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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1952)
"Hare ir fo again!9' , ... i , . i I Wlh fa, ifaMhff r ' n The ..,.,. Hay's km By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: President Trumn haa turned dawn aUKgestlons Uut he cull a While House conference with Gen erals Elsenhower end MA,UJ iin ways and mean to ENO THE KOREAN WAR. TV.e Utile men rsi tot Al his news coulwence this morn ing he Mid ol Ue: Ills Ike'si cumpilp announce ment thst he would go to Korea was "piece of demagoguery. He added lhl MacArthur should have reported to him tTrumn after the general returned from j.pen following hl oiuter Irom the Far EH Commend. Any DE CENT men, ho told the corres pondent, would have done Just that time Implying thai Oenrrel MacArthur ISN'T decent. personally. I'm glad ha relused to confer with Ike ad Oeneral MacArthur. How could any Rood come of a conference preceded by noioonoua perwnal cracka like "'it'wlll be far Viler to WAIT UNTIL AFTER JANUARY 20. A llllle Incident that wan report ed In the news of yesterday may mislead ahallow, thoughllesa peo ple. It seems thai Ike and aeveral uf his assoclatca aboard the Hele na did some akeel shooting off the faniall of the bis; cruiser which, by the way, la a splendid place 7' for any kind of trap shooting, as ithe ahol falls harmleaaly into the I suppose half the nlt-wlts who resd thst Item are saying by this time: "Yeah, a bunch of bin anoia having a swell time out there In Hi warm. nlcnsnnt Pacific AT THE TAXPAYERS' EXPENSE. At Uiln pnt, let's Interject a eoiinle of paragraphs from the news or thin mormnii: The lon-level conferences aboard the Helena ended yesterday. What conclusions, If any, were amwn have not been disclosed. But John Foster Dulles (who will be secre tary of stale In Ike's cabinet) said the conferences will pay dividends lo the Amerlcsn people for years to come. Dulles snld the talks will he particularly effective because they continued WITHOUT OUT HIDP! PRESSURE OR INTERRUP TIONS. He added: "There won't be anv Immediate grand-scale payoff but It will, be a gradual thing, reselling into ev. ery part of the government's oper ations at home and abroad." He snld thst Elsenhower and his aides hsve now been able lo form the framework, of the new admin istration policy and that they all KNOW THPl DIRECTON IN WHICH THEY ARE OOINO AND THR OOAI.H rOR WHICH THKY ARE AIMING. You're familiar, of course, with the ancient crack about Columbus that he didn't know where he was going or what he would do when he cot there sua was mnk Ingthe trip on borrowed money. There hss been too much of that In our government pollutes of re cent years which have amounted Isrgely to Improvisations from dsy to day. If, as a result of the top. level conferences thst hnve been going on aboard the Helena, the upper echelons of the new admin istration "know the direction in which thev are going and the goals for which they are Hlmliut." tlREAT GOOD will accrue to the -jAhiorlcnn pcoplo. 'Now let's get back to the skeot- (Continued on Tag '4) Power, Phone Lines Out in Many Spots The tedious, time-consuming Job of rebuilding and revamping phone and power transmissions appeared to be the major chore remain ing today following the big storm of last weekend, though snow re moval operations were underway as Is normal tor this time of jrear bere. The mliinty force of the storm did an estimated $40,000 in actual damage alone to California-Oregon Power Comtwny traniunuilons, ac cording lo a report from Division Mgr. Bam Rltchey, and there's still a long way to go. Numerous areas are still with out power In the Klamath area. Rltchey listed them as Lsngell Valley, South Poe Vslley, some districts around Dairy and Illlite brand. Sprague River. Beaitv. Wil liamson River, Cove Point, Geary Kancn and Macdori. They are suffering from the ef- Growers Name Wiese, Ward TUI.ELAKE Charles Wlese and Ron Ward, both Tulelake ranchers, have been named to the board of directors of the Tulelake Orowers Association In a meeting held hero yesterday afternoon. They replace Bert Johnson and Dan Crawford on the board. Other business taken up during the meeting Included a discussion of the proposed potato district to nuance iiuuMng oi larm laoor cur ing the harvest season. The board Is to present costs of the proposed project at the next session, for housing 3SU farm families. People in the area are to be canvassed by personal contact to determine their feeling on the district formation Idea. County Supervisor Jim Stearns told the board thai It ap peared such legal barriers which stood In the district's wny could probably be hurdled without too much trouble Most of thst Is legislative, Including the fact the district would cross the Modoc Siskiyou County lines. Other board business Included the vote to have another assess ment contract become effective as soon as 75 per cent of the Tule lake area farmers okayed It. The present contract expires this year. New 'Saucer' Theory Told WASHINGTON Ifl Dense. swirling sneeis of air nigh In the sky may have caused falso "blips" to show up on radar sets, touching off last summer'a reports of Hying saucers. The Civil Aeronautics Adminis tration ICAA) said Wednesday wind eddlea can bend a radar beam downward so that it picks up an object on the ground and mnkoi It look like something flont- uig ni l in uie nenvens. Win i the unidentified bllns. or spots on rutin r screens, were nicked up Inst summer by airport radar sets, the populnr belief was that only aolld objects on which radnr was directly focused would show up. The CAA announcement Is In ac cord with an Air Torce report last July that a temperature Inversion could deflect radar waves and cause false Images on th act. feets of what some oldtimera called the worst such storm that has ever hit here. Maurice Leslie, Copco a superintendent here for 38 yeura, said in all his time here he had seen nothing like it. Leslie sat at the Copco short-wave radio hour after hour during the first phases of rebuilding the damaged lines, and directed erewa like a general directing armies. Rltchey said that In the Beany. Whiskey Creek area some of the greatest forces oi me storm must have struck. He described one por. Hon in that area where 67 power poles were laid flat by the storm almost five miles OI line. '.'We have to start rebuilding from acratch there." he said. "It s the saddrst transmission line I've ver looked at." He described It as ocing a prone 1 ne rather than vertical. wun poles snapped olf as though huge bnu ders had struck them. lne line Is vital to service of Lakevlew and Bly In case power connections coming through Alturas ana norm should fall. Rltchey said crews are working steadily In all directions where there Is trouble, handling both btir and little Jobs as they come to them. He predicted only that bv this weekend the last lew clr- cults on tag-end lines should be picked up. Yesterday such areas were brought back Into the local circuit as Bonanza, Dairy, Olene, remain ing portions of Keno. Pine orove. Wocus. Miller Hill Chelsea Addi tion and the DeWlll Tracts of Stewart Lenox. Rltchey described this as the "most difficult period of all" be cause so many families out of power for some length of limi most since Saturday night are getting a little weary. No casualties or Injuries were suffered during the storm by pow or crews, the manager said. Meanwhile, phone line troubles were rapidly being repaired well. Like transmission power lines, some of the phone poles were flattened In many areas. Mnnv rnmmunlcstions were Inltlsl ly knocked out by the storm, but are being put rapidly back Into service. i HST Plans To Organize YSB WASHINGTON Ml President Truman said Thursday he expects to replace the resigned Industry members of the Wage stabtlitatton Board (WSB) before the end of the week, i All seven members representing Industry quit Inst week In protest ngnlnst the President's action In overruling the bonrd In the coal mine wage case,- Truman told a news conference Hint economic controls should be extended beyond April 30. He snld he not only expected to announce Industry members for the wnge board, but that he ex pected to have a replacement for Roger Putnam when Putnam steps out as economic stnbilir.ntlon nd mlnlstrntor, He verified reports thnt former Price Administrator Michael V. DISnlle was under con sideration tor Putnnm's post. Trumnn's announced Intention to get the wage control progrnm func tioning again has run Into opposi tion from elements of organised Inbor, as well as business organiza tions. (Early story on page I.) ile Cents 38 Pair Bulletin PATTERSON SALEM (') Tht Ore gon Supreme Court ruled today that Paul L. Patter ton of Hilltboro will bo the next governor of Oregon. Patterson it president of the State Senate. He will succeed Douglas McKay as Governor. Reds Launch Assaults On Korea Hills Br GEORGE McARTHL'R SEOUL lift Chinese Commu nists stabbed through withering Allied artillery lire Thursday to hur South Korean defenders from Little Norl hill on the Western Front for the second lime In 17 hours. Frontline officers said the Reds hurled 3.000 men into the attacks their biggest In a month. South Korean troops withdrew at dusk in the face of a two-company 1300 to 350 men) Communist at tack. The Chinese advanced through a thundering 1.000-round artillery barrage from their own guns. Associated Press staffer Mllo Parnetl reported 'rm the Jront thai Communist big guns were stepping up the savage bombard ment that began just before the Reds opened the aee-aaw battle shortly after midnight. An estimated 10.000 rounds of ar tillery and mortar fire fell on Al lied positions. CASUALTIES Farnel aaid the Reds suffered an estimated 270 casualties 162 killed and at least 118 wounded. The Chinese had1 captured Little Norl earlier, but the South Ko reans stormed back up the alope In fierce counterattacks despite hmrrairi, or a.ooo Red shells. Some 200 Allied warplanes hurled heavy blows at Red positions on the Western From. For the first time In five dsys. no Russian-built MIO Jet planes came out to fight. An estimated 8.008 rounds of Communist artillery and mortar fire -pounded the South Koreans since the Red attacks Jumped off. Front-line reports said Allied and Chinese big guns were engaged tn a thunderous duel Thursday after noon. Both Big and Little Norl are located along the Imjin River in the freezing Kelly Hill area, where gnarled knobs rise irregularly to form stepping stones In the bloody Battle of the Hills. TIIKKE ASSAULT!) The Chinese Reds hurled three main assaults In the area early Thursday, with the Norl heights the principal targets. Associated Press Correspondent Mllo Farnetl reported from the Western Front that Republic of Korea troops were digging In on Little Nan tms aiternoon, alter regaining lost ground In bloody counterui rusts. SHOOTING HOURS DECEMBER 12 Open 6:57 A.M. Close 3:35 P.M. Committee By V. A. HENDERSON Klamath County Agricultural Agent and Secretary of the Klamath County Land I'se Committee The unceasing and relentless ef fort of the Fish and Wildlife Serv ice to gain control of 21,000 acres of some of the richest farm land of the Klnmath Bnsln has made It necessnry for tile Klamath County Land use committee to take a more active part In preventing such a catastrophe. This committee of 36 business men and farmers realizes the ne cessity of using Klamath Basin lands to the fullest advantage. If the Klnmnth community Is to pros per and grow. The 21,000 acres In question is now under Jurisdiction of the Bureau ot Reclamation and present plans require that the ma jor part of this area be home steaded when rendy. with veterans having a preference both as to leasing and homesteading. Appar ently the program of the Fish and Wlldlfe Service Is to gain control of this land, lease In a similar manner to the leasing program now being carried out by the Bureau of Reclnmatlon. and to prevent It ever being homcsteaded. m)mf iim hmMliiHinl urn i liixilHaniilillMllnliiiKMMbai a , tuiirili ir in Yi I SMill I KLAMATH FALLS, 'OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1092 iff '.! HARD AT WORK and Janet Beaton. "Holiday Inn." planning The frolic Students Give ToBloodmobile OTI students, faculty members and families presented the Red Cross bloodmoblle with a total n' 178 pints of blood at the tStudei Union yesterday, bringing the two- day Klamath county ottering to so? pints. Some 231 prospective donors pre sented themselves at the bloodmo blle. Exec. Secy. Virginia Dixon announced. The OTI Practical Nurs ing class acted as nurses aids dur ing the operation, and OTI co-eds assisted in the canteen. The City Ice and Supply Co., donated chopped Ice for the affair, as they have In the past, and milk and cream used In the canteen were given by the Klamath Falls Creamery. An estimated 700 students and family members were available for the operation, and Mrs. Dixon not ed the ratio of donors to potential donors at OTI amazed Red Cross officials here from Portland, she suggested a similar ratio from the county as a whole would "cer tainly be nice." Morse Sees Loss in '56 KiprsT CROVE ( Sen. Wayne Morse heads into Eastern Oregon Thursday fighting against a conviction that be will be de feated in 1956. "I fully expect u oe ueic.Kru ... 1956." he told a capacity crowd of mt - innm innim nere weuiica- day night. He added at once that he would go down fighting. "Let me say to uie upijuim;. vmrrA oninff to have to beat me'." he said in the fourth speech of his tour of the state, his lirst appear ance in Oregon since he bolted the Republican Pnrty In the recent campaign. ' He went on to defend his bolt from the Republicans, and fre quently won applause from a crit ical audience that Included some who tried to heckle blm. Calls for Homesteading Members of the county Land Use committee cannot see eye to eye with this program. They fail to see why revenues accruing from the land should be used for further land purchases and game development programs. The committee feels unanimously that private lands In the overall picture provide much more feed for birds than do lnnds under government control, They recognize the fact thnt a small area set aside lor birds when cropped to grain and unharvested, attracts great quantities of birds and Is a very spectacular program. They also realize thnt the area that can be net aside for ths pur pose, is sinnll compnred with the 250.000 ncrea of prlvntely owned crop land that the birds feed on more or less throughout the year. This farm innd area provides a great abundance of feed for wild life and this food supply combined with reasonable nesting and rest ing grounds Is what is Increasing bird numbers using the Klamath flyway. It Is the opinion of the commit tee that turning this vast quantity of line agricultural lnnd over to the Jurisdiction of the Fish end Wildlife Service will greatly de T the OTI Christmas dance are (I is scheduled for Dec. 16 at the Sports Bulletin HANEY IX PITTSBl'RGH Iff Fred Haney signed a one-rear contract Thurs day to manage the hapleaa Pitts burgh Pirates. The announcement . n - n,nr.P.n i .... I Haney, skipper of the champion noiiTwooa. Bimrs or the Pacific tout League, and Pittsburgh Grneral Manager Branch Rickey. (Early story In sport section). Ship Sinks In SF Bay SAN FRANCISCO Ml The Nor wegian freighter Ferns tream sank after colliding with the freighter Hawaiian Rancher, but the Fern- stream s crew escaped In lifeboats. The crash occurred Just west of Alcatras Island In a murky log and drizzle. The Hawaiian Freighter Immed iately flashed an SOS and the Coast Guard sent three rescue boats to the scene. The Coast Guard later reported the Fernstream's crew of 43 men had taken to the lifeboats when their ship started to go under. The 13 passengers on the com bination freight and passenger ves sel also escaped safely before the Perns tream sank, stern down, and disappeared In about 100 feet ot water. Not a trace of the ship showed above the bay. The Coast Guard said there was only one minor Injury reported a Fernstream crew member suffered a wrist Injury. The accident happened about 7:30 a.m. PST, the Coast Guard said. The Norwegian vessel sank at 8:06 a.m. The tide was going out at the time and the Coast Guard said the sunken ship possibly might block the shipping channel. Captain A. Kristensen command ed the Fernstream, a 416-foot long ship of 4.980 gross tons. Three fast patrol boats were sent to the rescue by the Coast Guard. It was not learned immediately what damage If any, the Hawaiian Rancher suffered. crease agricultural production. It however undoubtedly will increase revenues to the Fish and Wildlife iA ' -i-:- C. A. HENDERSON Service. The committee doubts very much whether It will Increase game birds; In faot U may actually, de life: I4 . 'I No. 2494 to r) Sally McMahon, Betty Starr Willard. The theme this year is Klamath Spud Price Climbs Klamath potatoes advanced as much as 30 cents on the Los Angeles m-xrket for U S. No. lA's on carlot track sales, according to the weekly potato and truck crops review ot the Oregon Extension Service. On Dec. V. the same grade brought S4.35 to 64 60 per hundred pounds through street sales. On the Portland market U.S. No. I russets from Oregon wholesaled from S4.50 to S4.75. with U.S. No. 1 Bakers wholesaling for $5.50 hundredweight. At San Francisco this past week the market was about stead; and prices unchanged. Deschutes Rus sets U.S. No. lA's brought 64.10 to 64 25 per hundred pound sack through broker s sales. At Chicagu market, supplies were still light, the demand slow and the market dull. Carlot track sales of washed Idaho rus sets, U.S. No. lA's, brought 65 to 65.30 per hundred, about a nickel lower than the same class a week ago. At Idaho Falls on Dec. 8. potato offerings were moderate with fair wire inquiries. Demand was slow and the market slightly weaker. A few cars rolled unsold. Sales, f o b. shipping point, for washed U.S. No. 1 Idaho russets, medium to large In size, ranged from 63.65 to 63.85 per hundredweight, about five cents below a week earlier. Weather FOhECAST-Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: A few sprinkles with partial clear ing Thursday afternoon. Partly cloudy Thursday night and Friday. High both daya 44, low tonight 28. High temp yesterday , 37 Lew last night 36 Preclp yesterday , .48 Since Oct. 1 . .4.16 Normal for period ..S.S1 Same period last yr . 5.15 of Klamath crease bird population. In view of these fncts a sub-committee of the County Land Use Committee has adopted the follow ing policy and program report to be made to the entire County Com mittee at their next meeting Dec. 12. 1. The Committee recognizes that the future economy of the Klamath Basin Is based mainly on the land and therefore, all lands should be used for purposes lor which they are best adapted. 2. Increased purchases of pri vate lands by the state and fed eral government are not In the best Interest of the county. 3. Government ownecf lands, now ready for permanent farming, should be homestended, with vet eran's preference. This should be given immediate consideration. 4. Where lessees have lived up to their contract with the U.S. Bu reau of Reclamation in the farm ing of Tulelake and Lower Klnm nth Lake lenses, said lenses should be reinstated and lessees allowed to complete the balance of their contracts. 5. Lease contracts, however, should be terminated when lease land in ready for homesteading. 6. Lessees oi all government Telephone Dili k '1 President Doubts Mac Offers Plan WASHINGTON Wl President Truman said Thursday he doubts that Gen. Douglas MacArthur has hit upon any new solution of the Korean war, and declared that In 1950 the general told him he was sure the war was over then. Truman, In an unusually stern mood, also told his news confer ence that Gen. Dwlght D. Eisen hower was guilty of demagoguery when he said in the presidential campaign he would go to Korea. Truman summed up that he doesn't see how any good! could come of any White House meeting with the two to talk about Korea. Senator Watkins (R.-Utahi. had suggested earlier that Truman "set aside rancor" and invite MacAr thur and President-elect Eisenhow er to a White House parley. UNBENT The President unbent only a lit tle. He said that as a, matter of courtesy he would be glad to see euner oi tnem, if either had any thing to discuss. He said too he would be happy if any good came out of the Korean trip Eisenhower bag now conclud ed. Also on the subject of courtesy. he said MacArthur should have re ported to him on the situation In Korea when he came back from the Far East last year even though Truman had fired him. Any decent man would nave done that, Truman added. He said it was called for In military etiquette. wnen ne am get a report rrom MacArthur in 1950 that waa at , their Wake Island conference six months before Truman recalled bis Far East commander about all be got was misinformation, the President said. strvKT He said MacArthur told him: 1. The Chines would not move into Korea. 3. A U. S. division could be spared from Korea lor occupation duty In Germany. J. ne was sure the war was over. Reporters at the conference were in general agreement they had rarelr seen the President speak with wo much leeusy a he did Thursday on the Korean problem. Senator Watkins called the Pres ident's remarks, turning down the suggestion of a Mac Arthur-Elsenhower-Truman meeting, ''amazing words." He told a reporter that was all the comment he could, make now. Senator Welker R.-Idaho) called them the words of "a pretty sick, frustrated man" and seemed slanderous to him. "What could have been more fair and proper than a meeting rt those two great generals with the Pres- iaent to explore this problem?" Welker exclaimed1. He said Truman's own record "will live forever a reeorrf af demagoguery of the highest rank." Iranian spoke up in response (Continued on page 4) McKay Due To Return SALEM HI Gov. Douglas Mc Kay is expected to return to Salem Monday from his conferences with Gen. Eisenhower. The governor, who will be secre tary of the interior when the Elsen hower administration takes over Jan. 20. left here last Friday to Join Elsenhower aboard the US3 Helena. His secretary. Miss Alene Phil lips, said she heard that the gov ernor bad made an appointment with a friend in his office In Salem for Monday. He hasn't sent any direct word as to when he would return. Miss Phillips said she expects Gov. McKay will fly from Hawaii. Persons close to the governor said they doubt that he will an nounce any appointments to inter ior Department posts until he goes to Washington. Lease Lands land should be required to live up lo their contracts. 7. A fifty nine hundred (5900) acre tract of land in the Lower Klamath area Is ready and has been for several years, and should be homesteaded by veterans, 8. Game Is a natural resource and as such should be protected as to reasonble feeding, nesting, and resting grounds. However, good agricultural lnnds In production now or that will be in the future should not be promiscuously set aside for wildlife purposes. 9. The acquiring ol large areas or tracts of land In wholesale man ner for wild life purposes Is not desirable. 10. Lands now set asiile for wild life purposes should be adequately developed and game production on these lands should be Increased. 11. An over-all study of ptibllo lnnds should be made with local people well represented In the stu dy, group, to determine best land use. People living In the Klamath Basin are particularly concerned that the future development of this area shall not be needlessly re stricted. 13. Large lircas of farm land should not tw farmed by any gov ernment agency.
