Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, June 01, 1953, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY, Jllm , . Power Leader Says GOFs Arrival Broke Public Trend ATLANTIC! Mnw .. - leader of the dMri.' if j . " I the region. w her oTlh. !' new onfer.nca nere on the evt of fii n - conunuer, "?u """l toward public power has been checked In the wortnwest. we have no hope, of winning- over to private operation tne puollc Drolects .w.... L...7. said James H. Polhemus, president B..c..i manager of the Port, land (Ore.) General Electric Co. folhemua said a shortage of power in the northwest could be attributed to a federal government policy of urging industries to go into the area to consume low-cost government electricity. .Aluminum plants, one of the peatest users of electricity, hav been encouraged to settle In that section, according t0 Industry sources, and less expensive power at Uie government Bonneville Dam has been a lure. Polhemus commented on a new survey by the Edison Institute, which forecasts an adequate supply of power throughout 1953 in all parts of the nation except possibly In the Paclllc Northwest. Th margin between generating capacity and peak demand In that area, the survey said, will eon. tlnue to be unsatisfactory at least until 1950. Declaring that "things already nave changed since the new admin- Carl Gray Quits Veterans Post WASHINGTON 11 President Eisenhower accepted - "with re luct" Monday the resignation of Cal R. Gray, Jr., as veterans ad ministrator. ray offered bis resignation en grounds of ill health. The Presi dent accepted it effective June 30. The exchange of letter! between Gray and Elsenhower was not made public and there was no In dication when Cray's successor would be named. j . Elsenhower alro accepted, ef fective Monday, the resignation of Richard B. McEntire as a mem ber of the Securities and Ex change Commission. McEntlre's term would have expired June I but he asked that the data be ad vanced for unexplained "financial reasons." Grocery Clerks Take Wage Hike - PORTLAND W AFL Grocery Clerks in Portland's larger stores voted Sunday to accept a wage increase and end a' dispute that had closed many stores four days. - The settlement provides for pay Increases of 10 cents an hour to grocery and produce clerks, bring ing their weekly base wage to 171.40; 21 'j cents for delicatessen clerks, bringing their base to $3t a week: and i cents for bakery clerks, bringing their base to 5!.W a week. Employes are to deride later whether they want part of the increase to go for a health and welfare program. The union and the Independent Retail Grocers Association, which represents smaller stores, have not yet reached agreement on a, new contract. Honorary Dcgrct Granted McKay SALEM (if) Interior Secretary nnuirias McKay, back in Oregon for a brief visit, Sunday received an honorary doctor of laws aegree from Willamette University. He was principal speaker at the university's commencement exer cises. In his talk, the former Oregon governor called for mora Interest tn government and said everyone should Invest a portion of his time In the duties of being a good citizen, , , PAPER DPS PRICE BAKER Wl The Baker Democrat-Herald has increased its price 25 cents to 11.25 a month for heme delivery. Publisher Lucien P. Arant aaid higher newsprint costs were re sponsible. Rotten Inside? By Gee. N. Tajhr Does the Bible really say that God givea his God-nature to the smooth, slick, self-righteous sinner as well as to the down and outer? True, says the Bible but such must receive Christ as being God's Son who died for their sins. The eternal Ood came to this world in the Per son of His Son and He gives His God-nature ta all who believe in Christ ,s the Lord who died for lhm Kap flnri Gee, N. Taylor your neirt Christ as dying for your sins and I will indwell you with eternal life. Not that we loved God but that He loved us and gave His Son to die for us. See 1st John 4:10. After His death for your sins, Christ came from the grave ta give peace, hope, cheer and God-life to all who receive Him as Lord and Gvlour. Turn and believe and God fifes new ways, days and eternal life. This Message sponsored by a Portland Lumber Mfg. and Wife. avar." ' Polhemus aaid there . la a possibility that under a new contract the federal government will absorb the excess team costs of private companies in years when hydro conditions are unfavorable. Under a sew arrangement, he added, regular residential and rural customers will be put ahead of new Industries in priority for electricity. ' "This is a. change of picture," said Polhemus, "for up to now new Industries have teen given a Break in Uxes and subsidised power, too," J. E. E. Roper, vice - president and general manager of the Wash ington Water - Power Co., called atientlon to the propoaed merger of his company and the Puget Sound Power and Light, expected to go before stockholders of the llrrns shortly. Public utility dis trlcts In the state of Washington hu' been aeeklng to purchase Puget for a nu..iber of years. Roper said: "If we get a chance to merge, we'll be able to swing a big hydro-electric plant which will help the. power.-situation. Alone, each eompeny I too small to add hydro plants." Band Deadline Extended LaMar Jensen, director of .the All-Basin High School Band whien Is to be featured in this years Roundup, haa extended the dead line for applicants through, this week. 1 Jensen had set the deadline for today but decided that many stu dents busy with' school closing activities last week had not had an opportunity to sign applications. Application blanks are' available at all county high schools, Tulelake and Dorrls schools, at Herman s Men's Store, Klamath Palls, or from Jensen, at Klamath Union High School. . . . Roundup director are planning a special fun-feast for the entire band. Details of this event are to be announced later. The big band i to march In the Roundup-parade and is to play at each of three rodeo perform ances from s special sund across the arena, from the main grand stand. Aim of Jensen and the Round up directors Is to have the bsnd grow Into one of the largest stu dent bands -in the West. It is to be a continuing project and the band will be the official Roundup band. . Advance ticket sales tor the Roundup went on sale this morn ing lrom a booth at Coffer's Ex change, 019 Klamath. Ticket aales will continue there . until regular Roundup headquarters can be located In the downtown area. . Seven Roundup queen candidates are now scheduled for a trip to Redding. Sunday, to appear in the Shasta: Rodeo parade. Also in the parade are to be the Klamath Sherlff'a Posse and Klamath Sad dle Club, with the posse leading til Oregon participants. Al Roundup quean candidates who have signed their entires by Saturday will be Invited to make the Redding trip. Hi DEGREES PORTLAND UH Graduate and bachelor degrees were conferred on 224 students by the University of Fortlsnd In Sunday's commence ment exercises here; Kching Dry Eczcuia Why flartUJi nm !) i Mi y? OMtasMt-vrM la iSU.aaHaai, i u4 fpvw tattai NUaf p. UA. ari- mmmI aiia. Try M 9th and Pine hrt'stlon took SMART-COOL SUMMER DRESSES Your Choice at One Low Price Sift lorfaalon teody now at Wards a wonderful selec tion of cool 1933 styles in Mm fabrics and eaters you've been looking for. And, best ef oH this low Brice gives an opportunity to buy more then one. just look at Words we wp of fabrics. Print ninon ifceers, rayon f; ' J r Lasassslassssaaaaaaa. -assssBsBsss LsltejA! PVT. ALVA whose wife, E. BUNCH, Mrs. Barbara Bunch, lives at Tulelake,' has been assigned to Battery C, 233d Field Artillery Battalion, of the 44th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, for basic train ing. Fewer Ducks Likely This Fall WASHINGTON l Early find ings of the annual surveys of water-fowl breeding grounds indicate there likely will be fewer ducks this fall, the Pish and Wild life Service reported Monday, Secretary of the Interior McKay made public the findings far the month of May of the cooperative aerial and ground surveys being conducted in Canada, Alaska and the Northern United States. ' Field workers In Canada found the breeding season for ducks had been retarded by a week or ten days, as compared with the aver age season, by unusual weather conditions. April and May snow storms snti freezing weather broke up many early nesting attempts. Purple Heart Auxiliary Head Dies TUCSON, Ariz. W Mrs. Bessie Eunice Hawkins, 62, of Portland, Ore., national president of the Mil itary Order of the Purple Heart Auxiliary, died here' Sunday. Mrs. Hawkins and her husband, Lester, had been living here for the past five months. He Is a World War I veteran who also saw serv ice on the Mexican border. Hawk Ins is a national inspector of the Purple Heart, ial. Tele-fun by Warnn Goodrich "Silence! I've got to hear the dial ton before I dial I"... , Fleas wait for the steady hum-m-m of the dial tone then dial carefully . . . Pacific Telephone. $. !4 cms Each Misses', hall lizei Bembergs ond seersuckers, embossed cot ton in the new cracked ice pattern, cotton sheers, hemstitched or with Mocked dots. Fashion-new detoHi some with rhinestone touches, ribbon belts, chalk-white accents. Summer prints, pastels, dark colors. HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Scholarly - Looking, Tubercular Ex-Convict Arraigned in SEATTLE OH A bespectacled scholarly looking ex-convict faced arraignment belore a V. C. Co n-J mlssioner here Monday on an armed- robbery charge for the $50,000 holdup or the Lynnwood branch of the first National Bank of Everett Friday. Tubercular Warren David Smith, 36, was arrested late Saturday night by Federal Bureau of Invest!' nation agents who found "a con siderable portion" of the loot In the rear of an automobile register ed In the name of Smnn a parents In-law of Walla Walla. Richard Auerbach, special agent In charge of the Seattle office oi the FBI, declined to state the exact amount recovered. He aaid his agents were searching for the rest of the money, wnicn omun saia in a confession was ma near lynn wood. Smith, a bespectacled Wash ington State prison parolee, offered no resistance wnen rsi agents sur prised him in a Seattle hotel room. After intense questioning, Smith admitted he was the ptstoi wielding bandit who robbed the bank of $50,970.23 during the rush period Friday afternoon. The bandit forced the manager of the bank, Ken Killien. to take blm through the tellers' cages and stuff the money into a plastic shopping bag. . He had then herded Killien. seven other . bank employes and eight customers Into a back room while he made nis escape. Auerbach said Smith told of hav ing planned the holdup for about a month. He said he started schem ing while he was a patient in a Walla Walla County sanitarium after having been ' released from prison for treatment. He came to Sauthbawnd Mvtnlimra Leave et 11:40 A. M. and 4:35 P. M. SAN FRANCISCOIVs hrf. LOS ANGEUS . . Shr. ' - NiriktunJ Molnllnatt Leave at 11.-05 A. ML and 7:10 P.M. PORTLAND . . 2 hrs. SEATTLE .... 3 hr. Fair, IuiwIms NsMt l "mil Ma fail" , local titMt fhown. fur fravef fjifannorion, nit m vrtfe UrtiHd, Airpart Ttrmiaal. Cad 1-137 er your traval afltst. COMMU THI MM AM - roim eo r ai 'UNITED Phone 3188 mi am) Robbery of King County on a transfer to an- suier sanitarium. . The TBI chief said Smith made a couple of visits to the bank to familiarize himself with its opera tions. 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WAS $82.75 Wi 1 ONLY : SPECIAL f Any of this Broadloom can be . ,, made into room size mo.i. The Finest Installation! ba,onc"" Ourlmcatfante 195 E. MAIN ' ' Phone 3135 Everett Bank but was recaptured four months later. He was paroled from the state prison last Jan. 14 to Blue Moun tain Sanitarium for treatment ol tuberculosis contracted in prison. Auerbach said Smith shortly thereafter applied for a transfer to a Seattle sanitarium and the transfer was approved, Smiih ar NEW RADIOS PHILCO nm ICC 1026 Main riving here last . Wednesday. ,Aucrbach quoted Smith' as say ing he had "cased" the Lynwood bank, IS miles north of here. In stead of going to the Seattle sani tarium. Smith said he learned the bank usually kept a large amount of money on band on Fridays for NEW HOURS for Self Service Laundries NOW OPEN Week Days (Monday thru Saturdays - BOB'S LAUNDRY LAUNDERETTE ' 1711 Main 1415 Owens Pknno 9234 Phone 6373 Ph. 5S12 ill : , PAGE SEVEN cashing payroll checks. Smith told Auerbach that on the drive back to Seattle he trans ferred some of the mdney to a fish ing box In the rear of the car and hid the rest. He has refused to tell where It was hidden. ' Friday) 8: a.m. to 7: p.m. 8: a.m. to 6: p.m.