MONDAY, 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;
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whose wife,
E. BUNCH,
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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.
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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
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. The TBI chief said Smith made
a couple of visits to the bank to
familiarize himself with its opera
tions. Smith has a notice record flat.
lug back 10 years, when he was
sentenced to serve 20 years at the
state prison in Walla . Walla for
nine armed robberies in the fipnt.
tle area. He escaped In July, 1947,
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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
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riving here last . Wednesday.
,Aucrbach quoted Smith' as say
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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
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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.