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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1955)
1 la The- Day's lews By FRANK JKNKlNs The porcupine, long a lavored character m America, is in trou ble. In the generations when we had more trees than we knew what to do with, we were tolerant oi his eating habits, but a our virgin forests be san to decline and we realized that v.e must depend in or: and more on new growth we be? an to get impatient when we d 20 out in the forests and count up to a couple oi liceu porcupine-..op t:eo young trees front a single stand. We sthrtcd saying to ourselves that we couldn't, stand it much longer. We jus; couldn't ailord thai much losii ot growing timber. 0 'e bcan to take pot bhou at Porky. To make matters worse, he has developed a new appetite. The Bend Bulletin tells about it. Ii says: Porcupines, whose nightly des sert is Hie tender tip buds oi growing pines, nas discovered a new delicacy highway signs made ox lamuiated woods "The cement or glue used in the veneer provides a tasty irosiiu lor the colored markers highway people erect along roauaides to warn motorists 01 curves or to cau tion then: to slow their speed. A remnant ot a highway sign bi ought into the Bulletin of 1 ice this week revealed that porkies are accept ing the laminated wood, with its appetizing glue, in much the amc manner a hungry child would take lo a trosieu c;ke. "The result: "Practically all the new wooden roadside si?ii3 on the McKuizie highway between Cold Spring and Windy Point have been destroyed in tact, they nave been devoured." Over all these decades. Porky Has led an easy life, . Because of his spiny com. he has needed to fear no animal ene my. Any such that tangled with him came out of the encounter wish ing fervently that he had left Por ky strictly alone. So Because of this fact, the porcu pine since the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary has swaggered down the forest lanes unafraid of any four legged foe. He was singularly fortunate in Ms relations with man. whom all other animals must dread and fear. Man developed a curious theory with regard to Porky. The theory was this: Because of his lack 01 fear, the porcupine can be ap proached closely. Therefore, a man COUld KILL HIM WITH A CLUB So if a man were lost in the woods and was starving, the theory ran. he could knock over' a porcupine with the end of a sturdy limb and so nourish himself. Stories of men savin; themselves from starvation by. killing and skin ning and cooking and eating a por cupine are rare, but the supersti tion persisted, and Porky went his way unmolested. Well, all good things come to an end. As so often happens when, for one reason or another, men or ani mals HAVE TOO MUCH POWER IN THEIR HANDS; porky devel oped bad habits. He is beginning to pay the in evitable price. Demonstration Flares In Saar SAARBRUECKEN, Saar tm Nine pro - German demonstrator.; and seven policemen were wound ed in street fighting when a mob of several thousand tried to storm Saar Premier Johannes Hoff mann's "EuropeanteMtion" rally Wednesday night, it was announced officially Thursday. Police fired tear gas bombs aft er their clubs failed to halt the threatening: crowd around a meet ing hall in Neuenkirchen, Saar steel town. Demonstrators hurled stones and tried to pry open the entrance with flag sticks. Hoffmann, who Is campaigning for the European statute in the Saar plebiscite Oct, 23, was be sieged in tne hall for an hour, minutes after he had addressed 1.200 supporters. Then police cleared a path with their clubs and he slipped out by a side door. The five-power commission, in charge of the plebiscite, summoned representatives of all Saar parties to a conference Friday on the tens- situation. When Hoffmann launched his campaign last Saturday night. 10. -I 000 pro - German demonstrators jeered him in Saarbruecken. j The guar statute drafted 10 months ago by France and West) Germanv wouid put the rich coal; basin with 960.000 population under! a European commission and con tinue Its post war economic union1 with France until a German peace treaty. Three pro-German parties, for meily banned by the French occu-' pation. demand new negotiations between Paris and Bonn on the Saar's future. Union Leader Denies Report C D. Lonir. secretary of the Klmth Falls Buildintr Trades Council. Thursday denied reports circulated in other sections of the state that there is a shortnee of carpenters and other skilled crafts men at the jet interceptor base pro ject here. Long- explained that his office has been flooded with calls from car penters who heard radio reports that workers were needed in Klam ath Falls. It is true," Long continued, "that we need 10 carpenters to (to on the air base job Wednesday. We ex pect to fill that order without any trouble. "Perhapa with the exception of plumbers, we do not anticipate anv difficulty m filling ail the )obs which develop. There is no icute shortage of labor In KJamaUi Fa Us." Price Five Cents 28 rages """""l i iilte Valley First Western Bank and Trust Company has just completed ar rangements to acquire the Butte Valley State Bank of Dorris, in Siskiyou County, California, it was revealed today. The announcement was made by T. P. Coats, chair man of the board of First Western and William G. Hagelstein, presi dent of Butte Valley State Bank. Merging of the bank with First Western is subject to the approval of regulatory authorities. The Butte Valley State Bank has assets of nearly S4 million and total deposits oi more than $3,500,- 000. It has been m business since 1908. and is the only strictly com mercial bank in the area. The new addition to First West em's statewide independent bank ing system will be operated as the Butte Valley office of First Western, and it will be staffed and managed by the personnel now employed by the bank. Coats said Hagelstein would be come a vice president of First Western, which now has 60 offices in the state of California and over 800 million in assets. He will con tinue to reside in the Klamath Ba sin and devote himself lo First Western's affairs throughout this area. Manager of the office in Dorris will be Fred Fisher, who has been with the Butte Valley State Bartk since 1947, and assistant manager will be Howard R. Hansen. Both Fisher and Hansen will become vice presidents of the Butte Valley oifice. Other members of the manage ment staff will be William S. Hag elstein and Irene Milligan; who are to be named assistant ca.shiers. All other employes of the Butte Valley State Bank are to be retained in their present capacities. Coats stated: "We welcome the Butte; Valley bonking organization into First Western's statewide sys tem. We have the needs of the Klamath Basin in mind and to shape policies accordingly, we are naming Butte Valley's directors to our new 'advisory board of direc tors for First Western's Butte Val ley office. William G. Hagelstein will be chairman of this new ad visory board Vice chanman willienues are returned to counties in be Knock Israelson. County Couris Approve Plan For Lake Of The Woods Rood A nieeth was held Wednesday ni it: ntnuxttii vuumv v.u.n lui I.-.U ui: uuii luuin nui u- inai'.Maj, iinioia ivBscnKo, rai1-' VREKA Tht? Siskiyou Count v Court chambers between mem-! pin until hc pro ice t is included I lev. Ore. at.d Ll. Col. Paul V. Fair 0Dens ,or 9 three-day run bcis ot the court and rcprcema- in the federal budget lo: the next; Mies. Birmingham, Ala., be called. ' t me fairarounds Friday morn lives of Klamath Couniy Cham-' bicnnium, it was pointed out.. Br-'h are accu.srd. like Erwin, oi jnc bcr of Commerce. Under the proposed project, the collaborating with the enemv I ll . . h The meeting was called alter counties would not pay any part i while prisoners oi war in Korea. .J"" h. !. :,h in ...nZu word wns received that the Jack- ?t construct.cn cost.s, but woulii, But attorneys for both the orose- u , ,? " . V son Cmmtv Court had approved . plans for construction oi a road irom Lpke of the Woods to Mc- Allister springs as a lederal coun- tv .secondary hiehwav m an agree-' ment to join with Klamath Count m sucn a project The chamber group included K. D. Addi.-.on. president: John Ho'.vard, director in c narze ol roads, Francis Van Lane rum, roads chaiiman, and E. A. Geary, speaker of the House of Repre sentatives at the last legislative ses sion. The Klamath Count v Court n.tve .niuiiM.i .pMiuvai ui .ot .oau pi UJ' i in 1 aim uiui'.ica 11 wouia for details from tire slate. The proposed read would be structed for nire miles in Jack- son County and live miles in Klam-. am Louniv. ine teaerai govern- ment would pay 60 per cei l and I I'll f"'If'-,w,B,iw,,f t'""'! ; "rr- 1 Bank To Me "We are happy to be able to bring the entire resources of First Western to the Klamath Basin. Where Butte Vnllev State Bank has conducted a strictlv commer- I WILLIAM G. HAGELSTEIN Forest Service Reports Sales PORTLAND W The U. S. For est Scruce reported Wednesday that receipts from sale ot limber and other products lrom Pacilic Northwest national forests during the li:cal year ended June 30 set a record. Collections totaled $3fi. 179.717. nearly hall of the total net receipts from sucii sales in all national lor-i esw. The Northwest figure was 7 million dollars more than lor the previous year. . The Forest Service al.so deposited ?l.:71.:?50 from sales on Oregon A California p.rant lantis. UndL'r 'ihv law 75 per cent ot O&C salea rev- wlnch the lands are located. ilie st lie 4i) per cent oi the to-1. have tne maintenance ol the road ' This spru-ir Klamath Couniy coir.. Plplctl -Vf-n niil?s oi read from Rockv Poii.t-Like of the Woods ;uncticn to Lake ol the Woods. The ,i'w oro.jcct would arid lie mile lo 'hat road, giving the county 12 miles 01 road to maintain. The West Side road 1:; a stuie secon dary hiehWi. v ircm Klamath Falls to thp junction. In the Vjm pmizram oi work, approved by the- Klamath Countv Court and the chamber of com merce, a request was mode to the -tatp hi'.'huit v department a.sKuiK is ronsideranon pirjpo.al 10 rcloca i e the Wesi Side road from ueaiy cu. ve tu an lnter-ic-non wnh Hishway M near 'he Weed-Ash- con-iland junction. At'.cn'ion was railed to the pos?ibiiity of running the relocated stretch of the secondary state hi?hway through uie Grin' dale Draw, fc v r I - - , v V q $ f .l..,.tsai. Ik r i KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, Al'OLST It, IMi r4 .A x. n y diil banking operation. We will now make available a complete bank ing service, including a trust de partment, savings department, and better facilities for installment, commercial and mortgage loans. 'We contemplate furnishing a valuable service to the entire Klamath Basin and will encourage and hope to share in the continued growth ot the area." . Hagelstein stated: 'We believe the merging' oi the' Butte Valley SLate Bank, into the First Western system is a constructive step not only tor tne Butte valley sharehold ers but also for the entire Klamath Basin. We will now be able to provide superior banking service to every segment of the economy. This improved service will be bene ficial to the community, and we are pleased about the transaction just concluded." Hagelstein. one of the Pacilic, Coast's well-known bankers, is presently a director of the Inde pendent Bankers Association of Northern California, president of the Lake-Klamath group of Oregon Bankers Association and Siskiyou County Key Banker. Hp has been a banker all his adult life and has been with the Butte Valley State Bank since 1M0. He was mayor of Dorris for many jears, a member of the city coun cil for 23 years, a past member of the board of trustees of the Siski you Joint Union High School Dis trict, and is now chairman of the California Klamath River Commis sion and president of the board of directors of the 10-A District Ag rirultural Association. He Is a past ! president of the Reames Golf and I Country Club. Klamath Falls, and of Rotary International. Tulelnke. He has extensive farming interests in Northern California and South ern Oregon. Officers Kept Off Trial Stand FT. LEWIS f.4 An nreemeni , het.vc?n piosecuuon ana delt-n.sp counsel kept tro atlitcrs incin.' 'similar couit martial churto.s -oh i (he stand m the court niamp.l oi ' Ll. Jcilrrton D. Erwin Wea.nc.s dr. v., With the 2 werk hom ing near its eno. the president, of the court ' :iiirtiitl boird nsked just be 'ore i inn cla-e ol the session Wednesday that Maj, Hniold Kaschko. Pai- mm rge With Chain cutmn and defense aid they had:.,", hv KPnnv Mrri.ll and his no desiin to call them. The se - 1 3ion law officer, who acts in capacity similar 10 a civilian judse, thin ruled they need not tal'e the Mand. The prosecution planned to call :hr?c more wtlnc.ies 'fmn.sday. which oliercd th" nop-lbility that tne case 01 ine Blnncha.d. Okln "r"r """"'"'V e jiven to Ihe.,,,.,, ,.r.,e in second and the 8iS - nire-n.an trial board lor 1U dc-cl.-ion by Krida). w-nncaay. 1,1. Col. Geiiluc R. H.-ncn. Mrfdlson. W,., win- wai ' i-quaa wiin r.iwin in road liom"1- spring ol 19j1 al the Pyocloii! .pnson camp, coi loooraiea. in pan. ' rv'm ' "ry that he mad- pro Communlsi statements there be. cause r.i threats asainst hin. It was . quite poMible. Hansen1 'nici. that trwins lite had becoi threatened F"i A PETITION to close three county road's into Swan Lake Valley, choice deer-hunting territory, caused lively debate in a public hearing before the county court Wednesday morning. Landowners, who presented the petition, and sportsmen, who opposed it, crowded the county t vacate the roads. In the top picture, left. Attorney Richard Maxwell, second from left, represented Maude E. Lisltey, third from left, one of the principal landowners in the area. The three county commissioners ar shown in the bottom picture. They are, from left, Ed Gowen, Judge U, E. Reader and Jerry Rajnus. William Canton, county surveyor, is In the background. He it pointing out the roads in question on map in the pic ture above. The road closure was opposed by the statt gam commission. (Sea story on page 81. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falln and . i vicinity: Fair through Friday, lllcli Friday 90; low Thursday night 55. Kith yesterday 87 Low last nlcht 52 Precip. laat 24 hours . ....0 Since Oct. 1 1.00 Same period last year 14.08 Normal for period 12.50 Huge Canadian Project Ok'd ATLIM. B.C. Ifl A live-stage Industrial power project, largest ever attempted by a private com pany anywhere in the world, has been approved by the 200 residents of this ssold-minintr town in the northwest corner of Canada. They Rave their approval Tues day, but the news was delayed as storms chopped at the commun ication systems along the Yukon and Alaska borders. The S75O.OOO.OO0 Drolecl. uro- 1 posed by Northwest Power In dustries Lid. a subsidiary of Pro bisher will harness the huge wat ershed of tne Yukon and raise the level of Atlin Lake 20 feet. The decision to accept the multi-million dollar hydro-electric and Industrial empire on their door step came on the eve of Discovery Day the 58th anniversary of the liiiding of the glittering gold nug cet which drew thousands to the Klondike. No opposition to the plan was ciiered at the open hearing here a hearing which has been ad- Journed lo resume later this year! roaeo s gieaieai :. in Victoria. " Word n8s received thnt she Northwest Power's application ; w(ls ues,rovl.d W,C ne brni-e bo'h calls for a water license covering tlinsi og!i shortly after being con Die 60.000 - square - mile drainage , omred lor the Hist time lv Bill s: stem, second In North Amei i-; wrd .. Klamith Basin RounU- ca only to the Great Lakes sys tem. Main question a.sked at the meet ing concerned the luture townsite mid the community was advised to appronch the provincial Rovern ment with reference to the allo cation ot land. Most likely site .suxBeMed ad joined the town limits. Siskiyou Fair Opens Friday ; 01-rhestra I On Friday at 5 p.m. the North- nn si.Kiyou uaoe Ku'li All-mars; vili meci uif sacramemo Aii-siarR m an exinoition jiame ai tne mir - rroiliiua ia. nmn ui IH iraim narucipaicd in a recent Nonnerni Cihioinia resionai lournamenv ai Kinrirtnn unprp in Hummpnin 11 m round. A square dance ie- 1 tiv i will alvi be neid Fnday eve- nil.! i)Mi v;ii be a parade 61I111- j..,. , nd Kundav alternoona A n,si,i,ghi will be the Junior live- auction at 1 am. Hundavimon inouhlrv thaL l dulndlim wn,n more Uian 100 4-H and FT A ' .rr.wn animals will be auctioned.1 The Pacific PackinK Company ol Gazelle has donated butchering and wrapping. Telephone tilt courtroom. The court ruled to Reservation Land Offered A supervised land sale Involving 62 units containina 7,143.303 acres of allotted land on the Klamath Reservation is currently being of f ft red for bids, announced W. W t Palmer, superintendent. Klamath Agency, this week. I Bids should be filed for each I piece of land by J p.m.. Septem ber 8 ai which time they ultl be opened in the presence of bid cirri and other interested parties. Of the b2 units offered to the public, 40 pieces have merchant able timber and the remaining units aro classed as agricultural, involving pasture and crop land. Most of the units are owned by several people because of inheri tance. Tills is the major reason lor disposing of the land, All pieces of land are offered under the principle ot final acceptance by the land owners. They are re serving the right of final accept ance or rejection up to the time of executing ;he necessaiy deeds or documents in transfer of titles. All of the units have estimated appraisals which are not available ls information to the bidders ex cept when the appraised value i.-i reached and a aale is approved. Further details of the areas of fered tcr sale may be procured from the Klamath Agency olllce. 'Miss Klamath' Death Told "Miss Klamath," considered one up on Julv 4. The accident happened at a rodeo in Ovuen. fJ:-.ih. ihe mure had just i.nseated li'-r rid;:. Mnnup.l Knos, with her h!-,'h-kicklni buck in; pat tern from behind wnen her front ieet slipped imm! sh fell. Ward's o.unllfv'lnp ride wa the first and only ever i.ecompli ihed on the ho-.ie. Caa'cy Tibbf. lopfhKht saddle oronc rider, said of the nihie' ' I ve riJdcn Ion of burking ht.rse. imtl Leen burl-crt off a lot ot them bill "Miss Klamath" v:a$ he only hcrye I e.vi'i tho'jhi 1 couldn't ride ' fihe was o".nort bv the Cliii.ti.ui .sn Brothers oi E Alaskan Timber Sale Reported .IUNEAU, Alaika 'fi Gcorida Pacific Alaska Co. was ihr lone and succear.ful biddnr Wednodav for 7 billion board feet of Ton gas National Fnre3t timber fni a nutn mill In th .Itinrnii r.n Tt)P so.ye,r enn'raft with the jrorest Service retinlres the com pBny t0 cul 100 million board leel wr year at the outset, wnh reau iar increasea until 160 million leei tf. cut annunlly. Constriictiun oi eus j ...... ;j, ol.nn,d. wUh -...,.! rodu jt will be Alaska's ictond uuln mlJ ,nd w hailed here bv ivic leader aa slnullin the xlarl of a new Industrial era for lhi city which once baked lt economy on a now Idle told amelter and a al- steadily, Coincidental, the dav of the timber contract closing. wa trie Mth anniversary of Juneau a found- ing. Guards Foil MX Institution Eiot COMSTOCK. N.Y. (.fl Guards and stale police, using night-sticks and Runs as clubs, battled prison ers for 26 minute early toddy and broke up an uprising at Oreat Meadow Correctional Institute. Eighteen persons were injured. ' One shot was fired accidentally t Canton and told the rebels to end when heavily armed guards and the disturbance within five min state troopers herded the 174 reb-1 utes. They did not comply. els buck to their cells. The shot ri;:hocheted and wounded two troopers and a guard. The other casualties were a trooper and 14 prisoners, who suflered cuts and bruises. Deputy Foils Reservation Gun Play Try An nttemnt to shoo a Klamath County deputy .sheriff failedj Wednesday lilht when the as- j salient's atin Jammed. j ' Th alleged gunman. Clifford Hecocta. 42-year-old ranch work er, is alleged to hf.ve pulled a nlstol on Deputy Sheriff George roster, when the otflcer slopped him for ouest toning on a rond near Beaity. Foster sMd Hecocta got out of an automobile with an automatic pistol In his hand. "No two-bit cop Is going to take hip." Hecocta is reported to have shouted as he pulled the trigger. Foster said he then drew his evolver and fired one shot over Hecocta's head. DFPI'TY'S ORDER "The nest one won't miss," Foster told the ranch worker. "Drop vour gun!" Hecocta was then reported to have tried to fire his weapon again but the pistol failed to dis charge. He then dropped the gun. Foster brought Hecocta to the county jail where' he is held on a charge of assault with a danger ous weapon. A formal charge was filed against him by District At' tornev Richard Beesley. ARRAIGNED . Shortly after his arrest, Hecocta was arraigned before District Judge D. E. Van Vactor. He asked for preliminary hearing but 15 minutes later decided to waive the hearing and have his case submitted to the grand Jury. Judge Van Vactor set bait at 5.'000 and remanded the defendant to the county Jail. According to Sheriff Murray Brltton who made a personal In- vestlgatlon of the case, tne ac- cused gunman early Wednesday evening threatened to kill mem bers of his family. His father, Sam Hecocta, asked the sheriff's office for protection. ., GUN PLAY - As he was driving lo the Hecoc ta. residence near Beatty to In vestigate, Deputy Foster saw Clif ford Hecocta driving toward him. He stopped the oncoming Car and the gun play followed. It was at the Hecocta residence last November where a drinking party was climaxed by the slay ina of Richard David Miller. 35- j ear-old Klamath Reservation show horse breeder. James Qtilnton Anderson. Who was convicted of the murder, is held in the county Jail awaiting slate supreme court action on an appeal. Clifford Hecocta was a witness at Anderson's trial last February. In Burns. Thomas Odum Dies At 87 Thoma.s Odum, 87, lCMdent of Klamath FallH inc died here August, lfi following a lengthy ill ne.sN. He was n native of San An tonio. Tea.. Mr. Odum leaves no known rel atives but a host ol friends in Khun ith County. Funeral services will be held Friday, AnsuM 19 at 2 p.m. from O'Hair'ft Memorial Chapel. Final rites and interment will be in Kinmttth Mermoriftl Park. 9 O'clock .mm CARL COX, 250 Delta, wit buiy delivering (He news this morn, ing when the early morning photographer stopped him. Carl is wholesale news lalttman (or Perkins News Company, 428 j Jefferson Street, It was the first revolt in a New York atate prison In a quarter century. The rebels had defied an Hill, matum from Thomas J. McHugh, state correction commissioner. Mc- Hugh raced here 100 miles from The uprising began in a recrea tion area at about 5 p.m. when the supper whistle was blown' live minutes early, cutting short & rec reation period. Supt. Joseph Con boy said It was done because of a threat of ram. - The rebels huddled in a comer of the area and refused to go In side. They demanded to see Mc Hugh. who was attending a con ference on Juvenile delinquency at Bt. Lawrence University. ULTIMATUM He arrived a short time before midnight and delivered his ultima tum at 13:12 a.m. over the prison loud-speaker system. He counted I the minutes aloud. ' I At 13:17, about 150 guards and' f 60 troopers moved in with night sticks, rifles and submachlneguns. ' : Tile prisoners were armed with benches, nails and nail-studded , siats from benches in the recrea- j lion yard. The first 30 or 30 rebels entered the prison at 13:30. It was all overw hi. io.-i COMPLAINTS Conboy told reporters the pris oners had a variety of complaints but there was no pattern. For ex ample, he said, two complained that they were not getting medical treatment they wanted and a third wanted an Unproved recreation program next winter. McHugh said he believed the trouble originated when the men heard radio news reports of a re volt at Nebraska Penitentiary Tuesday night. "These things are contagious," he aaid. Oregon Bird Season Set ; The Oregon migratory bird hunt ing season will open on Oc tober 32 this year and close on January 9, it was revealed to day by Elmer Balslger, local mem ber ot tile state game commission. The game commission set the dates following meeting oi wild life representatives from . seven Western states, all In the FacUie flyway, in Boise. Idaho. , . . Thift session was called mslnly In order to correlate the shooting seasons in sucn ooraer areas s the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho and the Colorado River between California, Nevada - and Arizona. . Th Oregon season "Will com' mane- one-half hour before 4aun . riHC tills year, instead of at noon as before, Bnlsifter aaid. Tliia is to nomply with federal regulations. The daily bajr limit nas been set at six birds, plus a- three-bird bonus. Only two daily ba; limits and: the bonus-three will be al lowed in a hunter's possession as one time. This means a total of 15 fowl, , Washington; Idaho, Nevada1 and Utah will start their seasons on October IS and close- them on January 2. Arizona has decided to begin its season on October 24 and end it on January 15. California nas not yet selected dates for its season, but Bal&iger said that It is expected lo be an nounced sometime this week. The state ordinarily has a split season. The Oregon snipe season will run from November 27 to Decem ber . 11. Few of these birds are found in this area, however. PICTURE LAYOUT Flcture No. 4, which Is not Identified on the FFA-4-11 picture layout on pane 27, show. Bill Taylor with the Aberdeen-Anciis calf he will enter in the fair. Ilia sister. Ann, will enter ft fat lamb. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor, Rt. 1, Box 913. y 1 yiv?. SpstM 'it Si ff i 4.. Ul k I fc mm i I i i
