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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1954)
(nnr IK - . ; : -t In The- Day's tows By FRANK JENKINS As this Is written, the total of persons who lost their lives in traffic accidents on National Safe Driving Day, which ended at mid night last night, is 48. That compares with an average of 97 per day during the first ten months of this year and an aver age of 104 per day during all oi ' 1952 and 1953. Not bad. . Let's put it this way: If the total of 48 stands, it means that as compared with the fimiv avprace of traffic deaths for the first ten months of this year 49 Americans are alive looay wi nrnuiH nni have been alive if the safer driving experiment had not fceen tried. If you assume Out YOU ARE ONE OP THE 49, you can say flatly that so far as you are con cerned the experiment paid off. Three things offer possibilities of reducing our staggering total of traffic fatalities along with In juries and the monetary loss that go with traffic accidents: 1. Wider (and much costlier! streets and highways especially divided highways. 2. More and better traffic regu lations and more traffic policemen per mile. 3. TEACHING PEOPLE TO DRIVE MORE SAFELY. Of the three. I'd say that the last is the best. The town of Fallon, over In Nevada, had Its third earthquake of the i year last night. The quake waves rolled as far southward as the Mexican border, westward to the Pacific and as far north as Southern Oregon. In Fallon, it seems to have been pretty Tugged. Sheriff George Wil kins says this morning: "The ice on the ground was cracking and squeaking and we thought the earth was going to cave In and us with It." Up adds- The only Teason Fallon didn't suffer heavier damage was that everything loose had been knocaeo down in the two previous quakes." " ivii tt-mihlp with our modern civilization, in these days when another war will mean almost certain use of nuclear weapons, is that we have SO MUCH TO BE SHAKEN DOWN. It we still lived In caves, as did our remote, ancestors, we could thumb our noses at A-bombs and H-bombs. That stirs another thought: Since we've been smart enough to build modern civilization to its present amazing peak, we ought to be smart enough to find a way to keep war from destroying it all. Speaking of nuclear weapons, here's an interesting little frag' ment from the news: The foreign ministers of the U.S., Britain and France are hold tng a meeting this morning in Paris. They have many things to discuss, and high among them is to decide JUST WHO WOULD GIVE THE WORD for the West to use atomic weapons in case of a Russian attack. It has been argued that such a decision should be left to the mil itary commanders in the field that consultation with the home civilian governments after a red attack might mean ft fatal delay. On the other hand, It has been argued that some trigger-happy military man might set off-World War III by using atomic weapons in case of a local border clash which might otherwise be mediat ed. Put it like this: ' In the days of the Old West, when a desperado reached for his gun, would you have wanted to have to ask the city council for permission to pull your gun anfi snoot? II you had waited, you'd proba bly have wound up dead in your DOOIS. USBR To Sell Farm Units WASHINGTON Wi Secretary oi me interior mck:; announced Thursday the Reclamation Bureau will sell 21 additional full-time farm units totalling 1.850 irrigable acres on the Columbia Basin proj ect in wasmngton. Applications will be accepted for 45 days starting Friday by the bu reau s Epnrata, wash, office, with veterans having preference for all units not allotted to exchange ao plications under a 1953 law. To be eligible a veteran must have served in the armed services after Sept. in. 1940 and been honorably dis charged. The farms are In 'he East-Co lumbia Basin Irrigation district, adjacent to the town of Othello in Adams County. They range in size from 63 to 116 irrigable acres and will be sold at prices ranging from !.:: to M.4-0. A drawing will be held to estab l:sh priority of eligible veieran ap plicants.' An examining board will review the qualifications of eppli- cants according to the priority established by the drawing and of' fer farms to those that meet the requirements. Purchasers may pay 20 per cent flnwn and the xemainocr over a 20-year period. . iSo fuy o!J5r Z II nrmmm9-7Tm. i KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1954 Price Five Cents S4 Pases Telephone (111 Reds Issue Warning On Paris Pact MOSCOW HI Soviet Russia Thursday warned France that rat ification of the Paris agreements to rearm West Germany "will cross out and annul"- the French Soviet mutual assistance treaty of 1944. The warning was conveyed in a formal note handed by Soviet For eign Minister V. M. Molotov to the French ambassador, Louis Joxe. The foreign press was informed about it at a news conference in the foreign ministry. Molotov's press chief. Gen. Le onid Ilyichev, read portions of the note. It charged that the government rf Premier Mendes-France has al lied itself with "anti-Soviet mili tary groupings headed by the United States." CONFERENCE At the same news conference it was announced Molotov and the Soviet government take a favor able view of .recent statements by Foreign Minister Mamuro Shige- mltsu of the new government of Japan stating that Japan desires a normalization ' of relations with the Soviet Union. (Meanwhile. - Moscow Radio broadcast a statement by Molotov that the Soviet Union "takes a pos itive attitude" towards Japan's de sire to normalize relations between the two countries. (Molotov declared Russia Is al ways Interested in developing re lations with "all countries, which on their part show their, readiness to do so. -(The broadcast was picked up in avndon.) Debate on the ratification of the Paris pacts is to start next week in the French parliament. POLICIES The note to France charged that recent policies of its government "all bear witness to the fact that ratification of the Paris agree ments are aimed at remilitarizing Western Germany and therefore will Inevitably and -swtously .com plicate the whole situation In Eu rope. "Therefore, ratification only serves the purposes of certain states engaged in preparing a new war," it said. "Under such circumstances the Soviet government considers it its duty to. state that the act of ratifi cation of the Paris agreements will annul the Soviet-Franco treaty. "The entire responsibility for this will rest upon the French gov ernment." fiSjSHOPPING..)' J3-. o o 'FIGHT T8- Fm m " if ' 9 (J MOST INSPIRATIONAL player ai laltcted by hit fellow Itam mafet of the Oregon Technical Initituta football .quad wai Greene RurJd, a threa year letterman tackle. Rudd, left, it thown receiving tha trophy from head coach Rex Huntaker, who made the presentation at last night's OTI football banquet at the Mile High Campus cafeteria. Rudd also won tha out standing lineman award. Odie Canada received the outstand ing back award. Further details and picture en sportt page. Weather ' FORECAST Klamath Falls ami vicinity: Fair through Friday, High Friday 32; low Thursday u i tit l. High yesterday 33 Low last night 1;. Precip. last 24 hours 0 Slnre Oct. 1 1.81 Same period last year , 5.29 Normal for period 3.69 December 15 weather Clear, sunny turning cold after sundown. Mindszenty Said Freed By Hungary VIENNA, Austria Wl The Aus trian Catholic News Service Kath press quotes Informed circles in Budapest as reporting Josef Card inal Mindszenty has been released from prison in Hungary, But the agency says there is no confirma tion of the report. The Vatican also said it had no confirmation of similar reports. In Budapest. Mokesmen for the Hungarian foreign ministry and of the government information bureau declined to discuss the report. Earlier, there had been indication." they might make a statement. The State Department and Cam nil. nnan.la. In Wflchlnirtnn hnH no information that tne cardinal hurt hpn freed SOTJRCFS ' I Kathpress said it leceived in formation from well-1 n f o r m e d sources in Budapest that the card inal had been freed one week ago and had gone to his diocese. Mindszenty, 62-year-old Roman Catholic primate of Hungary, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Red court on Feb. 8, 1949. The court convicted him of treason, seeking to overthrow the Commu nist government in favor of the Hapsburg monarchy and illegal trading in dollars from the United States and tne vaucan .- The trial -and sentence brought a crescendo: Of Indignation from the Western world. Then Fresiden Tiuman termed the action against the cleric infamous. ARRESTED The Communists arrested Mind szenty on Dec. 26, 1948, alter long running fight with the cardi nal who as an archbishop had been imprisoned by the Nazis for his de fiance of them. From the time he was raised to the rank of cardinal in February 1946 Mindszenty had fought the Russian occupation forces and the Hungarian Communists who grad ually took over the country. The Communists ' meanwhile febipppd up demonstrations against tbr churchman. But though he knewiijfjarrest was Imminent, he refused to flee Hungary. On his arrest he was forced to doff the robes and cap symbolic of his of fice. For his trial he wore the un adorned black cassock of a simple priest. COMMUTED -.CAIRO Egypt m Egypt's ruling revolution council commu ted to life imprisonment Thursday the death sentence passed Wednes day on -Ahmed Mohamed Hassen ein leader of the Moslem Brother hood In the provinces. Accidents Cut By Safe Day Efforts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Safe Driving Day was termed a success Thursday and a standard for the future. The evaluation was made by the chief officer of the group which sponsored S-D Day as a one-day nationwide effort 10 make a sub stantial reduction in traffic acci dents. An Associated Press survey, in cluding delayed reports, showed that 48 motor vehicle fatalities were recorded Wednesday, which was the nation's first Safe Driving Day. SAFETY FIGURES The National Safety Council fig ures that lor each fatality there are 35 injuries and 225 accidents. The fatality toll thus indicates there were 1.680 cases of Injury and 10,800 accidents on S-D Day. On Dec. 16, 1953, there were 60 deaths, and on Dec. 1 of this year there were 64 deaths. During the first 10 months of this year traffic deaths averaged 07 per day. The Dec. 1 survey was made by The Associated Press so the toial could be used as a yardstick. II was a "spot" survey, counting on ly quick deaths. The S-D survey was made on the same basis. The ' months of this year Included deaths tnat occurred a day or more after the fatal injury was suffered. Safety statistics indicate -that for every 12 persons who died quickly 4 additional victims die later. Rear Adm. H. B. Miller (ret.). director of the President's Action Committee for Traffic Safety, which sponsored S-D Day, issued this statement Thursday: ATTENTION ' "S-D Day did precisely what It was intended to do. It focused na. tionwide public' attention on the need forsafer driving and It proved that with jst a little more care anu eiiori, tne irauic ion can De cut substantially." At the White House, Press Sec retary James Hagerty said Presi dent Eisenhower was "quite cans fied" to hear the reports that traf fic fatalities were below normal for the day. Oregon cut Its traffic accidents by 40 per cent on Safe Driving Day, the State Motor Vehicle De partment said Thursday with 83 mishaps reported. Tnat was the 24-hour report from police. On the same day a year ago there were 140 accidents. Wednesday's special day brought Injury to 16 persons and a year ago there were 32. ' No one was killed in a traffic accident in Oregon on Safe Driving Day. As might be expected, Portland had the most accidents 28 and the most Injuries 7. Multnomah County Including Portland had a 31-8 accident-injury score. LANE SECOND Lane followed with 7 accidents and 2 injuries and Douglas and Marion each had 6 accidents. Mar lon, though, had one injury and Douglas had none. Other counties' reports on acci dents and Injuries: Benton 4, 2; Tillamook 3, 0: Umatilla 3, 0; Wasco 3, 0; Jackson 3, 0; Baker 3, 0; Josephine 2, 0; Union 2, 1; Yamhill 2, 0. Clackamas 1. 1; Clatsop 1, 0; Coos 1, 0; Curry 1, 0; Harney 1, 1; Klamath 1, 0; Linn 1, 0; Lincoln 1, 0; Washington 1, 0. These 14 counties had no acci dents: Columbia, Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Hood River, Jef ferson, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Polk, Sherman, Wallowa and Wheeler. Klamath County's try for an ac cident - free SD Day was marred by a minor mishap shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday, when John Mitchell Murphy, 2440 White, ran into a parked car at 610 Mitchell Street. No infuries resulted and damage to the vehicles was slight. Slate police reported a car was badly damaged when it ran off the road on Highway 66, west of Kcno, just Inside the Klamath County line, sometime during the after noon. No report of the accident has been made by the driver so it is assumed there were no injuries. Another report of a traffic acci dent turned out to be erroneous. A cow had been reported hit by a motorist on a canal bridge near Canton. The committee and scv : the Geary Ranch on the west side eral other property owneis in tne j highway.. Investigation disclosed i area were present at the council the bovine had slid down the steep (meeting to protest the city's ap bank and was unable to get out. proval on the by-pass plan. ; Workmen from the Geary Ranch Main reasons were lhal properly ' pulled Bowy from the Icy water ; owners had not been notified, and and leit her on me oitcn oanit. re- portcdly suffering only from shock. RELIEF TOKYO The U.S. Air Force Thursday announced It will pay $1000 as emergency relief to the Hokkaido farmer whose house was wrecked when Russian MIGs shot down a U.S. photo mapping plane last month. (' I V - '"V ' t -Si flVVCV ft 'tk i i jimp i w CHECKING THE WORK SHEET for the day are Paul Frei, left, and Henry Hamilton, mechanics at Cunningham and Rickey Motors, Seventh and Commercial. Frei's home address is 202 Lincoln; Hamilton lives at 1618 Wiard. William M. Tugman Resigns As Register-Guard Editor EUGENE Ml William M. Tug- man, one of the Pacific .North west's best known newspapermen has resigned as editor of the Eu gene Reglster-ouard, after 27 years with that newspaper, to pub- lisn nis own paper. Tugman Thursday announced he had left the Registel -Guard and purchased the Port Umpqua Cour ier, a weekly in the coastal town of Reedsport. He put out his first edition there Thursday. Alton F. Baker, publisher of the Register -Guard, made the an nouncement jointly with Tugman. "I personally regret very much In deed that Bill Tugman has made the decision to leave the Register- Guard," Baker said. "In his move Eugene loses and the city of Reedsport and the lower Umpqua Airbase Land Plans Told Klamath Falls can proceed wHh land acquisition for reactiv&tien of the airport as a Jet interceptor base. Negotiations are authorized fol lowing receipt this morning of the memorandum of understanding with the Air Force which wa3 re turned to the city signed by Max Tysor, contracting officer, chief of the real estate division, Corps of Engineers. The Corps of Engineers is the real estate agent for the Air Force. - The memorandum of understand ing wa3 formulated November IB by military and city officials and signed by the city enrlier this month. The agreement is the first legal document from the Air Force to the city and will be the basis of a 90-year lease to be drawn. Official signatures by the Corps of Engineers are the go-ahead for the city to start purchase of some 148 acres of land and obtain re strictive easements on 98 addition al acres. Seven land owners in the airport vicinity will be contacted in the near future, the mayor said. The city, he added, has prom ised the Corps of Engineers right of entry to land go that work can proceed. The city either will buy land by outright purchase if such negotiations can be conducted with land owners, or the city will start condemnation proceedings ' and give the engineers possession by order of the court. The city budget committee re cently filed an amended budget to provide funds for the land acqui sition. By-Pass Route Hearing Set A hearing on objections to the proposed West Side HyPass route is bet (or Monday, December 20, nt 7:30 p.m. in the council cham bers. Mayor Paul Landry said this morntnt?. The hearing has been feet In ac cordance with a petition presented ! council last Monday night by a ! property owners committee from Uie Conger - Calitornia Avenue area. Committee Includes Lorn Dalcour, Albert Bonotto. Robert (Elliott. Pete Jones and William 'trmi other possible routes an- ! parentiy had not been considered. Petitioners mentioned a roule fol lowing the railroad tracks or one on the far side of Link River cross, ing at Fremont bridge as possibil ities. Joe Toole, resident state highway engineer, will be present at the Monday night hearing to explain the route and reason for selection of 11 the most leasable. jt i Valley gain, one of the truly great newspaper personalities In the Northwest." Tugman gave as his reasons "family plans, a good opportunity In a good town, and the realization that at 61 a man should try to taper off a' bit. He bought the Courier from Har old G. .Pruitt and John G. Weiss for an undisclosed i sum. Tugman said, "My wife and 1 have loved the lower Umpqua Val lev since we first saw it We might even find time now and then to catch a fish. Baker said Register-Guard staff changes resulting trom Tugman's resignation will be announced later in the week. He added that Tub man will continue to be associated with the Register-Guard as a con tributing editor. . -. Baker and Tugman tyot-kerl to. gcther on the Cleveland Plain Dealer until Baker pui chased the Eugene newspaper. Tugman ac companied him here as managing editor. Tugman was graduated from Harvard In 1914 and worked on New England newspaper and for a time as a war correspondent on the Mexican border, before going to Cleveland. He served in World War I as a field artliltry captain. At Eugene Tugman's editorial voice was a strong and often con troversial one In community af fairs. In 1943 he won tiie Voorhics Award of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Assn. He was elected in 1952 to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Hew Medford Mill Planned MEDFORD m A mill to pro duce rough plywood will be built near here at a cost of between (550,000 and $600,000, it was an nounced Thursday. The development will be by of ficials of the Southern Oregon Ply wood Co. at Grants Pass, who are leaving that firm to form their own company, Fir-Ply, Inc. They filed articles of incorporation, with initial capitalization of $250,000, 'In Salem tills week. Incorporators were Ernest A. Clark. Arthur W. Mlckclson, Rob ert W. Van Duker and Roy E. Henry. CbH Jacobson, now gener al manager of the Grants Pass firm, will be president and general manager of Fir-Ply. C.'ark will be vice president and production man ager. Clark has been production head of Southern Oregcn Plywood. Construction is scheduled to start rhnrtly after Jan. 1 in the Camp wnne industrial area north of here. Tile company hopes to begin pro duction in April or May. Rough construction grade 3x8 plyboards will be turned out at the plant. Van Duker said It will oper ate three shifts and employ be tween 100 and 110 men with an an nual payroll of about half a million dollars. He estimated half a million dollars worth of logs a year will be used. SHOOTING HOURS Oregon December 17 OPEN CLOSE 7:00 4:t8 California December 17 OPEN CLOSE 6:57 4:3S KFArea Shaken; Tremor Centered On fallen, Nevada Sections of the Klamath Basin rocked in lust night's earthquake with other areas of the West Coast. Heaviest concentration of shoe lis apparently was at Tulelake. Less er earth movements were felt from there to Klamath Falls where numerous residents report ed being awakened around 3 a.ni. No shocks apparently wero fell north of the city. O. E. Pedersen, night officer for the Tulelake police force, report ed that the first rolling movement was felt there at 3:09 a.m. and continued intermittently for about! c jimmies. He was in the lobby of the Sportsman's Hotel when window covering and lights began moving. Pedersen stated that he went to the street and could hear water in the city's 75,000 gailon storage tank "slosning." others In town were awakened and the quake was felt generally over that com munity. CHIMES SHAKEN Karl Dehllnger, Henley rancher. one mile east of Mac's store, said shock at about 3:12 a.m. rang a set of chimes in his living room ana a second shock was felt a snort time later. Several residents of Merrill were awakened and experienced floating sensations and heard dishes in cupboards rattling. There was no report of any disturbance at Malin or from Bonanza at press time. The shock was felt generally In Klamath Falls with reporls vary uig from noises In the attics to bells ringing and beds swaying. No serious damage was reported RENO, Nevada Wl A rolling earthquake Jarred five Western states early Thursday, but cen tered Its most violent Jolts in tsparsely populated Western Neva- da. Only scattered damage ot mi nor importance was reported The quake, which apparently rumbled out from a huge earin fault about 70 miles northeast of Reno, was felt throughout Nevada and California and reached into Oregon, Utah and Idaho. Tlie long, rumbling shock was the third to shake this desert state in the 'past Jive months, and was described as "the worst yet, CRACKS In the state capitol building at Carson City, 30 miles south of Re no, big chunks of ornamental frelze In the assembly chamber fell from the ceiling. Dozens of cracks opened along the walls of tlie 83-year-old building. .Warden Art Bernard reported a "good-size hole" opened between the new and old cell blocks at the stale prison a mile south of the capito). Otherwise, damage appeared limited to cracked plaster, in homes, dislodged chimney bricks, and a few broken dishes. At Frenchman's station, a liquor store owner re ported $3,000 worth of stock top pled oi r nis shelves. A huge boulder crashed onto Highway 50 about 190 miles east ,of Reno, causing partial blocking oi me trans-contlncntal route. One way traffic was required. ine quake was timed at 3:07 ni. PST in Reno, and at 3:10 a.m. in San Francisco. An after shock was felt at Reno at 3:00 a.m. Fallon, Nev., a small agricultur al community approximately 60 miles east of Reno and the ccn'er of two recent qunkes, was be lieved to be the center of Thurs day's quake. CHECKS However, Sheriff Gnome Wllk- lns said preliminary checks showed only "minor damage with some ceilings cracked and some bricks knocked loose." He said his deputies still were cliecktntr the outlying farm aieas which tonic the brunt of- othc shocks. Wilklns said Thursaay's earth ouake was "by far the heaviest of all three." He attributed Fallon's light damage to tlie fart the "last quake just about knockei every thing down that was ar, all loose.' Parts of Lovelock, Nov., also east of Reno, were blacked out when a section of the city's elec tric power system was knocked out briefly. However, no other damage was reported. The power failure briefly Immobilized tne city's telephone switchboard, frus- CHRISTMAS GIFT With Christmas week almost upon us the Herald and News takes this opportunity to wish all our sub scribers a Merry Christmas and to announce our gift to the readers. Starting next Monday and continuing through Fri day the paper will follow a policy of giving tha reader a cheerful and Christian page one. For that week wa shall endeavor to carry only such news on page ona as fits into the Christmas spirit of "peace on earth, good will toward men." - Tha war fears, the political battles, the wrecks and tragedies of everyday life will ba relegated to tha insida pages. We shall not leave out any news coverage, nor will wa reduce our coverage. Wa are merely giving you, the reader, what we consider a well earned rest from tha everyday diet of doom and despondency in the newt when you first pick up your paper and glance at page one. To tha best of our knowledge wa ara tha only news paper in tha United States to try this. We'll appreciate your reactioni in a latter. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. tiating attempts of Reno newsmen to check damage in Lovelock, Las Vegas, gambling oasis 450 miles southeast of "Reno, also re ported two quakes. Police aald lights swayed and windows rat tled but there was no damage.. racinc uas and Electric Co., giant utility serving most of Cal. ifornia, said a check of its sys tem indicated the earthquake was felt almost from the Oregon bor der to deep in Southern Califor nia. A PG&E spokesman said, however, there were no reports of damage. The trembler was felt as far south as the Los Angeles area, 500 plus miles from the center. How ever, San Diego police, another 150 miles away, said that city. al most on the Mexican border, did not feel any shock. LOS ANGELES REPORT In Los Angeles chandeliers swayed on the 12th floor of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. building. Apparently few people other than tourists noticed the quake In Ban Francisco. Police said the few calls they had came mostly from ho tels. The city quivered t bit, but there were no reports ot damage. Thursday's quake came just as repairs were nearlng completion on huge ruptures and cracks caused by the earlier quakes, in July and August. Many acres ot rich farmland were flooded. . An emergency disaster allocation of approximately $300,000 In federal funds was made to repair the canal grid. Vandals Hit j Xmas Displays City police promise special pro tcction to residences that are co. operating in the Chrlstmaa light' ing program, according to Chief of Police Orvllle Hamilton. . . Three Instances of vandalism are known to have occurred on Paclfio Terrace during tlie last two nights and a good description ot one ear involved was reported by, a, neigh. , oor. - ' , . . ... ..- '1.- Some time Wednesday, vandals ' called at the home ot Mr. and Mra. Floyd A. Boyd, 1315 Pacific Ter. race and nearly denuded at 30 foot Christmas tree growing in the front yard which the Boyds had decorated with some 200 globes. When members of the family re turned home about dark they found extension cords to the tree cut and about a third of the Christmas light globes missing. Mrs. Boyd had been spending the day at tlie bedside of her lath er who is coiilined to an Alturas hospital. Boyd Indicated that their outdoor lighting display would be replaced. Unwelcome visitors took four strings of lights from, tlie front of the E. A. (Taxi) Thomas home, 1445 Pacific Terrace, Wednesday night, the city engineer reported. They had been put up Sunday. Thomas said they had the same experience with outdoor lighting a few years ago and he had been reluctant to try it again. Tuesday night, with tlie house lighted and the family addressing Christmas cards, thieves came up to the porch and mado off with three ot the five strings of lights which had been put up this week at the home of Mr. and Mra. John Houston. 1242 Pacific Terrace. "A night In jail may cool oft some of this enthusiasm for steal, ing Christmas lights," Chief Ham ilton commented. Milk Producers Aqainst Control PORTLAND Ml An Oredon Milk Producers Committee here decided Wednesday against press ing now for either slate or federal milk control. The 20 members decided, how ever, to have plans prepared for a federal milk marketing order "In case of any emergency in the milk situation." Lester Adams, secretary, said the producers had a strong feeling the market could be stabilized without controls.
