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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1954)
jlJ ' ' ' 3 ;UitJJlgyyu yiglfli: , JANUARY 16, 1964 Telephone Mil No. 2741 I , . j ps-rr- -j 1 eJei bar'' '. v4 i '-' 1J ' e .v( ' JLJ is'.-j . ' .uir IFKKIN8 M Present to the people of Z dream on PP" , " for Klamath Falls. , A ,H. i- dream. All it ''. 1 Lm, i the city-owned JJJied in Veterans Memorial Itnd ana LAKE EWAUNA. jr.wlnes are the contribution R city pia-lnB commU. raw wist. rubers ol i the city , J commission, the members '"o . i i iha members nark uu - CL council and the mayor, they have not been 'sp ,.7iV. nv formal sense of Etraent. Wether in the years ,e Uiey lane u" Uy Witt depend upon our whole thing is a dream on It has outstanding posslbili- hotntv and usefulness. jvs the most impressive view r'city has been across Lake u at nisht from Highway lilh the llgnts renecieu m wic If, over tne yeius, we wju n veterans ivieniuimi r-i 7iie center the view across pie by oayngni win dc tog as it now is oy wism, iter is a tremendous civic th wars, thousands of vis- tinve said to us with envy in i.. "If our town only Lr two lakes, WHAT WE V mirii'l IDNT DO wiin t laM are Derieuuy bhuoku, f, Klamath, lying at our city's provides us witn a raveiy irniind. Ewauna, in our very , oners us uie ane ivii. canter. hud's Lake Merritt Is no bet- By WILLIAM C. BARNARD SEOUL tfi President Syngman Rhee today set an April deadline tor the peaceful unification of Ko rea and warned that "We will not sit back and wait until we are sold out." An official government spokes man later issued a statement modi fying the aging President's warning. Rhee told a news conference that 180 days after the start-of prelimi nary Korea peace talks last Oct. 26 South Korea will be "free to take our own action good, bad or In different." This would make the deadline April 23. Rhee reiterated the 180-day warn ing three times during the' news conference. But six hours later Dr. sure we have the resources Lid here an important city if kve the courage ana ine vmag- to develOD them luiiy. Taw resources alone are not fell. If we're to build here the ol cltv we- want, we must it the kind of city -people Iwint to live in. In the modern i, people want to live in al ive cities. Cities whose beauty llvesblllty they can be proud fcd botst about. - i none too soon to begin to i ol making our city an at- : ve alsce to live. We nave an necessary physical possibilities, he need to do is to develop 1 are civic centers de- fcea? isn't done In a day. Usually It fMns something like this: Some- ' gets a vision dreams a m. The dream is put on paper, ble beeln to believe In it. A is provided. An attractive sue, possible and in our case it is ble. Around this site, as the s pass, public and semi-public Kings tend to cluster. time, it becomes a tnmg oi Lty something the people who near It cherish and visitors lie. ' isn't done In a day. It isn't Re in a year. It isn't done in fit It starts small and keeps ping. fit it it is done at all, somebody it nrst DREAM ABOUT IT. to the dream is nut on paver, t mat, u must be realized in t and stone and green grass .rowers ana trees and pleasant, 7 wains ana tennis courts and i water, the magic ingredient, resent In waterfronts where and sailboats mav be KMd and where waterfowl - , rmana's Lake Merritt, may ft ifid live to be watched and pd by the people, pt'a how civic centers come King. M first there must be a dream we aream must be put on pa- Tnftt is what all ih1 Is WhMh. 'Qfthintr COmPS nf If will riananri wey want It, it can come about. Jidians Will et Money Z .TON - A House "Or SUbcommitton, n,iii next month on a bill to f &b0Ut dfctrih,,! JP,mim ,olla to certain h kuT fiuu -uiaians. oy Kep. Ellsworth (It would aillhnrl,. Mtrl.lal t0" 10 oetermlne who m .. m ,Be distribution. ih- u v-iicuj, cnairman .H,,?uJseIntelll" Committee, K s"hcommittee. Z,n "WOW which the " Claims inrd.j 1. ..... era! ,..: """ yenon inaians Um ior ianas ConVernment tan ., ,Z appropriated the Ihi... " " court verdlrt hut iJias been made. lh eoniS.v,l ."iare members L.n. '"""otoney. rhi w Molej tribes. Price Five Cents U Paget KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, Rhee Threatens Action Or Else In Korea Issue Pair Held On Tale Of Kidnap Trip EUGENE Ifl Two convicts, escapees Irom the Oklahoma State Prison, were questioned by the FBI here Saturday after Noble Howard of Odessa, Tex., reported the pair had kidnaped him. Howard said the men, identified 1 Leonard Sylvester Qoodnight, 44, and Fred Winchester, 19, forced their way into his car near Atoka, Okla., a week aeo and made him drive them to New Mexico and then to Springfield, Ore, Howard sa d he got away from the two men . for a few minutes Friday afternoon and was able to call state ponce, cniei Tea Brown of the Eugene police said Good night, when arrested, was carrying a billfold which Howard said the pair had taken from him. Howard, a house painter, gave this account of his trip half way across the continent: He was en route from Fort Smith, Ark., to Odessa last Satur day. He stopped his car on a road near Atoka to sleep when the two men smashed a window1 and threat ened him with knives. They took his wallet containing $149 and told him to drive to New Mexico. They stopped at motels but kept close watch on Howard to pre vent his reporting them. They slept with Howard between them to prevent his escape. After reaching New Mexico, the pair told Howard to drive on to Oregon. At Springfield, Howard said he "gained tneir commence enough so they'd leave me alone for a minute." It was then that he was able to call police. Chief Brown said both men at first gave other names but later admitted their Identities. They were serving long sentences for armed robbery when they escaped from a work gang outside uie MC- Alester, Okla., prison Jan. 4. Thev were booked on vagrancy charges while the FBI continued its Investigation. Fire Razes Poultry Plant Fire, caused apparently by defec tive wiring, caused a heavy loss in chickens and equipment si we J. H. poultry plant at Pine Grove shortly after 9 p.m. last night. A large frame chicken house on concrete foundation, poultry dress ing machinery and 680 chickens were destroyed. The Suburban Fire Dept., answer ing the call at 9:20 p.m. were un able to save the building, enveloped in finmei when the department ar rived. Efforts were directed at saving other buildings threatened in the high wind. The loss was only partly covered bv insurance. A chicken dressing crew had Just finished killing 105 birds and had placed the carcasses in the cooling room, shortly before the blaze was discovered. An earlier call, answered by the deDartment was at the frame home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Malone where a blaze between the walls In the living room caused minor damage. That call came at 7:10 p.m.. Weather rnnFrSTKlamth Falls and vicinity: occasional now flurries Saturday night and Sunday, ms" Sunrtar lonr Saturday night 25- Hlffh vxtrdnv .wm.-...... 34 Earl Hong Kl, official government spokesman, said the President "did not set a detinue deadline of April 26 for Korean unification. . " Rhee said that even if a peace conference convenes "I do not ex pect any great achievement." Rhee said he would give Allied and Communist diplomats another month to "settle the time and place for a political (peace) conference. I could settle It in three aays, he added. Then the political conference should begin right away give it 90 days, that's 180 days In all. After that, something must be done. "Our brothers are begging and pleading with us to come and help them." Twice previously Rhee has set deadlines for the peaceful unifica tion of his country. And while he made no threats Saturday, in the past he has threatened to order his 18 American-equipped divisions to march Into Communist-held North Korea. Orlginclly, Rhee said he would wait until Jan. 27180 days after the Korean armistice was signed Later he said he would wait for 90 days after the peace conference be gan before taking independent action. Dr. Karl's statement said: "What President Rhee was trying to point out is that we can not wait forever to free the suffering people of the North from Communist tyranny. In doing so, he posed a hypothetical case in which three months would be considered a rea sonable time for the preliminary talks and another tnree montns, as provided by the armistice agree ment, for the political (peace) con ference itself." 'Actually," Karl went on,"Presl- dent TUiee specifically refused tc set any definite date. The point that the President was trying to make is that once -it becomes entirely clear that peaceful efforts are failure, we must take action with the help of our allies, -we hope to bring about unification by other means." Preliminary talks to set up peace conference were suspended Dec. 12 after the Reds accused the United States of conniving with South Korea in Uie release of 27,000 anti-Red Korea war prisoners last June. Rhee told newsmen of U.N. countries: "When your soldiers came here they asked 'What the hell are we fighting for?' " "If you don't iignt nere now, they were told, 'you will some day fight In your own back yard.' "They were convinced and they died. Have you completed your ob jectives here now, where American boys will not fight in their own back yards? Is that objective ac complished? "We here will sacrifice all we have and all we are until we ac complish that- objective. We will not sit back and wait until we are sold out." The Indian Command, mean while, waited for reaction from the Allies and Communists to its de cision to return all unrepatriated war prisoners starting next Wednesday. The Indians asked for replies by midnight Saturday. The U.N. commana is expectea to accent the 22,500 anti-Red Ko reans and Chinese now in Indian custody, but the Reds are expected to object strenuously to the plan. Under U.N. interpretation of the armistice, all unrepatriated prison ers are to be freed as civilians at midnight Jan. 22. The Communists want them held untu a peace con ference decides their fate. An Indian proposal to recall the U.N. Assembly Feb. 9 to debate Korean problems got no support from the United States and other big powers. The Communist bloc, except for Poland, already is on record as favoring the session. Asked For P Members of the Klamath Countjl Child Guidance Advisory Council have authorized Dr. Beth Kerron! Klamath County health officer, tq follow up the suggestion, made km psychiatric worker to Klamatl Falls. Probable salary was estimated a between 5,000 and $6,000 per year The imperative need for an ex pension of the program that haj been successfully operating on part-time basis under the comp tent guidance of Dr. John Waterman, Director. Mental Healtll section, Oregon State Board Health, was brought out at a lun1 cheon meeting of the counci,' xnursaay, at ine winema notei.; Cases, bere, all dealing to date helped by study of individual dll. liculties, were briefly outlined bj Dr. Waterman. Minor changes in the by-lawi were favorably ' voted upon ant the membership approved $1 an nual dues, needed for postage and other incidentals, Ill I I I T V X. II II I -v I I I M II I II MM l I II nil i hi i 'a y-s I II U UU UU I IV- U a Blizzard g Towards South; Al T-l.- Tll with children who have beei3f 3lflK 3ff D UII I CUt I VII Maybe The Fags Aren't So Bad PHOENIX, Aria. Wl More peo ple get lung cancer in New Orleans and St. Louis than in California, and smoking may not definitely be a cause. That's the word from Dr. David O. Wood of San Francisco, direc tor of the Cancer Research In stitute. In a talk before a cancer semi nar here last night, Dr. Wood said scientific evidence of the cancer causing role of cigarettes is still too inconclusive to accept. , KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Sunt Pay Lilt T.ir Sklppd U7 ' 55 can ' 45 can . t.ui rt stu.ii 547 cars . . 4343 cart UH4I A SACK OF SPUDS for Oregon's Sam Coon, representative from the second district, came from the Kiwanis-sponsored Rex Porterfield, 4-H spud king of the nation. Rex is shown here handing over the top tubers to the solon on the snow covered porch of the Heui Office building. ,, -.-- r ,, Porterfield Reports:; - v- Finger Bowls, ice Skaters And Doug McKay's Cadillac Keep Spud King Occupied (Eds. Note: This is the fourth in a series of letters from Rex Porterfield, Kiwanis - sponsored 4-H spud king, currently in Wash ington, D.C, on a trip to see Sec retary of Agriculture Benson.) By REX PORTERFIELD January 12, 1954 Tonight we went to the mezza nine floor of the Conrad Hilton and saw the ice skaters. They sure were good skaters and it wouldn't nave cost us very much if Bryant had have hurried out of the hotel be cause the cashier forgot to charge for Jim and my dinners. The waiter caught us before we got clear out. While we were waiting to straighten that up we found out that the funny guy on skates got S500 a week. He was irom Vienna. Another pair of skaters got iou a week. If the pond freezes over at home I'm going to learn to skate. Thev had it fixed so tne lioor slid back and they had ice under neath. After the show they pulled the floor back out and people could dance. This morning we took the limou sine to the tirport and flew from Chicago to South Bend, from South Bend to Toledo, then to Baltimore. The plane flew low from Baltimore into Washington, D.C. and it was very rough. Jim was scared to death and almost sick, but. we sure got a beautiful view of the Pentagon, Washington Monument, The Cap itol Building (Jim didn't care any thlnsr about it). After we landed we too ine limousine to The Mayflower Hotel and got our rooms. This hotel lsn t nearly so high as the Conrad Hil ton, but it sure covers a lot of ground. There was a telegram that we received from the Kiwanis office In Chicago saying that we were to have dinner at the Kiwanis Club In the Mayflower Thursday. We had dinner in the dining room and I got a chance to use a finger bowl for the first time. I think tomor row night we will eat where they give us more food and we will wash our bands ourselves. Bryant called Sam Coon, our Congressman, and we are to have our picture taken at the airport in the morning with Douglas McKay, so I think I'll go to bed early. January 13, 1954 Oh, gee, what a day) If the Ki wanis Club had given Bryant more money, we'd stay here a long time. First, Jim and I had trouble de ciding what clothes we were going to wear, so Bryant settled that argu ment, then we rushed through breakfast so that we could get out to the airport and wait 16 minutes for Douglas McKay, lie sure is swell guy. Larry Smyth arranged for the photographer to be there to take a picture of us giving the Secretary some potatoes. He was on his way to Florida. Then we took a cab back to the House' Office Building and went down to Mr. Coon's office. They were sure nice in there gave us passes to the House of Representa tives and to the Senate Chambers and told us that Douglas McKay had sent word over that his car and chauffeur were at our service. So we have them lined up to pick us up at the hotel in the morning at 8:30, , - , We met Congressman Coon at 12:00 o'clock, had our picure taken with him, and really ave him the potatoes because titey were getting awlully heavy to carry around by that time. Then he took us to lunch in the Capitol Building where only Congressmen and their guests can eat. Then he took us up to where the 8enate was meeting and a couple of guys were arguing about some locks or sometmng. The only thing I understood was that it' was something about Lake Erie and Can ada. We got to see where Senator Guy Cordon and Wayne Morse sit. (Wayne Morse wasn't saying any thing). Then we went to the Smithsonian Institute. The first thing we saw on entering was the Wright Bros, air plane. I'd sure hate to fly from Baltimore to Washington in that one. Then we went back and saw Lindbergh's plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. Alter that we went Into another part of the building and saw a bunch of old-time bicycles. We saw bicycles with big wheels and little wheels in back, also bicycles with small wheels In front and big wheels In back, and some with two seats. In that same room were buggies, stage coaches, old time fire engines, and one of the old fashioned pumps they used to use. The wheels on the old wagons were still In good shape. We then went and looked at the old automobiles, Henry Ford's first Model T was there; the whole bunch of them with hard rubber tires. The old Cadillac of 1910 sure doesn't look like the Cadillac that Doug. McKay has. Then we got over in the Oun Department and found pistols with bayonets attached; later we found rifles with shovels on them, and found a pistol that could shoot 20 shells, and some duelling pistols; also a gun about 71 inches long, with a barrel about 2-lnches In dl ameter. If Juckeland shot this at pheasants he'd either kill a pheas ant or himseu. men uiey cnasea us out, Dimes Tags ha ' ' . I ' go with them. " " Only one traffic death was re ported in safety-conscious Wash ington, however, despite innumer able minor accidents caused by ice-covered streets and highways. A Seattle woman, Ruth V. Stev ens, about 54, was killed outright Friday night when she was struck by a car as she crossed the Seattle Tacoma highway south of Seattle. The coroner's office said the car's driver reported he applied his brakes but the vehicle skidded on the icy pavement. Tne storm which dumped from one to more than eight inches of snow on communities throughout most of the Northwest hampered shipping, forced postponement of Dasketball games, and closed schools. DAMAGE Greatest damage reported came off British Columbia where a mil lion dollars - worth of logs broke loose from a boom and scattered over a wide area at Keats Island, 35 miles north of Vancouver. Buffeted by gales up to 70 miles an hour, 10 tugs attempting to round un the logs gave un for the time being and returned to their piers. A Liberty ship, the Harpld D. Whitehead, ran aground on Baln bridge Island in Puget Sound dur ing the height of Friday's storm, but was pulled free earlv Saturdav. The ship was enroute to San Fran cisco. The state-owned ferry Nisqually smashed into the Vashon Island ferry slip early Saturday and caus ed heavy damage to the slip. The lerry was not damaged. In Stillacoom. near Tacoma. fire whipped by heavy winds de stroyed a sawmill. The loss was estimated by owners at 150,000. BRUNT ... Belllngham, which bore the brunt of the storm's first onslaught Fri day was gettlngimore of the same SaturCv. A noraieaster with winds as high as 58 miles ' per hoiu- Drougnt a winter s low tempera- tue of 10 degees. Snowbound sections of the Inland Empire got no respite from the first really severe weather of the winter. ' Winds still were blowing in many areas. Highway crews were busy keeping the highways clear of drifting snow, and the Empire's major roads were open to traffic. Near zero temperatures were reg istered at many eastern Washing ton and northern Idaho points dur ing the night. A low of eight above in Spokane was recorded by the weather bureau. About three Inches of snow has fallen since the storm started Friday morning, and more is on the way. High winds still were blowing, and more snow was falling In the Idaho Panhandle. Highways were plagued with drifting snow, but were open. MILLS CLOSE The Pack River Sawmill Com pany at Colburn, Idaho, and the firm's planing mill at Devon were forced to shut down because of the storm, officials said they hoped to reopen both plants Monday. About 12 Inches of snow has fall en at Sandpolnt since Wednesday. At both Sandpolnt and Coeur d' Alene overnight low temperatures of two-below-zerq were registered. West of Spokane, winds were blowing around Davenport, Wash, where two inches of snow fell Fri day. Two Inch snowfalls were reported from such widely separated points as Newport, eoltax and puiiman. A much lighter fall occurred at Colvllle. The south end of Belllngham was blacked out for several hours Fri day night by- an overload on a power substation and by falling trees. The Weather bureau was unable to forecast any general end to the storm although most areas had some respite during the day. one oi tne nardest nit cities was Seattle where ice and snow-covered streets snarled traffic when the storm first struck. Four high school basketball games were post poned although the University of wasnington went ahead with Its game with Oregon State and play- ed before 8,000- fans. Coldest point In the state was the reported 8 degrees below zero at Okanogan, In eastern Washing ton. DEEP SNOW West of Washington's Cascade Mountains where snow is still a novelty, Port Angeles reported 4 to 5 inches of snow; Aberdeen, 2 Vj to 4 Inches; Forks, 7 inches; Ta coma, 1 inch: Seattle. 5 to 8 in dies; Longvlew, 3 Inches. Enst of the Cascades. Yakima re- ported 5 Vi inches and a low of 16 degrees; Spokane, 3 inches and a low of 8 degrees; Wenatchee. 4 inches with drifting snow in the Big aena mat restricted tramc to one way between Waterville end Cou lee City; Ellensburg, S inches. me forecast for Northern Ore gon was colder, continued snow and easterly winds through Sunday. many stations recorded oeiow- freezing temperatures Saturday morning. Pendleton was the cold est with a low of 14 degrees. The Dalles had 22. Other low readings: Portland and Eugene 31; Astoria, Baker, Redmond and Newport 32; Burns and Lakevlew 33; Medford 34: Roseburg and Ontario 35. RAIN HEAVY Southwest Oregon points record ed heavy rainfall. At North Bend 1.07 inches fell in the 24 hours ended at 4:30 a. m. Eugene had i.h, Newport l.n, ttosemirg 1.11 ana Meatora .83. The Portland Airport was closed to planes because of snow and Ice which formed because of the freez ing winds whistling in throiiah the Columbia Gorge; Trains were mov. tag jibout. on -scheiuleViBuseB -wire eiowea out continued to operate ex cept in tne gorge where they were stalled, . Wyoming was in somewhat better condition. Sheridan's low early to day was -11, Douglas 2 above zero, uasper 13 ana otner points in tne 20's and 30's. But the weather bureau warned the stalemated cold wave still posed a grim threat with clearing condi tions expected to drop temperatures to perhaps 30-35 degrees below zero. , . Sweden Lashed By Blizzards HEAVY SNOW CHEMULT By noon Friday there were 26 Inches of snow. Many tourists stayed overnight Thursday to put on chains and depart for their original destinations. Snow plows, graders, and improvised plows on pick-ups aro busy clear ing the town of the white stuff. Montana Plains In Deep Freeze HELENA, Mont. W The sea son's first blizzard, Its western flank stalled by the continental di vide, mushroomed southward across the Plains States today while continuing to dump snow on hard hit Montana and Wyoming. The forward edge of the cold front, laying on an east-west line through Wyoming, presented tem perature variations of as much as 66 degrees between reporting points. Cut Bank, Mont., was numbed by 28 degree weather early today, while Cheyenne, Wyo., reported 38 degrees above zero, HEADS SOUTH Meanwhile, the storm turned south and east across the plains, The Denver Weather Bureau said the cold air mass extended Satur day from Lake Michigan south to Arkansas, west to tne Texas ran. handle, northward along the Colo rado-Kansas border, and across Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Other early Saturday tempera tures in Montana found Glasgow and Lewistown shivering In -22 de gree weather, Great Falls -20, Helena -19 and Billings and Miles City -17. The warmest spot in the state was Missoula, where the tem perature was zero. Snow continued to fall over most of Montana, LONDON Wl Gales howling across the British Isles and West ern Europe quieted down Satur day, leaving In their wake a-heavy death toll and costly wreckage. Four died in Britain and five in Germany, A blizzard the third in 14 days lashed Sweden but the worst ap peared over for the British Isles and continental Europe after a nightmarish night. . Austria, counting 130 dead In snow avolanches, was still digging out with many lonely villages- cut off from the outside world In the great Walser "vallev of death." American helicopters taking off in mercy 'missions were hampered somewhat by high winds sweeping Uie mountainous ski country. Holland's repaired dikes with. stood their first grueling storm test since their repair after the great floods of almost a year ago. The last of 67 big dike breaches were plugged in November. Near ly 2,000 people perished when the antes gave way on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 of last vear. Britain's worst gales in a half century killed four people during the night and left a tattered trail of wreckage strewn from Scotland to tne soutn coast. winds whipping alone un to ,i miles an hour blew down bombed out nuiidings in Germany, where five persons died of storm injuries. Three were buried alive in wreck age in Hannover, a mart was killed in Muenster by flying debris, an other in,. Wandsbeck by a falling power line.,-. .... .. fire ( 1 !.- ;- - Fire, fanned by storm winds, swept a metal grinding factory in Hannoversch-Muendeh with loss es timated at 1760,000. Shipping ran for cover in the Baltic and the English Channel as storm-tossed seas lashed coast lines. Defenses built up after the disastrous floods of Just a year ago held out everywhere, however. Three small islands off the west coast of Scotland Islay. Jura and Colonsey were cut off from com munication with the mainland. Coffee Prices Soar To $1.03 PORTLAND IB Wholesale cot- fee prices rose five cents to a rec ord high of $1 to $1.03 a pound in Portland Friday. Retail prices remained at 93 to 97 cents a pound but store oper ators said customers would be paying more than that soon. Restaurant operators are plan ning to meet to discuss what ef fect the increase will have on the price of a cup of coffee. IN TROUBLE ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands 11 The 8,338-ton Holland-Ameri ca Line steamer Dulvendljk mes saged from the raid Atlantic Satur day that it had lost a propeller. The Dutch tug boat Zwarte Zee, stationed in England, was speed ing toward the scene. - Andrew Kroenert, Pioneer Of Oregon, Long-Time Klamath Resident, Dies At 86 Andrew Joseph Kroenert, resi dent of Klamath Falls for 28 years, and Identified with the develop ment of Oregon since the turn of V) ANDREW J. KROENERT. the century, died last night in an Ashland nursing home where he had been a patient since Dec. 7. He was 86-years-old. Mr. Kroenert, native of Leaven worth, Kas., was clerking In a grocery store at the age of 11. At 14 years, he was managing a gro cery and two years later purchased his own business In his native state. In 1898 he went to Alaska and for 3'A years operated the-largest placer mine In the Klondike. He returned to Portland to become associated with the late Henry L. Plttock. one-time publisher of the Oregonlan, in ownership of the Wash-Ore. Lumber Co., Vancouver Wash., in the days when ferries across the Columbia were used tor travel. He later sold his Interest to Plttock and went into the whole sale manufacture of shingles, a bus iness which he operated until 1912 Following an extensive European tour he came to Klamath Falls in 1926 and began negotiations for opening a lumber mill at Modoc Point. He purchased a site, later sold to the Lamm Lumber Co., and brough machinery here. A delay In the release of Indian timber by the U. S. Government for processing at the mill, determined a change In his business interestea at Modoc Point, and be operated the Bend Flour Mill and later the Pine Tree Lumber Co, in Bend. The mill burned, and Kroenert lost his fi nancial interest in that property. During 1920-27, ne operated a wholesale produce business In Klamatn Falls and Is credited with Introducing the Netted Gem potato to California markets. Tnree years ago he was present ed with 60 year emblem in Mason ry by Bend Lodge, No. 139, A.F. ti A.M. during a colorful cere mony in this city. He was a member of the Bend Lodge, a charter member and hon orary life member of Aberdeen, Wash., Lodge, A.F. &. A.M., char ter member of Rhodcdendron Chap ter, OES, Aberdeen, Wash., the Klamath Shrine Club, Al Kader Temple, AAON Shrine, Pilgrim Conunandery and Royal Arch Ma sons, Bend, and the Al Kader Shrine Temple, Portland. Surviving are his widow Mrs. Irene Kroenert, owner and manag er of the Klamath Business Col lege here since 1926; one sister, Mrs. Katherlne K. Fowler, Chica go, HI.; also five nieces and five nephews. Funeral services will be an nounced later by Ward's Klamath Funeral Home, - - - The Klamath Business College will be closed until Wednesday morning,. Low bit nltbt 31
