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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1954)
i IFi 15) M fn5 EOT j's Rem FRANK JENKINS i first day of 1954, let's gumming up. re are safe in saying that country has passed ugh the transition period kibered areas follows the t the peak of the virgin pply. ped the corner In 1953. y getting our second wind Jng the big Job that lies the Job? it phase of it is to save ir, without which every jhave will be useless. How i save it? We must save King it to beneficial use. TE use. First for agri 'Then for industry and tally for recreation. complete economic use lonl use our water, we'll Magazine recently car- eclnallng ana sllgmiy ter ticle by Bernard De Voto. fal theme of it is that the lure will be limited rigidly titer supply. He brought interesting fact that the (the West isn't uniformly U over ALL the West. It fed within river systems jys, with wide deserts in Uleys that have enough go ahead fabulously, tfor the West, he says, is Is country. The nation's population are moving bstward. Those areas that pave enough water will and FOB GOOD when the ceiling of their wa- fcn the West will be di km the less populous val Siava It to the more pop h, that rin nnt have ( it. The Justification for twill be tne tneory oi me iod to the greatest mim but time comes, there will competition for water. e Is keen competition for totial product, those who are willing to bid high. tvater from one river to )Ui 'Costly, and when we Lflg'jres we're inclined to :bti possibility of diver. I If water is the essential " c 'ithout which further i V is Impossible, what ;r LIMJT that fab'llous j southern California ' ' : to pay? t in his article: "Last ling Western Hydro! J an . iinphallAntrAahlA j lich iiay be the last f subject: 'There is no ! Her and so there can I: ING PRICE." " s means if that the time in the West when no 1 e too- great to pay for i I, e must face: them California and perhaps New Mexico -round growing sea- to look around for ours will be the most ipply to go after. It and water runs re cheaply than it can lp. over one low summit it the headwaters of ento. From there it Led by the existing fa' ie Central Valley pro I Bakersfield. Pushing tr relatively low sum- 'H put it where It is t only pennies i of water sup- s. -ep Price Five Cent-12 Pases KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1954 Telephone 8111 Rebels Sird For Attack Yietminh, French Units TTT TTlP' I 4 J l lirn "inn lllll'lillil i ii m)1iin ' n'Vn OFFICERS FOR 1954 of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will assume heir duties Monday night. Left to right are Frank Michaelson, first vice-president; Donald A, W. Piper, president; Rex Dye, retiring president; Leo Molatore, second vice-president. Elected to the Board of Di rectors were John Heilbronner, Don Bridge, Dean DeWitt, Dick Newman, Bill Alexander, Bar ney Cavanaugh and Bob Dirschl. Hospital Is Fight Scene A Merrill Indian youth who lacked sufficient confidence In his paleface brothers' surgical skill to have, a cut thumb treatsd was in the City Jail Friday on drunk and disorderly charges after causing a near-riot in Klamath Valley Hospital. The accused is Robert Huitt, 21, who went to the hospital for treat ment. An artery was severed in his left thumb and he was bleeding profusely. When a surgeon arrived to sew up the thumb, Huitt is alleged to have whipped out a long-bladed knife and threatened to kill any one who touched him. Finally, it took four policemen to hold him on the operating table while the surgeons repaired the in jured thumb. When he was re leased, Huitt, according to arrest ing officers, started to fight. He was overpowered after punching and kicking the policemen for sev eral minutes. Huitt quieted down after he was lodged in a jail cell. He is slated to appear Saturday morning be fore Police Judge Frank Blackmer. Livestock Outlook Held Encouraging For 7954 Era Swap Fire HANOI, Indochina Ml French military sources said Friday that the Communist-led Vietminh were reinforcing their "Iron Division" No. 316 for a possible attack upon Dien Bien Phu, the last big strong hold of French Union forces in the Thai country of northwestern In dochina. French Union forces, meanwhile, clashed with small Vietminn units south of the fortress. The reinforcements were being supplied by men from the Viet minh Divisions 308 and 312 which have been massed in the Thai Nguyen area 40 miles north and the Tuyen Quantg region 65 miles northwest of Hanoi, the informants added. In the delta itself the French re ported 50 Vietminn killed and 50 captured in minor mopup opera tions. Other skirmishes occurred in the heavily fortified Plain Des Jar res area in central Laos. French Union forces clashed with a Communist-led Vietminn patrol at the village of Muong Khoua, 72 miles north east of Luang Prabang in Laos, and French officials said the Vietminh lost five killed. For the ninth straight day French fighters and bombers at tacked Vietminh troops along the Mekong River where the Vietminh Attacked with one division before Christmas V and then apparently wunarew into the jungle. SAN FRANCISCO tffi The out look lor 1954 for livestock and livestock products in the seven states west of the Rockies was described - Thursday as offering :some ground optimism.'- ; in hs-mommy ana yearena bus iness summary, the Federal Re serve Bank of San Francisco, said the national supply-demand . pic ture "nas begun to show signs of NEW TOWER PORTLAND M The City Coun cil gave television station KPTA permission Thursday to replace its 210-foot Vntenna with a 500-foot one atop Council Crest Portland. The station said the new tower would be shipped soon from Cleve land. Station officials said it would m-ove reception In fringe areas, V 1 '11 ,ut lor these .1 who every uno, over the line end the nont bridge. Suspect In Robbery Held Clifford Gerhardt Annen, 34, 1317 Adams, picked up by Oregon State Police on South Sixth Thursday for having no operators license has ad mitted to authorities that he is wanted in Minnesota on a burclarv charge. Upon questioning by police he ad mitted knowing something of the burglary case but would not admit he was implicated. sneriff Henschel, Cambridge, Minn., was notified this morning by state police that Onnen was being held in the county Jail on $400 bail, pending word, from Min nesota authorities as to whether they will come for him. Onnen has not stated whether he will waive extradition. MARY ELIZABETH REEL, Tulelake, Miss 1954, is the first baby born in the Klamath Basin this year. The little girl made the hurdle to win the honor over Baby Boy Ternus, son of Chief of Police and Mrs. Jerry Ternus, also of Tulelake. Mary Eliza beth was born at 1:50 a.m. to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Reel, Mer mamma was presented with a number of gifts from Klamath Falls' businessmen. Showing off the new arrival is Nurse Jean Clark, Klamath Valley HopitaL Tulelake Baby Winner Oi Siork Derby; First Basin Child Born In Year of '54 Ministers To Gather For Parley WASHINGTON Wl The United States, Britain and France agreed Friday to Russia's proposal of Jan. 25 for a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers at Berlin and moved to avoid any further delay of the conference. Aside from accepting the date a three weeks postponement from the previous western proposal of Jan, 4 the western powers also: 1. Agreed that representatives of the four high commissioners in Germany should discuss the pre cise place and any other technical arrangements for the meeting. 2. Said that since the foreign ministers themselves will be meet ing soon there is no point now in discussing the questions which will be raised at their conference. This Is designed to avoid a preliminary, time-consuming argument over an agenda. The United States note on the conference, the State Department announced, was delivered to the So viet Foreign Office by Ambassa dor Charles Bohlen at 1 p.m. Mos cow time 3 a.m., MST. British and French diplomats were re ported to have delivered similar notes. SITE SOUGHT The Soviets may make fiVme acknowledgment, finally confirm ing the Jan. 25 date, but the next sbi-ious business is agreement on a meeting site in Berlin. Officials of the western powers are reported hopeful that the So viets will not seize upon the tech nical problems which will come up in preliminary discussions on ar rangements to stall the conference. The agreement to have the dis cussions proceed in Germany re sponded to a Soviet suggestion and is an effort to avoid any further delay. HOME WHITTIER, Calif. Wi Prank A. Nixon. 15-year-old father of Vice President Richard Nixon, has re turned home from Phoenix, Ariz., where he had been hospitalized for a stomach ailment since Dec. 11. "stabilizing" and added this has a "more important bearing' the general health of Twelfth Dis trict agriculture than any single internal -factor.' 1"The summary also saldl- r' The Twelfth District is an im portant supplier of both cotton and wheat, irom which District tarn ers can expect reduced cash re ceipts in 1954. Increased acreages of hay and forage which are expected in 1954 may be marketed at relatively low prices. Production of fruit and vegeta bles is expected to increase next year, but this increase is expected to be offset by lower prices for these products. Cross farm receipts in the Dis trict may decline by a percentage as large as, or perhaps larger than, tnat in prospect for the Unit ed States as a whole. Discussing livestock and live stock products in particular, the report stated: "While it is . generally agreed that there is little prospect for prices and incomes from sale of livestock and livestock products 'to lie improved In 1954, greater sta bility in production and marketable supplies of these commodities may mean that there is also little likeli hood of any further significant de terioration in the farmers" posi tion." i Weather,; FORECAST: Inreaslnr cloudiness with occasional, Ilfht snow Friday mgiu. High yesterday 39 Low last night 22 Trio Caught On Mouiilafn PORTLAND', Ore. Iffi A violent storm apparently caught three clinrbers atop a 11,245-foot snow covered mountain today. Wanting to be the first on the peak of Mt. Hood on New Year s Day, - they left Tlmberline Lodge at the 8,000-foot level yesterday morning. They expected to reach the top by nightfall and spend the night there. But at night the storm came up, and forecasters warned of heavy snows on the way plus winds up wards ot no miles an hour at the peak before daybreak. Tempera tures of 15 degrees above zero were expected. There is no shelter at the top. The climbers had sleeping gear and some food, . though, and no immediate fear was felt for their safety. The three are Layden Walsh, Olympla, Wash.; Fred Hart, Cor vallis, Ore.; and Art Maki, Ridge field, Wash. , Other climbers were waiting on the lower slopes of the mountain, about 60 miles east of Portland, to start" a New Year's Day race for the top, but officials warned them not to start because of the storm. Forecasters expected the storm to ease off later in the day. It's a girfi And Tulelake has herl And the first boy born in 1954 in the Klamath Basin, also. Little Miss 1954 squalled her way Into the Edward Reel family from Tulelake at 1:50 a.m. today at Klamath Valley Hospital to make two daughters for the folks from California. Elder sister is Con nie, aged four. Mary Elizabeth Reel, six pounds, ll'2 ounces, made her radio debut a few moments after her arrival when she registered a protest about being Interviewed by Char lie McFarlan, of KFLW who waited for the Wg .cvnt with, two prospec tive tamers, "rappa'V-Meet, ana Chief of Police Jerry Ternus, r SURRENDERS COLUMBUS, Ohio () A young escapee from the Franklin County detention home surrendered yes terday after a few hours of free dom. He told officials: "I've got a bad cold and can't afford to be running around tonight." Two Held In Bank Robbery HOUSTON, Tex. Wl Two men were in custody and Mexican bor der points were watching for two others today after all four were charged with felony theft in the $57,329 robbery of the Houston Na tional Bank. The bank was robbed yesterday at 9:20 a. m. when a man slipped into a basement vault, took the money from Donny Norris Allen, 19-year-old bank employe, and then escaped without being noticed. After 10 hours of questioning by FBI agents, Police Homicide Capt. Frank Murray said young Allen' admitted being an accom plice of three other men he im plicated in the robbery. The FBI confirmed Murray's statement. Besides Allen, the three charged were James David Mitchell, alias James David Richardson, 2d; J-o h n n y Gonzales Navarro, 24, brother of a Houston policeman; and Nick Mitchell, 45, an uncle of the younger Mitchell. Navarro surrendered to police within an hour after police orders were broadcast last night for his pickup. Arrested at a bus station from where he had telephoned po lice, he denied any connection with the robbery. Tulelake, who s wife added son number four to his family at 5:41 a.m. Reel, born in Arkansas, is em ployed by Charles Blumenthal, po tato grower and shipper, and with his family, lives in the Havlina Apartments in Tulelake. Mrs, Reel was born in Texas. Dr. Jack Martin presented the new daughter to the family. Mrs. Reel, who won the second annual stork derby, sponsored by Klamath Falls merchants, KFLW and the Herald and News, was presented with a number of gifts for the new arrival this morning. .tsauy xernus 111.3 tiiree, brothers, Jerry Jr., , 9, Kenneth, 7 and Teddy, 3',i. The new arrival, 8 pounds, one ounce; has not been named since a girl was expected. The radio broadcast of the ar rival of Klamath Country's first citizen is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sat urday, jan. 2, over Dogs Uncover Cache Of Bootleg Booze SHAWNEE, Okla. Wl Trooper C. A. Morris has two dogs to thank for uncovering 166 pints and six fifths of contraband liquor. The hunting dogs, in the back seat of an automobile he stopped for speeding, began playing around while he wrote a ticket for the driver and uncovered the n year's cheer under blankets.. Man s best friend? Cordon Waits On Political Path WASHINGTON ofi Sen. Guy Cordon of Oregon expects to an nounce next week whether or not he will run for the Senate again. Apparently a physical examination will determine his answer. He underwent the examination last week. He indicated he would file again If the medical report is favorable. Cordon said earlier he did not want to run, but would if he felt it was the only way to keep the seat from falling to the Democrats. San Gabriel Blaze Licked LOS ANGELES UT) Residents in a section of 50 houses in the San Gabriel Mountains returned to their homes Thursday night aft er Dacktires alleviated danger In this area but 1,000 firefighters con tinued battling other danger spots in southern California's six-day for est tires. During the day residents of a section known as Pasadena Glen had- been considering- the - possi bility of evacuating their homes when a 'localized segment of the fire became menacing. - The U. S. Forest Service said the fire near Pasadena Glen was serious but believed all of the houses could be saved. The same flare-up lift kept within a half mile of the million dollar Mater Dolorosa retreat house and Pas sibnist Fathers Monastery but fire men backfired to prevent damage. Later a new outbreak was re ported when flames swept into Kin- neloe Canyon east of the old Mt. Wilson toll road and at the head of the glen. Men and equipment were sent there to battle the flareup. The fire jumped westward across firebreak late Thursday and burned within less than a mile of some houses. This blaze now ap pears to be contained, county fire men said. ;' Mt. Wilson and Its hotel, ob- . servatories and eight television 1 ;. transmitters were still safe from ; the fire. - - , ,- ; . .rJf!'''''' t The Mt: Wilson-Monrovia Peak fire has" horned 14,000 acres'-since ,. : Sunday. A companion .fire In. the . ' Mt. Baldy region,' 20 jnlleseast,' scorched 4,000 acres. ' '-' ; . ' The Forestry Service ealraated a loss of 7,35W'MifMdamiy" age U) .watersheds and1'' fighting the. fires. .-. ,l ),' First American P0W Quits Red Camp short ' ; v v CLIFTON FORGE, Va. WI-May- or Milton B. Whiting Owns a chain of 15 service stations and nine . wholesale outlets, all selling gaso-' line. Today he ran out of gasoline. SEOUL Ml Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor, a young Texan who eiecieu 10 stay wiui die Commu nists, Ciiungxu his mind Friday and said it is quite possible thai other unrepaiiia.ed American war prisoners will decide to return aome. Butchelor smiled broadly as he was reiutnea to the L, N. Com mand near Paumunjom alter ;il months as a prisoner of war. He told waiting newsmen that prisoner leaders are armed with daggers to prevent deieciious and thai mistrust and tear play a role in the Communist, allegiance of I the remaining 21 Americans, 1 ' Briton and 327 Koreans listed as; pro-Red. The 20-year-old corporal from Kermit. 'ie:;.f approacneu an In dian guard pi. 1 a.m. and asked to return to Ihe U. N. Command. Fourteen hours later he was re patriated. Bfttchelor's petite Japanese wife,, waiting in Tokyo to see him, ap parently ptayeu an important pait in his decision to abandon com munism. He said her messages, relayed to him in the Indian-guarded com pound in Korea's neutral zone "had quite a bit to do about it.'1 Batchelor talked by telephone to his wife In Tokyo. "I feel fine. she said, bursting into tears, "You not sick? Every body -wait for you. . . I want to see you soon. ' I'm so happy and I'm crying." Sue said Batchelor kept repeat Int. "I'm happy, I'm happy. . . Batcnelor originally was sched uled to hold a press conference 1 later Friday, but it was postponed until Saturday. He told newsmen he now be lieves "very very little" of the Communist Indoctrination he had been given in prisoner of war camps. He smiled broadly and dioke easily, without any apparent ner vousness. He nappily gave a thumbs up sign for photographers. He said he spent a sleepless night before deciding to ask for repatriation. He described New Year's Eve in the North Camp as not very cheerful and without much celebrating. "Will other Americans come out?" he was asked. "Quite possibly," he said. "Will more than one?" "Quite possibly." "Do you think you made ft wise move in coming back?" "Yes," Batchelor answered and smiled broadly. He said he bad been "quite un comfortable" this winter but turned aside other questions as to whether he had been well treated and well fed In Communist prison er camps. . He Mid H Wntfd fe hard to-uy what he missed most during liis long captivity. Bachelor's story matched in part that of Cpl. Edward Dicken son of Big Stone Gap, Va., who asked for repatriation from the pro-Communist North Camp two months-ago. Dickenson also said other Ameri cans quite likely would change their minds. Neither man named names. They Indicated that prisoners who might want to leave would not broadcast the Information. An Indian Command spokesman said he thought it most unlikely that prisoner leaders are armed or that a POW who wanted to' ask lor repatriation would be unable to do so. He said: "The North Camp always has been very quiet and orderly and life there seems to be much like that of a small village." Batchelor said he had wanted fo return home for a month, but die. not ask for repatriation Dec. 23 when the Allies broadcast "come home" appeals . because "there would have been violence." He said pro-Communist Korean prisoners "massed at the gate" to prevent anyone from leaving. The Indian spokesman said there was no evidence that this was so and added: "I am sure any man who wanted could have come out safely." Batchelor refused, to answer many questions. He said lie wants to take bis wile home to Kermit and ne beamed oroadly as he read a mes sage from her. i wanv to see you as soon as possible." his wife Kyoko wrote. I am so glad you are finally com ing home. I love you1 very much." The message was relayed from Tokyo by The Associated Press; Tne Army said Batchelor would be "treated like any other return ing prisoner of wai" when he gets to Japan and will have a reunion with his wife. In Kermit, Batchelor's father and mother were overjoyed. i "It's the best news I have ever heard," said O. L. Batchelor, an oil well driller. . . Tne parents had spent a sad Christmas believing their son nev er would return home. Only a few days before Christ mas his mother had said, "It looks like there is no hope. 7 . Young Batchelor was talfen pris oner in May, 1951. He appeared in good health Fri day. His hair was long. His blond moustache was neatly trimmed He wore the laded blue uniform given him by the Communists. He talked with newsmen for a few minutes, then boarded a hell copter for a flight to the 121st Evacuation Hospital In Seoul for & medical checkup. He will be flown to Japfan for a complete medical examination later, JUNE JAMES and Mri. Mary Wyatt ware snapped at Klam ath Valley hospital thit morning by the roving cameraman. J 5 FT BB9B :c I' ii togre d; 1 thei ' iren . T. Itud Iov , of i Ber horr at I it O r Jf ' eadi I ta o " !ing- vuncl fro limt P-1 lteg
