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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1953)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1953 ' HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE SEVEN Soud Fete Prizes Listed MERRILL The complete prize I!-, ior liie potato unci other ag r cultural exhibits tor the nth An nual Klamath Basin Potato Festi val Oct. 23 and 24, has been an nounced as Jollows: STATE CHAMPIONSHIP COMPETITIONS Lots No. 1, 1A. 2 and 2A Lot 1 Netted Gems Commer cial U.S. No. 1A: Not washed, 60 oounds exhibit. First Prlze-$50 and cup: Second Prize $25; Third prize $15. Lot A White Rose Commercial, M pounds exhibit; First prize 30 and Cup; Second prize $15; Third prize $10. Lot 2 Certified Seed Potatoes, not washed; Netted Gem , 60 rounds exhibit; First prize $50 and Cup; Second rize $30; Third nrlze $15. Lot 2 A While Rose, 50 pounds exhibit- First prize $30 and Cup; g'econd prize' $16; Third prize 110. Lot 3 Least Number U.S. No. 1 Ueited Gems to weight 100 pounds (Must weigh 100 pounds or oven -$10. Lot 4 Largest Single U.S. No: 1 potato $5. . Lot 5 Freakiest potato, any variety S5. Lot 6 Miscellaneous Class 1 Sugar Beet, largest $3 and $2; Class 2 Squash, largest $3 and j. Class 3 Pumpkin, largest u'and $2; class 4 Cabbage, larg est3 and $2; Class 6 Onions, best 10 pounds $5; Class 8 Al tike Clover Seed, 1 quart $5; Class 7 Hannchen Barley, 2 ouarts $5; Class 8 Six Row Bar ley 2 quarts $5; Class 9 Wheat, j quarts $5; Class 10 Rye, 2 quarts $5; Class 11 Oats, 2 quarts $5: Class 12 Turnips $5; Class 13 Carrots $5: Class 14 Flax $5. . Lot 7 Culinary Department; Class 1 Canned pears, peaches or plums $5 each (1 quart In each c classes); Class 2 Canned vege tables, corn, string beans, beets (1 quart in each 6 classes). Lot 8 4-H Club Potato Growers Only; Entries to consist of 25 pounds of potatoes and completed record book. Class 1 Commercial Netted Gems, U.S. No. 1; First prize Scholarship to 1954 4-H Summer School; Second prize $15: Third prize $10; Fourth rize $5. Lot i FFA Potato Growers Only; Class 1 Commercial U.S. No. 1 Netted Gems, 25 pounds Lot 10 High School Potato Ex hibits, Netted Gems, 50 pounds', First prize Cup to School, $10 to student; Second prize $5 to stu dent. Lot 11 Miscellaneous 4-H and FFA Members Only; Class 1 Wheat, 2 quarts $5; Class 3 Two-Row Barley, 2 quarls-$5: Class 3 Rye, 2 quarts $5; Class 4 Oats, a quarts $5; Class 0 Alslke Clover Seed, 1 quart $5; Class Strawberry Clover Seed, 1 quart 05; Class 7 Alfalfa Seed, 1 quart $5; Class 8 Onions, 10 each $3; Class 9 Carrots. 6 each $5; Class 10 Sugar Beets, 6 each $5; Class 11 Cabbage, 2 each $5. Exhibitors are requested to no tify the festival secretary, Mrs. Howard Dewey, phone 2821 Merrill, of their Intent to enter on or by Thursday, Oct. 22, 1953. Exhibitors must use labels and tags furnished by the festival committee. All ex hibits in Lots 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 8. 9, and 10, are to remain the property of the Klamath Basin Potato Festi val. All other exhibits must be claimed on Oct. 26. and any not so claimed by Oct. 28. wilLbe for feited. If there are less entries than premiums In any lot the judges are not required to award the first prize if the entries are of Inferior duality. Exhibits should be delivered at the Merrill Hhrh School on, Thurs day, Oct. 22. Ribbons representing first prize in all lots and classes will be placed on the winning ex hibits and must be presented to the festival secretary Monday Oct. 26, for the awards. "-".7--7-3 " . j tr - U V , "k4. .rMJM'mlFma mmdaL-Deb Jala! Alaska Steamship President Dies SEATTLE Wi Gilbert w. Skin ner, 54, president of the Alaska Steamship Co., died of a heart jit tack on his Lake Washington estate Sunday. He had been ill some time but had Improved in recent months and had visited his office daily and made a motor trip east. Born in Detroit, he came to the Puget Sound area in 1911 with his father, D. E. Skinner, who bought the port Blakely Mill Co. Later the elder Skinner was an owner in the Skinner-Eddy Corp., which built ships here during world War I. The son entered business in 1921 as owner of the Washington Bakeries. In 1926 he sold out and formed the Alaska Pacific Salmon Co., which operated canneries in Alaska. He headed the company until last year. FOULS VTENNA P) Infuriated at what they believed were fouls, crowds of infurated sports fans stoned buses Sunday night carrying Communist Hungary's national soccer team back to their hotel. The Hungar ians had beaten Austria's team 3-2. STANDING ROOM ONLY FOR SEA DRAMA Passengers on liner He de , France line rail as Llberian freighter Greenville iocs to bottom after heavy Atlantic storm. Sacred Heart Notebook By MAUREEN RAJCII1JL Back to the old grind after three days rest from school work. With (he annual Retreat, conducted by Father D. Meagher. It's pencils, books and homework again! Masquerade?. No, just the Tro jans and Henley Hornets at Conger Field last Saturday afternoon. A beautiful rain storm Saturday morning left a. wet, muddy field for the game. Although the Acad emy lost 20-0 it was a mud-flung, well-spirited game. But keep your spirits high. Trojans will be back at Conger Field this Saturday af ternoon, Oct. 17, tu battle Malin. Got your tickets for the Ham Din ner? You better hurry, they'll only be on sale two days. The dinner will be Thursday night, Oct. 15, in the parish hall. The dinner is spon sored by the Mothers' club and all proceeds will go to the athletic fund. Readings for the Junior class arrived Friday. Students will give the readings next week. Juniors arc also considering giving a three-act play this spring, a comedy. students representing the paper and annual staff are planning to attend the annual Catholic High School Press Conference to be held In Spokane, Wash., Oct. 23 and 24. 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A Weisfield's fabulous opening dey monty-ioving trode-in offer. Excitement Seeker Misses Home Show DALLAS (.fl Looking foi excite ment, Manager Charles Gowcr ot a movie house hopped in his car lost night and sped to tYe scene oi a reported prowler disturbance While he was gone two men too more than $300 at gunpoint froi.i his cashier, G. D. Hudson, and es caped. Your best time Is now for Zoiiolite Insulation, 60 bags will do a celling 26 x 32, this will give you a saving of l',e per gallon on your fuel bill. Drake Lumber Co. 910 Spring St. HOTELS OSBURN HOLLAND EUGENE, ORE. MEDFORD Thoroughly Modern Mrs. J. E. Earley Joe Earley Jr. Proprietors Benson Blames Past Policies PHILADELPHIA liFI Skidding prices of farm products and cur rent (arm surpluses can be laid to "faulty,. programs and unwise Steer Drowns Upstate Roper BEND m A stubborn steer drowned a cowboy on the Oliver Jones Ranch about 50 miles south of Bend Sunday. The cowboy, Vernon Francis Hart, 28, a Korean War veteran who has been working on the Jones ranch recently, roped the steer on the bank of the Deschutes River. , The steer refused to be pulled over, and plunged down the bank into the river, towing horse and rider along. Jones, who was watching front the opposite bank, said Iioil Kent under and failed to come up. Jones jumped ini but could not reach Hart in time to rescue him. The body was recovered four hours later. Surviving are the mother, Mrs. L. Z. Nance of Madras, the lather, Prank Hart of Prineville, five brothers and three sisters. FIRED ON HONG KONG 111 The freigher Inchislay radioed that she as fired on and by an unidentified warship tne Red China coast aDout before arriving at Foochow British Monday chased lust oil an hour harbor. ARROW FUEL CO. SHELL HEATING OILS PHONE 6661 policies" of (he past, according to Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson. Speaking at a dinner meeting of the 38th annual convention of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents last night, Ben son said: "We face serious challenges to day excess stocks of some com modities, loss of export markets, a severe farm price squeeze. These farm policies and programs did not prevent them. "We see today the results of these unrealistic postponements of agricultural readjustment. We are stilt producing at near-record lev els, but demand has fallen off, es pecially foreign demand for Amer ican wheat and cotton at present price support levels." The previous administration, Benson said, used the 'excuse" of emergency situations during the years since World War II to delay the farmers' transition from war to peace. NEW TRAILER HOMES Agincv for SPARTAH-PONTIAC I CLIPPER NOW ON DISPLAY Balsiger Motor Co. Mali at Eailamda Klamath fall. Brace Vxjrseff&r a Rfeasanf Shornk-1 THIS COffff! Now th flavor find aroma of freshly ground coffee . . . 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