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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1955)
SUNDAY. OCTOBER SO. law HAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH r ALLS. UKEUON ' L -. U .1 1 20 YEARS AS THE OLDSMOBILE DEALER in Klamath Falls was observed recently by Dick B. Miller Sr., left, when he signed his annual contract with C. W. Schulti, Oldsmobile zone man ager for the Portland zone. Miller has also passed his 20th year as the Cadillac dealer for . this area. The new Cadillacs are now on display in his showroom at Seventh and Klamath and the 1956 Oldsmobile will be on display November 3. Miller's sons Dick Jr. and Melvin are associated with him in the dealerships. Cascade OES Presents Skit IFCA Lists Mortgages At a staled meeting of Cascade Crest Chapter No. 15B OES. Chllo- auln. October 19. Etnci Maims worthy matron and Layton Ho- back, wormy pairon presided. ts ' corted to the east and Introduced were Lelha Murphy, member of the Jurisprudence committee of the Grand Chapter; Rena Oldham, grand representative of New York in Oregon. A group of 1055 worthy matrons and patrons were also escorted and introduced: Jack Rhodes, worthy patron of Aloha Chapter. Thelma Fink, worthy matron of Manianita Chapter and Mr. and Mrs. Mer vyn Wilde, worthy matron and pa tron of Prosperity Chupter, Ma iln. Sadye Page reported that a Thanksgiving card parly will be held In the Masonic Hall, Novem ber 12, 1055. Pinochle, bridge and canasta will be played. Commit tees will be appointed at the next meeting. Worthy patron, Layton Hoback called upon Guss Fane, worshipful . master of Chiloquln Lodge No. 101 AFiiAM. and several first-time vis itors of tile chapter including Mrs. Catherine Brown of Cherokee Chap ter, Camqn, Georgia, visiting her daughter, Hazel Dclienbacher. Martha Powell, associate mntron of Alcha Chapter, Klamath Falls presented the chapter with a gift from the Aloha Social Club which was a man's tuxedo from a rum mage salo to be used for special programs. Alter the meeting a largo group enjoyed an evening of friendship and entertainment in the gully dec orated hall. Program chairmen. Donas Rldcnour and Rosalie Ho back Introduced Margaret Sheridan and Norma Uerlings of Aloha Chapter who did a novelty act accompanied by Alma Color. Ruphane Mnnnering led the group singing of "Smiles ' and " The Yel low Rose of Texas" also doing two solo numbers, "Autumn, Leaves" and "Always." Dwlght Klrcher, Glen Kircher, Layton Hoback and Guss Page presented a skit titled "If Men Played Cards Like Women." A musical round "Three Blind Mice" was acted out by each wor thy matron and friend... Refreshment committee mem bers were Virginia Zumbrun. Sa dye Page, Georgia Page, Hazel Stalger, Ethel Zimmerman assist ed by Donas Rldcnour, Doris Klrcher. Damages Awarded PORTLAND Mrs. Thular B. Hamir.ons of Grants Pass Fri day was awarded $12,870 damages In her suit against Multnomah County Sheriff Terry D. Srhrunk nnd Fidelity ti Deposit Co. ot Maryland. She accused Schrunk of failure to serve a summons within the prescribed 60 days which resulted in the dismissal of her personal injury suit against Paul T. Bugg of Portland. Her suit against Bugg, filed In January, 1954, afler a traffic acci dent at Grants Pass, was dis missed by the Josephine County circuit court on ine ground It was outlawed by the statute of limlta- ions lor such cases. Ill' (pMi fi&pDAi&Ji MI . ii KARMEX-W-CLEANS UP DITCHES Spray Now! for weed Free Ditches next Summer. Note! The Freedom From Weeds p. The Acute Quack Grass i Problem When 1 Not Sprayed mi Karmex Sprayed Dec. 1953 Picture Taken Auq. 19S4 One pound of Karmex controls such bad grasses as Quack Grass on an area 1000 sq. ft. Cleans Quack Gross Out . . . the only soil stcrilant that maintains iter- I ty below the water line in irrigation ditches otter water hat been turnod in. We Sell Karmex W We Apply Karmex W or We Teach You How. Solci end Help from the Friendly House of Chemical Service The Spray Center ftuinhiiir ftr Telephone Tultlak 7-2391 last-West Rood and Main Tulelokt, Calif. m Af .lr.ll.rti Farm owners were obtaining farm mortgages averaging SI, 100 larger in the first six months of 1055 compared with the first half of 1954, according to estimates on tarm mortgage recordings com piled by the Farm Credit Admin istration. Tile average size morfgage re corded this year by all lenders was 57,050 compared with $5,990 lasi year, T. A. Maxwell, deputy governor and director of Land Bank Service, Farm Credit admin istration, announced. Along with the increased size of loan, farm owners obtained the largest number of farm mortgage loans since lltol and the largest amount of loans since these esti mates were started in 1934. The amount, $1.3 billion, compared with si billion in the iirsl half of 1954. Commercial banks accounted for the largest proportion of the $1.3 nillion of any lender 24 per cent. Individuals provided 23 per cent; insurance companies, 22 per cent; the 12 federal land banks. 20 per cent: and miscellaneous lend ers 11 per cent. Among the lenders, the land banks had the. largest increase in the amount of their loans which were up 00 per cent Irom the first half of 1954. Recordings of Insurance companies increased 34 per cent; commercial banks 22 per cent; Individuals 18 per cent; and miscellaneous lenders, 17 per cent. The average size of loans re corded varied by lenders from S6.000 to $14,550. Loans of insur ance companies averaged largest $14,550. Loans made by the land banks averaged $7,850; indi vidual, $0,620; miscellaneous len ders, $6,020; and commercial banks $5,020. U. S. Industry Jubilantly Records Ne w Record Highs By WALTER HREEDE Jr. NEW YORK ifi The big guns of U.S. Industry toted up their third quarter profits this week ana toe scire was never oeuer. Old records were swept aside like dead leaves In autumn. Net income of big General Motors was the highest for any third quarter in the countrv's history; profits for the first nine months nudged the billion-dollar mark after pro vision of well over one billion for Income taxes. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). biggest of the world's petroleum giants, reported nine months' net of 532 millions, up nearly 20 per cent from a year ago. The nation's No. 1 and No. 2 steelmakers, United States, Slcel Corp. and Bethlehem Steel, Jubilantly announced new Merger Battle Rocks Cities NORTH BEND, Ore. Ifl A bitter campaign is under way here and hi the neighboring town ot Coos Bay over a proposal for merger of the two communities. Spokesmen for both sides of the Issue have asked Atly. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton to make an investi gation of tho municipal aflalis of North Bend. Sheldon Sackrtt. editor of the Coos Bay Times and an advocate of the merger, has asked volunteer "hound dogs'' to sinlf out anv wrong-doing and report it to Ins newspaper. North Bend Mayor I. N. Hartley countered with a request to the attorney generals ollicc for an Investigation as a mean', ot quiet ing these "malicious attacks." Sai-krtl ul.so has asked for a probe by Thornton. Some of Suckitt's opponents here have hung a banner, on North Bend's mum street, appealing for "old socks (or Sackctt." Barrels have been placed on street corners asking residents to provide duty socks lor "Suckelt's hound dogs." The State Forest ty Department recently appealed to hunters to mail in their old socks so dogs could tiacc Ihe hunters m case they became lost in ihe wxids. Stevenson, Knowland Square Off By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Democrat Adlai Stevenson and Republican Sen. Knowland of Cal iiornia divided squarely Satur day on the sharpest Issue yet of the 1956 presidential campaign farm price supports. Knowlaqd, the Senate Republican leader, said at Washington: "I do not believe that at the. present time the country supports going back to the old fixed parity program." Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, said in a .ipeech at Duluth, Minn.: "We must return to the 90 per cent sup ports which the Republicans thought so well of In 1952, until they decided it was time for a change after the election." Also contributing to the question of what to do about farm prices was a visit by Secretary of Agricul ture Benson to President Eisenhow er in Denver. Benson has repeatedly slated that the Republicans Inherited Ihe farm problem from the Democrats, problem of falling prices and growing surpluses. On that point, Stevenson said: "Let's Just say to our Republican friends that whatever they inherit ed from us, we're ready to take back next year." Earlier in the day, Stevenson talked with former President Tru man who was In Chicago on a visit. Truman told reporters he had "advised" Stevenson to announce his candidacy and that if the na tional convention names him, "1 would support him." However, Truman said "I never told anybody that I would support anybody" for the nomination. Re. mlndedlthat he had pointed to Gov, Averell Harriman of New York as a good candidate, Truman said "I would have pointed to him (Stcv- enson) as- well as I did to Harri man." Truman also said that "If It hadn't been for me," Stevenson would not have gotten the 1952 nomination. Another possible Democratic can didate, Sen. Kefauver (D-Tennl, spoke at Muskegon, Mich. Kefauver said a "segment of right - wing" Republicans was "scheming to get President Eisen hower out ot office before his term expires." Specifically, he accused column ist David Lawrence of putting out a feeler "aadlstic," Kefauver called it carrying the suggestion that Eisenhower resign next Jan uary Instead of serving out the term due to end. a year later. In Washington, Lawrence re plied that he had merely referred to the possibility of a resignation. He said he had told Kefauver, but that the senator Ignored this In his speech, that he does not expect Eisenhower to resign, but rather to run again and be reelected. DEATH OXHKY. England (PI Sir Ar ihur Du Cros, 84, founder of the Dunlop Rubber Co., died Saturday. Sir Arthur, with his father, was a pioneer of the pneumatic tire industry. He used them on his bi- cycle tlrst in a radc at Queen's College, Belfast, 66. years ago. nine-month highs In profits, sales and production. Behind many of the fat profits reported by Industry this week lay the U.S. public's Insatiable de mand for faster,' shinier and more powerful autos. Besides lifting GM's profits to unprecedented heights, booming production of cars uas a major factor in the record-smashing performance of the steel industry. Record num.' ber of cars on the road contri buted materially to the earnings of the oil companies. Wages paid the million; employed by the auto industry and its many' suppliers this year have given a substantial boost to retail trade. This week, as all of the big auto-1 , miioa passenger cars, or atrorm nliincrpri full tilt Intn nrn.1 '. .. makers plunged full tilt Into pro duction of 1956 models, Detroit's major role as a mainstay of pros perity became increasingly clear Steelmakers pressed to the limit to supply their biggest cus tomer, the auto industry once again schedulcd their operations at more than 98 per cent of ca pacity. Steel output the week be fore, with the mills straining at 98.9 per cent of capacity, had been forced to a never-belore-attained totul of 2,386,000 tons. Industry leaders professed to see no hint of a letdown. Declared Bethlehem chairman Eugene Grace: "We're definitely oversold through the first 1956 quarter now .... I leei we re assured 01 lull opera tions through the first six months Oregon Milk Costs Stable Efficient management and high producing cows are keeping Ore gon Grade A milk production costs about the same per hundredweight as for factory milk costs on farms surveyed by Oregon State College. reea costs were not inciuaea in the study designed to focus on such items as building and equip ment investments, labor require ments, and other production costs normally presumed to vary widely between Grade A and fac tory milk farms. D. Curtis Mumford, OSC agri cultural economist, studied 23 Grade A farms in the Willamette Valley and Tillamook County and 31 factory milk farms in Tilla mook County. Findings are re ported in an OSC experiment sta tion bulletin, "Quality Milk Does It Cost More To Produce?" Cop ies . can he obtained from local county extension offices or the OSC bulletin clerk. Grade A dairymen generally had higher investments in cows, equip ment, buildings and labor than did factory dairymen. Grade A build ing values were double those of buildings owned by factory milk producers. Even though costs per cow on Grade A farms were greater. Mum lord says higher producing cows and better' "dairying" kept produc tion costs per hundredweight of milk close to those of factory farms. Although high quality milk was generally related to high quality buildings, the study showed excep tions. Dairymen on some factory milk farms were selling milk that was actually of Grade A quality on the basis of bacteria oount. The bulletin gives detailed re ports of production costs, descrip tion of farms studied, seasonal milk flow and a section on how the research was conducted. next year." In Detroit Itself, a year-end auto production race of fantastic pro portions was in progress. Ford aimed for a new weekly record of 39,000 cars; Chevrolet and Buick came back faster after a hurried changeover to 1956 mod els; Plymouth hoped to turn out more ' than 30,000 cars to break the record of 19,897 it, set last spring. Total production for the week was estimated by Ward's Automo tive Reports (WAR) at 156.05? cars up 14 per cent from the previous week and 128 per cent from the -like week last year. The 1955 production score so far: near- almost as many as the industry built in all of 1950, the previous record year. With forced-draft op erations scheduled right through to New Year's Eve. the ' Industry should wind up 1955 with a pro duction total of around 8 million. For business generally, the out look this week was for a record fourth quarter which would top any of the three previous quarter ly periods of booming '55. Retail sales continued strong, with department store volume rutH ago levels. Loans- to business by leading New York banks were on the upbeat again; freight carload .'ngs were 12 per cent higher than in the corresponding week of last year. . ' Looking farther ahead, econo mists predicted continued good business for the first six months of 1956, with a possible slowdown around midyear. Two major props of Ihe 'economy still lagged. Farm income was weakened by falling livestock prices continued to recede from its pre vious peaks. Building permits Is sued in September declined in dol lar volume from the levels of a year ago for the -first time in 14 months. Hopes for good business were bolstered hy new plans for expan sion. United Air Lines placed a 175-million-dollar order with Doug las Aircraft Corp. for 30 huge 550-mlle-an-hour Jet airliners. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. announced a 115-million-dollar expansion pro--gram; Wheeling Steel Corp. added 65 millions to Its budget for new plant and equipment: Bethlehem Steel indicated a multi-million-dollar expansion was in the works. But there was a king-sized beef from Charles Hildreth. president of the National Wholesale Hard ware Assn. Manufacturers' profits may be booming, he declared, but the wholesaler today can't make a dime. Said he: "Let's have the guts to say 'no' to this rat race lor volume without profit for the glory of the manufacturers." 7 TWO OF THE KEY MEN in Company C, 31 Ith Military Pollet Battalion, Klamath Falls rmy Reserve Unit now engaged in , recruiting campaignare Lt. John Turner (left) and Sfc. Glea G. LaMeres. Turner, a sporting goods salesman at Montgomery Ward, is supply and training officer for the company. Un married, he served in Korea during the recent war. LeMeres, a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, holds down the crucial first sergeant's post in the reserve company . He is an appliance serviceman for Merits Appliance Stets on South Sixth Street. RED MAGAZINE MOSCOW M Soviet Press. new Soviet magazine devoted to j news of publishing houses, news-1 the construction Industry j papers xnd magazines, distributed its first issue Saturday. 20 Million American! Enjoy Bowling BOWL FOR FUN! LUCKY LANES KILL WEEDS-GRASS AROUND BUILDINGS, DITCH BANKS AND FENCE ROWS ' APPLY CHIPMAN "CHLOREA" NOW Ahead of the Rain & Snow DISTRIBUTORS WALKER BROS. Phone 4261 or 4271 Merrill, Or. Car Shortage Faces Plants LA GRANDE l.fl Lumber mill operations in this area are being curtailed and some plants may be forced to close next week as the result of a tightening boxcar short age. Union Pacific said Saturday that La Grande area shippers are get- cent of their car orders" and can't j nope lor uie situation to improve for two weeks or a month. 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