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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.)
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Is strapped to a litter beside one of two smash ed-up ears.
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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.
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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
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Three Killed
In Head-On
Auto Crash
Positive Identification of one of
three oernona killed In a highway
collision near Collier Park Satur
day was not made until last night
on the arrival here of a Richmond,
Vs., man, son ol two of the three
victim,
The third victim was Identified
as Mrs, John W. Wllber, 68, Rich
mond. The other two killed were
Mrs. Wllber's husband, 87, and
Mrs. Ralph Howard. 816 Z. Main
Street, Klamath Falls.
Two other persons. Raloh How
ard and Dr. Florence Owens, a
Richmond physician, were criti
cally Injured and are In Klamath
valley Hospital.
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.
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