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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.
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Re in a year. It isn't done in
fit It starts small and keeps
ping.
fit it it is done at all, somebody
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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
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ft ifid live to be watched and
pd by the people,
pt'a how civic centers come
King.
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we aream must be put on pa-
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wey want It, it can come about.
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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"
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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,
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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
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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
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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,.
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