WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1955
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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JOY WAS UNCONFINED when Klamath County employes staged their annual Christmas
party at the courthouse. Presents were exchanged and copious quantities of food consumed.
Three celebrants pictured above are (lett to right) County Commissioner Ed Gowen, Ray
Mclntyre, courthouse janitor, and Sheriff James Murray Britton.
Ground Squirrel Reported
To Raise Particular Havoc
By HAROLD SCHlEFfcltSlLIN
County Fcst Supervisor
Southeastern Oregon and partic
ularly Klamath County has long
been troubled with a variety of de
structive rodents that cause con
siderable damage to the various
crops grown here.
The most serious rodents to be
found in the county are two spe
cies of ground squirrels, several
kinds of field mice, house mice,
moles, ground hogs, pack rats and
porcupines.,
Most numerous and therefore the
most important of these various
pests is the Oregon ground squir
rel. Tins rodent is widely distribut
ed throughout the county and is
to be found in all sections, both
Irrigated and dry, as well as to
some extent in the timbered areas
al.'o.
Under favorable conditions
ground squirrels are to be found
in almost unbelievable numbers
and hundreds of squirrels may be
concentrated on a few acres of
land: or one may find them a few
here, and a few there, scattered
over a wide area.
More Vaccine
To Be Given
. WASHINGTON MV-The Public
Health Service today announced
release of another 1.368.306 doses
of Salk antipolio vaccine.
Tills made a. total of 3,414,213
cubic centimeters or doses re
leased thus far In December, and
raised to 29.961,831 c.c.'s Uie total
of vaccine released since April 12
when six drug houses were 11
censed to make it.
The new supply included 219.900
re's made by wyeth Laboratories,
Marietta, Pa. the first Wyeth vac
cine released since Aug. 9. The
remaining 1,088,406 were made by
Ell Lilly & Co., Indianapolis.
A health service spokesmen said
the increased supply released this
month after the low totals for
October and November reflected
a smoothing out in production pro
cedures.
The health service allocated
1.355.814 c.c.'s of the new supply
to the states, territories and the
armed services for use under the
voluntary control program. The
other 12.492 were reserved for the
free program of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
ACTRESS FALLS
HOLLYWOOD IB Movie actress
Irene Dunne fell in her home Fri
day and had to eat her Christmas
dinner from a wheel chair. She
said she feared at first she had
seriously injured her hip, but X
rays disclosed no broken bones.
Fortunately these squirrels are
only actively above ground' for a
period of about 120 days. They
make their first appearance, usual
ly m March and by the last of
June or earlv July return to their
burrows to begin the long period
oi nioernation. me young are
born in April and average about
eight to the Utter, so tar as is
known there is only one litter a
year.
.Damage done by these rodents
is probably more conspicuous be
cause of their wide distribution and
general abundance. Their destruc
tiveness to grain fields is often
noted and their habit of nipping off
standing grain at the joints, pre
sumably to get tne moisture in the
joints, as well as to eat this sweet
succulent part has Resulted in as
much as a 25 per cent, or more,
loss to the grower.
It has been said that one ground
squirrel will eat in a season, as
much as is required to feed a cow
for a day.
Thus one might assume that if
120 squirrels were permitted to run
at will for a season they would
consume as much as another ani
mal unit would require for the
same period of time.
In the Irrigated sections of the
county, squirrels often burrow into
ditch banks causing breaks which
frequently result in Hood aauv
age to crops as well as costly re
pairs to the irrigation system.
They can also be carriers of the
fleas which transmit the dreaded
bubonic plague, thus they can be
a serious threat to the health of
a community. Squirrels should
never be handled when either
dead or alive.
Of the many methods that have
been used to combat these pests,
poisoning has proven to be the
most practical.
Selected whole oats treated with
powdered strychnine is most uni
versally used and is the most re
liable as well as the cheapest bait
in use. Some people hesitate to
use this bait for fear of poisoning
quail and pheasants, but research
of recent years has proven that
these birds are not affected by
strychnine and can consume large
quantities of standard squirrel bait
without ill effect.
In the past 33 years (1923-19551
158,925 pounds of poisoned grain
has been mixed and distributed by
the county agent's office here for
use in combating ground squirrels.
This material is made available to
the landowner, at cost, through
several stores in the county as
well as the county agent's office.
A conservative estimate of the
number of squirrels killed with
this grain Is 67.193.490 squirrels
over the 33-year period.
Approximately $25, 000 was the
cost of the grain but the savings
in crops and forage amounts to
many, many times that amount.
Tule Contest
Winners Listed
TULELAKE Numerous homes
in Tulelake and the surrounding
community Joined In the 1955
Christmas lighting contest, "Glu
tei way," sponsored by the Tulelnke
Garden Club. '
Winners in the four divisions
were: best decorated tree firsi,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hooper; third,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mosebar;
third, Mrs. Evalyn Galloway.
Best decorated doorway first,
Mr. and Mrs. John Takacs and
Mr. and Mrs. George Frey. (tie);
second, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Brown.
Best over-all glitter first. Mr.
and Mrs. Gus Llndsey and Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Hodges, (tie I; sec
ond. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heiney;
third, Mr. and Mrs. Al Hardman;
honorable mention, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Urbach, Mr. and. Mrs. Wil
liam Huse.
Best decorated window first, Mr
and Mrs, Robert Valias; second.
Mr. and Mi's. Waveiiy Pierce;
third, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald John
son; honorable mention, Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Barron, Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Ott Jr.
Moose Give
Toys, Candy
The Merrill Moose Lodge No.
306 delivered toys to the children
of seven needy families in Tule
lake and one in Malin, announced
Tommy slaughter, chairman of the
drive.
Slaughter said that a total of 134
toys were presented to the '33 chil
dren. Each child also was given a
bag of candy by the Moose Lodge,
the chairman reported.
The toys were collected at Earl's
Market and the office of the Cali
fornia Oregon Power Co. in Tule
lake. The students of the Newell
Elementary School gave a large
number of the toys to the drive, as
they did last year.
The Merrill Volunteer Fire De
partment gave toys to the needy
children of Merrill, it was reported.
OIL DISCOVERED
LOS ANGELES 11 Oil has been
struck m Boyle Heights, a resi
dential area Just east of downtown
Los Angeles. Richfield Oil Corp.
said its first well has been com
pleted there and Is flowing at 170
barrels a day. Gas production was
recorded at a rate of 60,000 cubic
feet a day. Additional wells will
be drilled befoie the potential of
the structure can be evaluated,
Richfield said.
Remote Ordeal Told
By Roseburg , Scribe
Editor's Note: Chuck Grell,
Roseburg News-Review reporter,
was with the group which pushed
through the slides on Highway 42
Monday, to reach the community
of Remote where five members of
the Marion E. Ncal family perish
ed In their crushed house. In the
party were Coroner L. L. Powers.
Don Bell, Roseburg radio ham;
Chuck Reinhart. radio announcer,
State Patrolman A. C. Haystead,
and Charles B, Kash,. Winston
Photographer.)
By CHUCK GRKLL
Roseburr News-Review
Staff Writer
ROSEBURG iPh- We got to Mile
post 34 and had to stop there for
the first of Innumerable slides to be
cleared from our path.
Several loggers from Camas Val
ley joined us there. Among them
was Frank Kinnan.
Kinnan. a rawboned independent
logger of 30 or perhaps less,
brought his cat.
State Patrolman A. C. Haystead,
who knows him well, said Kinnan
Is a man who will do anything on
a bet or a dare. He proved his
nerve Monday night.
We started moving at 5 p. m.
Night had fallen. Repeatedly Kin
nan nudged mud, logs and other
debris into the Coquille River,
raging In its narrow canyon below.
Sometime, where the river was
pounding at the edge of th pave
ment, the shoulder of the road
threatened to collapse.
Fifteen times in the six miles
to Remote, Kinnan shoved his ma-
Holiday Party
Said Success
WEED Thirty-one employes
of the Weed Mercantile attended
the company Christmas party at
the Savoy Hotel .on December 20.
The employes had voted to contri
bute a Yule collection for a select
ed Weed family rather ihan hold a
gift exchange among themselves.
Bill Hanchey was master of cer
emonies and conducted the store
wide talent contest. O. B. Smith,
manager, and J. Kersey, assistant
store manager, were hosts.
Mrs. Joe Braden was In charge
of table arrangements. Other em
ployes present Included Mrs. Rach
acl Ccdros, Mrs. Caroline Carplne.
Dave Johnson, Mrs. James De
Luca, Mrs. Ray Acatiistapace,
Mrs. J. Ingram, David Kersey,
Ralph Study, Pete Aiello, Gerry
Gilliam, Mrs. C. H. Rooney, Mrs.
Lem Gilliam. Mrs. Lawrence Ul
ley, Eugene Watklns, Delbert
Doan, Joan House. Bert Arens. Le
land Dunlap, Theo Lockett, Mrs.
Joe Lobis. Alma Lester, Mrs.
Margaret Garcia, Mrs. Norma
Aiello, Joe Pamatlo, Michael De
Nero, Mrs. Emelia Kegg ' and
Mrs,, E. Holley. .
OVER THE
GARDEN GATE
BONANZA
LANGF.LL VALLEY
By Irene Hartley
Verda Urback was reelected
president of the Bonanza-Langell
Valley Garden Club at a meeting
held December 16 at the home of
Louisa Horton. Betty Rice was co
hostess. Also elected were Peggy Alberta,
vice president; Gloria Woolen, sec
retary and Betty Rice, treasurer
A poll was taken to determine
plans for membership next year.
Suggestions were also asked for
programs for the coming year. '
There will be no standard flow
er show sponsored by the club next
fall. The usual spring show will be
held.
The next meeting will be held
at the Bonanza library. January
27. with Vi Brown, Jessie Spillane
and Francis Jacobs as hostesses.
chine at slides.' In plaoes, you
could see the red-mud highway
cuts slither toward the roadway
while he was working. In others,
water came In falls or small rivers
down the sides of the mountains.
Although the tractor's fan belt
broke and a hole was punched in
the radiator, Kinnan kept the cat
moving.
Meanwhile, Don Bell, ham radio
man, was talking steadily to what
we had come to think of as the
"outside world." He kept the out
side advised of our position and
relayed instructions to and from
Roseburg. ;
' He learned that a man from
Remote had walked 21 miles from
Myrtle Point to try to get a doctor
to Care lor the injured children,
Margaret Elaine Neal, 13, and her
brother Billy, 6.
We didn't know how many were
dead or injured. We had heard at
lirst that one body had been taken
from a slide and four more per
sons were thought drowned. We
knew a house had been destroyed.
Bell kept talking. To get mes
sages to Roseburg he talked to
hams in Santa Clara and Redwood
City, Calif., who relayed to Co
quille. The hams there relayed to
Roseburg.
Messages came back the same
way.
My wife learned by this method
where I was.
Kinnan kept pushing at the
slides. Sqme were small but still
made the road impassable. Others
were worse.
It took an hour for him to cut
through one which covered a 150
foot stretch of roadway to a depth
of 13 feet.
Out in front, helping him clear
the way, were the Camas Valley
loggers.
Fqulpped with a power saw, they
cut through logs, some up to three
teet in diameter, and Kinnan
pulled them out of the way.
While Kinnan was working on
the big slide, radio contact was
made again with Roseburg. Bell
said an amplified telephone line
was effected to Remote. Roseburg
people had talked to John Cawrse,
Remote mill operator. 1
Cawrse, we understood, was try
ing to meet us with the Injured
children, but was stopped by slides
a mile east of Remote.
We finally met him Ihcre. He
had left the children at his home.
It was when we met Cawrse that
we first learned the complete story
of the casualties 'tve dead, two
injured, one unhurt.
Coroner L. L. Powers' ambulance
was driven to the Cawrse home
and Margaret and Billy were put
In It for the ride to Roseburg. Both
were conscious but neither spoke.
Margaret's face and legs were
bruised.
The children, we were told, had
lain in the near-freezing rain and
mud from 4:20 a. m. until their
plight was discovered at about
9 a. m.
No one teemed to know who
found them. We understood It was
Cawrse.
As the children were put into
the ambulance, faint moonlight
filtered through the clouds. It ru-
venled that the slide was perhaps
100 yards wide. There was no sign
of the house. It had been disinte
grated by the thousands of tons
of muck which had. crashed from
the hillside, funneled down a gully
'and washed over the Nels' one
story house.
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JOHN FOSTER, LEFT, dressed up In a traditional Santa Claus outfit, aided a group of Moot
members load up hundreds of packages last week to be distributed to needy children in the
Klamath Falls area. Next to Santa, from left to right, are: Lee Benda, Gordon Grow, E. M.
MacBeth and Roy Sharp.
Dairy Honor
Roll Listed
The November honor roll of the
Klamath Dairy Herd Improvement
Association was announced by
Ray O. Petersen, assistant county
agent.
A two-year-old purebred GitfTn-
sey owned by Ken Waters led the
list by producing 556 pounds of but
ter fat and 10.947 pounds of milk.
Runner-up was Beauty, a five
year old grade Holsteln owned by
E. G. Born, which produced 553
pounds of fat and 16,142 pounds of
milk.
Other cows making the honor
roll were Ellen, a three year old
registered Holsteln owned by Mario
Rizzardo, 486 pounds of fat and
12,650 pounds of milk: Kailiv, a
three year old registered Holsteln
owned by Rizzardo, 477 pounds of
tat and 13.043 pounds of milk; San
dy, a three year old grade Holstein
owned bv S. C. Masten and Son,
475 pounds of fat and 12,640 poundo
jf milk, and Pug, a two year old
registered Holsteln owned by Riz
zardo, 408 pounds of lat and lu.m
pounds of milk
Requirements for the honor roll
are baoed on the age of the cow.
To make the roll, a 2-year-old must
produce 400 pounds of fat; a three-year-old.
450 pounds; a 4-year-old.
600 pounds, and a 6-year-old or
over, 550 pounds.
Fifteen cows in herds tested pro
duced 70 pounds or more of butter
fat during November. There were
20 herds with 1.095 cows on tne
standard test. The average milk
produced was 566 pounds and the
average fat 25.8 pounds. This fig
ure was the lowest monthly aver
age so far this year, Petersen said.
He added that the one owner-
tested herd, with IS cows, aver
aged at 1.034 pounds of milk and
41.3 pounds of fat.
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