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
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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
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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.
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Citizens Spent 68 Billion For Food In 7955
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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."
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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
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SUMMER LAKE This area
had three Inches of rainfall In the
two-weeks period ending Tuesday,
according to measurements of
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The bridge at the entrance to
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traftlc Is detourlng around by the
Adams sawmill.
During the peak of the storm, all
Ihe streams In the area ran over
their banks.
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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.
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