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FRANK JKNK1NS
Lan FruiiulKO: '
L, gram John Colletll lound
by I rum Kure yeslerdsy
WMI 11)0 SW.WUU1 Ul IQ
lh stales. To mark the
Arirmu Hotly Hutton gave
lupoid Sen Franciscan
la welcome kiss.
It in over, Belty gasped:
' im sergearo saiu:
mora exciting Un com-
Bud. And a WHALE o!
ft dangerous,
Univerelly of nilnola at
Un ihev hava what they
imall Homes Council, and
El Homes Council haa what
i "apace siuuy isnorawry.
ihev hava town living the
house a going over wim
thine from magnifying
to allda rulea to llnd out
ought to have end what It
without.
Lrrent atudy conclude with
bnlflcanl worda:
LvROKR THAN AVERAGE
la lound a noceaany ior
kools end odd end ende,
1 theae planning englneere
ho have eoineuung unaer
bta. alter all. Old nnf
fcvir aee garage that wss
kigh to bold ail. we uunge
t have to do wm m w
became there lan'l any-
kite to put 'em?
Il round-up ol the slgntll-
kwa ol the day. let'a Jump
Ion, where Queen Elisabeth
ri on a dai yeaieroay in
kham palace and before her
notables oi ner reaim. one
her hand a bright aword.
after another he touched
fellng enea with the net of
lie. Each time atae touched
Uder In the ancient feudal
the aecoiaoe, ana creeveu
knight. ..... ,
ony, em
If
I
L have chained la England,
fin the day of William the
tror end for eeveral eea
ialtarward. thia buaineea ol
k knlkhla wea highly prac
fe. Kings held their Uironee
power ol etrong right arm
and their followers') and
lhey aaw da eble wlelder ol
I and mace and. lance they
lm Into camp by the proceaa
Bng him the accolade and
a him a knight.' la turn, ne
fealty to the klac and there-
fche klng'a battlee were hie
ir ne made good, wo king
bed land and caatle upon
lumbar Case Coiiiitiiiiiii9dl
Transportation Facilities
In, Around Klamath Put
City In Favorable Light
Tbla I the filth of a arrlr of artlclea le 1m published In the
Herald end New. Thla series of artlclea I bring compiled and writ-
lea from the lUndpoInt ef shewing the alablllly el resources and the
eeeaeailc eeandneaa that make far permanent proaeerlly. '
The cerrytag eel ef thla educallenal program haa been made pos
alkle by the eeppert accorded It by it reprcarntalive Indnatrlal. cent
aMrclsL preftaeleaal flraia aad aaaeclatlena whe are demenatrating
tkelr confidence la the future ef the Klamafh Baaln. Each ef theee
firms baa ea Interesting aeaaage ea paiee t aad 1 la this tane.
Vajrrmg ee.eoy, b
By R. KENNETH EVANS
Transportation is the connecting link which brings pro
duction and. consumption together and, which has played a
m6st important part in supporting Klamath Falls strategic
' location as a distribution center. Klamath
Falls without railroads, highways, motor
truck transport and airplanes would com
pare to an inland barricaded mountain re
gion without contact with the outside world
and symbolizing stagnation.
Klamath Falls, with good rail facilities,
highways and adequate transportation facili
ties meant a busy, thriving center reaching
into the outlying districts and drawing from
them and giving back in return the life
blood of a healthy commercial, industrial
and cultural center. Today, Klamath Falls
it the marketing, trading and distribution center for a wide
region. It it the hub around which an extensive commerce
moves with the highways as emblematic spokes of a large
commercial wheel.
The principal north-south high-
B.
K. EVANS
time less robust days, royal-
a out a list of those It owes
ttiorui to In one way and an-
and KNIGHTS them.. What
hie aide ol the house gets out
Inhthood Is the right to put
In front ol his nsme and the
side becomes Lsdy Bo-and.
Itead of plain Mrs.
works, and everybody Is
America, we have the ssme
im of rewarding the faith'
lut Instead of knighting them
aate -em poetmasters, or col'
It of customs or U.S. mar-
or get 'em a lob In Washing-
m not so eure but what the
In system has the edge on
Among other advantages, It
less. I
way la the The Dauee-Caiuorola
highway, U.S. 97, which runs from
the center ol the county. This route
connecting with US M at Weed,
California and Oregon St at Che
mult, Is the fastest route between
Portland and Baa Franolsco. U.S.
at and Oregon Ha together with
raaoii at nambia stub and eeat
trbm Klsaata rills, are' links in
a route which la by several bears
the lastest between L0 Angles ana
Portland. Ore son It la the. moat
Important eaat-weet highway, join
ing u.B. Si in suamew nu, man
conaMtlng the city with Ashland
and U.S. tt to the west, and Lake-
view and transcontinental routes to
the eesl. V . .
Klamath county naa a wiai oil
Tlt.t mllea ol county roadways
of which Jeo.Jl mues are eunacea,
gravel or rock with 1M.44 miles
that are oil aurlaced. The farmers
In the county appreciate this sys
tem of roadways which could right
fully be clsased es "farm to mar
ket" roads. Of the 1.3M larms In
the county' there are sea located
on herd surfaced roada and US
located adjacent to gravel or rock
roads. There are aoJ mues or un
improved roads with 170 terms lo
cated on these roads. These un
improved roada are claasUled as
feeder roadways and are usually
passable during the months In the
yesr when the farmers ere har
vesting and marketing crops. In
fact. Klamath county haa as many
miles of county roads as Multno
mah Count. ;
IMPORTANCE OF ROAD
EXEMPLIFIED
The well known expression: "All
Roads lead to Rome," had Its ori
gin and was prompted by the high
type civic pride which made Rome
a social, financial, cultural ' and
civic ruling center of the then
known world. The expression,
doubtless, was originally employed
In a poetlo or figurative sense but
without lis eoDllcstlon to the ac
tual roada on the ground, Rome
would never have attained to her
newer. Realism- the necessity of
abundant and well constructed sr
teries of trade, commerce and
communication generally, with ber
outlying diatrtcto and eeleWee,
lieme bulH eeranewtU, reeebi the
meet sola Die ol wrucn. pernaps.
wee the Aoolan Way. remains of
whteh etui may be found and por
tions still used for- travel. True
"ADolsn Way" could be compared
to U.B. 17 highway In. Klamath
county and It Importance tooey.
It wea not too many years ago
that an ordinary earth road was
considered ample for all time to
come, but the development of auto
mobiles end trucks with tneir rugn
epeed end hesvy loads, demanded
something more durable end cer
tain. Even when the automobile
came and the more progressive
realised the Importance ol lm.
proved highways, some taxpayers
atin contended tnat me oewennenv
of U: roada waa tor trie pleasure
nf a few. As time passed, however,
all recognised the fact that the
truck and sutomoDU j were neces
sltlea and that good roads were
lndlsnenslble from this beginning
hlghwsy construction hss become
one ol the most Important project
ever before the American people,
GOOD RAIL FACILITIES
Klamath Falls Is served by two
asperate main line railroads. The
ooenine of the Natron cut-off be
tween Klamath Falls and Eugene
In 1B26 placed the city on the
main north-south route of . the
Southern Pacific railroad. The sec
ond main north-south raUroad
opened in 1931 when the Great
Northern completed Its line south
to Bleber. Cell!., where it con
nects with the Western Pacific
through the Spokane, Portland and
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Action May
Shut Down
KF Outfit
A hearing was begun In Circuit
Court this morning on whether
William A. Bpangler, lumbermen,
should be appointed receiver ol
ihe Pslmerton Lumber Coinpsny,
and the pros and cons of the pro
posed receivership probably will
be argued out next Monday.
Thla afternoon Judge David K
Vandenberg la to rule on a mo
tion which, if upheld, would tern-
norarlly appoint Bpangler receiv
er lor the company ana restrain
Ihe company from engaging in fur
ther production or ahipment of
lumber products pending determin
ation ol a auit brought ny loreu
L. Palmerton sgslnst the compsny.
Trie equity suit wss filed Feb.
by Loren L. and Edith B. Pal
merton against the Pslmerton
Lumber Compsny, asking that
Spangler be appointed receiver for
the firm to conserve and liquidate
its sssets.
LIABILITIES
The suit Is directed sgslnst the
present management of the com
pany, O. A. and Etna C. Weidler
of Chicago, and charges that the
company la loalng money, that it
haa over tiM.OOO current unsecured
liabilities it csn't pay, thst It l
in imminent denier ol Insolvency,
end that the company has been
mismanaged by the Weldlers lor
the benefit of their wholesale lum
ber company la Chicago, the Weid
ler Lumber Company,
Palmerton formerly was general
manager ol the company, but waa
eased out last May by the Weid
lera' control of a majority of the
corporation voting slock.
opangier aiao is a former rau
merion executive, and now oner'
atea the Spangler Lumber Com'
party, Bly.
In court this morning Jim Des-
endorf of Portland, attorney repre
senting uw weldiera, asked to have
the hearing on aa order to show
cause why Spangler eboulda't be
ewl
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5.
THESE MILLS SCHOOL students were waiting for the but this morning at the housing unit
on Wethburn Way. ' .
Heart Fund
Giving Asked
A bucket brigade of Klamath In
surance men le to -take to down
town street corners tomorrow to
gsther donations toward the na
tional Heart Fund, which high
lights its snnusl campaign on Val
entine's Day.
Local Life Underwriters Sre
handling the campsign which Chair
man Norman Wilson has described
es short snd snappy. No locel
quota hss been announced.
Heart disease in isol accounted
for more deeths than all of the
next five kUlers put together. They
are cancer, 217,000: accidents, 94,
000; pneumonia, 48,000; tuberculos
is, 30,000; rtiebetes, 39,000 a total
of 414.000 deaths.
Heart diseases accounted for
761,000 deaths in 1951.
- - - u niHiua WW I , . , .
their Ohtcago attorney, J. A. Cob-
bey, ware unable to set here todav
Cobbey also Is a director of the
ratmerton company.
CONTINUED
Judge Vandenberg continued the
hearing until Mondsy, 10 a.m. He
took under advisement until this
afternoon the motion of R. B. Mx.
well, attorney for the Pelmerton's,
for a temporary receiver and ces
sation of production of the mill.
Detendorf I tied an affidavit of
w. H. Cramer, now general mana
ger of the company here, in which
Cramer asserted that the esseta
of the company exceed Its obllira
Hons, that Its current obligations
are being met, the company is not
insolvent, the assets aren't being
dissipated, and thst there hss been
no fraud or mismanagement.
Singers Slate
Benefit Sing
ALTURAS The Altura high
school swimming pool is to be the
beneficiary from a visit of the
Klamath Falls Barbershop Chorus
and a covey of quartets, sollsts
and other talent from north of the
statellne .tomorrow night.
The benefit is sponsored by the
Alturaa American Legion post, and
i stated ior trie senooi auditorium.
More than 1.000 nersons are ex.
pected to attend the affair,. which
tne cnorus ana isieni win put on
without remuneration.
Among the talent Is to be the
TUie-Aires, me wnsi rour vuar.
tet, the House Brothers snd a quar
tet of girls from Merrill.
Klamnth's chorus the chapter
of the Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barbershop
Quartet singing In America con
sists of 50 voices, with numerous
novelty numbers scattered through
Its program. i
Mrs. Hill Clings To Life
In Iron Lung In Hospital
Powder Blast
Kills Twelve
RICHMOND. Calif. VHA flicker
of flame and a wisp of smoke
snurted from an exploelve-mlxlng
"dope house" at the riereuies
Powder Company in nearby Pinole
veaterdav. .
Aa worxers rusneo to ugm me
fire, an explosion reduced the brick
building to rubble. . i
Twelve men were ura ona,
BULLETIN i
At press trsse tbls afternoon,
eeadltiea ef Mrs. Ralph Hill fas
the Irea lang at Klaasath Valley
Hospital had cream worse eat
she erne still alive.
By WALLACE MYERS
Mrs. Ralph Hill miraculously
clung to life In the Iron lung at
Klamsth Valley Hospital todsy.
The 37-year-old wife of a promi
nent Henley rancher became un
conscious and stopped breathing at
Hillside Hospital Wednesday alter
noon. She waa kept alive by arti
ficial respiration and a City Fire
Department resuscitator squad
until she could be transferred to
the other hospital and placed In
tne iron lung.
She had entered Hillside Hosni-
tal Tuesdsy after suffering severe
migraine headaches. Cause of Mrs.
Hill's sudden collapse into crtuesl
condition was diagnosed yesterday
The exnloston threw bricks from
the building; 700 feet. It shook four
counties. It even got a resell on on
the University of California seis
mograph at Berkeley, 12 miles to
the south. San Francisco, 30 airline
miles away, was Jolted.
An employe who declined to
give his name said the "dope
bouses" were considered relative
ly ssfe from explosion. He ssld
three hsd burned In the past four
years without exploding.
Only two men were in the M
by 50 foot brick building which was
used for mixing "dope" liquid in
gredients of dynamite. They pre
eumably touched off the plant fire
whistle which brought workers
running. Then came the blest
whioh "almost knocked our hesds
oil," iald workers farthest from
the scene. , ,
Those closer to the explosion
didn't live. . ,
Eugene D. Hatfield, Hercules
employment supervisor, said:
"We probably will never know
the cause ol the blast."
Crater Ski
Outlook Good
Four Inches of powdered snow
stop a snow psck well over -100
Inches deep caused Crater Lake
National Park rangers to forecast
expected good ski conditions over
the weekend.
Only a slight crust on the ski
surface blemished ' the otherwise
bright outlook for the next two
days.
Asst. Chief Ranger Bernle Pack
ard described road conditions as
good, with no chains required in
use In the park. . However, he said
they should be carried by motor
ists planning to make the trip to
the Rim VlUage.
Snow depth at the ' lake Uiis
morning was Ul inches as com'
pared with 161 Inches the ssme
date a year ago.
KPCA Meet
Plans Final
Klamath's biggest annual farm
aotlrm come oft at the Klamath
Falls Armory tomorrow, eUrtmg
, Tt IUe4itb, Production Credit
Association is celebrating Its 19th
session then, and better than too
persons ara expected to be
The KPCA is a farmer-owned fi
nancial institution with stockhold
ers scattered from deep in North
era California across a good part
of south-central Oregon.
E. M. (Oenel Hammond is presi
dent. Terms of three members of
the board of directors expire with
the meeting, and for the first time
in the association's history there
is to be competitive balloting- In
filling the vacancies.
Directors whose terms expire are
Paul Brelthaupt, Murel Long, and
William Klttredge.
Ed Miller, Jen-Ed's, Is acting as
caterer tor the buffet dinner and
program Is to include agricultural
trend forecasts by the Production
Credit Corporation of Spokane.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity aad Northern California:
Fair, with btga eiouomeea. mgn
today 4S, tomorrow 44. Lew to
night, tt. - ,
High temp yeaterday .. 4
Lew last night 15
Preclp yesterday
mace uci. i ,, , re.xi
Normal for period 7.17
Same period last year . ll.tt
by Dr. Richard Currln a aa
'acute degenerative disease of the
nervous system."
Dr. Phillip selling. Portland
Clinic neurologist, ckme here yea
terday to examine. Mrs-. Hill in
the iron lung. Dr. Currin said to
day the specialist bad confirmed
his diagnosis snd said nothing
could be done for the stricken wom
an that.. was not already being
aone.
Several other local doctors have
examined the case and the un
contested opinion is thst Mrs. Hill
could not nave survived through
Wednesday night bad the iron Jung
not been available. The. lung.
bought by popular subscription to
the George Adler Jr. Memorial
Fund, wss placed In the hospital
only 10 days ago and Is the only
modem Iron lung In the Klamath
Country.
Mrs. Hill's husband. Ralph, was
a prominent college aad Olympic
track star and is now one of the
best known rancher tn the Basin.
The woman's parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Percy Dixon, are also very
prominent In Basin ranching and
social circles.
Apparently doctors and nurses
hold practically no hope tor Mrs.
Bui a survival. - ..- . : ,
W MOTORCYCLI PATROLMAN Carl J.nninoi (e.nt.rl pat Is Mi tour of duly v...
' hrlll Im Pytm.!; J,. Il.fl and Mi ilit.r, Trls ,(rt,hl..,Ths yaMr.91t.r1 ere child.
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Yreka Leukemia Victim To
Get Florida Watermelons
YREKA Charles Dsvis Jr., S-
year-old Weed boy suffering from
lympnstie leukemia, was today to
receive fresh wstermelon flown
from Miami, Fls.
The child, stricken ' with the
usually latal disease the first week
in January, expressed a desire for
watermelon. His aunt, Mrs. Uuy
Phillip of Wauna telephoned radio
station KFBK In Sacramento. An
appeal' was' broadcast, arid the boy
received froaen watermelon from
Mr, Glenn Wtlm, Dunsmulr, Mr.
snd Mrs. Charles Danbrook, Clear
Lake Highlands, and Mrs. Decker.
Mount Shasta. 'Danbrook, when he
neard tne appeal In Clear Lake
Highland, drove 48 miles to Wil
liam to put the 'watermelon on
the bua. ' t
Young Davis smacked - his lip's
when he saw the melon and ate
It right away, his aunt said. She
ssld melon was the only food the
boy had been able to retain for
two day.
Identity at the persona having
tn irean watermelon . iiewn to tne
bov . from Florida Is not known,
They -are said to have heard
the appeal when It was put on a
national hookup.
The boy's aunt said tne iirst
Inkling of. his being stricken was on
Jan. 8,. when he complained of
nalns in his lees. But the boy In
sisted on attending school and his
pslns were not considered as ny-
tning serious. ui on Jan. Wi uie
boy became nauseated, a physician
wss caned- and the case was. aiag.
nosed as the dread leukemia.
Instructors at Weed Oranimar
School describe young Davis as an
excellent student, Ironically enough
while the boy was home 111, his
school principal advanced him
from the third to the fourth grkde
because he had shown sucn bril
liance in the past semester.
Chsrles' grandmother,. Mrs. Xal
lie Davis, weed, says ne na
wonderful sense of humor."1
Charles' mother la with him most
of the time. Hi brothers: Gordon,
t, and Michael, (, are too young
to know whet it Is all about,
Wrong Vay
A pintail duck which apparently
went south through' the Hawaiian
Islands late in US1 probably should
hare made the islands "vacation
land" this past season as well.
Instesd, the duck came through
the Klamath Basin and fell victim
to a Klamath hunter. And with the
shot .which felled the duck comes
sa interesting banding record, ac
cording to local Fish and Wildlife
Service officials.
The duck was caught and band
ed at Kanaha Pond, Kahulul Maul,
Territory of Hawaii, Nov. &. 151.
One year and six dsys later
Nov. 11,, 1053 hunter Harland T.
Robinson, 3143 Biehn. knocked her
down along Upper Klamath Lake.
Logical presumptions are the I
bird was caught and banded in
Hawaii during one leg of south
bound migration it wss making
that year through the islands. And
this oast season, she apparently-
changed her mind and came south
through here.
DECREE
WARSAW, Poland Ul Poland
Friday decreed that all church ap
pointments be approved by the
state. Appointees must be Polish
aad must take an oath of loyalty
to the government.
Payroll List
Slashed By
Last Order
WASHINGTON IM President
Eisenhower's steady return 11 1
free-market economy pried the
price lids off more "riiiirnt of
items today and tabbed soma 3.00b
price control workers for dlsmkwaL
An order released lata yesterday
decontrolled such things aa poul
try, eggs, soaps, gasoline, crude
oil and an rubber products. Too
list also Included paper and paper
products, shortening, most minor
metals and scrap, paints aad pre-
iauncBiea nouses.
All la all, they came to II per
cent of the Items which comprise
the cost of living index, leaving
about 17 per cent of these still
under control.
MILK ON .-.
Among those things still, eon
trolled are major Items like: milk
and dairy product such aa butter
and cheese; oleomargarine; dry
groceries; clgarets; beer; major
metals ' including copper, alumi
num, steel end nickel; lumber, in
dustrial and farm equipment; aad
the big household appliance. -
The price order waa the second
wtthio a week'e time and a third
is la the works, to be seat out
within a few days. The first. Issued '
last Friday, decontrolled meat aad
nearly ail department store foods. ,
Another order the aama day
knocked out wage curb.
Price Stabiliser Joseph Freehm
said dismissal notices, effective
March 15. will be banded out Moo
day to about 3,000 of the 4400 em
ployes in the government's diahv
tegrating price control machinery.
GAS OFF
A last-mmot decision kept price
curbs on milk and dairy nroduet
ana iook mem off petroleum pro
ducts. "
FreehOI said some price hike
win result from the order, notably
on gasoline, crude oil and tires
ana Hints, ne saia prices est ether
iteme probably will not be affected
etaee many already ara selling be
low ceilings. .
tamtrois went into effect two
year ago last month. They are
due to expire automatically April
v. out administration spokesmen
have set April II as the ultimata
target date lor wiping them out. '
80 far, Eisenhower has not asked
tor standby power to re-impose
controls anouM an erneraenc
aria. Sen. Ceaebart OMnd), who
naa iuuuuulou a out V . tbte,
has sain the admlnistratioa baa aa
wm baa aa open eat
LoccIGIrl Hc$
Cirthday Today I
Today 1 Friday, Te Thirteenth,
and in a tradition of the tae of
bad luck, there always come re
port of folks whose lives are
mixed with the number 13.
veryiene Phillips, who 1 now
16. was bora oa Feb. IS. at 1:1
ajn. She Is the dsuirhter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry M. Phillips. 3137
Biehn. -
Otherwise, this Fridsy. Feb. 13,
appeared not out ef the ordinary
as compared with other days la
Klamath Falls.
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Woman Critically
Hurt In Wreck I
LAKKVIEW Mrs. Florence Gui
nee. Summer Lake, wss in Lake
view Hospital today in critical con
dition from injuries suffered yes
terday morning In the wreck of a
pickup she waa driving. ,
Mrs. Guinee was alone la the
truck and It la believed she was
unconscious In the wreckage at
least an hour before the wreck was
discovered by Roy Csrlon, promi
nent Summer Lake rancher.
Apparently the truck had hit a
soft shoulder aad rolled over.
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UCKIT IRIOADI for this yeer't Heart Fund reheerted In downtown KImo,th Falli with
Vern Moore at the objective, and drew the lint contribution, $20 from Moor and the lal
tiger Motor Co. Life Underwriters ihown above are carrying the drive thil year. They ara
II to, r, standing): Chet Hamaker, Lynn Roycroft, Eldrad Putnam, Moora, Drive Chairman
Klarm Wilton. mkA Jack Imlev. Kn lino. Lov Barker. Hrrl Creaiev, Bill Goen and Jim Pat-
tartan. Tha Iniurancaman take ta tha itreet tomorrow to aik donation to help fight tha worst
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