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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1954)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1 954 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVEN 1 . s-ClSiC js&s 4 snSi ULJkZss,h&l GENE H. FAVELL New Partner In Local Business Announcement of the sale ol half Interest in Don's Mens' ana Boys' Wear, 6lh ami Main Streets, was made today by Don Ander son and J. Wagner, to Gene H. Favell, resident of Klamath Falls lor the past three years. Favell purchased the partner ship of Wagner who has been as sociated in the store with Ander son for the past four years. Wag ner served in the firm as ac countant and office manager. Don's is an old established firm, started over SO years ago by the late K. Sugarman. Anderson and Wagner purchased H from a la ter owner, William Hibbs. Favell has been with the store an salesman since 1952. He is a lonner resident of Lakeview. The new partners will both be active In the' firm and announce tnat the same policies of courtesy and satisfaction will be continued. Wagner is undecided as to his future plana. Oregon Trucker Escapes Injury DUNSMUIR, Calif, un Elmer E. niommen of Portland, narrowly escaped death In an unusual high way accident Monday. He was driving a truck hauling a 35-foot Army cannon on an S curve 30 miles south of here. He clammed on the brakes when he came upon a parked car which had run out of gas. The cannon catapulted forward through the truck's cab, missing Thommen's head by only a few inches. He was not injured and the park ed car was not hit. Invalid Unable To Save Son From Fire LOS ANGELES IPi An Invalid father watched helplessly from a wheel chair while his son, 4, burned to death In a garage fire. Firemen said the boy, Mark Clark, apparently hid in a car in the parage while playing with neighborhood children yesterday. His brothers David, 12. and Ed ward, 15, tried to reach him but were driven back by the flames. Overcome by grief, the father, Archie Clark, was taken to a hospital. State Department Securi ty Chief Causes Storm Over Spe eches, Methods Used By BEM PRICE WASHINGTON I Robert Wal ter Scott McLeod, the Slate De partment's security chief. Is a for me; football player who Is making headlines In the political arena with line plunges and end runs while the stands cheer and Jeer. It began with the Republicans cheering and the Democrats Jeer ing as McLeod. a husky 39-year-old with a hide as tough as a hippo's, ripped through the State uepanment in search of Commu nists and security risks. Now some Democrats are begin ning to smile. After McLeod 's se ries ol Lincoln Day speeches for Scholarships Announced UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eu. gene, (Special) Applications for scholarships to the University of Oregon for the 1954-55 academic year are due by March 1, accord ing to an announcement by Karl Onlhank, chairman of the univer sity's scholarship and financial aid committee. Onthank emphasized that more scholarships are available this year than ever before for both entering freshmen and students already en rolled in the university. Special honors awards presented by the University of Oregon Dads Club are also available to grad uating high school students who are not In financial need, but who have been outstanding in high school. The awards were set up to give recognition to many students who would ordinarily not receive it, On thank said. Recommendations for the awards are made by the stu dent's high school. High school students may also take advantage of many local schol arships, in addition to those given by the university, he pointed out. Civic organizations such as the American Legion and the East ern Star, award local grants. Also available to students are scholarships iven by Crown-Zel-lerhach. Standard Oil Compeny of California, and other large companies. the Republican party they think he may be an embarrassment to the party. McLeod himself 1 wan dering If he hasn't become some thing of a problem to the Repub licans. In retrosDect he bellevM his speaking tour may hav been "ill- advised." He frankly aay that binre he became a target of the Democrats he may b dropped Irom his si5,ooo-a-year jod wnicn hears the title: administrator of the Bureau of Security, Consular Affairs and Personnel. McLeod unquestionably has aroused the ire of Democrats. Rap. Emmanuel Celler (D-NY), lor ex ample, characterised him at a "party huckster canvassing votes." It's improper, said Cellar, "for anyone who holds so sensitive a position as the security officer to enter the hurly-burly of the politi cal arena." On the other hand, the man who hired him, Under Secretary ef State DonolU Lourte, thinks this former Iowa newspaperman, FBI agent and senatorial aide ia 4omf a great job. . .. "You can t have a namby-pamby in that Job," he told me. "It takes guts, and Scotty'a tot 'em it Scotty thinks he's right,, ha plows ahead." Below the department's execu tive level the name of Robert Wal ter Scott McLeod Is greeted with arctic silence. There exist a very real fear of him, McLeod shake his graying, closely cropped head over this and says he just can't understand why people fear him 6Y say he's an administration hatchet man whose criterion la whether you're- a Re publican or a Democrat, M o L e o d discussing McLeod, John Day Baby Dies In Fire JOHN DAY I A n-month-ola boy died Monday evening in a fire which swept through a two-story frame house here. His was Ore gon's second infant fire death of the day. The victim here was Eddie Dean Masonheimer, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Masonheimer. The boy's 12- year-old brother. Oris, suffered burns on his hands and face in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the child. The baby was alone in the house when the fire broke out. Oris and two other brothers were playing outside t the time. The parents were awny. firemen reported.' Early Monday, Steven Clifford Gaines, 20 months, died In a cabin fire 70 miles east of Roseburg. The father, John C. Gaines, rescued the victim's twin, Scott, but could not reach through the flames for I he second child. Fort Klamath To Hold Benefit FORT KLAMATH A benefit card party will be given in the C.I. clubhouse by the Civic Im provement Club Saturday evening, to pay for a new cement founda tion. Superintending arrangements for the event are Mrs. Joanna Taylor and Mrs. William A. Page, who will also be responsible for prizes. Bridie, nlnochle and other games will be' featured, prizes given and refreshments served. Mra. Donald P. Voatch will donate as a special euest award, a home-baked cake. In charge of card arrangements will be Mrs. Eldon M. Brattain and Mrs. Harold L. Wlmer;' games will be conducted By Mrs. wiuiam Brewer and Mrs. Bert Qray, and the refreshment committee la Mrs. Richard O. Varnum and Mrs. El more Nicholson. Card players of the neighboring area are extended a cardial invi tation to attend the party. consider him "a guy who is going to have the authority to clean up the Slat Department." He takes the stand that If you "waddle like a duck, quack like a duck and associate with ducks, you are a due," "I believe," he says, "in guilt by association." II adds that association often h an innocent affair but "within limit." Around the Slate Department you hear rumors of wiretapping, dictaphone and lie detectors. I will swear," McLeod told me. "That the State Department Is not wired for sound. There is only one roam in which a listening device 1 used." . Which room? . '. ; "I Cannot, of course, sav.whirh en it is." McLeod says that as far as lie detectors are concerned, "the State Department as such doesn't own one. wnenever we have oc casion to use one we call upon some other agency. It's true that w sometimes used them for eval uation and it often helps clear neu- ple." William Huskey. a long-time se curity agent who had the Job of guarding visiting foreign dignitar ies, quit Jan, 27, proclaiming that ha was fed up with McLeod's 'patty tyranny." "l"or a long time." said Huskey, I had hoped I could ride It out that I could grit my teeth and stomach almost anything but there comes a time when one's personal satisfaction and peace of mind becomes too precious to bar ter aft." At til time Huskey said he was Just the latest of 15 or 20 "old timers'' In the security force who htfl quit . because of McLeod. He never explained publicly his spe cific complaints. Although McLeod consistently talks of "cleaning up the -mess," he tells newsmen, "I won't play the numbers game with you." wnen he was out ol town on his controversial Lincoln Day speak ing tour there was a leak of fig ures he purportedly presented to a House Appropriations' Committee. Reportedly only 11 employes were dismissed by the State Department :n tne past year for "loyalty" rea sons, through it listed 534 dis charges as "security" risks. Seven of the 11 "loyalty" firings were said to Involve cases begun under the Truman administration but completed by McLeod. ' Today. McLeod saya privately that the numbers which leaked are wrong. H hit the news with a bang New Business In Klamath One of the newest businesses to come to Klamath Palls is the Ma lta Nursery. Lloyd Scott,' Malin rancher, has operated the nursery at Malin previously. Scott said that the location of the tiuratry will be announced about Mareh 13 and that in the meantime n Is conducting a shrub planting and planning service. Discover Uie cheerful taste oftlie World's Largest Selling Kentucky Brand Sunny $ The fjrreat popularity of Old Sunny Brook is no surpriie to anyone who has discovered its rich, cheerful taste! 4-- ts tJ. 'Cheerful as its Name" BRAND i10 U 43 QT. a few days alter his appointment last March when Sen. McCarthy (R-Wls) said McLeod was opposed to the appointment of Charles E. Bohlen as ambassador to Russia even though Bohlen was a Repub lican selection. McLeod refused to say at a committee hearing wheth er he considered Bohlen a security risk. RecenUy ho told a group hi a private'talk that he never passed on the Bohlen case. Last summer he made the news again when he told a Republican women's club: "As much as I hate to say it before a Republican club. New Dealers are not neces sarily bad security risks." Soon afterwards he made head lines again when he told the Amer ican Legion in Topeka: "Sometimes It is extremely dif ficult because of the Civil Serv ice Act, the Veterans' Preference Act and the Poreipn Service Act to replace an individual whose viewpoint docs not coincide with that of the Republican party." . After that speech reports spread No Other Tree Like It! Lily of The Valley Tree Amoxinq Story of this Cinderella Tree Every July this irre at stl changes Almost bvrr alKht from pretty r p . (Tern shade tree Into I. unite Hood of thou- 1 BOCI lands of flowers exart- ... . ly like perfect Lilies 13 tor W of the Valley. Very Fragrant. The sec. ono mlraclo happens In fall Kith the first frost, when the whole tree turns flame red. One of the most heautlful and unusual of all trees. We send stronr stock at least I's -3 ft. tall. Limited supply. hF.ND NO MONKY. On delivery pay cost, C'.O.O. and post, at charges. Postage paid on prepaid orders. Kalltfkclion Guaranteed or Money nack. KltlinK NtUlSrRlEft. Dept. 17101, .. . Bloemlniton, Illinois . Print Name ..... .. - Address ... that he was the department's leak to McCarthy and his former boss. Sen. Styles Bridges fR-NH). While McLeod ia the officially designated liaison officer between the depart ment and Congress, he denies be Is any man's "stooge." ' McLeod was born In Davenport. Iowa, and enjoys reminiscing at length about sandlot football days. He worked his way through Grin- nel College, where he was an en thusiastic football player and fi nally became a reporter on the Cedar Rapids Gasette. Today no one with whom he once worked could be found who would say more than that McLeod was "a better than average report er." He seems to have left a gen eral impression of supreme self assurance, compelling ambition and strong convictions. While a reporter he met and married Edna Marie von pappelendam, native of Keokuk, Iowa: They have two sons and a daughter and live com fortably in the country club area of Washington. Alter the war broke out McLeod got a Job with the FBI and wen. tually was assigned to Concord, N. H.. where he became friend of Sen. Bridges. In IMS Bridges offered him a Job as administra tive aide and McLeod took it. Ha was working for him when tapped for the State Department post. liifi FT) "( ' I Iff) S; I & They take telephone (o sea. 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