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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1954)
Sdifflti itat H s liiiteir Albany Man Steps Into t - : : ; : t Line Of Fire , AiM.iiifl'ilfrtl1l r-nifr '.in, -rmrA A ' - - !, .alf SPARKY, THE FIRE PREVENTION DOG, Issued a reminder to citizens to be extra careful this week, National Fire Preven tion Week, and every week. The record for low fire loss .has been good this year, and has resulted in considerable fire insurance rate decreases recently for the majority of house holders in. Klamath Falls. But both Sparky and the assistant fire chief, Gino Gheller, know that only through continued effort can that record be maintained. In The- Day's lews , By FRANK JENKINS ; What'll-France-do note: . French ' Premier Mendes-France met with his cabinet for three hours today Jn Paris. . . . After the meeting one of the ministers dis closed that Meudes-France author ized the cabinet to stake the life of the present French government, It necessary, on approval of the London agreements. t That's interesting. : Even more interesting is this note in the news from Washington: "State department officials are said to believe the U.S. should not TAKE THE LEAD in putting final approval on the London plan . . . but should wait and see what the French assembly (the lower and much more powerful house of the French parliament) does." This, I think, should be the meat of our def ense-of-Western-Europe policy: "If you are willing to fight for your own liberty, gentlemen, we will help you to the extent of our resources. "But don't expect us to DO ALL THE FIGHTING." Daily dose of politics: Neuberger has been complaining about tlie filing (by the present ad ministration) of considerable num bers of Bonneville employees. He has been calling on the discharged ones to stay in Oregon and "await a reprieve on election day." What he means is: "If we Democrats win. ' WE'LL PUT YOU BACK ON THE FED ERAL PAYROLL." Interior Secretary McKay, speaking in Portland, says in an swer to .the Neuberger plaint: "Bonneville had 3.000 employees when this administration took over. After the reductions we have made, Bonneville still has 500 ENGINEERS. How many do you yant? These (Bonneville) engin eers do not design dams. Dams are designed by the army engin eers and the reclamation bureau. "We're going to cut Bonneville down to size, BECAUSE WE ARE THINKING OF CONSUMERS AND TAXPAYERS and not the pol iticians.": Good for you, Dougl I'm glad to Bee somebody stand up for the taxpayer now and then. He's the poor devil who carries the whole load of government on his back. What the average taxpayer wants, I'm pretty sure, is Just enough federal employees to con duct the business of the federal government efficiently and NOT A SINGLE ONE MORE. That seems to be what you're trying to bring about in the case of Bonneville. Speaking this morning to the Na tional Conference on Rural Edu cation in Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Benson says: "We must remember that there still are plenty of farmers with only 40 acres and a mule." He adds: "That's one reason the de partment of agriculture is putting emphasis on research and agricul tural education." I admire and respect your views, sir, and I think you're the ablest secretary of agriculture we've had in at least two' generations. But let'i not forget that a whale of a lot of these farmers with only 40 acres and a mule are HAPPY. They like their way of life and most of them are pretty good cit lzens back there In the country where a mule provides more prac ticable power for tilling 40 acres of hill land than a tractor. Go on with your research and your education, but don't let the do-gooders make these 40-acres-and-a-mulc hill fai-n'-a unhappy and dissatisfied wilh their Jobs. The happiest mun in the world la the man who likes his Job and the UNHAPPIEST man in the world is the man who doesn't like his Job. Let's not make disgruntled tractor farmers out of happy and aaUsfied mule farmers. West Coast Storm Slows Up Today By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Winds began to take the Southern Oregon coast Wednesday morning as a Pacific storm approached. Storm warnings flew from Cape Blanco south to Pt. Arena on the Northern California coast. Winds were steady at 45 miles an hour across the lightship at Yreka. The Weather Bureau at Portland said there were a few late morn ing sprinkles along the coast and more rain was expected as ' the storm moved toward land. " The barometer at the Portland airport stood at 29.63 at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, the lowest since June. It leveled off at that point but was expected to drop further. Until the pressure patterns take shape in the approaching storm, it will not be possible to say what force winds will sweep inland, fore Casters said, but they suggested at least gusts inland to Portland by eening. The forecast from Cape Blanco south was for winds from 30 to 50 miles an hour. Rains are due in many inland sections Thursday. Teenager Made Into Torch - KNOXVILLE, Tertn. MV-A 13- year-old boy told police last night that two older teen-agers poured lighter fluid on him, struck a match and ran. 'Carl Robinson told the story shortly before undergoing surgery for s e c o n d-degree chest burns which covered 10 per cent of his body. He related: He and a cousin were playing behind a furniture store. "Two boys suddenly Jumped out from behind a trash can and poured the lighter fluid on me. then struck a match and set me bon fire." Carl was wearing no shirt, and the fluid was poured on his face and chest. The fluid on his face failed to ignite. He saved himself from more serious burns by throw ing himself on the ground and rolling to . smother the flames. "I'd never seen the two before," the boy said. -'jf, mm ' : n EARIT ON THE JOB at Duqan and Mast this morning were Tom Pierce, who lives at 1417 Worden, and Bob Wirth, 2430 Orchard Way. Price Five Cents 16 Pses KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1964 Teephone gm No. 2935 Holman On Bench Here For Session Circuit Judge Ralph M. Holman of Oregon City, presiding here un der a general assignment from the Oregon Supreme court, dean some fast justice during a brief stay in Klamath Falls Tuesday. The Clackamas County Jurist ar rived 'on the southbound stream liner Shasta Daylight at 2:16 p.m. and left for Oregon City on north bound Shasta Daylight at 4:36 p.m. Tuesday. Between trains Judge Holman handled five criminal cases. Henry John Zehe, 47-year-old German alien, who pleaded guilty to a sex charge involving a 10- year-old girl, was placed on 10 years probation. He had previous ly, under court order, been exam ined by the Oregon State Board of Eugenics in Portland. Judge Holman ordered the med ical examination to determine whether Zehe was a degenerate. The board reported he was a normal person. "You are the second person on a contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge to whom I have given probation, ' the Judge told Zehe. "In those kind of cases, if there are no extenuating circum stances, I give the maximum pen alty. In your case, if you Bhow any Indication of not obeying all the laws, I will bring you back and give you all the law allows." John Floyd Thomas, 27, returned here from Milwaukee, Wiconsin, on a bogus check charge, entered, a plea of guilty. Before sentencing Thomas to a year in the county Jail, Judge Hol man pointed out that apparently the defendant's trouble stemmed from excessive drinking. The judge suggested he contact Alcoholics Anonymous. Thomas was repre sented by Attorney Ben Goddard. The court overruled a motion filed by Attorney Donald A. W. Piper, counsel for Charles Fran cis Clubb, asking the indictment charging larceny of poultry be dis missed. Piper said his client had not been served with a certiiied copy of the indictment. After Judge Holman refused to sustain the motion, Clubb entered a plea of not guilty to the charge. Delbert Stewart, 21 - year old ranch hand, who pleaded guilty to stealing cash and merchandise from Arthur (Pete) Jones, blind news vendor, was ordered sent to the Oregon State Hospital for psy chiatric examination. The judge de ferred sentence until the hospital leports on Stewart's mental con dition. When Allen Virgil Wharton, truck driver, appeared for pleading on a charge of entering an automobile with intent to steal. Defense Attor ney Ben Goddard filed a demur rer to the indictment. The lawyer contended the Indictment did not conform with Oregon law. The mo tion was overruled. A plea of not guilty was entered. Attorney Goddard then pointed out that the State Supreme Court had before it a motion challeng ing the constitutionality of the change of Judge law under which Judge Holman was assigned to Klamath County. Goddard asked Judge Holman what would result if the change of Judge law was declared Uncon stitutional. "Then," the Judge answered, this case before me will be thrown out of court." '. . 'W. ' """" ,r,aa' ii n o SCENE OF THE FATAL ACCIDENT near Currier's Camp north east of Klamath Falls where Carl M. Koeppel was killed when he stepped into the line of fire of a fellow hunter's shot. Hazel Building Up Off Coast MIAMI, Fla. MV-Hurricane Ha zel showed signs of. growing in size and intensity today as it churned Into the Caribbean Sea about 1,500 miles southeast of Mi ami. No land areas were in Immedi ate danger from the eighth hurri cane of the season, which was about 460 miles south-southeast of Puerto Rico. Weather bureau forecasters, who named the hurricane Hazel for the eighth letter of the alphabet, said if it follows its present course it will pass south of Puerto Rico. The hurricane, with winds ud to 95 miles an hour near the center, was moving west-northwestward at about 14 miles an hour with gale force winds extending outward 75 miles to the north and east. If the storm follows the pattern of previous October disturbances, there is a 50-50 chance it will come toward Florida. Fancy Excuse Is Not For Judge DETROIT IIP) Claude 3erry. 54. had this defense when he appeared before Traffic Judge John D. Watts on a drunk driving charge yesterday. 'Three masked men grabbed me, pulled a knne ana araggea me into an alley. Then they forced a lot of whisky down my throat." The Judge said he couldn't swallow that story. Ten days in Jail. New Airlifi May Speed Up Mail Deliveries On Coast WASHINGTON' lT: The Post Office Department Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the airlift for ordinary first class mail by announcing plans for a malor extension of the operation to the West Coast. Postmaster General Sum merfield said the department Is filing a petition with the Civil Aeronautics Board to start the airlift on an experimental basis between major cities in Califor nia, Oregon and Washington. He estimated that the service, Involving use of the air lines on an available space basis, will mean delivery up to 48 hours quicker between some 19 points in the Pacific Coast area. In addition, he asserted that hundreds of other cities adjacent to those key points also would benefit through faster delivery on an estimated million pieces of first class and other priority mail dally. Airlift service embraces 3 cent letters, 2-cent postcards and dally newspapers, which are as signed a priority status even though mailed second class. 8uramerfleld said the benefits City Vetoes Proposal It Participate In Armory Job Klamath's opportunity to parti cipate in the proposed National Guard Armory to be built locally got a negative vote irom mem bers of a mayor's committee which met Tuesday evening. Mayor Paul Landry, who an nounced the decision of the com mittee Wednesday morning, said the Judgment was based on the facts that, since the armory will be more or less militarily run, It would be better that the city not participate; and since the school system already has at least one sizeable auditorium and others in the planning stage, these facilities would be adequate to take care of must community neds. In addi tion, the community still has the old armory which can handle many social and athletic events. The community was offered an opportunity by state guard officials last May and again last week to participate in a memorial type armory, in which there could be hardwood floors, kitchen facilities, additional auditorium space, etc. According to the guard officials, a strict military armory will fol low plans supplied from Welling ton, D.C., with concrete floor aud itorium 60 x 80 feet and otner mil itary fnctlites. Estimated to cost approximate ly $186,000 (the amount allowed by tine government for a two unit, military type armory) the struc ture will be built within the pres ent fiscal year. - Site for the building Is on Victory Drive, where the public housing units stood. When waivers have been obtained from residents with- Ihr 200 feet of the location, a deed will be turned over to the state. The county, for its share in the should be felt in more than 300 first class post offices and several hundred smaller offices in Wash ington, Oregon and California west oi the Cascades and Sierras. It was just one year ago. Oct. 6, 1953, that the department In augurated the airlift for surface first class mall by obtaining CAB authority to contract wilh major airlines for the service between New York, Chicago and Washing ton. This operation was subse quently extended to Include ma jor Florida cities. Only last month, CAB extended the experimental period for ntill another year. It, also author ized the use of about 14 feeder airlines, which now handle the service for smaller cities In more than a dozen additional slatrs. The department estimates that in these operations slightly less than 0 per cent of the total non local first class mall is bring moved by air. The 18 cities between which the West Coast airlift will oerate in clude: Seattle, Wash.: Portland, Sa lem, Eugene, Medford, Bend Red mond and Klamath falls Ore. Shown here are Dr. Charles Woods, Coroner George Adler, Sheriff Red Britttm and State Policeman Bill Christensen. Sheriff's Office Photo site, (which must be provided by the city and county) will give tne city lots equivalent to one-half the appraised value of the armory site. Committee members at Tues day night's meetings included Ed Bell and Architect Howard Perrin, city planning committee; Don Ken yon and Wendell Smith, council men; Arnold Oralapp, city public school superintendent; Carrol Howe, county public school super intendent; Winston D. Purvine, di rector of OTI; Jerry Rajnus and Ed Gowen, county commissioners. Sam Coon Slated For Fort Speech Sam Coon, U.S. Congressman from Oregon will be. the guest speaker at an open meeting, Oo tober 12 In the C.I. Clubhouse, Fort Klamath, Ray Looslcy will be pro gram chairman. utner speakers will be rioya Wynne, alternate chairman of the Klamath County Republican Cen tral Committee and George Proc tor, Klamath Falls attorney and member of the central committee. Wynne will speak on "What is the Truth." Proctor will explain the measures on the ballot for the coming election. All candidates of both parties will be welcome. ,4,i,,tiridia&BtaiiMW Mifttfi.i:.' Tjfy . -". ', ' -We :- f. i. : I i ( ill NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED to bag this three point buck that ran acrosi the highway in front of a pickup driven by Bill Badorek Sr., Klamath Falls. The animal was killed outright. The collision will make venison steaks come hiqh. Badorek' pickup truck received damaged right front fender and broken headlight. The deer was tagged by a companion. Badorek ' will return to the hunt to get fiii deer In the traditional way. Sack Wins Death Delay PORTLAND Wl George Sack, sentenced to be executed Dec. 10 for the slaying of his wife, was on the way to the death house at the state prison Tuesday when a Judge ordered him returned to the Multnomah County jail. Judge Frank J. Lonergan, grant ed a request from Sack's attorney, John Patrick Harmon, that Sack be held in Portland while a petition for a new trial is being prepared. Officers were taking Sack to the prison at Salem when Lonergan signed the order. , The Multnomah County sheriffs office contacted the car at Woodburn and Sack was returned to Jail here. BULLETIN A small fire, apparently started by a hunter's warming fire, broke out at 11:05 today on Lower Long Creek near the Indian reservation line, according to Hal Ogle, KFPA superintendent. The blaze, about a mile below the creek, was checked by WTC crews in the area, KFPA crews are on the way to the fire, which is thought to be well under con trol. The high winds which rose this morning led to fear of further out breaks In the dry area. few. r.'. '- : A 45-year-old Albany dental tech nician was Instantly killed on a deer hunting expedition near Cur rier's Camp, 100 miles northeast of Klamath Falls Tuesday, The victim was Carl Melvln Koeppel. According to Dr. George H. Adler, Klamath County coroner, the fatal shot was fired accidental ly by Dr. Charles Arthur Woods, Lebanon dentist Here is Or. Adler s version of the shooting: Koeppel, Dr. Woods and another dentist. Dr. Floyd Maston Scott of Albany, were driving along the Trunk Road near Currier's Camp in a pickup truck when they &aw two buck deer standing in under- hrush a short distance away. Dr. Woods, who was driving, got out on his side of the truck and picked up his rifle. In the mean time. Koeppel bad leaped from the truck on tlie opposite side with rule in his hands. Koeppel fired one shot at the deer from his side ol the truck. A few seconds later. Dr. Woods fired another shot over the truck bed from his side. The bullet struck Koeppel in the back ot the head. Dr. Woods was unaware that Koeppel had been In the line of lire. The tragedy was not discov ered until Dr. Scott leaned out of the cab ot the truck and saw the blood-spattered body sprawled on the ground. Dr. Woods ana Dr. scott were brought to District Attorney Frank Alderson's office in Klamath Falls where they made formal state ments. Koeppel's body is at Ward's Klamath Funeral Home. It will be sent to Albany for burial. Gotham Dock Strike Ends NEW YORK Wl A day-old strike of 25,000 longshoremen will end Thursday at 8 a.m., an In. ternatlonal Longshoremen's Assn. official announced Wednesday. Patrick J. Connolly, executive vice president ot the Independent . union, made the announcement after a meeting of the union wage scale committee. Along the paralysed waterfront It had been believed the men would return Immediately follow-' ing the meeting of the committee called to ratify a peace formula reached Tuesday night by union and shipping representatives with the help of federal mediators. Connolly said Thursday was chosen for resumption of work be cause union locals also had to ratify the agreement. He appeared certain they would, asserting "it's 100 per cent sure everybody will be back to work Thursday morn ing." He said he was advising John V. Lyon, chairman of the Now York Shipping Assn. that the 25, 000 dork workers would be on the job Thursday morning. In the meantime, waterfront pickets remained on duty. Weather.'" FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Cloudy through Thursday. Few showers tonight and Thurs day. High Thursday 63, low to night 50. High yesterday - .f6 Low last night 48 Prcclp. last 24 hours . 0 Since Oct. 1 0 Same period last year 03 Normal for period .17 - :ii . i rrV)W --v,..;Siua fU i i HfrinKI 1 j I
