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laMy'!lh,ll,e...,eSs.
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Em war 1 Is illuminating as to
rid Wr i" nhilosc-
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READING IT. explaining
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TO. so wj
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bit Jncldent eiplains vividly
It Is so dimciiii. 10
eommunlsis. It's always diffi-
to deal witn people
trusted.
you cherish hopes of a revolu
mum, vou'd better concen-
he on toping that a situation
ilit arise in wnicn me hub
ny would go over to the siae oi
people, someiiiing ntt
irs to hive happened in Egypt,
as yet we don't Know wnemei
! to be better for the Esyp-
hs or worse.
Lute Republican Leader Bill
adand predicts . .tins . morning
the mnmbers of congress win
iimmlse their differences and
ict t new farm program that
embody most of president. r-i-
Ihower's recommendations, in-
tliiig flexible price supports.
put lends some interest iu uic
innual meeting of the Nation-
fcouncll of Farm Cooperatives.
In Chicago. Reactions ol
iteletatcs to the President s
;ible price support proposal are
n tne dispaicnes 10 dc
wed.'' Representatives from
Midwest, the East ana tne rar
it, for the most part, have sp
ied the flexible sucport idea.
rm leaders Irom the South and
Southwest are generally op-:d.
be South and the Southwest are
cotton country, we have cotton
blag; out of our ears. But the
:on areas are demanding an UP.
kotton acreage. They want to go
growing more cotton at guaran-
K high prices and piling It up
;ner and higher in the warehous
be rest or the country will be
e or less relieved If they GET
HR DEMAND FOR AN UP,
e are already beginning to
f-der what they will grow on the
h wey mite out ol cotton pro
ton n tnev have to reduce their
:se. They might take a notion
.STOW croDs WE now Hrp crrnw.
wis aaamg to overproduction
iWR croDs
pit situation illustrates some of
WlCUltes involved tn nnttinn
lr a new farm program.
CONVICTED
MUL HI Two Koreans TO(,,,
fvlcted Tucsdav ol hptrnvlnr.
Gen. William F. Dean to Iho
unists in lsr,n rm
r to acam and the other to
"ipnsonment.
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Rex P ort erf ield Having
Busy Time On Trip East
Gives View Of First Day
Editors Note: Rex Porterfield,
Kiwanin 4-H Club Potato King,
wrct" iroi.l San Francisco, the
first ston on the trip to Washington,
D. C. (Bryant Williams and Rex's
brother, Jim are making the trip
with him).
By HEX PORTERFIELD
"Goso. things liappen fasw When
we got to the airport they started
taking pictures. People kept com
ing until someone said there were
BAGS OF KLAMATH POTATOES, packaged from t!ie Kiwan's-sponsored 4-H Club winners'
U. S. No. I yield, went along with Spud King Rex Porterfield to be presented in Washington,
D. C. Handing over the last bag was John Van Doren, new Kiwanis Club president. From left,
in the picture are Van Doren, Rex, Jim Porterf ielc', Bryant Williams' and Barbara L. Jones,
stewardess of the United Air Lines plane which carried the trio to San Francisco, the first
leg of their flight to the nation's capital. ,
150 people out to see us off. I was
so excited I didn't even tell Mom
goodbye.
This was the first time I ever
rode In an airplane and when we
first took off. my seat came up
aways, but I hung on. Miss Bar
bara Jones (stewardess) was
swell. She even asked for some
clippings on the stories we get on
our trip.
Max Campbell, captain of the
plane, took Jim and me up front
and showed us the cockpit wnen
we stopped.
Guess I have to wait a while
to flv one of these planes because
there were about 250 things to
check before you take off.
1
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A KISS FOR LUCK was Mrs. Bryant Williams' farewell at the
airport as her husband departed with Potato King Rex Porter
field and his brother, Jim Porterfield, on the Kiwanis Club
sponsored 4-H Club winner's junket to Washington, D. C,
bearing prize Klamath U. S. No. I potatoes for presentation
at the capital.
Ice Skating
Out Tonight
Because of the action of some
thoughtless people there probably
will be no ice skating at Moore
Park tonight."
This announcement was made
this morning by Park and Recre
ation Director Bob Bonney.
Bonney 'said that the depart
ment had been working all season
to obtain ideal skating conditions,
By 8 o'clock Monday night, work
ers had finished flooding the pond
in preparation for tonight's skat
lng. Soon after that, Bonney said,
some thoughtless persons went on
the ice with sleds and skates,
threw snow on the pond, in general
caused havoc with tne ice. Buose
quent freezing left three .inch
humps on the pond, which, unless
they can be removed or frozen
over, will mean no skating tonight.
Bonney said the department is
doing its best to remedy the sit
uation. -
Announcement will be made lat
er this evening on the possibility
of skating tonight.
Northeast
Snow Eases;
VISIT
WASHINGTON Wl Emperor
Halle Selassie of Ethiopia will vis
it Washington in May and then tour
the United States.
A White House announcement of
the trip Tuesday said the Emperor
will be the President's guest here
for several days probably from
May 19 through 21.
FIRST TIME
WELLINGTON, NEW, Zealand Wl
A reigning British monarch
Oueen Elizabeth II opened tne ion-
year-old New Zealand Parliament
Tuesday for the first time. The
ceremony . was almost identical
with royal openings of the mother
of parliaments, the House oi coin,
mons in LoriHon. ,
Cowboy's Feet
Getting Bigger
DENVER Wl Take it from a
man who knows, cowboys' feet arc
getting bigger.
"Yes sir," says Theron Brooks,
sales manager for one of the South
west's oldest manufacturers of
cowboy boots, "the cowboys of yes
teryear didn't begin to fill the boots
of the modern-day range rider."
Brooks sold cowDoys ot me eariy
20th century rode their horses
wherever they went and, as a con-
sequence, their feet took an av
erage 5'2 size.
Today's cowpokes currently av
erage ft size 91 boot.
Brooks represents the H.J. Jus
tin It Son, Inc., boot firm of Fort
Worth, Tex.
NEW YORK Ifl The-northesst
Tuesday dug out of its worst snow
storm In five years, as clearing
skies brought a forecast of In
creasingly cold weather. ,
The storm, which started Sunday
afternoon, caused ' at -least 60
deaths and deposited up to a foot
of snow in some sections.
The Weather Bureau here said
the storm was moving in a north
easterly direction along the New
England coast and out ,to sea.
However, the bureau warned that
a wave of freezing air was waiting
to move In on the area from the
Northwest and Canada as soon as
the snowstorm is gone.
Sleet extended as far south as
North Carolina yesterday. There
was snow in Georgia. . - '
North of Washington, D. C, the
sleet coated heavy snowdrifts with
a treacherous icy surface, crippled
traffic and brought accidents on
roads, streets and sidewalks. Add
ing to the death toll were sledding
mishaps and heart attacks as many
persons bucked the snow and sleet
afoot or tried to shovel it.
Today, this was the state-by-state
death toll:
Washington D. C, area, 4; Mary
land, 2; Pennsylvania, 16; New
Jersey, 15: New York, 5; Con
necticut. 7; Rhode Island, 2; Mas
sachusetts. 6.
Snow flurries still drilled down
on narts of the area early today.
but the Weather Bureau said It
would end in the New York City
area In the forenoon and some-
what later toward Boston as the
storm moved out to sea.
Up to a foot of snow piled up
in some' places yesterday. Phila
delphia had 10 inches. Its heaviest
in seven years. New York Tecordeti
a 9,6-inch blanket as of midnight,
he -most since a 15-inch fall In
1945.
Temperatures plunged, hitting 21
below zero in one spot in Maine.
Alter we got out of Klamath
Falls aways, we had supper. The
stewardess gave us a little pillow
and a tray of food. The tray con
tained Swiss s'.enk with string beans
and a salad. For dessert we had a
cako with some cream smeared on
it. Luck was with me; I didn't spill
anything.
When the plane started down
my ears started popping and if the
stewardess hadn't given me some
gum, I know something would nave
haonened.
Alter we nad oeen in uie au-
a while. It was fun. I looked out
and watched the cars down the
highway and they looked like ants.
Jim got all mixed up In what way
we were going nu bsrcu ioa
Jones which was south. She didn't
think anyone knew because they
all pointed in different directions,
but I didn't care.
When we landed in Oakland and
San Francisco there were more
airplanes on the field than there
are cars in Bonanza.
After we landed in San Francis
co, we took a limousine to our
hotel. The driver of the limousine
was sort of an odd guy. He started
out by trying to give Bryant too
much change wnicn is very un
usual. After we got going, ne
started singing and driving like
the dickens. By the time we reached
the hotel I began to wonder now
many fenders we nad collected
along the way.
After we had put our suitcases
in our rooms we decided to go to
the Sir Francis Drake Hotel which
isn't very far away and get a
view of the city from the Star
light Room. The city looked very
pretty. .
on our way dock to tne notei
we drank some orange juice at a
little stand, The orange Juice, tast
ed pretty! Koqdfr' --- -
We stayed In the St. Francis
which is a nice hotel, except the
television in our room wasn't very
good)
if ' vKl
KATHLEEN DOUGHERTY,
5038 Cottage, was on her
way to school this morning
when the nine o'clock photo
grapher caught her in the
Papes Slate
olf Trip
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Payne, 1707
Kane St. will be among the spec
tators at the Bing Crosby Invita
tional Golf Tournament which opens
Thursday at Pebble Beach, Calif.
They are leaving Klamath Falls
Wednesday.
While in California, Dr. and Mrs.
Payne will be guests of friends in
Carmel. The surgeon will return to
his offices in the Medical Dental
Building on Jan. 21.
Weather
FOIt EC 4.ST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair through Wednesday;
colder Tuesday night. High Wed
nesday 32; low Tuesday night 15.
High yesterday - 2S
Low last night 17
Precln last 24 hours .04
Since Oct. 1 6.54
Normal for period 5.43
Same period last year 6.48
KLAMATH BASIN
'potato SHIPMENTS
Shipped (Unit Day
Taiir Lut Veir
51 cars. 0 ears
Total For S'""nn
5416 cars 6015 cars
VIENNA. Austria Ifl More
than 100 persons are dead or miss
ing in a major avalanche, disaster
in the Vorarlberg region of Aus
tria, police at Bregenz reported
Tuesday.
The toll was announced as other
vast snowslides throughout central
Europe's mountainland claimed at
least 23 dead and 44 missing.
The avalanches roaring down the
Alps severed communications and
isolated hundreds of villages. Of
ficials said it might be days be
fore the full toll is known.
Police said that more than 50
of the victims of the Vorarlberg
disaster were missing In the vil
lage of Blons. Twenty three houses
in the town, in the great Walser
Valley near the Swiss frontier,
were covered by a huge series of
snowslides Monday.
The avalanches ' blocked the
small Lutzbach River and many
of the missing were feared
drowned in the dammed-up waters.
The other 50 persons listed as
dead or missing were from
scattered villages In Vorarlberg
Province, police said. The reports
indicated that the sudden ava
lanches may add up to the nation's
worst snow disaster. Only three
years ago more than 124 people
were buried alive in a similar cat
astrophe. ;
GAINING
The tnreat appeared to be mount
ing throughout most of the moun
tain area. Rising temperatures
were melting the snow, bringing
the danger of fresh disasters.
The slides ancient foes of
Europe's hardy mountain folk
cut a wide swathe of death and
destruction through tiny picture
postcard villages in the Austrian -
Tyrol, the Bavarian Alps, North
ern Italy and Switzerland.
Thousands of foreign tourists and
winter sports fans were Isolated.
Rescue squads toiled by lantern
light through the night in frantic
efforts to dig out people burled by .
huge masses of melting snow
which, carrying tree 'trunks and
huge boulders in their wake.
thundered down over their homes.
Often the weary workers had to
stop-1 as , grim , rumbles from the.. ..
mountain sides threatened more
slides.
In many areas snow drifts were
piled as high as 13 feet. Up to
four feet of new snow fell on moun
tain tops in Bavaria during the
night, but at many points drifts
were thawing rapidly.
Mercury In
Oregon Area
Going Down
Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Temperatures skidded to well
below freezing throughout the Pa
cific Northwest early Tuesday ano
the forecast called for more nippy
weather.
A chilly. 13 was reported by a
volunteer neighborhood' observer in
Spokane where the offtclal reading
was 21, lowest of the winter.
Ellcnsburg was the apparent
Northwest cold spot with 14. Har
rington, eastern Washington's tra
ditional ice box, had 19, Missoula,
Mont. 15, Burns, Ore., Colville,
Wash., and Yakima, 21.
Lewiston, Idaho, which prides
itself on mild winters, had 22,
Ephrata 28, Walla Walla 26, Seattle
29 and Portland 31.
The temperatures seemed colder
because reading have been "well
above normal" for this time of
year, the weather bureau said.
The normal low is about 19, the
high 29 for the Inland Empire.
B e 1 o w-freezing temperatures
were forecast throughout the area
Tuesday night as a high pressure
area over Canada funnelled a mass
of cold air in over the P a c I f 4 c
Northwest.
Eastern Washington was due, the
weather man said, for the lowest
readings Tuesday night, with the
mercury expected to dip down to
10 and 20 degrees above east of
the Cascades.
For Eastern Oregon, the fore
cast was for temperatures ranging
from 10 to 25 degrees.
In Western Washington, Tuesday
night temperatures ranging from
18 to 28 were expected In the in
terior and from 28 to 34 along the
coast. Western Oregon was ex
pected to have low temperatures of
from 24 to 34 degrees Tuesday
night.
Paradoxically the first cold sna',1
of the winter brought sunshine to
most of the Pacific Northwest for
the first time this year and for the
first time since last year.
But old Sol apparently was sav
ing his strength for the spring and
summer days ahead because the
hinh temperatures Monday ranged
which had formed Sunday night Formosa Tuesday mi lunched with
remained on grass and shrubbery Gen. Chou Chi-Jou, chief of the
all day Monday. Galium""" sc..c.-
Planes Rip
Rebel Forces
HANOI, Indochina W Bearcat
fighters from the French aircraft
carrier Arromanches Joined land
based French fighters and bomb
ers Tuesday In the 16th straight
day of bombing and strafing Vlet
minh forces clustered around the
fortified plain of Dlcn Blen Fhu,
In northwest Indochina.
There still was no indication of
when the estimated 20,000 Communist-led
rebels would launch their
anticipated assault on the big
French fortress position on the
northern border of the kingdom of
Laos.
In central Indochina, meanwhile,
the battered remnants of seven
Vietminh battalions fled Into the
Jungle apparently ending the battle
for the French-held Laotian fortress
of Scno. The F r e n o h command,
claiming that losses of 1,500 men
had been inflicted on the Vietminh
sent parachutists and North Afri
can infantrymen with strong air
support in hot pursuit.
LUNCH
TAIPEH, Formosa Wl Gen.
John E. Hull, U.N. Far East com
mander, inspected Chinese Nation
alist military forces in southern
Tueake Growers Study Advertising Campaign; Klamath Spud Growers Name Troy Quails President
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potato committee, from left;
Arthur, chairman; standing,
and Russell McFall. (Story on
GUEST SPEAKERS at TSA meeting Monday Included, from
left, standing: Ray Andrews, Portland, and Bert Pirtle, Sacra
mento. Seated are Dan Andrews and Stan Buckingham.
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LELAND CHEYNE, (left) outgoing president of the Klamath
Potato Growers Association turns over the office to incoming
president Troy Quails. On right, Ronnie Whitlatch, vie presi
dent. Story on ,pag 12), i. y
COMMITTEE MEMBERS of the Klamath Potato Growers As
sociation (I to r), Cecil Cheyne, Ed Stastny, Bill Cheyne. John
Short and seated, II to r), Wesley MeKaig and Fred Miller.