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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1954)
In The' Day's lews . Br FKANK JENKINS ' Some BO years ago Robert Dol lar, who rates among the moguls, , picked out a site on the hllU over, looking Ban Rafael (where these words are written) and built him self a mansion. He kept adding to It, building as he went along the things that go with a mansion, such as stables and paddocks and houses . for the hired help, and In the course of tune what he was building be came a splendiferous estate one of the show places of Northern California. There he lived and en joyed himself after the manner of " the moguls. It is still a mansion and it Is still a show place, but it can no ' longer be said that those who live . there are living in the manner of their time. The times have ' CHANGED. It took a staff of re tainers to maintain a mansion such as Robert Dollar built up there In the green and lovely Marin hills, and in these modern days staffs of household retainers Just AIN'T. Things like that have gone to - join the buffalo and the mountain , sheep. -''', Borne three or four, decades be fore Robert Dollar started hjs man sion a mogul of another day and another sort came to- San Rafael. His name was Kit Carson. Among his companions was a young array officer by the name of John C. ' Fremont) The two of them and the rugged band of mountain men they led had Just taken part In the be ginnings of the Bear Flag, revol ution; out of which came the Amer ican state of California. They came on to San Rafael, and put up in a house that is now not far from the center of -the town and not long ; after they arrived Carson saw a couple of Spaniards Tunning away from the house, He brought his trusty Title to his shoulder and shot one of them and " with his pistol he downed the other one. That was the way of the moguls of that day. They shot first and asked questions - afterward. We frown on such doings now, but in those days If one didn't shoot first It was too often the other fellow who asked the questions. Those were Tugged days and It took rugged men to get through them and do the things that had to be done If the American flag was to wave from the Atlantio to the Paelfic. Kit Carson, from all accounts, was rugged. I wonder what rugged Kit Car Ion would think If he could see the Marin county of today. It Is grow ing like a weed. New houses are going up wherever you look. Not one at a time. Not two at a time. Not a half dozen at a time. They are going up by the hundreds. And. they tell you. Marin county hasn't any more than begun- to stow. A new bridge la soon to be built across the bay from the Rich mond aide to the Ban Rafael side. Already, in anticipation "of Hi people living on the east side of the bay are booming over to tne Marin side and buying lots and preparing to build homes. Why? Well, the answer li that the East Bay district Is already so crowded that you can no longer turn around without stepping on somebody. So they're moving over to the comparatively roomy Marin side much as the people who kept our frontiers moving steadily westward pulled up stakes and moved on when the settlement got so thick that you couldn't go more than five miles or so without bump ing up against a neighbor. Anyway, the Bay area Is grow ing. It is growing by leaps and bounds. What has been going on for years south of the Tehachapl is now beginning to happen farther to the north. And since Marin county offers more wide open spaces than any-other area around the Bay It is growing faster than any other area. Old Robert Dollar was a forward looking citizen, and he had faith In the future of the West, but I'll bet that if he could come back and see what has happened in the past few years he'd think that away back there in the 1B70'S he was Just an old fogy who had no Imagination at all. FISH COUN PORTLAND tfl The Tuesday fish count at Bonneville: Chinook 1708, Jack 157, steelhead 587. , L LAYTON If wLil i WNAy si 5" 'P 1 - In-i, W 0 ft. THIS TORN AND TWISTED TRUCK was smashed this morning when two transports collided atop the highway overpass this side of Midland, blocking the highway for some time. Stat Police officers and wrecker craws (top) were on hand to clear out the debris shortly after the smashup. The lower picture shows the southbound truck, driven by Chester Boyle, where it came to a halt on the shoulder of the hill after crashing through the guard rail. Traffic was routed around the wreck scene. The second truck involved can be seen tilted on its side in the background. The driver of this truck was hospitalized, but his injuries were not thought critical. Indian Hearing Set For Agency Monday The Indian Affairs subcommittee hearing scheduled for Monday, April 18, will be held in tne Tribal Council Hall at Klamath Agency, Sup't. E. J. Dlehl, stated today. Members of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee will arrive In Klamath Falls at 0:30 Monday morning and will be taken directly to Klamath Agency for the hearing, slated to stare at 10 a.m. A representative from the com missioners office ot the Depart ment of Interior, Washington, D.C., Is expected to attend, as Is Don Foster, area director, Portland, who replaced E. Morgan Fryse April 1. Other officials expected to attend are a representative' from Dover- Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday, increasing cloudiness Thurs day. High Thursday 62, low tonight, 27. .-. , - High yesterday ..... .. ... BO Low last night ...... ..... 21 Preclp. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 12.57 Same period last year ..11.65 Normal for period ....9.80 TO WED HOLLYWOOD W Carol Ann Beery, 22, adopted daughter of the late actor Wallace Beery, will be married April 25 to Don Hayden, actor and son of Leila and Harry Hayden, operators of a dramatic school and theater. . STtTHINS nor Patterson's office, Mayor Paul Laundry and members of the Klamath county Court; the mayor of chiloquln and a representation irom Beatty, Bly and Fort Klam ath, as well as spokesmen tor vari- Dunsmuir Vote Tallied DUNSMUIR It appeared this morning that the two Incumbents had been reelected to the city coun cil. Absentee ballots which had been received before the . noils closed last night had not been counted by 8 a.m. Wednesday. Mayor Fred" O. Lloyd received 306 votes. In second place was L. E. (Chum) Gibson with 352 votes. E. A. Chrlstensen, a write-in can didate, received the third number of total votes. The other candidates were Robert Dickson and Samuel Tallerico. Hold-over councilmen are James A. Haley, Marjorle Young and R. O. Renaud. The council will meet to elect officers In the near future. . L. Siephens As USBR Project Manager Here After Long Service Edward Layton Stephens, pro ject manager for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation since 1945, and identified with the development of the irrigation system of the Klamath Basin since 1909, will re tire April 24. and with Mrs. Stephens, will move to Pacific Grove, California, to make . his borne. Stephens arrived In Oregon, from his native San Francisco in 1896, when his father, representing the Schilling Company, traveled by horse and buggy over all of Oregon. In ' August 1906 Stephens drove a horse drawn wagon of furniture to Klamath Falls via the Green springs Highway. His first . Job with the USBR came soon after that when he carried ' water to men working on the old USBR tun nel. In 1909 he worked on the Clear Lake dam as a tenmster. A year later he served with survey crew for the Southern Pacific Railway when the road bed around Modoc Point was being built. He returned to the USBR as a surveyor the following year, work ing on the Lost River diversion dam at Merrill. He lived for a time on the J. Frank Adams ranch. The bureau transferred htm to the- Grand Valley propect in Colorado then to the Uncom pahgre project, dubbed by the late President Taft, the , "Uncompnr able" project. The Flathead district In Mon tana was hi next move, in 1915. While there he waa married to ous Indian groups, -o- 1- The hearing, according to a tele gram from A. L, Miller, chairman of the House of Interior and In sular Affairs Committee, will be for the purpose of hearing testi mony on H. R. 7320, pertaining to the release ot the Klamath Indian Tribe from government supervi sion. The meeting will be open to all interested persons and representa tives wishing to be heard at the nearing are requested to turn in tneir names to Sup't. Dlehl at Klamath Agency by Friday, April in, so time may be alloted to them A free lunch will be served at noon by the General Council to those attending the meeting. Dlehl siatea. . KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS L Shipped Burnt Dy Laift Tear1 38 cars 11 cars Tt! for 8f noli 10,205 cars 10,874 cart 1MS-M MU-M to Retire Hazel Van Buren of Grand Junc tion Colorado. In the spring of 1918 tne family returned to the Klam ath country and "Steve" worked for a time for Klamath County during the "three-courthouse con troversy" but his lovo was "water". ' Homesteads were being opened in the Tulelake-Malin area and the family spent some time, until 1926, In the south end of the basin where agriculture was beginning to flourish. That year he went behind an office desk and has been there since. He has seen the Klamath recla mation project develop from a few thousand acres to more than 200, 000 now under water, "There Is still room," he says "for great improvement and de velopment In agriculture here, with enormous possibilities yet to be tapped." After a lifetime of the same experiences In uie same work, ties are bound to be strong, and my interest in the Klamath country will bring me back." Stephens has had no club or lodge affiliation over the years except with the Tulelake Rotary Club. His entire time and Inter est has been devoted to his work. In 1953 he was awarded, the dis tinguished service cross, highest award given by the department of the interior. The award was pre sented by Oscar L. Chapman, then secretary of the department. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens were guests of honor at a farewell party given Saturday night, April 10, at Jen-Ed's by employes of the USBR and district board members. "Ho Fire Cssris-M rages. utb Smashup (3.8taIS Efojli By OTTO ELLIS A heavy blanket of early morn ing fog was blamed for a serious two-truck accident on the overpass of the S.P. Railroad, five miles south of here on highway 97, about t a.m. this morning. Joe Cornelson, Los Angeles, dri ver of a northbound Consolidated Freightways truck and trailer was sent to the Klamath Valley Hospi tal, where attending physicians re ported he had suffered a compound tractate of the left leg, shoes, and bruises. His condition Is not con sidered serious. ' Operator of the southbound semi- trailer combination, Chester A. Boyle, Saw Leandro, who received minor cuts and bruises but was not hospitalized, told state police that visibility was very poor as the two. diesel outfits met almost head-on atop the overpass. . Sections of the cement railing was ripped out as the two trucks bounced apart at the crash, hit the railing and skidded back onto the highway. Wheels and axles on the left side of both vehicles were ripped off by the Impact. OVER EDGE ' The southbound tractor, owned by the Converse Trucking Com pany, and pulling a semi-trailer, leased from the Sacramento Freight Lines, loaded with .drums of carbide, was hanging precari ously over the fill at the south end. Had the units broken apart the tractor and driver would undoubt edly have rolled down the 50 foot embankment. ' - The Freightways truck and trail er, loaded with fresh vegetables. French Fear New Attacks HANOI. Indochina (Pi The French high command announced Wednesday Vletminh troose ewpr Wednesday Vletminh troops were increasing their pressure ' on the northwest corner of the fortress at Dlen Blen Phu. which may be preliminary to launching St new at tack.. 7 - The command spokesman said the Communist-led rebels had dug trenches close to the barbed wire defenses of the French in that sec tor, where the yietmlnh masses nave repeaieoiy .inea to oreaa through. He announced the Vletminh Tuesday night exploded dozens of torpedo bangiores under the steel matting of the main air strip in their second such attempt to crip ple French planes from using It. Engineers speedily repaired the previous damage. Bramblett Case Studied WASHINGTON W-U.S. District Judge Walter M. Bastlan Tuesday held Up any sentence for Rep. Ernest K. Bramblett (R-Callf) un til the Supreme Court can pass upon his conviction on charges of falsifying his payroll In a salary kickback scheme. Judge Bastlan held that there is reasonable doubt "as to whether the law under which Bramblett was convicted applied to the charges against him." The government now will carry the case directly to the Supreme Court In an ellort to set aside Judge Bastlan's ruling. Tlie law under which Bramblett was convicted by a Jury In March maaes it a felony to make a false statement to government depart ments and agencies. He was'convlcted of falsely rep resenting that Mrs. Margaret M. Swanson Was a clerk to him. She said she did no work and her husband, Irving Swanson, testified he kicked back his wife's salary to Bramblett, Defense attorney Edward Ben nett Williams contended the law applied only to departments and agencies of the executive branch of the government, and not to Con gress. Holman Eyed For Bench PORTLAND W There were reports here Wednesday that Cir cuit Judge Ralph M. Holman of Oregon City was In line for ap pointment to the federal district court post vacated by Judge James Alger Fee. The FBI has questioned several persons about Hoimans oaca ground. Such an FBI check pre. cedes appointment to a federal Job, Meantime, however, the Oregon State Bar announced It will poll Its members to get their opinion on who should fill the post created by Fee's appointment to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals at Ban Francisco. John Hollowav. bar secretary, Bald that signatures of 10 bar members and the candidate's con sent are necessary for nomination hi the poll. The list or nomina tions will be kept open tor more than two weeks. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WKDNK8DAT, ATKIL 14, M54 .. nvay had broken apart, and the truck, with its left side literally sheared off was laying on Its right side against the railing, while the' trail er after tearing out about 40 feet of railing, tipped back on Its left side In the center of the roadway, where it blocked traffic until about 8 a.m., when one way trafflo was established. - Detour signs were being set on the highway to route traffic around the scene and police officers stated It would probably take nearly all day to clear the wreckage. . Two Bodies Discovered The Klamath Sheriff's office had busy time late yesterday after noon when, two phone calls came In telling ot two bodies being dis covered almost simultaneously r.t opposite ends ot the county. ' The first call came from Deputy Sheriff Lewis Pankey, telephoning from the Williamson River Store to report that Wilbur Ellis Crlm had found the body of a man near the bridge where the old highway crosses , the- Williamson River. : . : i Soon after Oils , oall was ' re ceived a message came In from Mrs. Walt wentz, wife of Indian Officer Wentz,- telling of the dis covery of the body of a man near Beatty. This was confirmed later by a call from Officer Wentz. Tne Bherlff, . accompanied " by members of the county coroner's office and the Oregon State Police left for the Williamson River to pick up the body discovered there. This proved to be the body ot an unidentified man who had evi dently been In the water tor some time. The autopsy will be held by County Coroner Dr. George Adler this- afternoon. An intensive in vestigation, by the sheriff's office conducted and early Identification ot the deceased la predicted. After conducting preliminary InVMtifirnHnn ul thM ' ' WlllUnunn River the sheriff and deputy ac companied by the state police-and county coroners omce proceeded via Chiloquln to Beatty and con tacted Indian Officer Wentz. He conducted the group to a spot about 8 miles northeast of Beatty near the . government corrals, where the second body was found. At present this body Is alo unidentified but -officials investi gating the death believe the Iden tity may . be established some time after the autopsy this after noon. This body was originally discovered by Jackson Paddy sometime late Tuesday afternoon Cause of both deaths will be an nounced following the coroner's autopsy, . Deportation Threat Told PORTLAND HI Norman S. Hepburn, 55, ot Klamath Falls, took a four-day vacation In Cuba three years ago and on his return said he was a U. S. citizen. Be cause of that, he is going to be deported. He may be allowed to return, though. - Louis Hafferman, Immigration Service officer, said Hepburn was bom in Aberdeen, Scotland, and as an alien his statement on re turning from Cuba subjected him to deportation, Hepburn has asked for voluntary deportation. If this Is approved, he then can return and again take up permanent residence. He has lived In the U. S. 30 years. In County STATE SENATOR PHIL HITCHCOCK - (center) wt guett speaker last night at OTIt Sym. biot banquet. He it shown her with (right) Winston Purvine, OTI director, and Symblot ' fm. Ident Jerry SayUt. Symbiet 'It fit agricultural honorary organization at the school en fN ' Telephone S1H No, Mil DARLA MONTGOMERY Was waiting for the bus to take her to Fremont School this morning 'when' the 9 o'clock photographer happened by. Tule Voters Name Council TULELAKE Winning; candi dates In -Tuesday's city election for four year council seats were John F. Burke Jr., who nosed out veteran Bill Beigler, by 13 votes, and Incumbents, Rollle Rinaoar ger, mayor, and Ed Duckett, Victoria Thaler was returned to office as city clerk and Sara Welsh as treasurer, , .,; -.-..,.-. , Burke polled 128 votes to Belg- ler's 110. Selgler has served with an excellent record as street com missioner. Duckett polled 127 and JUnabaraer 123 Mrs. Tnaier. -with 4 wrtterinvotea tor' Elisabeth Hot- land aarppoaltlon, took 147. Mrs. 1 1 Welsh topped tnent. aU. wim.usl the beserB.tl letters from the All council terms are for-four years. : Under California law, the mayor Is elected from the newly elected councilmen following the election, The vote was the lightest in many years, 169 out of 438 reg istered voters going to the polls. Maine Gets Light Snow By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There were a few wet spots but generally fnlr and pleasant weath er prevailed over most of the na tion Wednesday. Temperatures In most areas continues above seasonal levels. Readings early Wednesday ranged mostly from the 40s to the 70s. Coldest spots were In Northern ' Maine and Northern Minnesota where . temperatures were around freezing. Light snow fell in Northern Maine, Light rain fell in the Northern Rockies from 'Montana southward into Idaho, Wyoming and North ern Utah. Showers were reported in the Carolinas and Georgia but falls were light. Thunderstorms hit sections of Eastern Minnesota, parts of Wisconsin and In Western Texas. Tuesday's tcmperntures ranged from a high of 100 at Thermal, Calif, to 20 above at Washington, N.H. Govefiinui Spud Cuylnj Rrjure Up Order Issued ' by ; the Depart ment of Agriculture last week that 11 cars of potatoes would be pur chased to Oregoa with Sectaoo 13 Funds, has been countermanded and a total of 132 cars win be, purchased, according to Informa tion received this -morning. - ' :Thl decision waa announced at s meeting still In progress at the Agricultural Stabilization Conser vation office in the Tower Theater Building between officials of the agriculture, department and mem-, bers of the ASC committee. On the basis of Information now available the Department of Ag riculture ; has orders for Tl car loads ot Oregon potatoeu for April -delivery,- of these 59 -will come from . Klamath County, and the balance from Modoo and Siskiyou i counties In California. According to the ASO members. 18 growers -from 'Siskiyou, 15 ' from Modoc-and 69 from Klamath counties have offered- potatoes- for sale, ' this makes' a total of : 131 -rrowere, who have offered 'a total of 750 cars to the government. , In order to make the county al lotments fair to all it was decided that of the 132 cars to be pur chased now,' 50 per cent would ame from Klamath, 80 per eect rom Modoo and 30 per cent from Siskiyou, counties, , i land Ovnersj Contacted Airport Manager Russ- Avery will contact property owners,, whose . land will be needed if the Jet base comes in, today, for a- right' of permit for surveys and explore' tions at the airport prior to eon' . sumatlon of a formal real estate deal.,'-'' '. .f.:;.y,'i....... .' The property owners Involved ere Melvln Keener; E. G. Borne,- A. M. Ager and W. C. Llndmerer. .... The corp ot engineers, U.S. Army Northern Paclfio division! at' Waf la Walla requested the permission, to go on the propertv they expect to purchase and do civil engineer ing In connection with their plea tor the Jet interceptor base. - Mayor Paul Landry has contact ed members of the city council for their permission to authorise Av ery to contact owners ot the 61 or so acres ot privately owned laoas at the south end ot the runway. The acreage wilt be bought under city control end included -with the airport proper In any subsequent real estate -transaction.- - : i A letter from Congressman Bam Ooou received by Mayor, Landry thlM tnnmtnff acknowledged ti p tot t of council's resolution tu tavor ot mayor to the AifForce. Coon expressed his - admiration for the "sound approach of the city of Klamath Falls, the chamber of commerce ana others- in, tne deal, and said he was going before the Armed Services Committee to outline the natural advantages, the existing facilities and the very good attitude ot Klamath Falls. He as sured hie strong support of Klam ath Falls In the event another com- miinitv miffht Irv far tha hflju. a Search For j Plane Pushed1 SEATTLE (fl Searcher tor a missing Canadian Westlnghouse executive and his wife, who van- s lshed Monday in their light plane, concentrated Wednesday along; the shoreline between Seattle and Tacoma., A Coast Ouard patrol boat,-) s ground party and airplanes Joined in the search for Mr. and Mrs. Brio M. Coles of Hamilton, Ont. . The 56-year-old Westlnghouse vice president and his wife vanished on a Yakima-Vancouver, B. C, flight alter radioing that the plane's single engine failed at more than 10,000 feet over the Se attle area. - !" A logger's report of seeing plane "with a funny tall" flying low beween Auburn and Ehum- . nlflv smith nf ftntt.1 Hroo, ml searchers to the area Tuesday I witnout result. . - i
