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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1952)
(E MM M UEASE . o)fo) lr Ira fo) 0) ISi- Mr HIANK JIONKINH I miM)Mf It's limni-nUilo In run Prcinlclcinllol oaiiuialKna without "-wing around Uie country." llut lliev havo their duniteia. Hpokuno In present example. Clovrrnor Mlrveiiaon I "nwlnuliui around" the I'aolllc Norlhwent. lie didn't undoubtedly because lie couldn't make II III Into his time schedule I Include Spokane among 111 slup. The political dlnpntclicM this morning Irii'luiln thin sentence: "HlKikann Democrats bv they're not uolim In take Ivlnx down IJcnio eratlo Nomlnco Hlcvcnson' relusal to vlnll Bpokane." They don't mean, of course, tht they're going to cnmpalim agalni.t hlin or rvrn vote nunlnnl him. 'I'linv're lunl Irtllnir It lie known thai thrlr feelings are hurl. I pre sume lliey've kIao lout a HUlr re fciMict for Governor Hlcvrnmm'a per aplcaclly. II he were en ninarl as he should tie, how could he rrfune to make one ol his more Important BiieerhPK in a cllv of Hiiokano'a un questioned Importance? nalli Ike end Adlal wilt have to turn down eager reo.up.it-. from a lil of cities end towiu. Those of u ho will he among the rejects won't rub knlle end tomahawk end no Iter the nominee' ncnlpif. but like Spokane we'll feel let down. Kasson, Minn-sola. Is the whl.lle atuo thai hit the Jsckpol. A na tional plowing content la being held there On week, and a mouth or e.ich a matter rko It occurred to nomcbody Hint It would be a marl Idea to Invite Ike and Adlul to apeak' Jlcre. Whv not? The farmer vole la admittedly Important In national election these daya, and where could there be a better place to pat at the grassroots farm vote than at a national plowing content. Bealdea. It would be good cham ber of commerce atulf a aure.firo wav to put Kaaaon on the map. Bo It wax dona. The Invitations were Issued. And Wonder of wonders Both Adlal and Ikt accrptedl You've heard, of course, of these Individual) who win the blK radio atve-awev lackpota. There I for them a moment of vat. Illimitable iilorv when over a national hook-up they hear that Dame Fortune has turned her cornucopia upside down over thorn and thev are burled In opulence. The moment of delirious Jov thai follow li fleeting. Trouble follows on horseback. First lliere la the old gentleman In the high hut. Die skinny panli and the chin whlakora. He thrusts hta hand deeply Into the wealth that has ooina ahownr Ins down, and when he removes II the pile Is far, far smaller than It was. Then come the people with things fo sell. They come In such num bers that they trample down all the graas In the front yard and even the flowers In the borders along the fence. And ao on. Well, It was that-a-wav In Kaa aon. Thev worried themselves Into a tlsjy when thev heard both Ike and Adlal were coming, and final ly, In desperation, thev wired Ad lal he'd better not come. He didn't like H, and the whole Democratic party didn't like It. Confronted bv the sharp horns of the dilemma, the Kasson folks reconsidered and told Adlal to come on. Now they're worse worried than ever. What If Ike and Adlal should meet FACE TO FACE on the streets of Ksssonl Wouldn't that be TURRIBLF.I At the moment this Is written they're still stewing- over ft. The dlspstches hint strongly that the Rood people of Kasson dis cuss thai potential calamity their voices sre heavy with foreboding. Personally. I think they're mak ing mountains out of molehills. What If Ike and Adlal SHOULD meet head-on? They're both cul tured cosmopolitans. They've been around. I rather Imagine they'd grin and shake hands and make a wisecrack or so and that would be the end of It. But when I had to shut this of lo mako mv deadline the good citi zens of Knssnn, the town thnt hit Ihe Jackpot, the village that Is the envy of sll other villages, were still shivering with apprehension. Aren't people funny? ST fltfiflfjf it " jf' ;' ' ; , linn .in WORK IS PROGRESSING rapidly on tha new Mt. Lalti Community church on the Merrill high S way and the Midland road. The nollow tile end frame building it expected to be completed Sfctfey late fall. Howard Burkhart il the contractor. 422 Ike Backs Farm Price Supports fly DON HIUIKIIKAI) KABBON im IXllXlE CENTER, Minn., Bepl t iM Dwluiit U. Elsen hower made his hid for the Im IHirtant farm vote today with a plan which he said would guarantee present prlte supisirta for another two years and then would lead to la r m crop support I n c I u d I n if higher prices for the farmer, Elsenhower aald the farmers re turn must he boosted from the pre.v rnl IN) per crni of purity to a full IM) per cent but In ways thsl would "minimize government con trol and protect farmers' Independ ence." He called for a wider range of "greater protection" for producers of perishable products such aa meal, milk, eggs, trull and vege tables. HOUND I'l.AN The tlOI presidential nominee outlined what he called a "sound, larmrr-run" plan while charging Hint the Democratic adinlnlsiralion had tried lo make the American iurincr a "political captive." "1 firmly believe that agricul ture Is emilled lo a fair, full share at the national Income," Elsenhow er aald, ". . . and a fair ahare la not merely so tier cent of parity but full purity. il'arlly represents a fair return for the farmer In what he receives lor his crop in relation to the unrigs he must buy.) Eisenhower unveiled his new farm plan In a aeech prepared lor delivery at the national plow ing contest here only a short lime belore Democratic presidential nominee Adlal Btevenaon was due to dlscuaa his farm program. Elsenhower's speech wss first on Ihe program and It waa an open challenge to tile Democrat for the farm vote which In IMS waa cred ited by eoma with giving Prealdent Truman hia aurprlso victory. The bssio farm commodltlea now under price supports are wheat, corn, rice, cotton, tobacco and pea nuts. Elsenhower aald aupporta should be extended lo auch crops a oals, barley, rye and aoy beans. rKOTKCTION H aald some way must be found to give greater protection to the producers of perlshsble products such aa meat, milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables which are not now under price aupporta. Then he called lor expanded farm co-operatives; up - lo . date larm roads ;and, "developing ruial electrification and telephone serv ice." Elsenhower spread his farm pro posals lo public view for the first lime alter making thesa moves In Chicago yesterday: 1, He Indicated strongly In might possibly nam a Negro to the Cab inet or "to any place" If he found one with "Ihe qualifications needed lo serve the United States well." 2. He held oul an olive branch to Ben. Robert A. Ta(t whom he defeated for Ihe OOP nomination by saying: "I'll try to draw him onto my learn not only as a con sultant but as a man to lead a very Important section of the light." These statements cam during a pep rally of Republican leaders In which Elsenhower told them: "If we can get common honesty In government, I believe we can come close lo balancing the budget without ever once reducing neces sary expenses for the armed forces." POSITIVE PROCiRAM The general continued his cam paign In this farm slate by prom ising the Republican parly "la go ing forward with positive, aggres sive, farmer-run ferm programs." And he added: "There's going to be a spring house cleaning of the unscrupulous leadership that would use farm programs for political purposes. There will be no more of this busi ness of using fcdersl power to ex tort the farmers' vote." Elsenhower went on to tell farm ers: "Our goal will be sound, farmer run programs that safeguard agri culturebut do not regiment you, do not put the federal government In charge of your farms. , . , FIRE DESTROYS PLANT MONMOUTH, III. I Fire, Saturday destroyed Iho four-acre regional offices and warehouse of Onblc-Skogmo, Inc. Company oltl ccrs said the loss would run to Jl. 500.000. I'rhe Five Cenla 10 Pases 11 County Fatalities In 18 Days An automobile wreck Just south of the Klunialh River Urldge on US 7 early this morning killed three men and Injured another, bringing Klamath County's bloody highway record lo 11 persons deud In Ihe last 18 days. For the year the county total is IB. Victims of this mornlnis tragedy were Lowrll fcu- 18 gene U'llftun. 43. of llorrls; Charlra Herbert I Hill) hlma, &1, of Pro ject City. Calll.. and Albert II. Jones, 56, of Cot tonwood, Calif. T h e Injured man, In Klamatli Vallev Hosollul. Klamath t 'aunty Traffic Katallllra In I9H Is Keith E. Peck, 33. of Iruimton, Calif. He la not seriously hurl, having head lacerations. The men were northbound from Dorrla In Peck's 1912 Plymouth u-hen the car rammed Into the back end of a flatbed truck owned bv tlie Morrlson-Knudscn Construe lion Company and driven hv Wil liam Chester Farrcll 47 ol Fair-t Held. Calif. The accident occurred about 1:30 a.m. ANOTHER WRECK Another automobile mishap had occurred at the same spot a lew minutes before. A 1841 Buick coach driven bv Carl Clinton Van Fleet 620 N. 13th failed lo stop coming oil tiulton Koad aim lutu piungeu on across the highway Into a ditch on the west side. Van Vlecl said his brakes didn't hold. He wasn't hurl. Bute Police and a wrecker ar rived at the scene and act out (lares to warn other traffic while Van Vleet's car was being hauled out. The driver of the truck Farrell coming north saw the flares end slowed down going through the danger zone. He ssld he was going Just six or seven miles an hour. But Ihe other car apparently didn't slow down until It was well uilo the rone outlined bv the flares then skidded and crashed Into the back of the truck. The Impact was on the right side of the car and the truck oed lore through. RIGHT SIDE Wilson was sitting on the richt side In front and 81ms on Ihe right side In back. Wilson was killed outright: Sims was dead on arrival at Klamath Valley Hospital before 2 a.m. Kaler's ambulance brought Jones Peck and Sims lo the hos pllsl then took Sims' bodv lo Ward's Funeral Home. Wilson's body also was taken to Ward's. Jones was conscious and talka tive when brought lo the hospital, but died several hours later. His right arm was badly fractured and he Is believed to have had a skull fracture. Wilson was a long time resident of the Klamath area and worked as a bartender at the Star Inn, Dorrls. A brother. Woody Wilson. operates the 40 Club at Dorrls. He Is survived by the widow, PegRy; his mother. Mrs. Pearl Burke. Klamath Falls, and a sister In Los Angeles. Peck Is a superintendent of the Moore Dry Kiln Company. Port land, and Is Installing a dry kiln at the Associated Lumber and Box Company of Dorrls. Sims and Jones were working for him. Sims was a pipefitter and before coming to the Dorrls Job had worked at Project uuy and Kcno. .'js-:.- v. 3 Bk 1 1 - ? KLAMA'J' .K'iON, k Auto-frmk MMa,MMOT(IapVMaaHaaaHaaHBaaaaaaaiBB ANOTHER EARLY MORNING auto accident, this one jt a few miles louth of Klamath Falls, took the lives of three men today. This ear, shown being towed away by Jim and Art's wreck er, smashed into the rear and of a flat bed truck. Tha right side of the car was sheared away. 350 Killed In India Storm NEW DELHI. India m News papers reported Saturday at least 350 piltauns perched and many oihcre are mutslnji in a fierce sturm that cauiihi them on a trek toward the sacred' seal of the Hinuu Rwis on the mgn, giaciai slopes of the Himalayas.. A spokesman for the Indian kTov- crnmeut -said xc doubted u an ao curate count 01 tne oeaa was pos- smie, However, because tno pu trims were scattered over many miles of mountain trails when the post-monsoon snows overtook them. Thev were struBslina: toward the headwater region of Uie holy Ganccs river lor' the annual Mnni Muneoh festival, wliicn draws thousands of pilgrims. The storm whipped across the highest passes 18.000 feet above sea level at Shnmrarajot. 65 miles (torn Chamba in Himachal Prad esh stale. Survivors were quoted bv New Delhi's pnpers as say inn many sought refuue In caves. Their fate was unknown. Others died of ex haustion on the return journey to the plains. Indian officials seek. n or confirma tion of the reported death toll were handicapped bv the fact that the surviving pilgrims were scattered in many small bands. The onlv sources for news were the survivors or rescue workers Since the remote highlands are be vond the reaches of motor high ways and telegraph service. Stubble Fire Causes Alert Plumes of smoke blossomed out over the Tule Lake area this mom. iiift and had lookouts peering ex citedly at the source, but Tulelake Dlst. Ranger George Fischer re pelled the smoke was from burn ing stubbleficlds. Barley harvest is well along, and stubbleficlds are becoming more nu merous as it progresses. Meanwhile. KFPA crews flagged down a fire In the Foster Butte area, apporently started by a sheep nerticr. f ire guards reported a hand of sheep had moved through tne area about a day oerore they located the blaze yesterdoy after noon. Another fire, this one a lightning strike, necessitated a "guide In" via radio from a lookout before It could bo located. II was but 16 feet In diameter, and put up very little smoke. An early morning lightning storm todav set several small blazes In the Warner Mountain area east o heic, but nothing serious was rc ported. Pel Ticket Sales Zoom Season tickets' for five Pelican home football games were selling fast today at the Chamber of Com merce and conservative guesses put the first-day sole down at 400. Some 300 were gone nn hour after the C of C olflces opened this morning. In the neighborhood of 100 fans were in line when the doors opened. Reserved tickets to the rive home gnmes cost $1.50, not 8 as pre viously reported In a Herald and News Ad. Advance sale of reserved seats close nt noon the day of the Pela' first game, against Grant here Sept. 13. Individual reserved seat tickets can be purchased the night of the game. SATURDAV, HEPTEMBRB , mi . ...... ...... i.V. - Prices Show Slight Drop WASHINGTON IK Lower prices for meal, eggs, fresh and dried vegetables, cows, hogs and live poultry caused a two-tenths of 1 per cent drop In wholesale prices during the week ended Sept. 2. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, announcing Uie decline yesterday. said Increases were reported in cheese, coffee, flour, cotton, grains, steers and fresh fruits, but they were - not enougn to onset me declines. The bureau said its index of Sept. 2 was 111.8 per cent of the 1847-49 average. Death Claims Stage Star NEW YORK (l Gertrude Law rence, whose ability to do almost anything on the stage made her the toast of two continents, died in New York hospital Saturday at the age of 51. Miss Lawrence, a top star for more than a quarter of a century, left her Broadway role in "The King and I" on Aug. 16 for treat ment of yellow jaundice. However, a family associate said the Jaundice was not the cause of her death. He said an autopsy would be performed in an effort to deter mine the cause. She went to the hospital only at the insistence of her husband. Richard Aldrich. after going through her performances pain fully lor four days. "She wouldn't give in," said Aid rich, a producer. He and two close friends Fanny and David Holts man were at her bedside when she died. The English-born actress" last appearance in the Rodgers-Ham-merstein musical, based on the book "Anna and the King of Siam," was at the matinee of Aug. 16. Saturday's newspaper advertise ments still billed her as star of "The King and I" although her role Is being taken by Constance Carpenter. 11 Missing From Tanker CHARLESTON, S. C. (ifl A Honduran tanker with 30 men aboard broke up Saturday In the storm-tossed Atlantic 130 miles southeast of here. Eleven men were missing, while two others refused to leave the vessel's tloatlng wreckage. The Coast Guard said the cap tain of the 5,000-ton ship the Foun dation Star and 10 men were In a missing lifeboat. Planes and surface craft of the Coast Guard and Navy sped to the scene and combed the turbu lent sea. churned up by the sea son's second big hurricane passing a few hundred miles to the east. The 17 rescued men were Dicker! up by a Norwegian ship, the Mil, which was near the Foundation Slar when she cracked In two. A coast Guard PBY plane out of St. Petersburg. Fla., had en gine trouble In the area of the stricken vessel and asked surface vessels to stand by for assistance as It turned shoreward. Later the plane reported the trouble was corrected and headed aown tne coast to Jacksonville. Fla, Telephone 8111 Crmh School Entries Show Decline There are 26 fewer students In Klamath school systems this year than there were last, according to figures released by the city and county school offices here. Total enrollment in all schools in the county this year Including city schools Is 7841 students as com pared with 7867 last year. Despite the decrease, school of ficials seemed confident that stu dent enrollments would increase as school went on. Expecially in the county system there appeared to be quite a number of students who were not yet registered yesterday because of farming. Broken down figures showed county schools have 32 fewer stu dents this year, with 4339 as com pared to 4371 in 1951 : city elemen tary schools have 10 fewer stu dents, with 2289 in 1952 as com pared with 2299 last; Klamath Union High School has 1213 stu dents enrolled this year, 16 more than the 1197 registered at the same time last year. Shasta School recorded the greatest increase among county pupils with the opening of a pair of new classrooms. Its enrollment is 45 higher than last year's 287. Gilchrist upped its totals from 228 to 270. Meanwhile Bly's enroll ment fell off 33 to 180, Sprague River fell from 59 to 24 students and Altamont Junior High fell from 500 to 457 students. County figures include both high and grade school totals in each community where they are to gether. Raymond's Camp, which last year schooled 17 youngsters, didn't open school sessions this year. Youth Held In Shooting ROSEBURG LP A second youth was arrested here Friday in the attempted holdup of a soldier that ended in a gun battle on the Paci fic Highway south of Eugene. Held under SI 500 ball on a charge of assault with intent to rob was Leo K. Fuchs, 18. Plevna.. Mont., who was arrested after he reported his car had been stolen. Under police guard in a Cottage Grove Hospital was James Faust, 17, Baker, Mont., who was wound ed in ihe neck in the gun fight with the soldier, Cpl. Harold Fitch, Camp Stoncman, Calif. Fitch and his wife were sleeping in their car beside the highway early Friday when a youth awaken ed them, the soldier told police. The youth, holding a gun. de manded money. But ducked be hind the Bitch car when another auto passed, the corporal said that gave him time to unllmber his own gun and In an exchange of shots, Faust was wounded. Another youth in a car bearing Montana license plates sped away. Fitch later identified hlin as Fuchs. Sheriff's Deputy W. J. Worrall became suspicious when Fuchs op peared in Roseburg Friday and re ported his car stolen by two com panions who, he said went off and left him in Eugene. Court Upholds Bridges Trial SAN FRANCISCO Wl The Fed eral Appeals Court Saturday 81 flrmed the 1950 perjury conviction of longshore leader Harry Bridges. It also upheld the order revoking his U.S. citizenship. Bridges, native Australian, was convicted of swearing falsely at his naturalization hearing in 1945 that he wasn t a Communist. Extension Gives Farmers Harvest Time for Spuds The case of the "hot potatoes" was settled late yester day by a Reclamation Bureau decision to give farmers until Nov. 1 to harvest potatoes on land on which the bureau has cancelled leases. On Sept. 2, when the bureau notified 30 war veterans their leases were being cancelled, the ouster time was set for midnight, Sept. 12. That would have meant the operators of the leases would not have time for rioenine and harvesting of hundreds of thousand dollars worth of Spuds Saved, Yet Whoops By WALLACE MYERS News that the Tule lease can cellation date had been moved up to Nov. 1 brought whoops of Joy from J. R. (Bob I Oalton last night. Earlier In the day, Dalton, a young Merrill farmer and war vet eran, had told this reporter how he Innocently got caught up In the web of cancellations and was threatened with being completely wiped out by loss of the potatoes on his lease. Dalton Is married and the father of five children ranging In age from two to seven years. He has been working on the Bob Adams ranch at Merrill. In December of last year Dalton was awarded one of the 95 leases executed by the Reclamation Bureau. Dalton's lease was on a plot of 76 acres. "I Just didn't have enough money to farm the land myself." said Dalton, "so I made a deal with Bob Adams, my boss. I honestly thought It was all right to make the kind of deal I did. I've never done a dishonest thing in my life and I sure didn't think I was being crooked In dealing with Adams. uaiton explained mat under the agreement with Adams, they were to use Adams farm equipment and Adams was to stand a major por tion of the expense of farming the plot. Profits were to be split with Adams taking 75 per cent and Dal ton 25. "I m trying to get ahead and make a good home for my wife and the children." said Dalton. "I figured my share of the 18 acres of potatoes we planted on my ground would bring me enough so that I could afford to farm the plot all by myself next year. I put everything my wife and I could scrape together in that ground . . . mortgaged my car and 17 calves I've managed to get. I ve worked hard on uie land my self. I did a lot of ditching, helped with the planting and have been doing a lot of the irrigation work on those spuds. If I lose the po tatoes, I'm wiped out and it will take years and years for me to get out of debt for the money I've put in that land. At the time Dalton told his story the canceUation extension had not been announced and Dalton was seeking advice on how he might save his potatoes. "I'll take my wife and young sters and go down there and camp on the ground if it wiu do any good." ne said. Dalton says his lease was un doubtedly cancelled because of his (Continued on Page Four) Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: mostly sunny ounaoj, wiin a lew wide-scattered showers over the mountains. Low Saturday night 42, hirh Sunday 78. High temp yesterday 75 Low last night 49 Precip yesterday Since Oct. 1 17.30 Same period last year 14.84 tfcc It ft"r elsWfl Mlajl'.tir fllllf ll'l. I lilt attaaaaaalTVl 'l I FROM HENLEY -this morning end their ton, Isaac Jr. CTsyr.. m ii.aMia--af-a-MMWtj r ky ' i J 1 i'TlW'- k y . . All t . F.'Vjraili;f potatoes. But the farmers said they thought they could have the harvest complete by about mid-October and moving tne lease cancellation date up to Nov. 1 appears to assure the farmers plenty of time. In cancelling the 30 leases, the Reclamation Bureau said an ' Investigation had disclosed many of the veterans wno ootainea leases were merely fronting for other operators. Richard L. Boke. regional director of the bureau in Sacramento, said in stances had been found where vet erans either sold the leases out rigih and turned them over to in eligible operators for a split In the profits. The cancellation extension direc tive came direct from, the Washington- office of Oscar Chapman, secretary of the Interior... E. L. Stephens, manager of ' the Recla mation Bureau's Klamath project. saia tne extension was promptea through fear of seeing; the big; potato crop lost. The 30 cancelled leases were In cluded in 96 leases for plots of about 80 acres each. The leases were signed In -December of last year for a one-year period, with options for renewal for four years. When be announced the 20 can cellations. Boke said the rest of the 95 leases would be Investigated. Twenty-six of the remaining lessees were notuied to appear at a bear ing nere to oegin Monaay. am yesterday, in announcing the Nov. 1, extension. Boke aald Monday probe bad been called off. Boke also said that the 30 men whose leases had been cancelled would have until Oct. 6 to file ap peals. Until the Nov. 1 cancellation ex tension was announced yesterday it ( appeared operators ol the leases might lose potatoes valued con servatively at more than, a million and a half dollars . .. . Boke says revelations of the lease probe will mean a tightening of the bureau's lease policy Ap parently, future lease applicants will be a great deal more closely screened ....... The leases cover 7,232 aores of land which the bureau says is not suitable for homesteadincr since it is subject to being flooded In un usually wet years ' There is still a possibility -the bureau wiu institute criminal ac tion against persons involved in the lease violation charges , Boke said yesterday evidence was being studied wiin sucn action in mino. New Butte Valley Well Another giant well has been brought in down in the semi-arid Butte VaUey, this one on the Paul Robinson place south of Macdoel. A reported testing of 4000-gallons per minute took place yesterday, and further testing was underway this morning. ine well is close to tne criss Brothers well which tested out at well over the 4000-gallon rate two years ago. Hitchcock-Reed com pany equipment was used In the testing. : VI Its ntStik (-5 fBSL-HI&ftkr V sat - iTAWi ;iwnojj-i WeSnlii cam Mr. and Mn. Isaac Thomas
