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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1954)
WM mm In The Dav's lews By IHANK JCNKINH Charley Stanton of Uie Roseliurg Newa-itevlcw mid Joliu Walla, rxcuullvo ancrctary ol Oreiion'a now development conuiilnslon, tol tng-Uicr over In ROM'burg the -jtli-rr cluy mid held a nonlulglo aeulon on the good old daya. John led off by telling Charley bout nil expedition ho made u while back Willi hla lunilly In search ol a bit ol wilderness where they could net awiiy from ll ull ami maybe gel aoino full. They (Irovr to Um end o the roud, Iff t thou car, aliouklorcd fiwk and hiked flvfl miles to Ml ISOLATED lake. Thev found the lake ringed by anglara and Us surface dotted with boat whoaa outboard motors churned Uie water, shattered tile primeval alienees with raucous couiiba and barks thai reverber ated from the mountain peak and tainted the air with the fumes of burned gasoline. Where the boata came from John didn't aay, but Uie oulbourd had been luviicd over Die trail by hardy moderna willing to load thenuelvea down with a gasoline elm me but unlnlereated In build ing a raft and propelling It out Into tlio lake with crude paddled (lowered by human muacle. PS. lie got no ftah. That atarted Charley olf. He re lated that a Sunday or ao ago he drove out to what uaed to bo one of hla lavorlte flahtng holea. Mlit appointment awaited him. A lum ber oporatlon had cleaned ufl Die cover and exposed Uie anil to un hindered eroalon. Instead of clear water tuinblUig over bouldera Into limpid pool', he - found muddy water. But oven ao the bank of the creek were cluttered with flrher men. All of them working at It, but nobody catching anything much. That reminded him aadly of a day barg in the golden paat when he tell In over hi head one aunny, lovely morning, aoaklng the cigar ettes In hla ahtrt pocket. He went until five o'clock in the evening before lie found another fisherman r?om whom he could bum a smoko. I can match that one. Back m those olden, golden daya 1 waa following m high and lonely trait along our matchlena Cascade kyllne. My trnincort waa aartdle and park horae. It waa one of those crystalline inorninga. 'Ilia a I r aparkled, Tlio clear water chuckled ovar the uebblea where the streams crossed the trait. The. pine squlr rela chattered and dashed up and down the trunks of the treea. The camp robber Jeered from Uie branchea. All was Joy and peace until a minute or ao alter It occurred to me that I could us a amoke. That waa before the day of tailor madea out In the hilla. So 1 got out a package of Bull Durham and rolled me one. Then I reached for match. There waa no match In my ahlrt pocket. I searched all my other pocket. No match. I dug Into my aaddlebaga. No matcho. Reaching for the amoke In Uie flrat place had been a mere casual reflex. But by then I WANTED one badly. Bo I "topped and un packed and rummaged through the alforquca bag. NO MATCHES. I reckon I'd left them In camp When I packed up. It vm five long hour before I met another rider on the trail from whom I borrowed aome matchea. Boy, that amoke tasted good aa I'll bet Charley' did the day he got wet all over. At thla point, I'd like to depart from the pattern laid down by Charley and John Watt In their confab the other day. Lest August I went out again along the Skyline trail. With a companion. With saddle horaea and pack horae. Up In the wilderness are, around the base of Mount Pitt, where cars. Including Jeeps, are verboten, and the trails are reaerved for back-packer and liorae packer. So help me, we rode Continued en page f) " Si- '. s . : t, ( ' Uf . i , i , PONDIROUS PACHYDIRMS art shown en their way from the Southern Pacific railroad yardt fo the circus grounds where they will perform under the banner of Clyde Beatty. The ele phants caused a miner traffic jam ai they want through the Main Street underpass. The cir cus will stage three performances ttartlng Friday night. There will be e downtown perade end matinee Saturday ; ' Price Pin Cent It Page iK1 fciw V iT" ij .in. 1 1 Ti "- " S ' .-. fc.t,a-W.wjUwU.'. i. f.-..,,ya;..rasyCT Y"'- "7 ' ' '' . -3 W I M ri I lit & F a- ' o m. ' T H ai c i T v o if f t. i- a. I -'-rue a a. a. a a. ll in roli.i4co u d 4 o w a a-o ...-. i - . a. , , . AN ARCHITECTS DRAWING compl.ted about two ya.rj go ihowt the above Municipal Swimming Pool. Then It wet dream; now It it reality, with the exception of the wading pool and landtcaping, and ii ready for public impaction until 9 p.m. tonight. The pool, open for twimming tomorrow, at 8:30 a.m. Thii view ihowi the tank to the left with the filter plant directly to the rear, a propoied wading pool to the right of the filter plant (net constructed), and the bathhouse to the right of the tank. Total coit of the pool and file develop- Cordon Land Bill Approved WASHINGTON W Ben. Ouy Cordon's bill to put 479.000 tores of disputed Oregon timber land under Forest Service administra tion won approval of the Senate Thursday. The bill now goes to the House. The Senate passed the messure on a voice vote alter rejecting, 63-18, a move by Sen. Morse tlnd Orel to put the lands under the Department of Interior's Bureau ol Land Management. The BLM, which now manages some two million acres of timber land In Oregon, claimed Jurisdic tion of the 413.000 acres. Morse aald It would be "more sensible and efficient'' to have the entire acreage under one agency. Cordon (R-Ore) said the 473.000 acre, which are part of the Ore gon and California railroad land grant reclaimed by Congress In 1910. now are under Forest Service sdmlnlstratlon, and should remain there. He said the Forest Service also administers two other areas of O ii C lands. The bill approved by the Senate provides Uint Umber sale receipts on Uie 473,000 acres will be divided under the O O formula : 75 per cent to ir Western Oregon coun ties and 36 per cent to the govern ment. This differs from normal Forest Service administration In which Ii per cent goes to the gov ernment, 15 per cent to the coun ties. The bill also direct the Interior and Agriculture deparUnents to ex change lands within two years to form cohesive administrative blocks, and urns Increase manage ment efficiency. 11 f, " a ,1 1 4 :4 vrs-MiAi 1 Kootenai Floods Big Farm Area Near Bonners Ferry BONKERS FERRY, Idaho IP Another a.OOO acres of farm land waa flooded early Friday as the Kootenai River broke through two more dikes, but It appeared this town of l.soo might1, escape Making. The river had swelled to the J6. 4-foot level at 5 a.m. when water smashed past the two dirt bar rlers near Bonners Ferry. The re corded "flood stage ' here Is 31 feet. Strong winds, a new menace kicked up waves on the surging river early Friday and threatened two more diking districts. Some a.OOO of the 40,000 acres Teacher Ends Long Career A reception will be given In hon or of Mrs. Kathryn Dick at the East Side Orange Hall, at New Pine Creek, on Friday, May 38 between the hour of 7 and 9 o'clock. All friends and former pupils are urged to attend. The Kelley Creek School Board has chosen this medium as a fit ting recognition to one who Is re tiring from the tcschtng profession with an outstanding record of serv ice and achievement. Mrs. Dick has been teaching for 43 years, 39 of which have been at Kelley Creek grade school. By this long and faithful perform ance and allegiance to the advance, ment of grade school education, Mrs. Dick has the record of having taught In one school the longest of any teacher In Uie state of Oregon -i 5) p uX i . I, ,t,' iw 1 li S i t 1 ' .Til PALLH, UKKGON, PRIDAY, HAY 11. 1 o T L ment wai $106,000; the property, $11,000; the well, $4,400; the bathhouia, $52,000. Total contract for the pool amounted to $173,500. Paddock Engineering Co. of San Franciico won the contract for the pool and lite development; Duncan Con struction Co., Klamath Felli, the bathhouse; Wilton Well Drilling Co., Merrill, the well-digging job. Howard Perrin was architect for the pool; Morrison and Howard for the bathhouse. of tlch land In the Kootenai valley we ce under water a the batUe agatnss the Kootenai, bulging with runon from record mountain snow. pack, neared the end of Its first week. The river dropped to 35 feet after the breakthrough but was still rising upstresm and was ex pected to crest at 36 feet late Fri day or Saturday morning if the dikes hold. The town I surrounded by 37- foot dikes and Army Engineers said It appeared they would bold. Frantic work on the levees went on all night. Another 360 soldiers from Ft. Lewis,. Wash., arrived In trucks at 8 a.m., aet up camp and went into action a short Ume later with sandbags to build un the dikes. The Army Engineers have had 100 men and 50 pieces of heavy equipment In the batUe most of the week. There are about 30 diking dlv trlots In the valley and seven have novf gone out. Two more were In serious trouble Friday, and were getting major attenUon from mili tary and volunteer workers. The river was rising upstream again but cooler weather cut the rate of Increase. The Kootenai stood at 17.3 feet at Llbby, Mont. Friday, up a foot as compared with a 1.8 foot rise Thursday. It takes less than a day for that water to reach here. The Weather Bureau forecast a crest of 17.6 at Llbby Lake Friday end said it should start dropping after that. Near the Canadian border at Rexford, Mont., the Kootenai was up only .t of a foot compared with a 1.8-foot rise Thursday. The Kootenai flood Is an annual thing here and the people In town most of whom have moved out of lowland areas, have kept mo rale nigh. That's not the case in some rural arens. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Whit' beck, whose farm four miles west of town was flooded In 1948 and 1950., horded their cattle to higher ground at two In the morning and mo7cn out of their house. "I think this will be the last lime," Mrs. Whltbeck said. "If Uie rlvar goes this time, we're leaving. We ' will sell the place to some one else and let them fight It out." Onv. Lcn Jordan, who has pro claimed a state of emergency here, ordered a provisional Na. tlonnl Guard unit of 30 men to Join in the flood fight. I KF Base Funds Approved The house armed services com mittee today formally approved and sent to the house for action a four million dollar project for the proposed Klamath Falls air base. The Item, a part of the overall defense budget, would provide for a Jet Interceptor sguadron to be stationed here, and would bring aoveral hundred Air Force person nel here on a semi-permanent ba sis. Considerable work la slated for thejalrport, including lengthening of runways, construction ol quar ters and -other itema. IBM .... H t bU It V IT Grain Freight Rates Reduced SALEM, Ore. Wl A 10-cent per 100 pounds cut In grain freight rate from the Northwest to 'the Minneapolis milling area waa an nounced Thursday. The first word on the reduction came from Charles H. Heltiel, Oregon public utilities commission er. It was confirmed by a Oreat Northern Railway rate official in Seattle, who said the agreement bad been reached Thursday. The Oreat Northern spokesman said the reduction was agreed to by all the transcontinental lines serving Uie Northwest. He said the cut is from 86 cent a 100 pounds to 76 '-j. Grain growers had petitioned for a cut of 13 cents to 74 H- "This is a great boon to the grain growers of Uie Northwest," Heltzel said, "because they have been shut out of eastern markets by blanket percentage freight rate Increases. Academy Holds Honor Banquet 'Graduates of 35 years ago and this year were honored at the an nual Alumni Senior Banquet held Thursday evening at Uie parish hall, at which Uie valedictory, salu- taiory ana Class speecnes were given. Featured speaker of Uie evening was Walter Hannon. formerly of Klamath Falls, now of Eugene, who was the only graduate in the second formal graduating class In 1923. Valedictory address was given by John Ely; salutatory by Cectle vanaenoerg, All red Reginato, class president, rend the class history; Jonnette Brandcjsky, the class will; Kathleen Onllagher, Uie class prophecy. Toasts from the student body and the other classes were given by the following: from Uie student body, Louts Brown; eighth grade, Tom Chin; freshman class, Colleen Llnehan; sophomore, John Vanden berg; Junior, JoAnne Schmlts. Bernard Cavanaugh was toast master for the evening. At the head table were the two members of the class of 1939, cel ebrating Its 35th anniversary, who were able to be present, Mrs. Eldon (Luclle Calhoun) Baker, Klamath Falls, and Mrs. Edna (McMann) Schlerer, Danville, Cal ifornia. The annual banquet Is for grad uating seniors, their parents, mem bers of the other three high school grades and the eighth grade, and alumni of Uie school. It Is sponsored annually by the Alumni Association, headed this year by Keith Ruco nlch, president; Mrs. Harry Fred erick, vice president; Mrs. Hal Gcigcr, secretnry; Mrs. Louis Cunlal, treasurer. The association m embers adjourned to the school auditorium following the dinner, at which of ficers for tho coming year were elected. New officers include Fatl O'Connor, president; Wayne Ncu bert, vice president: Mrs. Harry Frederick, secretary; Mrs. Don Colwell, treasurer. A dance followed, with tnuslo by Baldy'a Band, No. 2M1 Indochina Peace Plan Reported By EDDY GILMORE OENEVA to Russia was re ported to have proposed a new five-point plan for an Indochina armistice late Friday. Informed quarters said Britain and France accepted the plan as a basis for discussion. The Soviet plan was said by a reliable diplomatic informant to have been submitted to the nine- party conference on Indochina by Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov near Uie end of a four-bour secret session. British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault Immedi ately said they were willing to proceed with discussions at the next meeting on Uie basis of the Molotov plan. The next session will be Mon day afternoon, after Eden and Bi dault have conferred with their governments. They are going to Paris Saturday and Eden plans to go on to London Sunday. One diplomat who was present at the session said "important progress" had been made. Bldaull went to the nine-party session prepared to sidetrack for Uie moment the questions of Laos and Cambodia and concentrate on Viet Nam. where Communist-led forces are threatening the Red River delta. Before Thursday's recess, the conference came to a dead stop over French demands for an im mediate, withdrawal of Red troops from Laos and Cambodia. France Insists Uie problem of these two kingdoms be treated separately from Uie proposed cease-fire In Viet Ham. , -Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls sad vicinity. High gaturday 7i tow Friday night 32, High yesterday . C4 Low last night 15 Precip 34 hours ' g Since Oct, 1 IS. Same period laat year . Normal for period , 13.18 Correction The interstate Deer Herd meet ing date will be Friday May 38, Instead of May 21 as was reported in Thursday's Herald and News. , Purpose of the meeting wUl be to discuss plans and the results of the committee's work In the past year. Time of next Friday's meeting is 10 o'clock standard time in the Veteran's Memorial building. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS fthlppe Sim Bar Last Tnr 15 core 5 core Ttal tr 11,442 can , 11,448 con 1MS-M IMt-M Telephone 1111 ACROSS THE YEARS graduates came for the ennuel Sacred Heart Alumni-Senior Banquet held Thursday evening in the parish hall. (From. .left). Walter Hennen, Eugene, was featured . speaker of the evening: Alfred Reglneto It president of the graduating class; Keith Ruconich $ president of the Alumni Anocietion; which eponiOM the banquet, W : s A COOL BREEZE greeted Lillian Van Ooteghan this morning as the left her home at 817 Siskiyou for work at Spangler Lumber Co., in the Underwood Building. - Light Voting Over Oregon By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oregon voters showed such lack of interest in Friday's primary election that precinct officials in several parts of the state said a new low voting percentage record was in prospect. That was based on the votes east up to mid-morning. Typical was this situation in the biggest precinct in Klamath Falls, with more than 600 voters regis tered: Despite -perfect weather with a light breeze and a sunny sky, only 30 votes were cast in the first two hours. As predicted, there had to be hot local issues to bring out the vote. At Pendleton, the courthouse precinct reported 44 votes at 10:30 a. m. which was only 10 less than the number east by noon two years ago. There was keen interest In the legislative race and a tax levy there which may have been responsible for the 44. Baker, with only a city official contest for a local Issue, reported an estimated 200 voters had cast ballots In 13 precincts by 10:30 a. m. That is less than 4 per cent of the registered total. A mid-morning check of Fort- land precincts showed about 10 per cent of the vote cast. In -the 1952 primary election the percentage at the same hour was 15 and in the general election it was 28. There was a 8 a. m. lineup at one Springfield precinct, which was unexplained, since the mld moraing check both there and in Eugene showed a light turnout. CorvaUis. though, with hot locpi issues, was headed for perhaps a 10 per cent vote. County Clerk Ralph Schindler said. Some pre cincts reported 20 per cent of the registered voters had cast ballots In Uie first two hours. . In contrast, at Grants Pass In the same time the turnout was only 7 per cent in six downtown precincts. Similarly, Roseburg pre cincts reported very iignt voting. The county clerk at Salem said the voting appeared to be about normal. Generally the turnout of Repub licans and Democrats toUowed along the line of registraUon fig ures although Uie keener interest in the GOP gubernatorial contest may have been a factor in such differences as 88 Republican and only 30 Democratic in an early check at Grants Pass. I BaSHMBSBBSHBs4 HJfr. Launch New Assaults HANOI, Indochina trl Three little defense posts In the south eastern sector of the vital Red River delta battled fiercely Fri day to hold off encircling Victmlnh forces as the defenders of Dlen Bien Phu tried to do. French Union aircraft parachu ted ammunition, guns, and food to Vietnamese defenders with French noncommissioned officers in the posts of Ten Phu, Anna, and Coquan. They have been under constant heavy mortar attack and machine gun fire for nearly a fortnight. Twice Anxa has thrown back big Vletminh Infantry assaults. The de fenders are outnumbered about six to one. French fighters and bombers are heavily hitting the besieging Communist-led rebels. B2Ss have dropped scores of 1,000-pound de layed action bombs timed to ex plode to kill rebels when they launch infantry assaults nightly. Thus far the Vietminh have faUed In all attempts to smash into and capture either ' of the posts. The mud and wood constructed forts with blockhouses and ma- ehinegun pillboxes but no heavy artillery are In Uie heart of rice fields with limestone hills nearby. From these hills the Viet minh can pump over hundreds of mortar shells to pave the way lor infantry charges. Yen Phu is six mues soutn or Phu Ly, which is on a direct high way to Hanoi 30 miles to uie north. Anxa Is 12 miles northwest of Thai Blnb, which is 50 miles southeast of Hanoi. Coquan is nine miles northwest of Thai Binh. Earlier, the French command said 159 wounded have been brought out of Dlen Bien Phu and that It hoped to fly out 100 more Friday. Helicopters ana Beaver auxrait were making the slow but steady shuttle from Dlen Bien Phu to the royal Laotian capital of Luang Prabang, where the wounded are relayed to Hanoi by Dakota trans port. The evacuation was siowea aowa last night by -violent monsoon rains which made flying impossi ble for several hours. As a result only 50 were flown out yesterday Instead of the scheduled 120. A high command spokesman said there still was no word about Dlen Bien- H-fe-taw' . French, air.; force curse Mis Genevieve Galard Terraube. He laid all that was known of rebel plans to re lease the blue-eyed, 39-year-old nurse waa Uie announcement to that effect by a Vletminh spokes man in Geneva Wednesday. Newly arrived casualties from Dien Bien Phu said Miss De Gal lard was "with our wounded work ing day and night." One Foreign Legionnaire told newsmen at Lanessan hospital that she was being helped by live French male nurses. He said they were aiding a corps of some 20 captive doctors. Her friends In Hanoi believe the nurse will stay on until the last of the wounded Is evacuated. The Vletminh have Indicated they will permit release of 753 altogether. It was not yet known whether the rebels Intend to repair Dien Bien Phu's shell-pocked airstrip to permit big Dakota transports to land and thus speed up the evacu ation. The French said they would go on with the slow, piecemeal shuttle In hopes some improvement might be worked out at the Geneva con ference. The French continued to drop food and medical supplies to the 2.000 wounded in the captured northwest Indochina fortress. French planes continued to ham mer rebel concentrations and con voys only 50 miles from the delta. The air strikes were concentrated on rebel units around Mocchau on provincial ' Route 41 along the Black River. 7 )
