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MA mm - rf 4 iit lyy www v MraSBMJI lly FRANK JKNKINH Clcuerul Klscnhowrr tolls Amer-li-an Lrglunnulrcs III New York llils iiKiriiiiiu Umt II we're to STOP JIUHHIA wo must quit being smued mid hysti-rlcul, Feur mid hynterlu, ho auld, bleed wnste and oxlrnva guiico. It's Ilka gelling Inst In tlio woodn, II you become scared mid hyster ical, yiiu'lo pi nun lily n guiinr. It Works tha sumo wny Willi luilloua. lie added: From lliln time forward, we American cun nut tolerate tile preparation nnd execution ol our premium (to mup Russian cuinmu tilMii mid save Uio (ice world) ID a tllinnto o lenr nnd hyntciln." ItiKht, Ike. We've not to gel our nerve buck. , My ri nonnl Kleii ol It In Unit getting leadership ws cun believe mid trust will help. Blmi o( the times maybe: "Flush with good living, mem bers ol lluliori ol America, Incur porulcd, arrived In llniiiburg, New York, toduy lor their -tltb minimi coliveiilloit , , . In automobile illielr own) nnd by plune, the van guard ol hod ili'lt-Kuii'n poured In lor the nlx-doy gaincring in Ed llmm' bur nnd grill. "Jell Uavia, kind (or Hie of the kulitaln ol the roud, nlr mid seven -.run, null! (iiod limes huve "lundo our member! prosorous." Along with the speculator, the gnmulcra and the real of the In-llatlon-lovlnit, gct-rlch-quick Ilk. Another sign of something; I'm not aure what; luck In New Jersey, the NUD ISTS me holding a convention. Thin time, they broke down and let the photographcra in. The picture man ailne and nome of the Emitern newspapers have gone to town on It. Don't pay too much attention to the hoboea and the go-nnkeders. They're the acrewbull Irlngo. I suppose all nations have 'em. They make NEW8-bul lis the decent, hard-working, sovc-somo-Uiiim-for-a-rainy-dny folk who keep emulation advancing, Cnusc-and-ellect note: Higher auloinoblle lloblllty In aurance rales go inlo elfect In Ore gon loday. The IncreiiHe amounts to from 3 to 20 a year MUltE fur private passenger earn. The National Bureau ol Casualty Underwriter announces the In creaac, adding thai accldenta have Increased and ao have cool ol re pulrs and medical fees. A point to remember! Insurance Isn't manna from hea ven. It's a wise and human mod ern BUSINESS device that spreads ihe lo.i ao that Die poor devil who gels hit doesn't hove to aland II all. You work and PAY for It. Like moat of the thing you work nnd save to pay for, It's OOOD, But The more accldenta, the more cost. Agriculture Secretary Brannnn. In a book just published by this department, snys man limy be losing his age-old battle against In sec In. lie writes: "Wo hnve more Insect peata. al though we huve belter Insecticides lo use against them and belter ways to flRht them." He adds: "Insects nro costing- the country approximately four billion dollars a year in dnmngc to crops und property." Cynical thought: Is Hint a bulld-up far four bil lion dollars more federal spending? Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vlnlnlty and Northern California: j-'alr through Tuesday. Low Mon day night 3H. High Tuesday 78. Illlh yesterday 7(1 l ow last night ...... 3.1 Prerlp last 24 lira 0 Since Oct. 1 17.2(1 Normal for period 12.57 Same period last year 14.84 (Additional Weather on Page 7.) ! .At- . E i 1 ' Mr. IUrJ. -a , ... . '..,.V.V r -Naw g$P v V XXim jTM"-' r - .Mr .'..,.' v aaa i ' i i , ' n f i ' I BODY OF ONE OP THREE penoni killed In highway accidont near Collier Park Saturday Is strapped to a litter beside one of two smash ed-up ears. I. ' - .p'.w I l . ;t y , ''" Vf " s. ' 4 MARYGENE COLWELL (abovt), Keno, thowi "Boxer," judged (at lamb champ yeiterday at the Rotary 4-H and FFA livettock ihow and (air at the Fairgroundi. Sheep Champions Named At Rotary Stock Show Judge John Lundera, OSC animal husbundry depurtmenl, named chrlmplons nnd grand chumplons nmong Ihe sheep ranks entered In the 17th Annuitl Kntary 411 and KKA Junior Livestock khow nt the Falrgrnimds yesterday, and today he and other Judges entered the Judicial procedures of naming tire lops III other categories of Ihe show, Cirand Champion breeding sheep was entered In Ihe ahow by Henry Williams, Henley, and rcservo Armed Men Rob Store Two young men, one of Ihem armed, stuck up employes of Kra icr's Mnrkel, 2M3 a. Oth, lust night, und cleaned out the cash register. They got nwiiy with about 1350. Bruno Morosin and Ills mother Ann Morosin. 2211 White, clerks at the More, wvro alone shortly alter 0 o'clock when Ihe two men came in, they told City Police. Both were young looking, the clerks Mild, nnd one held a pearl handled pistol. He held the weapon on Bruno and Mrs. Morosin and asked for all the money In the cash register. Hut. Bruno said, both men walked around Ihe counter nnd helped themselves to the money. While tile young bandits were In tlio store, Mrs. Morosin started lo leave but the one with the pistol ordered her buck, thren toning to shoot her son If she didn't. Bnmo Morosin told City Police he cstlmntcri the amount of money tnken was nboul $.150. some cur rency and much of It in silver, Including rolls of sliver dollnrs, halves, quarters nnd pennies. Alter rilling the cash register, the two men ran from the store unci across the street to whero they got Into mi old model sednn and licnded out S. CUi. The Moroslns described tho men ns nboul 18 to 3(1 yenrs of age nnd snld they both had been In Ihe store curlier in the day looking around. Ono man was described ns prob ably n Mexican or Indian, dark, medium build, wearing blue Jeans nnd n green shirt or sweater. The other was light-skinned with brown hair, n growth of whiskers nnd dirty face, wearing blue Joans nnd a duik shirt. i- - " itiMiaairTliirT "" " Tf fl , 3 7, " ivVVL T'v v- . - ' - chump belongs to Katlierine Ahem Merrill. Mary Ocne Colwell, Keno, holds the grand champion mnrkel lamb una bin a wesi, Merrill, loo we reserve championship. First place Hnmp ewe lamb wenl to Carol Relllng, Poc Valley; top Hump yearling and champion In Dial class was entered by Bob Enmnn, Henley; Virginia Rocnlcke Poc Valley, had the first place Hnmp Ewe, and Katherlne Ahern, Merrill, had tha champ Suffolk ewe laniD. Suffolk yearling ewe topper be longed to Mifcs Anern, wno ai held tha Suffolk ewe champion. Dorothy Rlker entered the South down ewe lamb. Josephine Colwell. Falrhaven, entered the Southdown yearling ewe first plncer, and El liott West. Poe Valley, hod the champion Southdown ewe. Henry Williams, Henley, had the first place Columbia ewe lnmb, and also the first placo Columbia ewe yearling and champion Columbia ewe, while Helen Schercr. Keno, held the first place Shropshire ewe lanio. Henry Mewnouse, Keno, en tered tiie first place Corrledale ewe lamb and ewo, and Jim Parker, Mnlln, held top Ramboullct year ling ewe. Purebred ram lamb first placer went to Miss Ahern. Beginner's aheep showmanship chump was unroiyn unrrison, Hen ley. Eileen Fitzgerald, Keno, took the ndvnnccd first place award in Uie showmanship division. Carol Rolling's Hnmp market lnmb won nrsi in thai category Kenneth Kennedy, Sprngue River topped Suffolk mnrkct lambs nnd Mary uene uoiweu, lieno, loppca the Southdown market lumb brack et. In th crossbreed division, Olyn nn Wenthcrby, Mnlln, won first plncc. In Horsemnnshlp, Sydney Kerns wns first In an nwnrd-wlnnlng field of 10 us judged Dy veteran horse' mini Jim Emmons. Dnvld Onrrlson, Henley, took the beginners dairy showmanship blue ribbon, while Mlko Gernghty, Merrill, blue-ribboned his way through the ndvnnced dairy show mnnshlp division. Betty Scnln, Henley, placed champion on her Jersey Yearling Heifer, nnd Sherleo Ralston held the reserve champion. B1U Bca ley, Merrill, entered the reserve champ Guernsey heifer cnlf, and Dick Relllng topped the Guernsey (Continued on page 7) fj Ma. . 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Until Ralph Wllber arrived here from Richmond by plane last night It was nol definitely known whether one of the dead was Mrs- Wllber or Dr. Owent, The injured woman was only seml-counalous w . and could not be ques I I Honed. However, Dr. George Adler in a long distance phone conver Klamath. County Tmfflo Fatalities In 1832 sation with young Wll ber Saturday evening obtained physical des criptions of Mrs. Wll ber and Dr. Owens that Indicated the dead wo man In question was Mrs. Wllber. COLLIER PARK The deadly crash occurred some six miles north of Collier Park on U.S. 97. The northbound Howard car and the southbound Wllber car smashed head-on when, according to State Police, the Wllber car veered across the highway's center line. The wreck occurred on a straight stretch of road about 1:30 p.m. State Police said their investiga tion indicated a tire blowout caused the Wllber car to swerve and hit the Howard car. Tire marks on the road show that Howard made a strong brake ap plication in trying to avoid the collision. Apparently Mr. and Mrs. Wllber were - killed Instantly and Mrs. Tfoward died erf : rout' "to" thr hosnlUI. - . The Howards were en route to portiund for the Btirine cnaruy football game. The Wllbers and ineir guest, Dr. owens, were on a motor trip Hint had taken them from Richmond Into Canada and were on their way to San Fran cisco from Seattle when the wreck occurred. BASIN BUILDING Howard Is a partner In and gen eral manager of Basin Building Materials, 4784 8. 6th Street. He and Mrs. Howard have lived here for the past 17 years. Besides the widower, Mrs. Howard Is survived by a daughter, Mary Jane, Klam ath Falls, and a son. Dr. Richard Howard, Portland. Other survivors are listed In an obituary elsewhere in today's pnper. The Wllbers operate a florist business in suburban Richmond. Their son, Ralph, said today that his only brother had been killed in a car wreck In the Virginia capital in 1944. Bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Wllber are to be returned to Richmond by Ward's Funeral Home for funeral and burial services. Mrs. Howard's funeral Is to be conducted Wednesday, 2 p.m., from Ihe First Presbyterian Church here and she Is to be burled in Kalmath Memorial Park, with O Hair's Memorial Chapel In charge, OTHER DEATHS . Elsewhere In Oregon during the weekend, according to the Associ ated Press nine other persons lost their lives In accidents. Four of the nine drowned, two died In a Port land home fire and the other three were highway accident victims. None of these other deaths occur red in this general area and no local persons were involved. Miners Take 'Memorial' PITTSBURGH (.fl John L. Lewis' memorial holiday Idled his nearly 400,000 oonl miners across the nation Monday. Some grumbling was reported over the United Mine Workers chieftain ordering the 10-day holi day to call attention to the safety conditions of the mines. . Said a miner In a western Penn sylvania section where steel com panies operate pits: "The miners are not saying much. Rumors Just rumors are that they might not go back. I think If It Is up to the men they will go back, They don't think too much of the holldny. They want to work due to Idleness during the steel strike." Sports Bulletin NO HIT ' NEW VORK W) Veteran Virgil Trucks hurled his second no-hlt, no-run game of the season when the Detroit Tigers nipped the league-leading New York Yankees, 1-0 Monday. Trucks pitched a no-hitter against Washington May IS. Only three Yankees reaohed first on the 83-year-old flre-baller, two of them on errors and: one. on s walk. i "Looks like quite a Basin Reports Spotty Frosts Spotty frosts were reported from some areas of the Klamath Basin early this morning, but apparently no real crop- damage was Inflicted! The temperatures dropped to freezing levels in several sections at about 6 a.m., and some farmers reported white frost settled on the fields at that time. Gardens in and around Klamath Falls seemed hardest hit of all, and It was here that the lowest temperatures - were noted. One house thermometer reportedly showed a low of 24 degrees, but for the most part temperatures were hitting closer to the 32 de gree freezing point. A recording thermometer on the Elmer Lemler place noted a low of 32 this morning. Lemler report ed a slight frost settled on every thing at about 8 a.m., but there appeared to be little or no damage in the Merrill ara. Burt Hoyle, Tulelake experiment station, marked up a surprisingly warm 38 degrees on his official thermometer, while the same read ing was noted in the Algoma area. A good frost at this point could well mean the difference between a poor crop and the expected pretty f air yield on potatoes. County Agent C. A. Henderson said the spuds need until Sept. 5 to 10 to finish out in the fields and provide the fruits of what so far looks as though it will be a top yield. A frost June 12 has set back the whole crop several days, and con sequently maturity will be a little later than usual anyway. A good frost could knock off 10 to 20 per cent of the prospective crop, Hen derson reported. . Late grains there Is lots of oats and some barley still coming along could well have been hit by this morning's frost If it were as se vere as first indiciatlons seemed to show. However Henderson said the alslke clover is generally well enoutrh aloncr to the nolnt where nothing much more would seed-out anyway. . A heavy frost could also hnve knocked off a rosslbllity of a third- cutting on the alfalfa hay crop, a practice sometimes maintained by certain farmers here. Car Shortage About Over ' PORTLAND Ifl Seven hundred freight cars entered Oregon-from California Sunday and the short age In Western Oregon should be ended by Tuesday, the president of Southern Pacific said here., Donald J. Russell, the president, was here on a routine Inspection trip' Monday, He Bald the freight enr shortnge stemmed from the July 21 earthquake In California closing the Southern Pacific's main San Joaquin Valley line for 26 days, - i Empty oars were routed Into Oregon from the east, he said, and this plus tthe . 8undny arrivals should meet the demand. tfMATH rm, eke, ,'! convention eity. Maybe we ought Build The Basin No. 7 Cash Registers Active During Convention Time By WALLACE MYERS A pleasing part of the noise those American Legion convention visi tors made here in late July was the merry jingle of cash regis ters; it's a pretty safe bet that the delegates and their guests spent more than 8150,000 while here. And now mind you this: the Le gion is only one of half-dozen big outfits whicli have held state con ventions here this summer and last. In addition, there has been another half-dozen smaller state groups convened here. Being very conservative with all available figures we can't helD but come up with more than half a mil lion dollars cash spent here Dy these conventioneers. Here's how: The International Association of Convention Bureaus informs tis that the average con vention delegate spends 824.51 per day in the host city. The type of convention and the convention scene will make the actual figure vary say as low as $15 to as high as $40 a day. For instance a folksy gathering of retired preachers in Zion City won't have the monetary pace of an oil tycoons' rally in Las Vegas. Organizations which convened here these past several months were such groups as the Legion, VFW, Eagles, Oddfellows, Jaycees, Oregon Federation of Labor and the Business and Professional Women. "'Since representatives of these clubs have a behavior pattern somewhere between elderly pastors and oil nabobs . . , And since Klamath Falls is not a Las Vegas and decidedly not a Zlon City, we feel fairly safe In holding that the average dally spending of our con vention visitors Is about $20 per day as compared to the $24.51 av erage. The American Legion Convention drew an estimated 2,000 visitors here for four days. That figures a total of $160,000 the convention left in the city. Total up those other get-togethers nnd you will ensily go over the half-million dollar mark we mentioned. The Klamath County Chamber of Commerce has long recognized the value of conventions to the Basin and right now, Chamber Manager Frank Tucker Is tossing convention lures in all directions. The stale Siate Pay Said Down SALEM UPI Oregon's produc tion workers had average weekly earnings of $79.55 in July, a de crease of $1.24 from the preced ing month, the State Unemploy ment ' Compensation Commission said Monday. However, weekly pay of con struction workers reached a new high of $93.21. Printing and publishing- workers, who averaged $92.27 in June, dropped to $88 Inst month. The weekly pay of lumber and logging workers fell from $87.82 to SIK.4!, . to try it someday." Lions Club convention Is already scheduled for Klamath Falls next summer and there will undoubtedly oe outer gamenngs nere. These convention dollars are very beneficial to our Klamath Ba sin economy. They are fresh dol lars from outside the Basin, they take nothing from our natural re sources and they get around to a surprising number of different type ousinesses. The Convention Bureaus Associa tion says this is the way a con vention dollar Is broken up between mercnants: hotels and motels: .39; retail stores. .19: restaurants out side hotels, .13; beverages, .06; night clubs, .06; local transporta tion, .03: gas and oil, .02; theaters, .02; miscellaneous, .10. If your business isn't represent ed in one of these categories there is still a very good likllhood some of Uiose convention dollars even tually swelled your till; business re searchers say that every dollar spent usually changes hands 12 times before it goes into securities or new investments. Geographically, Klamath Falls appears a poor choice for state conventions. Why do so many con ventions come here then? Maybe it's because the Klamath Country is so unlike most of the rest of Oregon. In any event, we should all be glad to see the convention visitors and treat them so they will want to return. Record X-Ray Drive Starts "Operation X-ray" got underway with a bang on Main Street In front of the J.C. Penney Company store this morning and between 10 a.m. and 12 noon 313 persons had had their X-rays snapped. The goal for the day is 1,027 one more X-rny picture than was taken at the record Portlnnd X-rny day at which time 1,026 X-rays were taken. The Portlnnd try, however, was a 10-hour session, while Klamath Falls is to attempt to beat thnt In eight hours. Local X-ray offi cials were looking hopefully this afternoon toward that goal it was not out of sight. The unit will oper ate until 6 tonight. The try today is a part of an overall campaign to X-ray 24,000 persons or more In Klamath Coun ty. So far nbout 9,000 people have been X-rayed and the survey is continuing only until Sept. 25. Another X-ray unit Is operating at the Shasta View housing unit on Washburn Wnv. Tomorrow's schedule will see the mobile unit still operating at J.C, Penney's, while another sets up at Emll s Oregon Avenue store. GRASS FIRE City firemen early yesterday af ternoon knocked out a small grass fire on the Old Fort Road. There was no damage. Engineers Accused In Airbase Job By EDWIN B. HAAKINKOPf WASHINGTON 11 Pentagon of ficials studied today a scorching Senate report that charged some top military men with "confusion, delay. Indecision and waste" In the rush construction of U. 6. air bases In North Africa, Hearing a long list of conclusions and recommendations was a direc tive to Secretary of the Army Pace to "take appropriate action" against Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers. The blistering report came from the armed services preparedness investigating subcommittee, head ed by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex). After thousands of words of dc- talned criticism and complaints about the multimillion-dollar air . base building Job in French Mor- J occo, the report said Pick had not given the committee "full,- frank, and comprehensive testimony about the project. . J RESPONSIBLE . i .', As chief of the Armv Engineers. Pick was responsible for the con- , struction Job which already has J cost taxpayers 220 million dollars end Is expected eventually to total more than double that amount. ' "The secretary of the Army should review carefully the testi- : mony of the chief of the Corps of v engineers ocmre wis committee I In the light of his knowledge, at the time, of conditions In Morocco, J and take ac-DrODriata action." tha ' Senate report said. ! The senators did not Indicate Just , what they regarded as "appropri ate action" against Oen. Pick. Pace previously has carried out numerous earlier recommendations of the Senate probers, Including a . shakeup of the Army Engineers who started the project and a threat to cancel the contract J awarded to a group of five large , contracting firms. , pentagon spokesmen said Pace Is due back here tomorrow from an inspection tour of oversea lnstal. latlons. They added that Gen. Pick had I not seen the rerjort before it um made public and so had no com- mem at wis lime. JOHNSON Chairman Johnson reoorted some Improvements since the . probe got under way but noted in a statement that "much of this activity bears suspicious resem blance to the practice of locking the barn after the horse has been stolen." "Funds, have been wasted which cannot be recovered and time has been lost which cannot be re gained," Johnson said. The rush air bnspa nrnti.f mom decided upon shortly after the sur prise Communist invasion of South Korea began in June. 1950. Original plans called for Improv ing four air bases used In World War n to North Africa and con struction of a huge newralr depot, an estimated cost of ann miuinn dollars. REPORT The report said costs havn been generally expanded by delays from lengthy negotiation with Frm-h officials, both in France and Mor occo; frequent changes in sites and plans: and the order to get the job done quickly without regard to costs or usual standards. a said only two of the bases now are nartlv onerntinnni wnpt has been started on a third and sites surveyed for the two others. rw tms, we have spent 220 million dollars more than two thirds of the 300 million that was supposed to buy all five bases," the report said. "The Air Force has requested a total spending au- uioruy or u million dollars lor the whole Drolect and lt is clear that this will not be the ultimate cost. It will almost certainly be even higher." Large-scale loafing, drunken ness, and failure properly to at tend to duty was rampant at least throughout the initial stages of con struction," the report said. It found no effective check on frauds, kickbacks, theft and pilfer ing and a lack of an adeauate staff of army auditors to keep tabs on payrolls and expenses. 7aH JOHN HELLEKSON, Langell Valley rancher, wa$ at the Fairgroundi early this morn ing tor breakfast before the Rotary livestock show and fair got under way. Hellek son is the father of Basin Roun'dup Queen Marianne. iaeW. sT JK1-. V - .s: - t,'. 1
