated a cou
ple of years ago, and went through
one fire a year ago. It Is owned by
Paul Gilbert, former Blv resident.
Solon Scoffs
At Oil Report
WASHINGTON lffV-8en. Homer
Ferguson of Michigan declared
Tuesday that a disputed govern
ment report on oil cartels, which
the Slate Department labelled as
aecrel, Is "neither new nor very
surprising."
Ferguson, a Republican, said the
report "for the most part la Just
a re-hash of the findings" of a
Senate Investigating committee
which he headed In the Republican
controlled 80th Congress.
President Truman decided to lift
the secrecy ban on the report after
Its publication was demanded by
Sen, John Sparkman of Alabama
the Democratic nominee for vice
president.
The report was written a year
ago by Federal Trade Commission
staff experts. It concerns Interna
tional oil deals by an alleged cartel
which has been charged with at
phoning U.S. foreign aid funds.
Klamath Llama
Visits Portland
PORTLAND Ifl A llama.
loan to the Portland boo from the
Black and White ranch or Klamath
Falls, Is visiting the city's psrks
tins weeg, taxing youngsters tor
rides.
Jack Marks, too director, said
most llamas have unpleasant dis
positions but this one la gentle.
Agriculture Department reports
show that larni prices ss a whole
are i per rent lower than at thla
time In 1048. They nhow also that
the prlcea farmers pay out for
what thry need are about 12 per
cent higher than III 1IMS.
Much of the 11)11 campaign was
centered on Democratic charges
that a Republican Congress had re
stricted government grain storage
operations lo auch an extent that
larmera were unable to lake ad
vantage of federal price supr
programs.
Yet thla year drpartrr -O
ports show market pru??
wheat are furttirr below '?'
eral price support level than
were In 19411. In the summer
1948. farmers received an averat,
of 11.9V a bushel for wheat or only
2 cent below the support level.
Bo far this summer, wheat
prices have averaged around VI.
or about 20 cents below the level
the department said at planting
lime It would support this year's
crop.
Officials are predicting that thla
year's corn crop may aell from
II to 10 cents a bushel below the
price support rate at harvest time.
Farmera were getting an aver
age ol about 136 per 100 pounds lor
hogs In the summer of 1B4H. They
now are receiving around 131. Beet
cattle prices are about the same.
Hoybeans, at S3 a bushel now, are
down about 60 cents from four
years ago. Wool, at (3 cents a
pound, la 4 cents above four years
ago. Eggs sold for an average of
40 cents a d07.cn four years ago
compared with 43 cents now.
The department has forecast that
farmers' net Income amount lelt
niter paying production costa
would be down from last year's
114.900.000.000. The net farm In
come In 1948 Was 119,738.000,000.
Waterfowl
Disease Cut
TULELAKE Only a slight out
break of bolulbm In the critical
I'ulrlake-Lower Klamath area has
been evident this aeason despite
the fact this Is tho pesk season
for the disease among migratory
waterfowl, according to an an
nouncement by Refuge Mgr. Tom
Horn.
Aug. 30 Is normally the high
point of the botulism season, but
so far Aug. ( and 7 was the worst
of the year.
Al that time, Horn said. 389
mallards and pintail were lost and
49 sick birds hospitalized. The
manager said quick water manage
ment through tho cooperation of
the KlamaiU Drainage District
nipped that outbreak In. the bud.
With the' help of the Bureau of
Reclamation the manager said
water levela have been maintained
at desirable levels and waterfowl
losses have been negligible, except
along the undlked aoulh shore ol
the ' lower sump where narrow
leather edges exist regardless of
water levels. There 93 dead birds
and 48 sick ones have been picked
up.
Horn estimated the present popu
lation of the area at over 100.000
mallards and pintails including
both Tule and Lower Klamath
Lakes and called the low level
of botulism "unprecldented."
In past years the disease has
struck hard at large numbers of
birds, and the refuge has been
working on several projects to dis
pel the situation.
UN Bombers
In New Raid
SEOUL, Korea tH The U. S.
Fifth Air Force said about 300 Air
Force and Navy warplanes today
hit a Communist ammunition sup
ply and troop billeting area on
the Korean west Coast about 39
miles northwest of tho Red capital
of Pyongyang.
The Air Force said U. S. Snbre
Jets damaged one of four Russian
made MI019 Jets intercepted about
100 miles north of Pyongyang.
Plnnes from American carriers
operating on the Korean East
Coast hit the target first shortly
after noon. They wero followed by
Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers.
There were eight separate tar
gets in the area, the Air Force
said. ,
Returning pilots reported early
claims of 98 .buildings demolished
and five damaged. Big explosions
rocked the area as bombs smacked
Into ammunition stores. Flames
raged through the target, a center
ol more than 300 buildings.
The warplanes struck as bright
sun broke over the quiet battle
front, soaked by typhoon rains.
New Red Congress Seen As
By WILLIAM L. BYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst
Moscow's announcement Wednes
day of the convocation Oct. 9 of
the first All-union Communist Par
ty Congress In 13 years Indicates
a strengthening of the Soviet dic
tatorship all along the line.
Tills announcement has been In
the making since 1947, but Its tim
ing gives It implications which can
mean the difference between war
and pence.
Moscow's announcement Ihnt It
Is doing away with Ihe Politburo
does not moan abolition of nn all
powerful governing body. On the
contrary, Ihe Announced new Pres
idium, to act between sessions of
the Party Central Committee, will
havo even more power. It will toke
over the duties of tho Organisa
tions Bureau (Orgburo), which con
trols the annolntment of kev offi
cials throughout the party and gov
ernment network.
The announcement once again
brings mysterious Oeoroo Mnlen-
kov, SO. owl-faced protege of Sta
lin, snarniy to the fare. Ma enkov
probably has had more of a hand
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CHAMP Butch Kimpton, 12,
champion in his age class, end
Montgomery, 43 1 Laguna, won
ard, 15, were runnes-up.
Lawrence Giannini, President
Of Bank of America, Dies at 58
8AN FRANCISCO Wi Lawrence
Mario Oianntni, 98, president of the
Bank of America the world's
largest bankrdted in his sleep
last night at a hospital here.
His physician asld death was
caused by a number of Illnesses.
He had been In the hospital since
March 4.
His wile, Anna Mercedes, and two
daughters, Anne and Virginia,
Vara at his bedside-
In 1939 OiamUnl -become 'presl-'
dent of the Bank of America,
founded by his father, the late
X-Ray Program
Has High Aim
A goal of 1.000 X-rays has been
set for next Monday when the mo
bile X-ray unit sets up shop in
downtown Klamath Falls at the
corner of 8th and Main Streets . . .
it it's attained Klamath Falls may
have set a new record for the num
ber of pictures snapped in an eight
hour period.
Portland holds the record for the
number in a 10-hour day 1026.
The simple process of setting the
X-ray will bo set forth before
everyone who passes on Main
Street Dial day. There Is no wait
ing, no undressing and all Infor
mation remains confidential. X-ray
olficials are counting on man y
downtowners to partlclpote who
have been missed when the units
operated in their neighborhoods.
To date there have been 8461
X-ravs taken, with a goal of 24.000
set bv Sept. 39 when the county
wide survey is to close. Yesterday
399 X-ravs were snapped at Klam
ath Agency, and the Altamont Gro
cery. Countv Health Officer Dr. Seth
Kerron reported that retake respon
ses have been almost 100 per cent.
The retakes number about four out
of every 100 originals, and are dou
ble checks on the first pictures.
The X-rav units will be at 6th
and E. Main Streets until 6 p.m..
todav, and al Hercules and Pal
merton Lumber Compony lor em
ployes until that time.
X-RAY BOX SCORE
Yesterday 359
To date 8461
Goal .. 24,000
Tomorrow's Schedule:
Kaatrr's Store, Doty and Cali
fornia Ave., 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.
In his revision one of a series
in Soviet history than any other
man. It is Mnlenkov who is most
widely regarded as the successor
to 8tnlln.
As long as five years ago. Mnlen
kov forecast this move when he
said In an address that the Cen
tral Committee was preparing a
new program for the Communist
Party because tho program in use
was obsolctoi Ho also said there
should be new statutes for the par
ly. If tho 'program was long In the
preparation, It will be swift In exe
cution, and will be hailed by the
controlled Soviet press as a step
"toward Communism" and toward
peace. It will likely be neither. '
Westerners have long awaited
this announcement.
The last AU-Unlon Congress . of
the Communist Party was in
March, 1939. Competent diplomatic
observers have been saying that
when the Kremlin decided to call
Ihe 19th Congress, It would Indi
cate that Ihe Russians felt them
selves In danger of World War III.
The last All-union Congrpss -was
called on a wave of "peace" slo
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNEHDAY, AUGUST 20, 1992
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231 Pacific Terrace, is the 1952 playground table tennis
gets an award to that effect from Mayor Bob Thompson. Ing
the age group up to 16, and Jerry Knapp, 1 1, and Shelia How.
A. P. Giannini In 1904- The elder
Giannini, an Italian Immigrant,
died In June 1949.
Giannini, acknowledged as one
of America's foremost business
leaders, also served as a director
of the Tran&amertca Corp. which
controlled the bank until 1937.
Branches of the bank more
than 800 cover California and
are also In London. Manila, Tokyo,
Vakohoma, Kooe and Shanghai.
t3lnnlnl; who s'farted'worklrig lor
Ihe far-flung Institution as a cleric
In 1918, saw Its capital assets rise
to more than six billion dollars in
39 years.
In 1923 he became personnel di
rector and six years later was
named vice chairman of the banks
Board of Directors and a member
of Its General Executive Commit
tee. In the early "30s. Giannini and
his father weathered a stormy bat
tle to keep major Interests of the
corporation out of the hands of
Eastern stockholders.
Charged with creating a credit
monopoly in the West by control
ling hundreds of bank offices,
Giannini testified at Federal Re
serve Board hearings in 1937 that
his family held only two-tenths of
1 per cent of the bank's stock.
A. J. Cook, chairman of the
bank's Board of Directors, said a
successor to Glannlna probably will
oe named at tne Boards next
meeting, scheduled for Sept,
10.
Wilsonville
Bridge Due
PORTLAND UH Work will start
soon on the major new bridge
across the Willamette River at Wil
sonville making possible a new
Salem-Portland route.
It will be a $1,113,370 structure,
replacing the Wilsonville ferry. It
will be the important link in the
Portland-Salem cutoff route, parts
of which already have been built.
The contract for building piers,
approaches and steel decking for
the bridges was awarded Tuesday
by the State Highway Commission
to the Guy F. Atkinson Co.
The commission took core of
some other large projects also. In
cluding a $468,483 Job for grading
part of the planned T. H. Banfleld
Expressway through East Port
land. It was referred to engineers
with power to award.
Backing Soviet Rulers
gans, ominously similar to those
in current use by Soviet propagan
dists today. It came at a time
when Europe nervously awaited
the blow that meant war.
At that congress, Stalin made a
speech forecasting economics crisis
in the non-Communist world and a
struggle of imperialism to divide
the world into spheres of influ
ence. That Is what the Commu
nists are saving again.
The congress also had the aim
of healing the wounds of the blood
purge of the 1930s. When It was
finally convoked, Stalin had fin
ished the job of making himself
Ihe unquestioned dictator of the
Soviet Union, after eliminating
thousands of potential enemies be
fore firing squads.
After that congress, the signing
of ' the Sovlet-Nnsi non-aggression
poet broke Up the flimsy structure
of the "antl-Fasclst popular front"
coalition In Europe. Todav under
Soviet tutelage, the popular front
has become a Communist rallying
cry "against Imperialism."
The congress Is called following
a widespread .cleanup throughout
the Soviet Union's constituent re
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Greyhound
To Expand
CHICAGO (1 The Greyhound
Corporation said Wednesday It
plans to assume "complete con
trol uct. 1 on two ous lines una
lng Chicago and the Pacific Coast.
The lines involved are Union Pa
cific Stages and Interstate Transit
Lines, intercity Dus systems oper
ating Between crucago. jjds Ange
les and Portland under the name
of Overland Greyhound.
Greyhound Corporation, which
has owned 33 1-3 per cent of stock
In the two lines, announced it has
purchased the stock Interests In
the two firms held by the Union
Pacific Railroad and the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway.
Interstate Transit operates be
tween Chicago and Los Angeles
via- Omaha and Salt Lake City,
with connections to Denver, Kan
sas City, Mo.. Sioux Falls, S. D.,
and Fairmont, Minn.
Union Pacific Stages run from
Salt Lake City to Portland, Ore.,
ana oporcane, wasn.
Girl Killed
Near Resort
PALM SPRINGS. Calif. Wl The
battered body of a teen-age girl,
clad only in a plaid blouse, was
found Wednesday on a highway
near this desert resort.
A few hours later she was Identi
fied as Cathryn Knodel. 16. of
Redlands.
Her mother, Mrs. Erwir. Knodel,
viewed the girl's body in a morgue
and screamed: "That's her, that's
her."
The girl's parents sold they re
turned home Tuesday night and
found a note saying that she had
gone out.
Her father said he presumed she
had gone to a musical program
at Redlands Bowl.
Brown-haired, slender and at
tractive, the girl was found in a
pool of blood at the edge of a
road near Thousand Palms, about
a half-mile from heavily-traveled
U.S. Highways 60, 70 and 99.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Sunny through Thursday, a little
warmer with a high of 89 tomor
row. Low tonight 49.
High yesterday -..' 80
Low last night 42
Preclp yesterday ,, 0
Since Oct. 1 17.39
Normal fee period 12. 9S
Same period last year 14.84
publics. It Is likely that this time
any vestage of opposition was done
away with quietly but competently.
The swing around the Southern
republics by Soviet Police Chief
L. P. Beria, sidekick of Mnlenkov
and a top Communist power. Indi
cated that fences were being mend
ed and possible opposition was be
ing rooted out all along the line.
Malenkov. then a young and ris
ing power as Stalin's personal sec
retary, read the riot act of the
Communists at the 1939 party con
gress. His harshly worded stric
tures left little doubt that he spoke
with the greatest of authority..
When the war Intervened in Ihe
progress of the Soviet dictator
ship the ruling clique backtracked
somewhat, the toll of war had
been so heavy and the suffering
of the Soviet people so great that
too harsh an application of the
dictatorship was Inadvisable.
Now, apparently, the rulers of
the Kremlin consider themselves
stron? enough once again to call
an All-Union Congress, convening
monv Communists from all corn'
ers of the Soviet Union in one
place.
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US Urges
Program To
Rescue Iran
WASHINGTON IM The United
States reportedly has urged Britain
to Join In an Anglo-American emer
gency aid program for strategic
Iran to avert a possible Commu
nist coup.
secretary of State Acheson Is re
ported to have made this plea In
a memorandum to British Foreign
becretary Aninony jsaen within
the past 10 days.
Acheson is said to have stressed
the need for Quick Joint action to
Keep iran a vast on resources from
falling by default into Russian
hands.
American diplomats who dis
closed this to a reporter today In
dicated the British are decidedly
cool to Acheson's Idea, but appar
ently have not flatly rejected It.
Acnesoo told Eden, they said.
the United 8Utes Is prepared to
give an immediate "token ' grant
of around five to 10 million dollars
to Iran if Britain simultaneously
would:
PROPOSALS
1. Buy the two million tons of
refined oil and oil products now
stored In huge tanks along the Per
sian Gulf. This would bring the
Iranian government about 39 to 40
million dollars, at present world
market prices.
3. Declare Britlan's willingness
to abide by International arbitra
tion of its long-standing dispute
with Iran over nationalization of
the 1 j billion dollar Anglo-Iranian
Oil Co.
Under pressure from Washing
ton, American and British diplo
mats are urgently exploring possi
ble solutions to the British-Iranian
argument. The oil dispute has
blocked the flow of petroleum to
the West for 14 months and has
choked off the Iranian govern
ment s main source of revenue,
COOLNESS
Britain's coolness to the Ameri
can Idea, officials said, stems lrom
a belief that to buy any oil would
undercut Britain's legal argument
that the oil already belongs to the
British.
The British Cabinet is scheduled
to meet in London today with
Prime Minister Churchill to con
sider a reply to an invitation from
Iranian prime Minister Monam-
med Mossadegh to resume oil ne
gotiations.
Acheson s suggestion apparently
was intended to guide the British
in drawing up an answer. Ameri
can officials believe that Mossa
degh's regime, nationalist as it is.
represents the west's only nope oi
averting chaos. Furtner, they be
lieve an emergency aid program
is essential to staDUize conoiuons,
pay civil servants and lessen the
threat of a communist-led up
heaval.
IINTENTIONS
Such an aid program, they rea
son, would also prove to Mossa
degh that Britain and the United
States intend to support his gov
eminent and may persuade him to
make concessions on his side.
Behind the American attitude Is
a fear that Iran's oil would re
lieve a shortage now hampering
me ouiiaup oi tne soviet war ma
chine. Any Russian takeover of
Iran also would put the Russian's
asiriae tne Mideastern corridor
with particular threat to Turkey,
Pakistan and India, and would
seriously Jeopardize western de
fense plans.
CORRECTION
A story in yesterday's Herald
and News incorrectly ldentmed Dr.
Margaret K. Gregory as a chiro
practor. Dr. Gregorv is an osteo
pathic physician and surgeon with
offices at 3119 Orchard Avenue.
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HERB BARRY, SI 02 S. 6th Street, gives with selt talk to boat
men Don Divens, hit boss, for the 9 o'clock speciel.
More May
File Before
Deadline
By WALLACE MYERS
With the filing deadline 9 p.m.
today, only one peraon. Paul Lan
dry, had filed his candidacy for
Klamath Falls' mayor early this
afternoon.
However, three other men ad
mitted they were toying with the
Idea of filing and at least two of
them were expected to file later
this afternoon. The three were Dick
Magulre, Harry Boivln and Al Con
drey. Of the three. Magulre was the
mostly likely to file. The question
between Boivln and Condrey ap
peared to be which one would file
for mayor and which for council
man. The two were to parley In
Bolvin'a office late this morning.
CHANGE
Several days ago, Boivln an
nounced his intention to run for
councilman from Ward One. He
failed to file, however, and later
said he had delayed filing because
"something came up."
This "something" may have been
Mayor Bob Thompson's announce
ment that he positively would not'
be a candidate for re-election. But
Condrey Boivin's political friend
tne was uoivuvs alternate tnis year
at the' Democratic National Con
vention) was also Interested In the
mayor's race and the two appar
ently didn't wish to oppose each
other.
In Condrey's ward. No. 3, there
is only one council candidate. Jim
my Barnes, whereas in Boivin's
wara. no. i, mere are mree canal-
dates. Oliver Spiker, Dr. Harry
Fredrlcks and Joe Green (Ward
Three Councilman Mark 8mlth and
Ward One Councilman Matt Finn!-
gan are not seeking re-election .
Paul Landry, head of the Landry
Company, a property Insurance
firm, is a former city councilman
from Ward Four.
Both Landry and Condrev were
defeated In 1948's four-way mayor's
race won by Mayor Thompson. Con
drey wa serving as Ward Three
councilman at the time and was
later defeated by Jim Kaler when
he sought re-election to the council.
FOR COUNCIL
Two new candidates had filed for
City Council this afternoon. They
were A. H. (Art) Stites in Ward
Four and Dr. Fredrlcks In Ward
One. Stites win be trying to un
seat Councilman Darrell Miller.
Fredrick's Ward One entry makes
that race a three-way contest be
tween him, Spiker and Green.
ai press lime umay, ine city po
lice Judge's Job continued to ba
the mOBt sought position orr -the
November ballot: Four candidates
have squared away for that race.
They are the present police judge,
Frank Blackmer, County Assessor
Otis Metsker. Bob- Elder and Wil
bur (Red) Whitcomb.
Balsiger On
Public Group
Elmer Balsiger of Klamath Falls
has been named to the newly-or-'
ganized Taxpayer's Committee to
retain pari-mutuel revenues, ac
cording to an announcement by
acting chairman Henry W. Collins.
Portland.
Balsiger, in accepting the posi
tion for Klamath County, said
"should pari-mutuel revenues be
lost it would cost Oregon a total
of $993,813 a year. Klamath county,
alone would lose next year an esti
mated $13,900 In fair money and
$9,000 that helps support the Klam
ath Basin Roundup. Our organiza
tion feels we cannot afford to lose
that revenue.
CITY FIRE
A cigaret dropped through a hole
in the floor was blamed by city
firemen for a blaze early this
morning at the home of Mrs. Ger
trude A. Lawson. 109 N. Broad
Street. The firemen reported only
slight damage. The alarm came
'in at 1:43 a.m.