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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1955 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON VAGB THREE Violence Highlighted The News In State During 1955 Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Violence man's and nature's keynoted the big news in Oregon , In 1955. Two bombings, one a murder and the other a $50,000 extortion attempt, were exceeded in news Importance only by a devastating Sunday punch from 'the feather which brought death and destruc tion over a wide area as the year came to a close. The winter storm, followed by floods and slides, took 12 lives and caused damage in the uncounted millions. Only the month before, an early record-breaking freeze had left crops severely damaged. The first bombing occurred April 14 when a dynamite charge was set off in a rest room at the big Meier and Frank Co. department store in Portland. At that very mo ment Aaron Prank, company pres ident, was reading an extortion note ordering him to pay a $50,000 ransom or another would be set off. The bombing set olf a wave of semi-hysteria that led to scores of false bombing threats from cranks to students. Eight months later to the day, a blind part-time chemist, Clar ence Peddicord, was arrested and confessed the bombing. H 1 s "eyes," he said, were his sister-in-law, Mrs. Joyce Keller. But she V . 34-SO ixu ifl.ciiirAfH SIZES TO 50 : Princess ,lines. of .this wonderful bra promise you the most flatter ing fit, comfortable firm support for the larger figure! Sizes tip to 50 can jiffy-sew regular and long length versions to wear as the bas is of all your fashions for the com ing seasons! Pattern 9055: Women's Sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50. Size 36 longer version, 1 yard 5-inch. This easy-to-use pattern gives perfect fit. Complete, Illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. Send thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, care of Herald and News, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly name, address with zone, size and style number. denied implication In the plot. Just a week after the depart ment store bombing a dynamite blast blew an automobile to bits, killing Portland attorney Kermit Smith. Victor Laurence Wolf, who invoked an old Oregon law to con fess in open court, was sentenced to life in prison. Called a "love slave." he said he committed mur der because Smith's widow, Mar Jorle, asked him to. In a trial of wide interest at McMinnville, how ever, she was acquitted. Another murder case' held high Interest among Oregon's news paper readers. In- it, a man and his wife, Wayne and Sherry Fong, were accused of murdering a 18-year-old Portland high school girl, Diane Hank. Convicted once, the Pongs were granted a new trial. Sherry Pong was convicted a sec ond time and sentenced to lite in prison. Her husband's second trial is pending. Pour nersons died when a Pan American plane bound for Honolu lu crashed in the Pacific a few miles off Coos Bay March 26. ror tunntelv for the other 19 aboard, the U. &. Navy transport Bayfield nearby sped to the scene to save them. The quiet oravery pi pas sengers and crew wrote another chapter in heroic rescues at sea. Early fall forest fires In South ern and Central Oregon killed three person and brought exten sive losses of the state's wood lands. Less spectacular but far reach ing In Its effect on the people of Oregon was the 1955 session of the Legislature. Its most Important act during the marathon session was a 60 pe cent Income tax increase. The legislators, in an attempt to solve the state's financial prob lems, also voted a 3 per cent cig' arette tax, but it was again re ferred to the people. The Oregon House passed a sales tax, too, but it was rejected by the Senate. The power story, always an Im portant one in the Paclflo North west, was marked in 1955 by the controversy over whether private industry or the federal govern ment should develop the power po tential in Hells Canyon of the Snake River. The Federal Power Commission gave Idaho Power Co. permission to go ahead with con struction of three low level dams. But supporters of a single federal dam at Hells Canyon went to court to try to have the permit set aside. In other power development, the Supreme Court upheld the Port land General Electric Co.'s right to build Pelton Dam on the De schutes River. As always, politics held a high place in news developments. Top ping these was the shift in regis tration by Sen. Wayne Morse, one time Republican, to Democratic. Irate Republicans asked Gov. Paul Patterson to oppose him In the May, 1956, primary. Two stories high in human Inter est touched the emotions of not only Oregonians but the whole world. Danny Schmidt, a prisoner ., of Chinese in the Korean War,, re turned home to find his bride, Una, with a new mate, California logger Alfred Fine. In the glare of publicity, he filed for divorce only to be reconciled with Una in Port land. Eight others came home to Ore gon from Korea in 1955. They were orphans of American GI's, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holt of Creswell, a benevolent CLOSING OUT SALE continue KLAMATH FURNITURE CO. 221 Main Oregon farm couple who already had six children of their own. After months in Korea, dealing with red tape, Holt flew to Portland with the eight, along with four other orphans adopted by other couples. Other top stories included: ; The Nyssa polio epidemic fol lowing Oregon's participation In the Salk polio vaccination pro gram; two Portland women lost for a week on Larch Mountain found safe: opposition to Southern Pacific's dropping passenger train service on the Rogue River line, highlighted by a race between a locomotive and a horse; shooting of James Appelgate, Corvallls, aft er Eugene Jailbreak by Martin Reyes; "Operation Green LIgnt, civil defense test of Portland evafr uatlon; natural gas coming to the Pacific Northwest; congressional timber hearings. These, combined with many other stories, made 1955 a high ranking news year. Siskiyou Lists Road Damage YREKA About M.200,000 dam age to Siskiyou County roads, state highways, power facilities and tele phone installations during the De cember storms is the estimate of George Van Buskirk, assistant di rector of civil defense for Siskiyou County. The figures do not Include losses to owners of farm land, private homes, business buildings nor the many roads within the national forests. County road damage alone, Van Buskirk said, may be as high as $2,500,000. State highway destruc tion Is believed to be about $1,600,000; damage to power facili ties, $30,000; telephone Installation, $100,000. Access roads in unpopu lated areas in national forest areas are not Included In damage esti mates. Van Buskirk's estimates are pre liminary figures, he states, and subject to revision when proper surveys are completed. He believes at least 368 miles or county roads are affected by storm damage and 1,100 lineal feet of bridge construe tion either washed out or seriously damaged, Northern and western Siskiyou County suffered the greatest flood damage. The Klamath and Salmon rivers accounted for a large part of the havoc, isolating several communities and destroying re sorts along their banks. Street Superintendent John Petty of Dunsmulr is preparing an esti mate of street damage in that community. Mayor Fred Lloyd has stated state and federal loans may be sought by the city to help with repair costs. f ! - . f-i , jup y Citizens Spent 68 Billion For Food In 7955 "THE LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTS'' a 20th Century-Fox comedy starring Tom Ewell and Rita Moreno, will be on the screen at the Esquire Theater Saturday night, New Year's Eve. SERVICE CLUB CALENDAR W1LLARD HOTEL Tuesday Toastmasters, 8:30 a.m., Spruce Room. Lions, noon, Pine Grove Room. 20-30 club, 7 p.m., Spruce Room. Wednesday " ' Daughters of tile Nile, 1 p.m., Pine Grove Room. Realty Board, noon, Spruce Room. Shrine club, 7 p.m., Pine Grove Room. Thursday Life Underwriters, 7:30 a.m., Spruce Room. Friday Rotary, noon, Pine Grove Room. Saturday Klwanis initiation, 6:30 p.m., Pine Grove Room. WINEMA HOTEL Tuesday Exchange Club, noon, Empire Room. Quota Club, noon, Camas Room. KFLW, 3 p.m., Crater Room. Wednesday Estate Plnnning Board, 7 a.m., Crater Room. Chamber of Commerce, noon, Empire Room. CBMC, "noon, Crater Room. Toketee Liens, 6:30 p.m., Em pire Room. Thursday 1 Soroptimists, noon, Camas Room. Venture Club, 6:30 p.m., Empire Room. Friday Estate Plnnning Board, 7 a.m., Crater Room. Saturday Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, 8 p.m., Camas Room. Great Plains Dust Predicted WASHINGTON W The threat of new dust storms hangs over wide areas of the Great Plains, the Agriculture Department reported today. Reports from the field as of Dec. 1 Indicated, the department said, that dry soils and below normal rain and snowfall have left about 20 million acres of land In 10 Great Plains states In a condition to suf fer wind damage. This acreage, however, is about six million less than that In a similar condition a year ago. Be. vere dust storms during the past winter and spring caused heavy crop losses and soil erosions, just as they have done periodically for many years. Of the land subject to blowing, about 13.886.000 acres Is In crop land. The balance Is largely range grazing land. - "The total amount of land that will actualy be damaged during the current blow season will de pend," the department said, "on such factors as the Intensity of livestock grazing, the type, velo& Ity and duration of windstorms, the amount and frequency of pre cipitation, and the timeliness of emergency tillage In blow areas." MclNTYRE TRAVEL SERVICE . Your Experienced Agent WILLARD HOTEL hone- 3088 ROSE INFLUX PASADENA, Calif. Wl A half million automobiles carrying Hi million persons are expected here Jan. 2 to view the Tournament of Roses parade, says the Auto Club of Southern California. YOUR DOWNTOWN Agent For United Airline!, West Coast and all scheduled airlines tick ets and reservations. World Wide Travel Bureau 716 Main Phone 8873 or 5551 Will Be Open Until gino New Years Eve FOR YOUR DINING PLEASURE! BEN B. LEE, MGR. Phone 6496 For Orders To Go By STEVEN V. DAVID NEW YORK Ifl A growing! and prosperous population spent an estimated 68 ouuon dollars lor food in 1955. The industry confi dently expects to move on to an other record In the coming year. Pood men have reason for op timism, for the American house wife seems determined to upset for all time a favorite maxim of the economist: That the percentage of disposable income spent on food declines when income rises. American Income certainly has risen. Yet Paul S. Willis, presi dent of the Grocery Manufactur ers of America, points out that we re spending an average of 29 per cent of our personal disposable Income for food now, against 23 per cent in 1935-39. Willis observes that the estimated 68 billions spent in food markets in 1D55 compares with 64 A bil lions the year before and with a Y The Chuck Wagon 'Kamath's Most Popular Lounge' 630 Main Phone 2-9167 Rin :5fVu New MM Year's Party! 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L ikiiw X mere 16 billions In 1939. This leads him to predict that, come 1956, the nation's food bill may be running around 100 billion dollars. - A good part of the credit for booming grocery sales, of course, may be given to the so-called con venience, foods, for which the housewife Is more than willing to pay a higher price. Willis com ments that at least a third of to day's grocery sales are of Items that dldn t exist in their present iorm 10 years ago or were there only In token quantities. George Mantley, president of the National Assn. ot Frozen Food Packers, estimates frozen food sales this year at a huge (1,800, 000,000. In 19S6. he adds, sales should be well over the two-billion-dollar mark. He attributes the steadily rising sales figures to the Introduction of such prepared froz en products as pre-cooked dinners, potato patties, meat pies, fish sucks ana we like. How much will food cost In 19M? The U.S. Department of Agricul ture believes housewives will pay about the same, on average, as in 1958. The USDA says meat will con tinue in abundant supply, with low er pork prices offsetting slight in creases for other kinds of meat. Retail beef prices will average about the same as In 1959 al though prices for choice grades are expected to rise. Chicken pric es will Tlse slightly, stabilizing arouna caster. Milk production is expected to Increase a little. The department estimates that meat consumption In 195ft tan around 161 pounds per person and adds that supplies may be big enough next year to allow the same consumption. Beef consump tion may be down slightly from )955's record rate of 81 pounds per person because production probab ly will decline. LAST WEEK OF LUCAS FURNITURE DECEMBER STORE-WIDE SALE! All your furniture need re duced SATURDAY LAST DAY Mce vour furniture dollars qo further this week! LUCAS FURNITURE 195 E. 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