By FRANK JKNK1NI
Election post-mortems
House of representatives Investl-
rlor (members of a special
iauno commute Investigating
campaign expenditures; have turn
inuiieil blgwlga of both miijor po
llllcol partlra to Washington for a
firm hand account of what eome
of the probnra call the "alarming
costs" or campaigning In Uio mod
ern television ago.
In announcing the hearings, the
chairman of the committee aaya
eilliiialee of apendlng In the recent
political campaign run between M
million and loo million dollars, and
Hit number of special coinmltleea
taking pan In (ha campaign tan
Into lh thousands. .
In that bad?
You know, I'm Inclined lo doubt
In the campaign that ended on
the evening- of tin 3rd of Novem
bar, our people were aroused and
interested aa they haven't been In
at leant half century. W caat
more votes than w ever cant be
fore. We voted larger percent
age t tile total registration than
ai any election In recent years.
It aeema to me that'a all to the
good particularly the THOUS
ANDS of special committers that
gut Into the battle. They weren't
HIRED gangs. They were VOLUN
1t:Kn committees of cltlaena who
fiot into It because they were deep
y concerned with the uwuea and
wanted lo do their part in acelng
to It tint the election came out
right aa they aaw the Tight. -
Iiulead of being reprehensible,
that sounds WONDERFUL to me.
The foundation or good government
In our country la an aroused and
.lllaiit rntursle. if we can nave
iaVt. In EVERY tnecllon, we'll nov-
Vlt too far wrong.
Let's take a sensible look at this
estimate of M million to loo mil
lion dollara the recent campaign
is auunoserf to have coal.
We have more than 1M million
pevti In this country. If each per
s had chipped In four bits, It
would have come to a total of 7e
million dollars We have 40-odd
million families. At a dollar per
family, that would run close to M
million collars. . .
' What we need to guard against
la t cynical theory of pontics un
der which the bit contrDnitora arc
netted tn aet the big on ices,
don't think anything Ilk that hap
pened Uila year.
Take our own Douglas McKay,
of Oregon, for enample. He drew
one of the top appointment tn the
new administration, . but I doubt tf
ANYBODY would accuse him of
having been one. of the TOP con
tributors. All in eigne point to the
conclusion thai Governor McKay
aa named to the post of esere
try of the interior NOT a po
litical reward but because President-elect
Elsenhower looked upon
him as a . man. admirably filled
to fill the job.
We all realise, of course, that
SDendlne- HUOE euma of money
hw s. few BIO oeopla or big or-
gantsatlona Intent upon OAININO
POWER and using It for their awn
eelllnh benefit is bad.
But In Una particular election
there was lea of that than at any
time within recent memory. A a
matter of fact, what we were all
aeeklng (big people and little peo
pie alike waa to put an end to
that cynical theory of government.
Personally, I'm not much wor
ried about the money that' waa
spent In the campaign of u.
I d say offhand that we can aafely
forget It and get on with our rat
killing which la substituting EF
FICIENT government for govern
ment Uist haan't been too efficient.
Everest
itil! Mystery
1 KATMANDU, Nepal Wl The
fiwias Mt. Everest expedition la
reported heading back, but lt suc
cess Or failure In scaling the
world's highest peak atlU I
mystery.
A message Sunday night from
Bhojpur a military post 110 miles
southeast of here which haa the
radio station nearest Everest ald
only that the clljnbera had reached
Nsmcne Baaar "on mi w a y
home." Namche Baser la el days'
march from' BholDUr. .
The Bholpur. mesaage waa the
first purporting to locate the Swiss
climbers sine Nov. 17. The word
then waa that a final assault team
had reached point to yards from
the summit of m unconquerea
39,000-foot mountain,
itn New Delhi, India. Monday,
a Swlsa legation spokesman aald
he had no official confirmation of
Sunday mania ranio report, "in
fnct," he aald, "we have no news
whatsoever.")
Experts In Himalayan climbing
said they believed the Swiss had
failed In their second try at the
last difficult stretch of Mt. Ever
est. Otherwise, It waa points- out,
they would have ruahed a report
to tne outstae woria.
However, the expedition leader.
Dr. Gabriel Chevalley, financed
the venture by selling exclusive
pews right to various publications
and might be holding report of
the success or failure lor his cus
tomers. , ,
SHOOTING HOURS
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Fries Five Cents M Page
Basin Forum t o Consider
Klamath Lease Problems
"Build the Basin" tomorrow eve
ning turns lo one of the moat
timely and controversial topics In
the Klamath Country Just now. Hie
question for Uie psiiei win do:
11 What should be done with Uie
lease land In the Klamath project
of the Bureau of Reclamation?"
Early last week It waa learned
that th Reclamation Bureau had
notified m persona that their
leases on 19,0(4 aorea of crop land
would not be renewed after ex-
Slrallon Deo. 31,- In September,
0 other leases on 3,280 aorea were
cancelled for what the bureau aald
were violations of lease provisions.
Last week's .wholesale leaae alop-
U.S. Bank Has
New Manager
William A. HutiKlna has been
named manager of the ' United
State National Bank's brunch here
in Klamath Falls, replacing E. H.
Thompson who Is moving lo a high
er position 111 the banking system.
Thompson had been manager of
tne bank for seven yeara. The na-
; I. H. THOMPSON
lure of bis new position- has not
been disclosed, according to an
nouncement of E. O, Summons,
Dresident of the banking firm.
Hugglna first Joined the United
States National in 1836. aervlng in
the Portland office until 1841 when
he joined the elan of tn national
Bank Examinrra, working In the
Portland and Seattle divisions.
In January of this year he re
turned to United States National
and during the past several months
haa been in tne Drancn loan de
partment and gained experience In
various assignments wroujnoui
the state.
Hugglna la a graduate of the
Pacific Coast School of Banking
at the University of Washington
and has taken special courses In
the American Institute of Banking
at the University of Oregon exten
sion center. During world War II
he nerved with the U. 8. Army
In the African and European the
aters.
He li married and hag two chll
dren.
The change In management of
the local bank branch was ef
fecUve today.
Santa Needs
Security Card
Even Santa needs a Social Se
curity number now I
KlamaUi Social Security Of(lo
Mgr. Everett Eaton announced to
day that It Is best even temporary
Chrl8tmatlm workers have -So.
clal Security account cards handy
when applying for Joba. .
Eaton, aald employers are more
and more reltislng to hire persona
who csnnot present cards at the
time of hiring to Insure correct
Information for 'handling accounts.
If there have i been any changes
on cards. Eaton' haa advised they
be checked and corrected at the
local Social Security office tn the
Poatofflce Building, A corrootlon
will take a few minutes ha said,
though It will take a week or in
days to obtain a dunUcate to re
place a lost, card,
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KLAMATH FALLS, OKF.UGi
panes made no mention of viola
tion.
The 152 lease stoppages account
for practically all the valuable
crop land leases In the Klamath
Project, Only one large leaae, that
of Tulana Farms on 2,314 acres,
waa - not killed,
Reclamation Bureau Commis
sioner Michael Straus In ordering
the lease not be renewed, offered
no reason for the action. Neither
did he auggcat what might be done
with the land. In a later directive
Straus' Washington office advised
that the land would either be re
turned to leasing, converted to
homesUadlnar or that "part
all" of it might be turned over to
the Fish and Wildlife Service. The
directive added that no decision
would be forthcoming "prior to
Nov. 30." At press fine today, no
word had yet been reported at the
KlamaUi Project headquarters
her. r .
Tomorrow evening's pane! Is to
be comprised of five men, repre
senting escb of Uie major groups
Involved In the lesse controversy.
Representing Uie Bureau of Recla
mation will be Charles Wamstad,
Klamath Project engineer. Tom
Horn, manager of the Tulelske
wildlife refuge, will speak for the
Fish and Wildlife Service. County
Agent Charlie Henderson will
represent the agriculturist point
oi view, riounning out uie panel
will be two Tulelske area ranchers,
Sam Anderson end Johnny Cross.
Anderson I a 1835 homesteader
and Croas Is a World War Two
veteran who has now been notified
his farming lease Is not to be re
newed.
Aa usual, the oublic servJca radio
forum will go on the air at 8
p.m., tomorrow. Bud Chandler will
agais) oe uie moderator.
In Salem this afternoon. Gov.
Douglas McKay, Elsenhower's
nominee aa the new secretary of
the Interior, waa to meet with
Klamath group to discuss the situ-
auon. -me governor told the Aa
aorlated Press In Salem that he
would ", . . Just listen to these
farmers' complaints becauao
oaa't do anything about It yet.'
Klamath Grand
Jury Named
Dance band leader W. R. CBaldy)
Evans, 2044 Vine, will be foreman
of uie Klamath County grand Jury
sworn In today. He was appointed
oy circuit Judge uavu R, vsnden
berg.
Other members of the Investiga
tive group are w. n, MoreiocK,
Malln; F. O. Duncan, 831 Kane;
John Buell. Fort Klamath: Ernest
Regan. 321 Oram; W. J, Kum.
nomeaaie, and John James,
Malln. .
Today was the first day or the
December term of circuit Court,
and after the grand Jury was se
lected only It namea remained on
uie trial Jury panel, not enough
to Begin a criminal trial scheduled
or looey.
Judge Vsndenberg ordered 12
veniremen summoned to sppear In
court at 4 o'clock this afternoon,
to fill out the regular Jury panel
Tne trial scheduled involves a
Charge of sodomy filed against
Raymond Harry Landls. 48, who la
held In the County Ju. He has
pleaded not guilty, :
District Attorney Frank Aldr-
aon aald that his office would have
no business to put before the grand
jury until at- least the middle
latter part of January, and that
group' was recessed until call of
the court.
The grand Jury will serve six
months, through Uie so-called De
cember term of court which runs
until next June, and could be held
over for subsequent terms. The
grand Jury composed of Rov Call
Clarence Deffenbacher, Doris Cllk.
Alice Eliedge, Byron Johnson, Roy
Kuna and Don Hancock.' which
haa been dismissed, aerved through
tne last two torms of court.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Fall and
Tlelnltr, and Northern California
Cloudy, with Intermittent rain oi
snow through tomorrow. High
Monday 4.1, low tonight St. High
tomorrow o. ,
High temp yesterday ... 37
Low last night - . 31
Prerlp yesterday 0
Sine Oct, 1 -...,... 82
Normal for period 2.77
Same period last year 1,83
Repair Base
Slated Here
Morrison Knudsen Construction
Company, one of the world's larg
est auch firms, Is setting up a
repair base at Municipal Airport
and plans to bring from 40 to 80
men hers.
The base being- located In Uie
West side of - the ' big concrete
hangar at tho airport, Ts to serve
mis winter or repairs ot neavy
equipment being; used by Uie firm
on the Toketee Falls dam project.
Tne nangar space was auo-tet
from contractor F. L, Somera who
leases It from the city.
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AN APPEAL from Pfc. David Burch in Korea . groups have senf bundles of clothing. Above
for warm clothing that could be given to suf- ere some Camp Fir Girls mailing another
faring Korean children is getting a generous bundle. In the picture are (I to r) Alice Renn,
response here. Burch's letter was published in , Lorraine Hill, Postal Clerk C. A. Repp and
the Herald and News and since then several Chubbin Spero. ,
Klamath County Refuses
Cash Gift for Iron Lung
One Iron lung has been ordered
for Klamath Basin use but an of
fer to buy a second found Insuf
ficient Interest and the money was
turned over to Modoo County, au
thorities to buy the Iron lung for
that area.
Funds for the Iron lung on order
foe Klamath were contributed
through special events and popular
subscr iDtion. Tne lund was given
big boosts by the Klamath falls
Police Benevolent Association, con.
tributor of more than (1.300, Uie
Klamath Saddle Club which spon
sored a benefit tea. and ouier
Klamath Youth
War Casualty
A Klamath Falls' boy. Ted E,
P.UIeUe. is listed as musing In
action in Korea, according to De
fense Department announcement
today.
He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry B. Paillette. Mil &ane.
Ted. 18 years old, waa a Navy
medical corpsman auacaea to
TED PAILLETTE
unit of the 7th Marines, and had
been in Korea only about a month.
his mother slnd.
He left the United States Sept.
15. and was reported to be missing
in action as ot Oct. 27, His parents
were notified Nov. 3 by the De
fense Department, and have heard
nothing since.
Tr-d Paillette enlisted in the
Navy two years ago Nov. 1, leav
ing Klamath Union High School
tn no into the service. A brother.
Don Paillette, Is In his fourth year
at the University of Oregon.
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F""" " eseaeajgajeajsy n I m
o
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i niiisiaii i " in
bsestli
groups. The fund, called the Adler
Memorial Fund, was started by
Dr. George Adler, whose son died
s victim of polio several weeks
ago.
Soon after the - Adler fund had
been launched. Ray i8tormy)
Chase,- of Lakeview and Klamath
Falls, olfered to give M.000 for
Uie purchase of another Iron lung
for KlamaUi. He stipulated that no
charge be made for use of the
lung. x , . . . . .
Today, on the Herald and News
editorial page. Chase, In a letter
to the editor, announces with some
bitterness that his offer was, in ef
fect, ignored and that he had giv
en Uie money to Modoc County.
Dr. Beth Kerrori. county health
officer this morning explained that
were was actually no aemanaing
need- for en Iron hing here. He
said use of the lungs required
specially trained personnel cot
available here now. It is pos
sible, he added, that polio victims
might be placed in a lung here
and transported to the Sacred
Heart Hospital polio treatment cen
ter In Eugene but that would prob
ably have to be done by either
transport plane or truck since it is
unlikely any available ambulances
would be large enough to handle
Uie lung. A special electricity sup
ply would also have to be provided
in transit.
When the Adler lung arrives
about the first of the year. It Is
to be turned over to Dr. Adler
and he will decide how It Is to
be used.
Reds Asked To
Aid in Search
BERLIN (.f Russian authorities
have been asked to aid In a search
for 2nd Lt, Horace J. oincore.
Homestead. Fla., who disappeared
a week ego near the border of the
U. 8. Sector oi Berlin ana uie sov
iet occupation sone.
The u. 8. Army said Monaay
Ma). Oen. Lemuel Mathewson, uie
American commandant In Berlin,
sent a letter Saturday to Sergeln
Dengin. soviet Control Commission
representative, requesting aid.
Mathewson said Sincore was last
seen on Uie Wannsee Lake Island
about 600 yards east of Ollencicke
Brldce wher. the U. S. Sector of
divided Berlin borders on the Sov
iet son
The Russians are noiatng two wno
strayed across Uie Berlin frontier
last Wednesday. They were iden
tified Mondav as Pvt. Raymona
Mlchalou.-s.kl. Perth Am boy. N. J..
and Pvt. Lieutenant wignt, i-os
Angeles. Calif. The U. S. head
quarters has issued a formal re
quest to the Russians for. their
return, 1 . .
Office Damaged
In Local Fire
Fire this morning In an office
Of the Modoc Company, First Na
tional Rnnk Bulldina-. did minor
damage to a desk and two walls. :
Modoo employes said tne Diane
started In some paint thinner and
ignited a large piece of painter's
canvass.
When city firemen arrived, tne
office workers had almost extin
guished the blaze with an emer
gency fire hose.
SPARKMAN IN VIENNA 1
VIENNA. Austria l Sen. John
Sparkman of Alabama arrived in
Vienna Monday on a month's fact
finding tour of Europe in which he
intends to investigate an aspecw
of .Uie Amerioan aid program to
Europe;
L. V. Hosford
Death Told
Dr. Leonard V, Hosford. M, well-
known Klamath Falls chiropractic
Dhvslcian. died unexpectedly at his
bom Sunday morning of a heart
attack.
He collapsed In the bathroom of
Uie family residence, 2126 Auburn,
and efforts to revive him by use
ot the Fire Department resuscttat.
or, were unavailing.
Dr. Hosford was aa Oregon
tive, born at weidport on tne coast,
and bad lived in KlamaUi Falls
since 1938.
Survivors include the widow, Jes
sie Lee Hosford, three sons and
two daughters. t
Funeral services are to be con
ducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday from
the Church of Jessus Christ of Lat
ter Day Saints, with O Hair'a Me
morial Chapel in charge of ar
rangements, and burial will be In
Memorial Cemetery.
Auto Skids;
Five Injured
Five members of one family
were brought to KlamaUi Valley
Hospital this morning for examin
ation and treatment of Injuries re
ceived when their car skidded off
US 87 and went over a 30-foot em
bankment about three miles above
tne ChUoquin funcuon.
None was seriously hurt.
Brought to Uie hospital by Kal
er's ambulance were Mrs. C. E.
Pomme. 31: her three young chil
dren. Michelle, 4, Eddie, 5, and
Frances 2; and the chtldren'a
grandmother Mrs. , ClemenUne
Pomme.
They are from San Francisco,
but are moving to Moscow. Ida..
where the younger woman's bus
band, Capt C. E. Pomme, Is now
stationed after having returned
from Korea.
Only the girl, Michelle, was ad
mitted to the hospital.
.The family car. a 1061 Ford.
with the - younger Mrs. Pomme
driving, apparently skidded on an
Icy soot on uie nignway ana rouea
down the bank. '
The occupants were pinned In,
but Mrs. Pomme managed to get
out a window and climb back to
the highway to get help.
Erma Pinelli
illness Fatal
i
A Klamath County pioneer, Mrs.
Erma Plnelll. 62, resident here
since 1916. died at Klamath Val
ley Hospital, Nov. 30, following a
lengthy illness. .
She was born April 18, 1890, at
Fort Jones, Calif., and had made
her home on a ranch on the Mid
land road for many years. She
was a member of the Episcopal
Church and of the Midland Orange.
Mrs, Pinelli Is survived by her
widower, Lester A. Plnelll: five
daughters, Mrs. Bernice ..pains,
Mrs. June Elttreln, Mrs, Joyce
Feu. sll ot Klamath Falls, Mrs.
Frances Cain, Roseburg, Mrs.
Margaret Burnett, Bonansa; one
son, Herbert pinelli, KlamaUi Falls
a sister, Mrs. Elda Guard, Watson
vllle, Calif; a brother, Frank Hen
ry, Oakland; t also seven grand
children. Funeral services will be held
from ' O Hair's Memorial Chapel,
6th and Fine Streets, 11 a.m., Dec
Interment and final rites In the
Llnkvllle Cemetery,
Winds, Snow Lash
Area Around Basin
A storm which blew mostly dry for Klamath Falls yester
day and last night brought rain, snow and isolation to soma
parts of ihe Klamath Country and adjacent areas.
The community of Weed, 71 miles south of here, was hit
by heavy snowfall which was reportedly blocking traffic and
closed schools in that area. Nearby, the town of McCloud was
virtually marooned from tne rest of the world by the storm,
Reports from Dunsmuir this morning said McCloud's high
way was cut off by snow, and that telephone lines- both
railroad -and service were down. The SP office here was
unable to determine whether the McCloud River Railroad,
Bulletin
CABINET
NEW YORK UP) Martin P.
Durkln, ef Chicago Monday waa
named secretary of labor and
Sinclair Weeks of Boston. Mass.,
secretary ef commerce In President-elect
Elsenhower's cabinet.
Walter William of Seattle waa
named undersecretary of
mere
3 Killed In
7ild Gunfight
EUGENE Wl A husband killed
his estranged wife, a man who was
taking her to a dance and himself
Saturday night.
Dead are William R. Cooper, 42,
bis wife. Dorothea, 30, and Alvln
David Alleman Farts, 39.
The shootls; occurred In the
Cooper home about 12 miles south
of here.- Mrs.' Cooper's two child
ren by a- former marriage Doro
thea Henry. 11, and Deanne Henry,
9 were In the house at the time.
Dean. Blatchley, assistant Lane
County coroner,, said Uie shooting
apparently occured this way:
Farts called at the Cooper home
Saturday night to take Mrs. Cooper
to a dance. Cooper drove uo'to
the house while Faris waa there.
A quarrel ensued and Cooper
apparently fired sis: shots at his
wife end Farts, then reloaded his
.3S-csliber revolver, fired another
shot at Uie pair and then put a
bullet through his head.
Cooper had sent the two child
ren to a bedroom before tne shoot
ing. ,
Blatchley said Cooper apparently
had planned Uie shooting as a note
was found on his body concerning
distribution of his property.
Biawniey aaia uie tnree died
almost instantly after being snot.
Mrs. Cooper eras shot at the cheat.
nee and nead. rarls waa shot in
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Travel lip At
Crater Lake
1 November saw an Increase In
travel of H per cent over Uie
aame period a year ago. mostly
because of improved weather con
ditions this year, according to fig
ures released today by Asst. Chief
Ranger Beruie Packard, Crater
Lake National Park,
Last month 1,503 cars carried
i.tst persons Into Uie park as com
pared with 820 cars and 2,007 per
sons a year ago.
Reason for the Increased travel
was evident in -statistics on snow
depth at the park. Packard said
precipitation Uie past month
amounted to i t inches as com
pared with 12.40 for Uie same period j
in 1851. Stream year elnce Oct. 1
showed only 3.S2 inches of precipi
tation this year, and zs.w last.
Total snowfall last November
was 88.5 inches, Packard reported,
and last month was 26 Inches. Since
Oct. 1 this year there have been
26 inches of snow In Uie park, he
said, and last year during the same
period there were 144.
oreatest aeptn on tne ground
this year during a 24 hour period
was 22 Inches, and last year was 54
Inches, the park ranger said.
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MRS. Lll WHEELER, 1316 Shelley Street, waa downtown early
hi morning with, daughter, Connie, for a dental visit.
a logging rail route connect-
ing McCloud with the outside
world, was open for opera
tion. Police Clerk Rosemarie
Rocchi at Weed said no trains
have come over the line this
morning, and that as far as
was known all other com
munications ; were put with
the lumbering town.
In Weed itself, she said,
there is about five inches of
very wet snow almost slush
but reports from the south
said traffic was badly snarled
and road conditions were ex
tremely hazardous.
Dunsmuir, farther down
the Sacramento Canyon, had
2.11 inches of rainfall yester
day, and at 7:30 this morn
ing snow began to fall and was
still coming down shortly before
noon today. Northbound traffic
ijps being stopped at Dunsmuir,
reports from that town said. The
road was said to be blocked at
Mott, between Dunsmuir and Mt.
Shasta.
Other reports, showed the
Greensprings with rain and slush,
Bly snowing lightly, Willamette
Pass with seven inches of new
snow, the Santlam and McKenzle
Passes with 10-lnches of new snow
each, end Government Camp and
Ttmberline Lodge at ML Hood both
with an inch of new snow and
chains advised.
LIGHT FALL
In Klamath Tails and vicinity
a light snowfau wss noted last
night followed by a few drops of
ram. out most notewortny waa
the continued battering of tradi
tional wintertime winds.
The CAA airways communica
tions station here measured winds
velocities up to 38 and possibly
40 miles per hour during the night,
with similar recordings noted
throughout yesterday.
The temperature here, however,
pulled a turnabout In Uie face of
the etorm front moving across this
area. Where ttwtoiometers have
been hitting as low as t and 10 de
grees above here Uie past week
Uie low last night was Just one
degree below free sing 31 degrees.
The high yesterday wasn't much
wanner though, at 36 degrees.
CRATEE LAKE
Crater Lake, which Is still
awaiting Its first real blast of
winter to compare with last year,
may be getting it today. Asst. Chief
Ranger Bernie Packard reported
high winds were carrying a heavy
snowiall tn a noruontal movement
there, and already Uie Annie
Springs-Rim Village road has been
closed to all travel at least
temporarily.
Packard aald this morning
through traffic over uie South and
West entrance roads was being
maintained, though chains were
necessary. About 10 Inches oi new
snow fell during the night, with
temperatures dropping as low as
20 degrees. At 10 a.m. it was 26
at Park Headquarters.
Tne weatner oureau in roniana
forecast more of the same weather
for this area with little higher
temperatures. .
CASUALTY LIST ;
WASHINGTON W The De
fense Department Monday identi
fied 66 more Korean war casualtiea
(list No. 703). Of the total, six
sre dead, 54 wounded, four missing
In action and two injured In battle
sone accidents.