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SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 1955 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE THRE1 - I r--- fttemX$t$4 rjfJ.y, ' I itS&4ti.fc flft1 tWW MIDGET AUTO RIDES for midget, !, thi attraction out on j ISK, ' Jf J Washburn Way at Garden Avenue. Two youth, round a curve 3 -' ' .SWLW- on the track as Dorothy Lewi, watche, in Picture I. Don Hoyal, M " XalS, . if I , - ;.ArtW,ftf ,efti anj Robtrt Tribitt .how Andy Lee Sil.ni how to operate ..SS.'i f7A i J-V-'. v.:. , ''J- .... i- the vehicle in Picture 2. Robert Lewi, place, a belt on the '.jfS- X v", V . - "r ,;V : ''' jJS'-' ; j auto which he built 131, and then give, Rudy JohMon a shove Wt WmmSm rv , c El aU. . Enterprising KF Youngsters Build Booming Car Circuit Three youngsters have started m business that Is booming these days out on a corner of Garden Street and Washburn Way. It Is the Lewis midget auto en terprise, which provides midget auto rid?s tor midgets. The three partners are Robert Lewis, 13, and his two cousins. Marge Lewis, 14, and Ken Lewis, 13. It all started some time ago when Robert was paging through a Popular Science magazine. He no ticed some instruction on bow to construct a midget auto and I decided to try It. His cousins weren't to be out done, so work began on three ve hicles. They assembled their ma chines at mghl in the Lewis Manu facturing Company plant, which is operated by the iwa fathers, who gave them some help occasionally. The autos were completed witto In three months in time lor the Fourth of July parade. However, the proud owners still had to pay lor them. The cost was about S35U apiece, Robert worked for his father, Fred Lewis, 615 Washburn Way, tor awhile ut the plant, and then US Business Outlook For Rest Of '55 Reported Good School Medical Aid Attacked PORTLAND UR V The Oregon Board of . Higher Education was criticized by the State Welfare Commission Friday for its plan to charge for medical treatment of welfare patients. The patients will be treated at the new University of Oregon Med ical School teaching hospital, to be opened soon. At present the com mission does not pay for patients treated at Doernbecher Hospital which is operated by the medical school and which will be a part of the new teaching hospital. Mrs. Loa Howard Mason, wel fare administrator, said that the Legislature had made no provision for this additional expense and the commission suggested that the needed funds be provided by the State Emergency Board. In other action the commission approved a policy of slightly high er starting pay for four clerk classifications in the Portland area. Mrs. Mason reported that there were 66 vacancies on the staff of 841 in the department. PIN BALL GIRL DIES FUKUOKA, Japan itf) a young pinball parlor girl burned to death Saturday in a fire which destroyed 52 shops and stalls in a congested market area. Nida Boy Regains Consciousness Twelve-year-old Charles Nida, who has been unconscious for 21 days following a bicycle-car acci dent, has regained consciousness. Undergoing surgery at Klamath Valley Hospital, physicians report he is slowly improving. Visitors are not yet permitted to visit the boy who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Nida, 4542 Douglas Avenue. The accident occurred August 6 at Douglas and Granite streets. Volfht's give Green Stamps, get your school supplies early. learoom nus family itoom IN THE NEW PEYTON Masonry Constructed SPACEMAKER Over The Garden Gate MERRILL I By Mary Lou Swisher Lost River Garden Club met the nfternocn of August 23, at the home of Mrs. James Hammond with Mrs. Glen Hasklns co-hostess. Lucille West sent a gift since she, was unable to attend. The winner each time will bring a gift limited to one dollar to the next meeting. This will be enrned out at each meeting, the gift pertain ing to gardening. Mrs. Hugh O'Connor presented $3 to the club for winning second prize at the Five Club Garden show August 10. A horticulture paper on daffodils written by Lucille West was read by Mary Francis Hammond. Dorothy Holmquist of Klamath Falls was a guest. The next meeting will be Sep tember 27 at the home of Mir-,. Dale Moore with Mrs. W. R. Fo(h cringham co-hostess. The topic will be slides on chrysanthemums. By WALTER BREFDE Jr. NEW YORK Ml Business should be good right through to the end of 1955. But in many lines the cost of doing business will be hipher. That's how things shaped up this week as sales and production perked along at record summer levels. Except in the flood-ravaged areas of the' Northeast, optimism was the keynote. The National In dustrial Conference Board, after polling 131 manufacturers, came up with these findings: Most manu facturers think business during the rest of 1955 will be as good or better than in the record first half. Many look for gains in pro duction, profits and employment. Optimism was reflected in the behavior of the stock market I which snapped back smartly after a summer slump. In Washington, prospects of b balanced federal budget spurred talk of possible tax cuts. Treasury Secretary Humphrey said Ameri cans are enjoying "new peaks of prosperity" and "if ever there was a time when our budget should be balanced, It is now ..." Meanwhile relief for the Norih- east's tfood-damaged transport and industry got top billing. With flood devastation estimated officially at $1,600,000,000, a huge reconstruc tion effort was in prospect. price boosts made news this week. Raw copper prices moved up again, this time to 43 cents the second increase in eight days Other Items going higher included sheets, overalls, industrial chemi cals, farm tractors, golf clubs. Short supplies and high prices for crude rubber (now selling at about 4i cents a pound) brought de mands for tighter controls on rub ber futures speculation. Living costs headed upward Biggest Gainers: Food (especially fresh fruits which suffered frost damage earlier in the year), doc tor bills, haircuts. - Factory take-home pay, while down a bit from May and June, set a new July record, averaging not quite $70 a week for a worker with three- tax-deductible depend ents. Farmers' income was down 4 per cent from a year ago. ANCIENT POTTERY Grinding Machine Kills Boy, 14 BOONSBORO, Md. iff) It was supper time and there was no sign of young Jonathan Carney liarrell ) the larm. Then it was remembered the 4- year-old youngster had been play ing at noon near the barn where his father was grinding corn stocks into silage. They looked in the silo. There they found the remains of Jona than, It wasn't until later that state trooper Clyde Tucker said the boy's 7-yenr-old sister told how It happened. She and the boy were sitting on the end of a wagon used to haul the stalks to a conveyor belt which carries them to a grind. ing machine. The pieces then are fed through a fouMnch pipe into the silo and stored for cattle fod der. Tucker said the girl said John. son fell off the wagon on to the belt. His father, Carney Luther Har- rcll and George Marts, meanwhile fed two.mqre loads of. corn into the machine. conceived the Idea of Using his auto to pay for itself. His two cousins, . the son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Lewis of Malin, were brought into the corporation as partners. They laid out a track on the Lewis prop erty on Washburn Way and opened for business about three weeks ago. They set a charge of one cent for each time around the oval. Neigh borhood kids soon heard of the Lew- Is venture and (locked to the lot. Now there are usually about 20 youngsters lined up at a time wait ing for their turns behind the wheel. Most of them take at least 10 spins around the track, aitnougn Dorothy Lewis, Robert's 15-year-old sister who helps out in the business, recalled one boy who went around ISO times. The Lewis partners open the gates at about 10 a.m. and usual ly run the cars until dark, ine autos have three-horsepower mo tors with a belt-drive and clutch that disengages the drive-wheel.' Top speed isn't much more than five or ten miles an hour, which is fast enough for most of the youthtul drivers. 8ome of them lsnd In the ditch or run Into the log barriers. It doesn't seem to brother the cars much, however. They are of solid metal construc tion with bumpers on front and back. The track has seen some heavy use since the opening day. The partners figure that youthtul rid ers have taken about 6.500 trips around the oval so far. Yes, business Is good at the Lewis midget auto track. Services For Mrs. Hall To Be Monday NEED BACK-TO-SCHOOL CASH? from kln4trirti Mcolliit. fcldi coil montp . . money Inviittd In thill futum. May halo' 000 JtZfc Funeral services' for Mrfl. pralee Hall, 60, who died Friday, will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. from O'Halr's Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Klam- CATANIA, Sicily Ifl Pottery with geometric designs, believed to aaie oacK ll cemuries uu.u.s Ulh M.morl., p.rk Christ, has been found tn an an- cient lava cave oeneatn tne civy of Catania. - H MUNI MONITI Iniiricir L A Woodard. Mgr. Phone 8128 121 So. 9th it. Upper Floor For Rent ' 619' i Moin Suitable for office buiinesi. Apt. or both DREWS Manstore FREE Birthday Dinner Will be given by the F. O. Eaqles Sunday, August 28 at 5:00 P.M. at Eagles Hall for members of the Aerie and Auxiliary who have birthdays in August. Other members and guests $1.00. The Aerie will hold an initiation at 2 P.M. 3 Bedroom Homes at F.H.A. Down Payment $10,995 $1200 . 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