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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1954)
TUESDAY. MARCH 30. 1954 ' HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON New Type Crakes Added To Auto . DETROIT Plymouth Motor Cor. poraiion today added vacuum boos ter power brakes to Its list of op tional features on 1954 model Ply mouth cars. ... ; '.'i . Plymouth's power - braking sys tures, including i . power are now ' in-i v oi oxn ... pro. , ductlon. They Include Plymouth'! : full-time power steering and a new power package made up of Power-. Fllte fully-automatic transmission used- with ; new:, H0-horpowr PowerFlow engine. ' ' ' ' tem Is similar to those used in other Chrysler Corporation cars. A booster unit, deriving vacuum from the engine manifold, assists the - . jf tiuta a Phileo AND . Admire! " Ir' ,m u D : U U driver in applying the brakes, re ducing required pedal pressure up to two-thirds. Plymouth's dual cyl inder front wheel brakes and bond ed brake linings are retained in the power braking system. . Plymouth's new power'-fea i 4' i. , : n . ! AM ft TT77! o iiJV U7T; i I ...V ..i, V-i,l I ' i J. t ' k -. Vw .nVkoa Od Stern Wheeer Pictured On Trial Voyage To Top The Wood River Country n h rEvcr 1 1 :r .I It was the spring of 1905 when the wlnema pnllett out of her berth on the Upper Lake and headed north ' on an pimlnrnfrtrv trin tn sound the feasibility of establishing a freight and passenger line via water to Port Klamath and the lush Wood River Valley. By the time the boat and its crew finally got back to her home dock the possibilities bad gone up in a cloud of smoke. With a crew made up of Ray Telford, Captain Hansbury, John Totton, owner, and an engineer whose name so one can recall at Noted Portland Author To Speak to Voters League , Richard L. Neuberger, Portland, uiakui&uisucu uuuiur turn uuisuiml- Ing authority on state government, will be guest speaker at the May 26 meeting of the League of Women Voters. Phil Hitchcock, state sena tor of Klamath Falls, will also speak on the same program. The speaker! have been secured In connection with the present league project, the study of the state constitution, which will be continued through the year; At a recent meeting of the league; Miss Evelyn Cooper and Mrs. Clifford P. Wood led a dis cussion on whether the present con stitution, written in 1869, needs to be re-written or revised. - The discussion leaders quoted Governor Paul Patterson, who said in his message to the 1953 Legis lative Assembly, "For some time Oregonians have had a growing conviction that the time has ar rived the modernize the state con stitution. This instrument compris ing basic law has been in existence for nearly century. It has grown in size and in detail until In soma respects it is more a com pilation of by-laws- than a consti tution." , 5 Since the locat league was asked by the slate league to study the initiative and referendum In par ticular many points concerning this "Oregon System" were brought out nt the March meeting of the league, by Miss Cooper and Mrs. Wood, Including the following: The initiative and referendum were Introduced to the Western hemisphere in 1902. apparently to instigate reforms. These so-called "reforms" comprise the only Im portant governmental reforms ever to start in Oregon, and the "Oregon System" gave voters direct and sweeping control over the laws and constitution of the state for some 50 years. So far, the initiative and refer endum have been used mostly for trivial objectives, including increas ing the bounty on sage rats and Jack rabbits, regulating the size of cattle herds In Umatilla County, moving the state university 41 miles farther north. One early ar guement concerned the size of ho tel sheets. Voters decided they should be 81 Inches wide and 103 Inches long. In 1922, the Klu KIux Klan hys teria seized Oregon, initiative pe titions to close all religious and private schools were circulated and the measure was passed by the polls. "What no legislature would ever think of doing, the people had done with their "Oregon System", Miss Cooper said. Religious freedom had been cur tailed and it was necessary for the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional. "Although It was simple to get enough signers to violate the Bill of Rights in 1922, they wouldn't pro tect it in 1928 when an attempt was made to initiate a bill to re peal the Oregon criminal syndical ism law, a law left over from World War 1 days. Lack of voters prevented it from coming to a vote," the leaders declared, and they reminded league members that the U.S. Supreme Court out lawed this statute in a case de scribed by Chief Justice Hughes as one of the most drastic curtail ments of free speech to take place in the U.S. The discussion leaders also' stated that initiative and referendum, have been used mostly to benefit small groups: there are 20 petitions to legalize gambling or exempt a group from taxation to one pe tition to improve the educational system. Oiten, too, tne electorate is so confused by the involved wording of initiative propositions that many people appearing at the polls do not vote on. them at all. . Miss Cooper and Mrs. Wood re minded the group that at least one major accomplishment has resulted from direct legislations: In 1908 U.S. Senators were chosen by the state legislatures, as provided in the U.S. Constitution. Oregonians decided through an initiative prop osition ithat they should be elected by the vote of the people. Five years later the nation followed Oregon's example, which became the 17th amendment to the con stitution. "The Oregon experiment in di rect legislation has made clear that voters who elect unsatisfactory legislatures are not likely to do any better themselves. When people are able to master the technique of di rect government, they certainly will make these other controls needless," the leaders stated. In conclusion, the leaders pointed out that the initiative and refer endum will probably always be maintained in some form to pro tect conservatives, left-wingers' or radicals in time of stress. Ruthless pressure groups or tyranlcal public ofllclals won't think of doing things they might do If the inititive and referendum weren't there-. The public is invited to attend the May 26 meeting and hear the views of Neuberger and Hitchcock on the subject of the state constitution. Easy Shrimp Creole Tastes just right with BLUE PLATE Canned Shrimp- ' Heartv, hurry-up meals are eaayTwith plump, ready-cooked Blue Plate Canned Shrimp: add them to well-seasoned, home made tomato gravy. Serve over rice for quick. Shrimp Creole. Or add Blue Plate Shrimp to salads for a new treat. Try .'em too in chop auey, omelets, soups, casseroles. Blue Plate Shrimp give tempting variety to dishes by the dozens. Blue Plate Slirimp come from the sunny Gulf of Mexico home waters for nature's bttt-Uutin shrimp. Enjoy their sea-fresh flavor often. Ready to eat. No peeung. No waste. tl.aMlllaPMIMXirill.aWiifiW. the moment, the big old stern wheeler shoved off for the mouth of Wood River.. ' On reaching the river the crew quickly found that the boat couldn't get over the mud. Every time they tried the craft ran up on a mud bar and left the big paddle wheels nearly a hundred feet from point of contact. They turned the boat around, backed up to the bar and used the power of the paddles to wash away enough of the mud to allow the boat, which drew about twenty two inches empty, to get across the obstruction. Still traveling in reverse they made it some two or three (miles up the river before giving up the attempt as hopeless. Just not enough river to navigate tin one hundred and twenty five foot boat. She was a ship lost In a sea of grass. (1) V-' p ' n Si) X - I - .. sar I. out a passage and the big boat, un me return trip wnen toey built by Hansbury and Totton, was reached the mouth of the river free In the waters of the Upper they found that the mud had ooced Lake. back into the channel they had . , . ... 'mi ,u . j j : . . j n uuni. ua3M w f ui njauiufa" ouiuuiiiKiuu wiicu unities - WII- H-be'canle SeCSt? S 'the was up.toed the old boat after sh. had boat again. Only hitch was that the river wasn't quite a hundred the overland route to carry the goods. i iiii n ii i and twenty five feet wide and the h T r boat wedged-across the stream. (3) J 'SSSJH ,C" Several people from Fort Klam- lake points and making many, many nui auu uio out i uuuuuifi vuuum j turned out to give the crew a hand.1 Cross cut saws were broken out, along with axes, and the sod was cut away from both banks of the stream to make more room. The big rudder booms were removed and finally enough room gained to allow a turn around. (3) : Once again the paddles ripped THE WHITEST WHITE CLOTHES R l easy with Mn. Stewart's (fevfcf nuiNG mm TOWARD A MAND-NIW stinghouse fittomato g&rh WATER HEATER Rop'ace that old, unreliable or ' undersized - water heater now, with an automatic Westing house, of a big laving. , Enjoy hot water service at its Best with the water heater that gives you a liberal 10-Yrw Pro tection Policyagainst tank failure. Limited Time Only -Act Now! I LOW AS a wm KIRKPATRICK'S ( oAi$Ld APPLIANCE Phent 8886 132 So. 7th pleasure cruises to Rocky Point, Pelican Bay and other popular spots of the day. ... . .. ( She finally came to her end in Shipplngton - when flames - con- been-laid up for -many years,; ' Totton and Telford are' still" to Klamath Falls and can tell many a glowing tale' of the Wood River trip as welt as many others. - -. Photos from Telford EXECUTION TUNIS. Tunisia (A , Three Tu nisians were shot to death by a firing squad Saturday for the Jan. 23 slaying of three French police agents in this French North Afri can protectorate.'.. 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