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The Klamath Basin is really go.
In to town with Friends magazine
the publication put out by the
Chevrolet people. Kecenuy were
was an article on crater Lake, and
row they come through with a lead
story and picture layout on
KASRU, pictures ny wu uacoos,
i It's fine and our thanks to Rich.
ard Strain, product development
manager, who sent us me ad
vance and also, we suspect, was
instrumental in seeing that the
story was Included.
The great Klamath Country is
really getting on tne map taieiy.
Won't be long before people back
East will realize thai Oregon is
: more than' a town in California.
And that Klamath Falls Is quite
some town in Oregon.
The future Is not only bright, It's
flowing.
, We're sorely distressed at the
moment over the prospect of miss
ing the annual Malin crab feed. It's
set for the 22nd, and on that date
we'll bn way up north. Called out
of town by a newspaper meeting
that is fairly essential. Business
before pleasure, we know, but it Is
' certainly a shame to miss one of
the best parties of the year. There
Just Isn't anything that's more fun
that the Malin crab feed. All the
crab you can eat, and good crab,
refreshments, good company - and
no speeches. It's wonderful. Save us ;
ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL
by KEN McLEOD
The reference book most readily
available to the casual reader,
about California in general is the
"American Guide series Callfor
nla." The Federal Writers' project
of the late, , but famous, WPA.
Since this guide to the Golden
State professes to be "authentic,"
and, "an outstanding history of the
state," perhaps before we leave the
story of the battle of Castle Crags
It may be well to see what tins
encyclopedia of facts has to offer
Upon the subject.
In the Oulde's description re
ferring to Castle Crags State Park
there is Included this story
"Lett from the entrance to the
Picnlo Area on a dirt road,' across
the saoramento River to the rail
road station of Castle Crags, 0.4 m.
the site of Lower Soda Springs In
the green meadows at the mouth
of Soda Creek. On his way south
from the Rogue River in 1843
Lansford Hastings once camped
here with 18 others and built, It
was said the old tort of pine logs,
Hastings' Barracks. First perma
nent settler was "Mountain Joe"
Doblondy. a guide of Fremont's;
he tilled the soil, built houses, kept
a hotel, guided travelers up the
camornia-oregon Trail past Shas
ta, and fought the Indians. Moun
tain Joe's fabulous tales lured min
ers in the spring of 1655, but they
were unwarranted. In anger the
miners left after they had killed or
driven away the fish and game on
which the Indians lived. Modoc war
riors swooped down on the Utile
settlement and burned It in re
prisal. They were pursued into
Castle Crags and, after a battle,
driven out.'' ,
l.S miles further south from the
entrance to. Castle Crags Slate
Park Picnic Area so states the
guide:
"Is a junction with a dirt road
Right on this road, along the bank
of Castle Creek, to the base of
Castle Crags, 3.B m. This gigantic
pile of grey-white granite fre
quently tinged with pale rose,
rears Its Jagged spires to a sheer
(1,000 feet above the forested
called Castillo del Diablo. Here
on June 36, 18S6, setllers of the
region fought tho battle with the
Modoo who burned the settlement
at Lower Soda Springs. Joaquin
Miller's version of It, garnished
with boasts of his own exploits
is a colorful if not an eyewlt
ness account; the testimony, all ex
cept his own, indicates he was slill
a schoolboy in Oregon at the time
It occurred.
"As Miller tells it, the Indians
were traced to their hiding place
by the flour they had spilled along
the wsy as they made off with
their loot. Mountain Joe gathered
TELLING THE EDITOR
ENFORCEMENT
Local political Issues have again
raised the question of law enforce
ment. This la a principle of first
importance in any organisation.
Neglect it, or allow It to be ne
glected, at any time and you have
sown the seed that destroys dem
ocratic law and brings corrup
tion, dictatorship, and eventual de
struction of the organization in
which It Is allowed.
The failure of the membership
In labor unions to take responsi
bility In seeing laws are carried
out and enforced within their or
ganitationa has accounted for at
least ninety percent of all the cor
ruption, Internal fighting, and week
ness in action beneficial to wage
workera, that has occurred In our
labor movement.
Jefferson once wrote Uiat the
execution of the law is more Im
portant than the making of the
law. In his farewell address Wash
ington points out that allowing or
BILL JENKINS
Managing Editor
BY. CAKB1ER
.1 month - IM
t months ....- $ t.10
1 year . 1.20
a seat for next year. We'll be
there for sure.
Driving to work early these
mornings everyone Is doing the
same thing: Judging how much
lighter it is today than it was yes
terday. Measuring the approach of
spring by llgnt decimals ineieaa oj
minutes. ,
At least we know that It gets
light a little earlier every day and
stays light a lime laier every
evening. Pretty soon you'll see the
tired businessman going home with
a seed catalogue, the old hoe
will be dug out and shlned up and
the lawn mower will be dragged
downtown to be sharpened against
another summer's work.
Speaking of which reminds us
that we have recently been reading
articles In magazines, news
leases and science pan phlets
about how vou will somedij be
able to spray the snow on the front
yard with some substance which will
attract the sun a rays, intensity era
and thusly melt the snow off the
yald In fast order.
All so you can start mowing and
raking earlier. Oosh, don't most of
us do enough complaining about
the necessary chores around the
lawn as it is without trying to
add a month, or so to the season?
I'd rather mow lawns than shov
el snow, but I enjoy the interim
period when you don't have to do
either.
a company of recruits from the
mining camps at Portuguese Flat
and Dog Creek. Its leader, Judge
R. R. Gibson, who had married
the daughter of the Shasta chief,
won over the Shasta as allies. Un
der the highest crag in the north
west corner of Battle Rock most
prominent of the spires, the 39
whites, with Shasta allies of about
the same number, fought face to
face with the Modoc until they
forced them to withdraw, leaving
many of their warriors dead. Mil
ler's fanciful tale of his own
exploits tells how he was carried.
wounded, down the mountainside
in a lilg buckskin bag tied to the
back of a wrinkled squaw, and how
Mountain Joe cared for his wounds
In a camp by the rlverbank."
Thus we have In the "authentic'
account i of the guide some very
decidedly flat statements that wou
lead us to be quite confused, should
we accept the account as being aa
"authentic" as the publication pro.
fesses. This column has carried
two stories written by Miller, the
first version written in 1874, the
second in 18D3 when he had Gibson
write his account. In neither of
the Miller Versions Is there men
tion of the Guide's "flour" story.
The writer In the Guide charges
Miller with being fanciful to tile
point of not being present at the
battle or even In California, it is
quite appelant he had quite an
adverslon for the ' Poet of the
SlerrBs." Sn to carry out the aver
sion there Is promulgated further
confusion labeled "authentic."
I have pointed out the difficulty
of dealing with the word Modoc,
In my opinion the Modoc Indian
could not have been In the country
and the only possible tribe which
could be logically Involved were
the Northern Wlntun. Since there
was conflict between Indians of
competing tribes, I do not believe
H is possible to accept the Guide's
explanation that Jist because Gib
son was married to the chief's
daughter he was able to win over
the Shasta warriors to make the
attack Just for the love of Gibson.
As I have pointed out there Is much
left unsaid In the published ver
sions of tho battle of the Crags.
The white man wants to appear
his best under such circumstances
and so assumes' all the glory of
the sanguine episode. From the
Guide's nccount It would appear
(hat Mountain Joe was a much
more Important figure In the at
(lar than Is credited in the ac
counts, oibson's account states he
took 29 Shastas with him, the
guide, states 29 whites,, and im
plies the Indians were also there.
Gibson, never even made a refer
once to the whites.
ganised action that blocks exec.i-
iron 01 me law Is to take the road
lhat leads lo rule by Ihe man on
norseback.
Often you hear the hypothetical
argumentation that we have so
many bad laws It would be worse
If they were enforced. There la
one way to net rid nr hnH i,B
That Is to cntorce them. An ever
increasing number of bad laws
is the frutt of (allure to see laws
are enforced. That Is n.n i
organizations whose members lo
noi sen 10 n mat (heir laws are
enforced arc on the road lo de
struction. It Is up to the people of this
community to carrv ih
of law enlorcement Into all their
organiiauons uiey would Improve
things. Not to allow their attention
tO StOD On tUSt Ul nlnn.i
of laws concerning houses of pros-
......,, gumming aevices, etc.
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JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON W) Two tigers
moved ud close to examine each
other again, and again they with
drew to watch and wait and sharp
en their' claws,
That may be the historians' de
scription .of the Berlin meeting,
which began Jan. 2S and ends this
week, between the Big Four for
eign ministers. .
Three of them from the Wesl
United States' Dulles, Britain's Ed
en, France's Bidault have talked
four weeks with Russia's Molotov.
Neither side was expected to
yield anything. Neither did. In that
sense the meeting was not a dis
appointment, But history may consider it a
tragic dlsaoDolntment if it turns
out this was the last chance the
Big Four had to settle their differ
ences peacefully before World War
III.
At Berlin the stumbling blocks
were peace treaties for Germany
and Austria, as they had been in
one meeting after another since
1946.
This was only the latest in a
series. Hie previous one was In
September 1949. There may be
others in the years to come.
ir that's so. men this one, in
splie 'of the attention It attracted
now, may wind up as only a tiny
foulnote in history.
At the time of the first break
down over Germany and Austria
this country and the rest of the
West were practically unarmed;
Russia was an arsenal.
SUU, there was a balance be
tween them: this country was no
match for Russia in number of
men under arms but this country
had the atom bomb, which Russia
didn't. The bomb was enough to
discourage Russian, attack in Eu
rope.
In the years since 1946 both
sides have built up their muscle,
sharpened their claws, pushed and
punea and tested each other with
out locking in a full death struggle.
communslm
Russia clinched her hold on the
satellites, grabbed Czechoslovakia
(1946), rushed development of the
HAL
NEW YORK M The bootleg
ger is enjoying boom times in
America again.
He's. getting to be a big opera
tor, Just as he was in prohibition
days. He is able to put up $25,000
to 660,000 for a still that will turn
out a thousand gallons Of alcohol
a day.
He has new lists of suckers
eager to buy his oases of "smug
gled" scotch or Canadian whisky
at cut-rate prices. He is again
using counterfeit labels and tax
stamps on a big scale.
Maybe no one has oifered you a
bargain basement buy in moon
shine lately, but the liquor indus
try says moonshine Is being sold
In parking lots, candy stores, gas
stations, cigar stores, and by tele
phone. It says the bootleggers have
henchmen working in hotels,
apartment houses, business build
ings and industrial plants all over
the United States.
The post-war rise of the boot
legger has the regular liquor in
dustry more than annoyed. It Is so
angry that It is considering hiring
Its own agents and lawyers to
track down bootleggers and help
the government convict them.
Ralph Heymsieid, w, president
of schenley's and a spokesman for
Ihe Industry, feels the government
isn t doing enougn to wipe oui
bootlegging. ,
"Bootlegging Is the major law
less Industry In America today,"
he said, "but the average citizen
Just doesn't care a hoot about the
problem.
Moonshine has a romantic his
tory. The hillbilly moonshiner Is
part of our folklore. We re not
worried about him. '
But we are concerned about the
big operators who have moved in
to the cities. No one can say (or
sure how much illegal whisky is
being sold. But I say you can go
anywhere In New York or any
other major city and buy bootleg
whisky within 10 minutes. Any
body who wants It can get It. The
supply equals the demand."
Heymsfeld said that the distilled
spirits Industry paid (1,840,850,
650 In federal and state taxes In
1953, roughly $13.25 a gallon, but
that the government spent less
than six-tenths of one per cent
or this revenue, to enforce the li
quor laws.
"Most bnolleggers get suspend
ed sentences." he sdded. "Only a
third are sent to Jail. The courts
Imply aren't doing the Job.
"Curiously, the government con
centrates its campaign against
bootlegging In the Southern states,
but the bootleg Industry actually
Is flourishing In every section of
the country.
"They selte 50,000 stills a year,
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atom and hydrogen bombs, achiev
ing her first atomic explosion in
1940. her first hydrogen one in
1953. And the Chinese Communists
took over all of China 1949).
At war's end the Communists,
In Russia alone, ruled 200 million
people. Now communism, Russian
and Chinese, rules 800 million un
der a solid tied military alliance
that stretencs from central Europe
and across Asia to the Pacific,
The West
Under the threat of Russia the
United States moved on from the
atomic bomb to development of
the hydrogen bomb and built up
an atomic armory so vast it is
beginning to put more reliance
on atomic weapons, less on men.
The United States and Western
Europe came out of the helpless
ness of their disarmament to new
rearmament and formation of their
own military 'alliance, the North
Atlantic Pact (1949).
The tests (
When Russia threatened to gob
ble Greece and Turkey, former
President Truman abandoned tra
ditional American isolationism in
peacetime by ' rearming ' them
(1B47). When Russia tried to force
the Allies out of Berlin with a
blockade (1948), this country
smashed the blockade with the air
lift.
When communism threatened
impoverished Western Europe
from within, this country helped
it with Marshall Plan economic
aid ()948i. Communism tried an
other thrust with the invasion of
South Xorea (1950) but was blocked
in a war that lasted three years,
is not yet officially ended.
East and West grow steadily
stronger. Neither, therefore, seems
to think It necessary to yield any-
'hing. If either did, at Berlin, it
might have been the first paving
stone on the road to ruin, so tight
ly are the two sides balanced.
Now like two tigers, each ca
pabale of uncorking sudden death,
the two sides watch each other,
each waiting for the other to Jump
or stumble or, perhaps, to die of
Indigestion.
BOYLE
but the amount of bootlegging isn't
going down. We say it's increas
ing.", Hcymtfeld thinks bootlegging
could be cut down if the taxes on
legal liquor were lowered, thus
permitting It to be sold more
cheaply. But he doesn't believe
there Is much real prospect of
getting the taxes lowered.
"The only way left to meet the
moonshine menace is by stricter
enforcement," he said. "We are
considering setting up a number
of pilot operations In which, in
cooperation with government offi
cials, the liquor industry can pro
tect Itself against bootleggers, Just
as banks hire Pinkerton guards to
protect themselves."
He wouldn't go Into the details
of his program, but he was hopping
mad. He left no doubt that the
legal liquor Industry Is tired of
paying all Ihe taxes and taking
all the worries, while the bootleg
ger ducks the taxes and reaps
the big profits.
Prankster Shot
By Alert Boy
McLOUD, Okla. iPi Curtlss Has
kell Smith and his wife Audrey
paid her mother, Mrs. Lena Cot
ney, a visit yesterday but found
she wasn't home.
"We thought It would be funny
to hide In the closet and holler
boo when she came in," Smith
told J. C. Farris.
But Mrs. Smith's 14-year-old
brother Marvin was !hc first to
return home. He heard a noise in
the closet, grabbed a .22-caliber
ptsiol and went to Investigate.
When Smith yelled "Boo," the
boy pulled the trigger, wounding
him in the elbow.
QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds
"But, yon cant rob me I got an
Insurance pollry In the Herald A
Newt Want Ada that protects me!"
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Sam Dawson
NEW YORK 11 The sap of
belligerency is rushing the spring
season In the corporate world. A
record crop of personal business
donnybrooks seems sure to bur
gcon at annual stockholder meet
ings in coming weeks. -
Titans and would-be titans of in
dustry are sharpening horns. The
prizes: Some luscious charmers in
the financial and business world.
The contestants, either avowed
or named against their will: Rob
ert R. - Young and the House of
Morgan, with the Vandcrbllts, past
and present, dragged In for good
measure;
Howard Hughes and his critics;
Buck Dumalne and Patrick B.
McQinnis, plus assorted Cana
dians;, -r
The White boys William of
New York Central, and Francis
W. of American Woolen the
latter pitted against various less
man admiring stockholder groups,
with Royal Little as a side dish;
And even, in a sense, those old
feudists of 90 years standing, tlie
Yanks and the Southerners each
trying to win the affections of the
textile industry.
The railroad, textile and movie
worlds are the favored fields for
dissension at the moment. But
these things have a way of spread.
lng. And the spirit of strife seems
likely to spill over into all fields
when the stockholders foregather
Some of the reasons: Growing
competition and falling sales turn
the spotlight on management no).
lcles, records and abilities; and
when dividends are threatened.
the stockholders tend to roar like
a bull moose charging a dlesel
locomotive.
The stockholder battles, and' thel
glittering generals In command,
are: .
New York Central: Robert R.
Young, a little man who has al
ways performed In a big way,
wants stockholders In May to
name him a director and chair
man of the board. He says the
Central, which pays $1 a year in
dividends, ought to pay as high as
$10. Last year It earned $5.27 a
share. William White, Central
president, says Young's record as
head of the Chesapeake & Ohio
wasn't so hot. Young says the
House of Morgan really runs the
Central, a contention denied by
Henry C. Alexander, president of
J. P. Moi'Ran : Co. The Vander
bllts get in the act because Com
modore Vanderbilt fathered the
railroad and his great-grandson,
Harold S., Is a director.
RKO pictures: Multi-millionaire
Howard Hughes is the principal
stockholder and wants to be the
only one. Some other stockholders,
Including two directors, who re
signed Saturday, think Hughes
isn't running the movie company
right in spite of his record for
discovering busty actresses.
Next month stockholders , will
vole on Hughes' offer to buy all
the stock.
New Haven Railroad: Frederick
C. (Buck) Dumaine Jr., president,
and Patrick B. McGinnis. New
York financier, are scheduled to
go berore the rest of the stock
holders in April to fight for con
trol of the New England railroad.
Congress has been asked to in
vestigate charges that Canadian
Interests are backing McGinnis to
gain control of a road that should
"belong to the people of New Eng
land." American Woolen: Sectionalism
is even more In evidence here.
White proposes to sell some ol
American Woolen's mills in New
England. Aroused by the growth ol
the textile industry In the South,
some belligerent Yankee stockhold
ers are fighting It. Royal Little,
Textron Inc.'s head, offers to
merge the two textile companies
by a stock exchange, and a New
York syndicate offers to buy up
American woolen s common stock
Some stockholders plan a fight a I
uic annual meeting in March.
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POETS
i.ninui iv A be PITNiMV"
People are funny, especially Demo
crats. . .
Jn the last, election we lost our
. ham
Some spots have developed on our
reputation,
Now we yell, "Don't tell the na-
Now we are out, you Republicans
are in,
Our little foibles you expose as sin.
We had to go, our cloak we shed
Accounting has come, our face is
red. ,
Your Mr. Hoover was our scape
goat, .
Your Mr. Morse is our turn coat.
We praise the one, condemn the
other.
Just depends on who calls us broth
er.
Hoover we blamed for the ills of
the nation.
We told it too, to all creation.
Nobody "bridled" our long tongue
We criticized 'til wesfilit our lung.
Harry liked mink and he smelled
of fish,
Panning Republicans was his fav-
Letter From
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M. C.
4th DISTRICT, OREGON
In campaign speeches in the
1952 campaign, in the power pol
icy announced as administration
policy by Interior Secretary Mc
Kay and in the recent budget mes
sage of the President, the pi'Ui
clple of partnership of states and
local communities with the Feder
al government In tile development
of multiple purpose dams has
been repeatedly endorsed by the
administration.
In a recently published magazine
article, Secretary McKay wrote:
"The Department will not com
pete with the states and local
communities In the development of
the Nation's water resources, It
will cooperate and not hamper ue
lull rteveldpinent of these re
sources, in strict conformity with
existing laws." :'
The President's budget ln.'ssage
which was sent to Congress Just
last month contains the following
two sentences: -
"Federal activities in projects or
plans will not imply any exclusive
reservation of such projects to
Federal construction or financing,
or preclude local participation in
them. . . . The power policy of
this administration recognizes the
willingness of state and local
groups to participate in providing
additional power facilities."
The City of Eugene, which owns
Its own electrical generating and
distribution system, has grown to
the point where its utility needs
more power. Meanwhile Ule con
struction of a dam on the South
Fork of the McKenzle River has
been authorized by Congress as n
part of the Willamette Basin Flood
Control project. Power could and
should he generated at that dam.
Why not,'"rciisdned the manage
ment of the Eugene Water and Elec
tric Board, let us pay a part of
the cost of the flood control dam
plus all of the costs or the power
generating facilities and transmis
sion lines, and let us get the power
wo need trom Cougar Dam, which
will be built anyway, and thus re
lieve ourselves of the job of build
ing another dam in the same area?
Tiiey asked me that question last
tall and I agreed that they not
only had a sound idea but that It
conformed with what I understood
to be the policy of this administra
tion. They proceeded to develop
'.heir plans for a partnership pro
posal and brought them to Wash
ington. Mr. Ray Boats and his as
sistant, Mr. Byron Price, together
with their engineer, Mr. Byron Tay
lor, spent several weeks in Wash
ington recently. It was a pleasure
to work with them and help them.
They wanted no deal unless It was
a good thing for the government
as well as being fair to the City
of Eugene. The plan they have
worked out is clearly both. It Is
sound, clean-cut and workable. If
adopted, 11 will save the govern
ment a considerable amount ot
money and will provide power for
Eugene at a reasonable rate.
Senator Cordon and I helped Iri
the final drafting of a bill which le
galizes the arrangement, which we
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Next to music critics, he like v
That 'the "opposition" was in hii
way. .-
Harry never soft-pedaled, or failed
10 expose,. .
Anything he Imagined, or smelled
wim nis uuac ..m
But Mr. Elsenhower please consid
er it done,
Don't talk about US when we re
gone." ' ;'
Skip it please, don't call it a
crime,
Twenty years you know is a
"mighty lone time."
How could we guess, we would
come Bwnyr .
That there would be a Judgment
day?
We could defame and revile, nor
could we be blamed,
We never thought our day would be
named.
Alas it's true of scandal, lies and
money, ,
That-the man is-rlght!Teople
sure are tunny."
Mrs. G, Lawson
109 N. Broad
Washington
inlrnduced in both Houses of Con
gress. It should, we think, have
lavorable congressional acuou.
When the President learned of
the bill he gave the plan his per
sonal blessing with a strong favor
able statement. He said the project
is a good example of bis adminis
tration's policy of encouraging lo
cal participation in such projects
wherever feasible.
The Eugene proposal Is hot the
first legislation offered which em
bodies the general idea of. "partner
ship". I have not had an oppor
tunity to study the others they
may be good, too. I note, however,
that the Eugene plan is the first
one to be endorsed by president
Eisenhower.
Movie Tarzan Quits; Says
He'll Play Cowboy Now
By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD () Lex jTarzan)
Barker Is turning in his loincloth
for boots and saddles.
The handsome actor will no long
er be flexing his muscles in the
Jungle. From now on, his dialogue
will be "Head 'em off at the cross
roads," instead of "Me Tarzan;
you Jane."
He has signed a seven-year con
tract with Universal-International,
which Is news in itself. Not for
many months has any studio
signed any established player to
an exclusive deal. U-r specializes
in action pictures, especially West
ems, and that's all right with Lex.
'That a the kind of picture I d
like to do." he said. "I like work
ing outdoors. .Besides, I think a
big man looks' silly In Indoor pic
tures. A fellow like John Wayne
looks much better on a horse than
in a business suit."
Barker was the 10th of the Tar-
zans, and his resignation from the
series means that producer Sol
Lesser will have to start hunting
for an 11th ape man. The actor
explained the reason ior the split
I figured at tins point in my
career I ought to be able to en
Joy a little more profit from doing
the pictures, Mr. Lesser didn't see
It that way. So I signed with U-I.
'But I am grateiul to him for
exposing me to the public and I
do mean exposing. I readily admit
mat tne series was a great thing
for me. Traveling to Europe and
Mexico made me realize how tre
mendously popular Tarzan Is."
8o much so that the foreigners
passed up his bride, a girl named
Lana Turner, in order to get his
autograph. That was partly due to
her new brunette hair shade, which
makes her look unlike the Lana
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Klamath
Junior High
News
By SANDRA ADAMS
The Valentine Program was put
on Friday, February 12, y the
social conuniltee, Each room was
to put on a skit for the program.
The order ot appearance was:
Kindly Heart Room 12; Wolves
of the Holidays Room 17; Faih.
ion Show Room 18; Bane
Room 14; Lord Ulllns Daughter
Room 10; Classroom Meeting
Room 0; Minstrel Room II;
Hillbilly Town Room 1,6; Let's
Be Sweethearts Room 11.
-The Judges were Miss Wilson,
Mr. Scott, Terry Kuhlman, Virgin,
ia Davis, Julius Reynolds. Room
won first prize with Classroom
Meeting for their skit. Room 17
won second place with Wolves of
the Holidays.
Altamont Junior High Student
Council visited here Friday,' Feb
ruary 12. Twenty-five Altamont
students went to the student coun
cil meeting and then to lunch. They
stayed here for assembly. They
were shown around the building
by the students. .
January 29, Aktamont played
KFJH Midgets at Altamont. The
game was scheduled for 3:11. The
score was 31 to 20. High point man
was Robert Wykoff with 16 points,
Fairhaven was beaten by a score
of 29 to 27 February 3 by the
KFJH Midgets. Again Robert Wy
koff was high point man with 11
points. ' '
KFJH Midgets played Lakevlew, -February
9 at Mills School. Tho
score was 28 to 20 In KFJH favor,
Robert Wykoff made 12 points
during the game.
DEDUCTIONS .:'."
CINCINNATI W County em
ployes' paychecks are so overload
ed with deductions, the payroll ma
chines can't handle any more.
County 'Auditor George . Gucken
berger says new machines my
have to be purchased to subtract
a new city of Cincinnati earnings
tax.
film audiences know,.
"Lana was delighted when the
fans failed to recognize her." Lex
said. "There are two stages ia
star's career. The first is when
he's starting out and is wild to
have someone ask for an auto
graph. The second is when he's
happy to go somewhere and not
be recognized."
That's why Lana likes her new
hair. Her husband likes It too
says it makes her took softer.
U-l has big things planned for
Lex. The studio's programming
has been built around three stars
Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and
Jeff Chandler and a new boy la
needed to avoid a sameness of
product.
Small Boys Find " '
Dynamite Cache
LONGVIEW, Tex.' tm Two boys
playing under the Henry Vann res
idence here unearthed 15 sticks of
dynamite and about 200 feet of
fuse yesterday.
Vann said he was surprised. Po
lice said they were, too, because
the house hadn't been blown up.
Friend Unable To
Greet Eisenhower
PHILADELPHIA tpi Screen star
Oeorgo Murphy, a California ;Re
publican leader, won't be on hand
to greet his old friend today when
President Elsenhower arrives In
Palm Springs, Calif.
Murphy is convalescing at a lo
cal hotel from a serious throat
operation seven days ago.
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