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PAGE TWELVE HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1895 First U.S. Death Reported In Mexico Relief Operations ' MEXICO CITY Wl-The first death wis reported today among U.S. relief forces keeping flooded Tamplco alive. Reports from the Gulf Coast port said a rescue launch from the destroyer Bassett overturned and a Marine was drowned. The Marine's identity was with held. The only other new death reported in the city was a suicide, a merchant apparently despondent over his property losses. y unoni' cial count, 326 others have died in the hurricanes and floods in the Tamnico area. ' The Panuco River, after a month of hurricane and rain-spawned flooding. droDDed a few inches. Barring more rains, the fall was expected to accelerate snarpiy m a few days. But new threats of famine and I Bracken Hits i Income Tax I SALT LAKE CITY IB Utah's Gov. J. Bracken Lee says he will refuse to pay at least part 01 nis Income tax this year. Republican Lee, now In the third year of his second term as gover nor, says he's taking the stand be cause he thinks "It is unconstitu tional for this nation to tax Its citizens for the support of foreign ' nations." And for the fourth straight year he refused to proclaim Oct. 1 as United Nations day in Utah. In stead, he said, he will proclaim Oct. 23 as United States Day, He said he will refuse to pay Income taxes on personal Income over and above his gubernatorial salary, from which the tax already has been withheld so far this year. "Verv likelv I might decide I will also attempt to act on this withholding thing," he told The Associated Press. "But I'm unde cided whether I want to act on that or not. "I plan to figure out my tax return and send it to the govern ment together with a letter saying I have placed the money aside and will not pay it until the United States Supreme Court orders me to do so." Lee said he Is taking his tax action to "awaken the American people." Merrill UF Drive Chairmen Named MERRILL Plans for Operation Fair Share, the United Fund-Red Cross drive, to begin October 18 In Merrill, are well under way. The city and surrounding com munity have been divided into nine aectlona by community chairman. A. K. Felt, with the following vol- unteer neighborhood workers Mra. Bruce Owens, Mrs. Carl Coulson Jr., Mrs. llhel Chapman, Mrs. John Schmidt, Mrs. Allen Duncan, Mrs. Bill Shatava, Mrs, Jack Fleck, Mrs. Charles Cunning ham, Mrs. Jerry Ahcrn, Mrs. John D. Moore, Mrs. Lou Hill, Mrs. Irvln Johnson, Mrs. George Ran kin, Mrs. Lawrence Oeraghty and Mrs. Clovis Story, Mr. Charles Ferry and Mr. Don Crawford will cover the business district. An - organizational meeting will be held next week, dale to be an. nounced later. Please be prepared to give your donation when United Fund calls, it will be greatly appreciated, Chairman Felt announced. water shortage developed In Tam pico. Its above-water blocks jammed by the cltys liO.OOO popu lation and 53,000 to 70,000 refugees from the surrounding coastal plain. A conference of federal, state and local officials announced Tam plco had drinking water for only another 24 hours, that the city was without bread, flour, salt, sugar and other necessary foods, and that medical supplies were still In short supply. Food was stacked high on the airport outside the city, but washed-out highways and bridges kf-pt much of It from reaching the 18 or so blocks still above water in the heart of the city. Four U.S. Army amphibious vehicles arrived by air from Pueblo? Colo., to shuttle supplies. U.S. Navy helicopters lifted ref ugees to the airport and passen ger planes shuttled them on to inland camps. In Mexico City, the federal government discussed the possibility of removing 40,000 of Tamplco's people as soon as the waters recede enough to let trucks, trains and ships through. Tampico's city manager. Ana- staslo Garcia, estimated the flood damage in the city alone at 42 million dollars. Along with the airlift of refu gees, the Navy's helicopter rescue of persons stranded over the coun tryside continued at the rate of about 1.000 a day. Launches and boats from the aircraft carrier Salpan and other U.S. Navy ships collected almost as many. The American sailors and fliers battled fatigue and the elements as much as 18 hours a day. Many natives who had never seen such aircraft before refused to go with them. One family wouldn't quit its rooftop even though Mexican soldiers threat ened them with guns. The U.S. Red Cross set up an emergency hospital at the country club golf course caring mostly for cripples and children. Isolated cases of typhoid, malaria, and dy sentery were reported but there was no major outbreak of disease. Some 4,000 persons were being Inoculated dally. OPE Councilman To Talk Here A representative of the Orecon Publlo Employes Council of the American Federation of 8 t a t e. County and Municipal Employes (AFL) will discuss the provisions of the new Oregon public workers retirement act at an organizational meeting today of state, county and municipal employes of the Klam- ain rails area. The meeting, open to all public employes in this area, will be held at 8 p.m. today at the Labor Temple, 220 Main Street. The speaker will be Leo E. Bulla of Portland, state organizer for the I union. He plans to discuss the policies and programs of the un ion, as well as salaries, retire ment proposals and other matters. He said that Klamath Falls police and firemen aro already members of the union. it?-? : I K '-it. n - i -i .-1.rl t - .v . i! I ' ,;V'V'; V ,' J 't y a i I K . I ' i4 i . ti i " .5 PICTURED WITH HIS FIRST BUCK is Mark Fair, 16-year-old' KUHS senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Fair, 712 North Third. The big four-pointer was bagged Tuesday oh the Bon anza ridge and dressed out at 229 pounds. ' Country Church Plans Announced Oregon's ninth annunl Town and Country Church conference has been scheduled October 24 to 27 at Oregon 3tate College and will fea ture talks by national and region al educators and religious leaders. Theme for this year's public inter-denominational conference is "A Vital Town and Country Church." Emphasis will be on bet-, ter community service, improve ments in church buildings and landscaping, and better church programs. Speakers Include Dr. Raymond Miller, Harvard university profes sor of business administration and consultant for Food and Agricul ture Organisation; Dr. Gene W. Carter, Berkeley, sociologist of Pacific School of Religion; and Rev. Dean Collins, Los Angeles, western supervisor of migrant work for the National Council of Churches. DEWEY FOR PAKISTAN KARACHI, Pakistan HI For mer New York Gov. Thomas K. Dewey and his wife arrived today for a four-day visit to Pakistan. Dewey is on a month's tour of southern Asia. In our last column we spoke of,riculture Investigation only extend a study made by the International ed to 39 countries wltn an area Institute of Agriculture sometime; of 24 million square miles which was slightly less than one half the land surface of the world. Of this area 31 per cent was classi fied as productive, 19 per cent as unproducive while the remaining 50 per cent of the area was classed as being unspecified or of ficially unknown. These unknown areas occurred chiefly in Russia Australia, Canada and Africa. The known productive land was estimated to be 1.931 million hec tares, or, approximately 7,500,000 square miles and at the time of the study this was approximately six hectares or 15 acres of land per person within the area. Oi this area, however, only 3.7 acres per 1 person was classed as being productive." this statement doeb not mean that in using the word "productive" that the land was arable, viz, that It was annually plowed and put into cultivated crops. There is a wide variation in the extent to which the land area of different countries is produc tively utilized. For example, in the pre-war days such countries beiore World War II to determine the amcur.t of agricultural land present m the world and pointed to the difficulty of making a strict distinction between Ihe terms, productive" and "nonproductive" when applied to the land itself. The scientists of the Internatiou al Institute of Agriculture did run into many difficulties In their mon or less arbitrary classification ol productivity but at the same time ihcy developed for the first time a sieniiicant picture of the occu pation of the world by man. This early research is now being more refines by further studies Dy the United Nations organization. The International Insli'.ute of Ag- Women To See . Cobn-ed Slides LAKEVIEW Members of the Lakeview chapter of Business and Professional Women will be host esses for the Southern Oregon dis trict rr.cetinir to be held here on 'Oc tober 8-9 at the Hunters Lodge. At the banquet on Saturday eve ning. Mr. and Mrs. William Hoi lowuy will show their slides taken in Pakistan, announces Mrs. Dora Herwick, president. Mrs. Clayton Bradley, music chairman, has arranged musical numbers for the banquet which will include accordion numbers by Layne Clifton; a vocal solo by Robert Shotwcll; piano numbers by Gloria Ayoutt, Barbara Fisher and Carol Allen. Mrs. Beulah Elliott, Klamath Falls, district chairman, will pre side at the workshop on Sunday. In charge of the workshop arj two .state officers. Dr. Eleanor Gulman, Portland, first vice presi dent, and Mrs. Almyra Sappeniield Salem, state parliamentaiian. Bonanza Bans Lost River Fishing BONANZA It was reported to day that the city council of Bo nanza has passed an ordinance prohibiting fishing In Lost River between the new bridge and the south boundary of Big Springs Park in what is known as the west channel of the river. Reason given was the fact that the stale game commission is scheduled to plant from 15,000 to 20,000 small trout In that section of the stream and council mem bers felt protection for the small fish necessary. The ordinance carries a penalty and will ne strictly enlorced. I BOY Direct.. Jac lr SAVE $50 U lmlCJ A toryto YOU! Welsh Girl Speaks At Langell Church LANGELL VALLEY Episcopal women from Klamath Falls met with members of St. Barnabas Church al their palish hall In Lan gell Valley on September 29. A potluck dinner was enjoyed al noon. Reports were given on the tri ennial meeting of the lnternatlon Episcopal Church held last month In Hawaii. Speakers and special guests at the all day meeting were Haz?l Morrison of John Day; Mary Johns ot Pendleton, presi dent of the Eastern Oregon Auxil iary of Episcopal Women; Mrs. Eva Schold of Pendleton and Mrs, Elizabeth Patterson of Baker. Hazel Morrison showed her slides which she took while in Ha waii. Ann Pugh. a girl from North Wales gave a talk. She is In the United Slates on a scholarship. PHOTOSTATS Wi pt nythliiPhtM, MarrliRt LiceniM. 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It Is only natural that people are Interested in how the produc tive areas of the world are utilized to feed over a billion people. In ceneral the researchers recognize four basic uses oi tr.e lana in mis connection; cultivated crops; na tural meadows; fruits; forests and woodlands. The largest dedication of the world's productive land is to the forest and woodlands wnich occu pied 40 per cent of the produc tive area of the 39 nations that were covered in the study. There Is a reason to believe that these countries were more fortunate than the rest of the countries of he world because of this fact. Forests grow In regions of great est rainfall and therefore, gener ally speaking, in ' countries of greatest fertility, although in these countries the less easily cultivat ed areas are usually assigned for the production of forest growth. Austria, Norway. Sweden, ja pan and Russia in Asia possess extensive forests. It is difficult to comprehend but nevertheless it seems true that Japan with an area that is about half again as large as the state of Oregon and having a population almost fifty times as great would nave more than 60 per cent of Hts land area in woodland and forest. The woodland and forests with in the productive area of the 39 countries studied by the Interna tional Institute of Agriculture wasi reported to have been approxi mately three million out of the 7,900,000 square miles. Another au thority places the forested area at 25 per cent of the total land areai surface of the world. i Natural meadows and pastures j were estimated to occupy 23 per! cent of the productive Jand areai of the 39 countries studied. The1 cultivated area, also contains arti-i flcial meadows such as timothy, I clover and alfalfa, so thai grass! occupies 36 per cent of the pro. ductive area. Thus woodland for est and grass land makes up a tout of 86 per cent ot the produc tive land occupied by man. 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