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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1954)
THURSDAY. FEBRITAHV 9S 1954 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON 'AGE SEVEN Chamber Discusses Tourists! Conventions, At Meeting A lively exchange of opinions, problems and lacts relating to the nmter ol community promotion of tourist and convention business wa3 , "dished out" to those attending the forum meeting of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce at the Winema Hotel Wednesday noon. Vic Schoonnvpr HI ; moderator. He introduced a head table Diinl pnmrMcHl n - - vw..Kvobu ui , (vaj Reeves, service station operator: Joe Oreen, sporting goods dealer: Warren Poole, sporting goods dealer and past chairman of the chamber tourist and conventions committee; Charlie Mack, director; and Frank Tucker, chamber manager. Joe Green, as spokesman for non-members of the chamber, re ported a number of things as needed to augment the tourist and convention business. Some were: an unbiased and non- political organization to foster the business; good leadership with time to devote to It; welcome signs at the. county boundaries; road side parks; free parking cards for visitors; signs at points of inter est: completion of the Westside Benson Says Old Laws Ones Used NEW YORK lifl Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson says the Republican farm program "is largely what the 80th and 81st Con gresses enacted into law In 1948 and 1948."- At a dinner in his honor last night, given by food Industries and farm organizations, he said: "what vp recommend as Re gards variable price supports Is what the Department of Agricul ture itself proposed in 1941. "It Is what the former occupant of the White House (Harry 8. Tru man) strongly urged in the spring of 1948." . fTTrf it-;'. Polio Vaccine To Be Tried WASHINGTON (1 Two offi cials of the 'Office of Defense Mobilization said Thursday gam ma globulin will be available for use against polio this summer de spite a somewhat inconclusive re port on It effectiveness last sum mer. - Stressing; that their statement ' doe not imply criticism of that report, the officials said ODM, which administered distribution of the material last summer under a rationing system, had not yet de termlned what role It will play this year. Dr. A. B. Price and Joseph X. Brown of ODM's fiealth resources staff made the comments In re. ply to questions as to what effect, If any, a recent report by a com mittee of polio experts who eval . uated gamma globulin's use last summer would have on future plans of the government, The committee of polio experts appointed by the U.S. Public Health Service reported on Mon day "beneficial effects were not demonstrated" from the material aa used last summer. highway around Klamath Lake; ilia ladder over the- high Copco aam in California; posting ol the boundaries of the Klamath' Indian Reservation; more general pub licity on what the chamber of com merce is doing; suburban popula tion incorporated within the City of Klamath Falls; development of resorts and summer homes on Klamath Lake. Charlie Mack. sneaking: for recent chamber .tourist and convention committees, stated that the cham ber, in spite of very limited funds and with a broad Interest in all commercial Interests of the county, had and. Is doing many things to encourage tourists and conventions. . He mentioned the advertising program, through billboards and newspapers to the north, of encour aging winter travel through Klam ath; of the new highway 97 sign below Weed; of chamber literature and maps; of participation in the Pacific Northwest Travel Associ ation; of entertaining travel edi tors and other activities. Mack pointed out that an aver age of 10 letters for each working day of the year are received and answered by the chamber staff. Frank Tucker pointed out that improvement of the Westside road around Klamath Lake had been on the agenda of the chamber rouds and highways committee for the past 10 years, and that bringing 19 miles of it up to standard was an example of how the chamber has helped highway Improvement here uirougn work with the state high way commission. Klamath County has more miles of paved roads than any other county in the state, be saia. ine matter of - suburban areas Joining the city is a matter for suburban properly owners to de termine, he said,' and reported that studies are being made, particu larly on sanitation problems, at the present time. Getting into finances, Tucker reported that hotel, motel, res taurant and service station opera tors had Invested 8945 in chamber activities last year, while the chamber had expended three times that amount in promotion of tour ist and convention business. Southern Oregon Hospitality unlimited" Is a new Joint cham ber group that is being organized for tourist and convention promo tion of which the Klamath County Chamber is a member. Tucker and Marvin Brown, manager of the Willard Hotel, attended meet ing in Medford Tuesday evening. scnoonover thanked all those tak tag part for their suggestions, and said that ir the chamber already Is not working on the ideas they will be given Immediate investiga tion. Travel Shows To Include Klamath Information on Klamath County will be placed before an estimated three quarter million persons in Hi. next couple of months through membership of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce in the Pa cific Northwest Travel Association. Klamath exhibits will be Included in travel shows in San Francisco, Detroit, Milwaukee, Los Angeles end Minneapolis between March 8 and Alll Indian Directors Exchange Jobs WASHINGTON 11 Col. E. Morgan Pryse, Portland area di rector of the Bureau of Indian Af fairs, will be moved to Minneapolis soon. Secretary of Interior McKay announced Wednesday. He will exchange Jobs with Don C. Foster, area director at Minne apolis, McKay said in announcing a series of personnel shifts in re organization of the bureau. Attempt To Save Life Wrecks Bus MADRAS, Ore. I A bus killed a pedestrian on a highway here Wednesday night, and the driver, trying to avoid the accident, then crashed into a real estate build ing. , The pedestrian, Willie spencer, 14, Warm Springs Indian,, was killed outright. The building, owned by Irv N or ris, was nearly demolished. The driver, Fred O. Splvey, said he cramped the wheel when he saw Spencer step onto the highway Just south of the city limits. The bus curved off the left side of the highway and into the building, The driver and the six passen gers on the Pacific Trallways bus escaped injury. The bus was dam aged extensively. Passengers were transferred to another bus to carry tnem norm to The Danes. Extra Werk Made Easy Rant A Typewriter r Adding Machine) llaeule .r Bui Last month's rental is applied to purehaia price VOIGHT'S PIONEER OFFICE SUPPLY A BETTER BUY! NOW 3 '225 Butr hay Planters Due ...BymyMimdard, you emfcaVl bay better Bourbon I BOURBON at its" ALL-TIME BEST! Planters Club STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY 10. WOO CONTlNtNTAl DtSTUINO COIPOUTkON frlllA, TK llfL if. Miii iJ uL 2 1 THE YAKIMA QUARTET one of the many top barber- shop singing groups who will be in Klamath Palls tor the annual barbershop parade of quartets and ."Minstrel-Aide," at the Pelican Theater,. April 10. John H. Houston, Klamath Falls, will produce .the shdw. Benny Loftsgaerd is the .local chorus director. All the old favorites and many outstanding new singers will be on the program from many parts of the Northwest. Here are Don St. Mary, bass; Bob St. Mary, bari tone; Bill Gable, tenor, and Jim St. Mary, lead. French, Rebels Fight On Delta HANOI, Indochina W French and Vietnamese troops kept try ing Thursday to wipe out Viet minh forces infesting the key Red River delta of north Indochina. The French claimed 60 rebels killed and 51 captured. - The French estimate that some 60.000 regular, regional and guer rilla fighters of the Communist- Man Gives 'Road Hog' Good Punch FLINT, Mich. W Walter J. Hur ley- went to police yesterday to report, I lust punched a road hog." Then he explained: Another car forced him olf the road. He pursued it to a stop sig nal. He got out, opened the other car a door and punched the driver. He said he wanted to get the incident on record Just in case the outer driver made a complaint. Ford, GM Warn Dealers Of Bootlegging Practices DETROIT un Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co.. and Karlow H. Curtice, president' of General Motors Corp., nave warned their dealers throughout the notion tgalnst the practice of auiomobile "bootlegging." Both Ford and Curtice broadly hinted yesterday in letters to their new car dealers that If the prac tice continues to glow some deal ers stand a good chance of losing their franchise. (Bootleoclng is the wholesaling by franchised dealers of new cars to used car retailers who sell them at less than list price.) . Pintosts filed by franchised deal ers to the manufacturers to put a halt to bootlegging. . , rhoiii c. Freed. NADA presi dent, and Frederick J. Bell, execu tive vice president, have been in Detroit conferring with top auto executives on proposals tor svop plnir the practice. ; . Fora, in nis letter w rm u i.inrnin . Mercurv dealers, usieu live elements about bootlegging' which he said hurt me oeaier mm self: - . 1. Losinff direct contact wnn me ultimate user of the car. . 2. Losing the opportunity io serv ice the new car owner and build him Into a long-time buyer. 3. Running the risk 01 naving Ms product appear as merchandise.'- , 4. Undermining the basic prin ciples of new car distribution, 5. Making it less likely for the customer to receive full benefit of his warranty and additional services. ' ' . .. Curtice apnea led to the dealers to "cooperate with General' Motors in preserving the most valued franchise in the industry." At the same time he advised them GM will continue to review their per- lormnnce in carrying out tnelr ob ligations under the selling agree ments with General Motors. Curtice described car bootleg ging as "a malignancy which, If it is not stopped, will eat away the very vitals of your business and ours." .. , 'distress . ' Some dealers, encountering com petition from used car dealers with new cars to sell, have complained of overproduction and maldistribu tion of new cars. These, Curtice wrote, were not factors in the sit uation.. ',. i;;; y , V ,. . "In fact," he said, "1954 models cf General Motors cars were in the 'bootleg' market before there was sufficient production to supply our dealers with the necessary stock for display and sales pur poses. ' ' "Even now some models In short supply because of limited produc tion are being 'Dooueggea.' , "Under these circumstances, there can be only one reason lor this practice ithe selfish desire- on the part oi some dealers for a; quick nominal profit at the ex pense of the customer, the public, the dealer organization, and the manufacturer." .' ". Planning a Backyard Living Room? We will help you plan it. Matin Nursery PheM J50J Kismet 'alls led Vietminh are harassing their thinly manned defense posts and sabotaging communications in the thickly populated rice growing section around Hanoi and the port of Hatpnong. Ambushes and harassing attacks by the Vietminh were reported from other delta sectors, with "some losses" on both sides. Around France's last big post in northwest Indochina, Dlen Bien Fhy, American-supplied fighters and bombers for the 10th con secutive day strafed and bombed rebel entrenchments encircling the fortress plain, . ... Angry Bull Killed In School Yard OKLAHOMA CITY Vfi In the best western tradition, a runaway bull stood his ground, snorting at officers and schoolchildren as po lice fired 14 rounds of ammunition into its body with revolvers, shot- oiine anrl rlflPS. The bull broke through a 'wire rnn ot. th cornett Packing Co. during the noon hour and about 50 youngsters aeserrea men tcuuvi orntinA in UflltCh ttlQ big ShOW. " Pistol snots only guv n,o more angry as he tried to get amov Finollv. one officer roped him onrt while he was held a shot gun blast througn tne orara iin- ished him on. ' MAU MAU TRIAL NAIROBI. Kenya Wl The first death sentence for an African woman in the anti-Mau Mau cam paign was ordered Thursday by an emergency court here. The woman. 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