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U OP ORSGON LIS.tASY COiP rm la rui ji If Price Ten Cents Zi Faces la The- Day's lews Br FRANK JENKINS In the final days of 1955 a great lear was luted Horn the Klamath country of Southern Oregon and Par Northern California. At the . same time, a door was opened that ran lead to greater development tnan tne Klamath country has ever Known .or even dreamed of, The fear was the loss of our water without which the Klam ath country would be valueless. The opportunity lies In PUTTING OUR WATER TO WORK in every way that water can be made to work. Let's deal first with the fear. We have in the upper basin of the Klamath river an approximate million and a half acre feet of water per year. Our water lies at a nigh elevation. Water runs down hill more cheaply than It can be pumped uphill. It is therefore looked upon with covetous eyes by waier-snorc areas. To the south of us lie vast areas that must have MORE WATER If they are to go on growing. They haven't water enough of their own. If they are to get the water they need, they must get It from some where else. And Water Is no longer a fixed and immovable asset. It has become an article of commerce. It can be moved from place to place FROM places that have it but aren't using it all TO places that lack. It and ' WILL' use it all. If you doubt that, give a thought to the fabulous Feather River Proj ect. It Is now definitely proposed to move the water of the Feather River from Far Northern Califor nia to- Far Southern California clear to San Diego. If that can be done with the water of the Feather river, it can be done with the water of the Klamath river. . What's more . a lt -.WILL ne'. dom if-we don't commit the water of the Klamath river to complete beneficial use. Complete beneficial use of water includes domestic nees (Including municipalities), agriculture, indus try, recreation and power. As long as our water remains uncommitted to complete beneficial use it will be subject to export for use elsewhere. That's FLAT. In the world of the future, no water ANYWHERE especially in the arid West is going to be per milted to run to waste. That is the fear that up to now has hung over us because in the past a large part of our Klanv ath water has been permitted to run UNUSED to the sea. That fear has been removed by the signing of the contract be tween the Bureau of Reclamation and the California Oregon Power Company which will permit the final harnessing of the waters of the Klamath river below Keno for the production of power. When the canyon of the Klamath river is filled with power plants developing power for the uses of our people and for industry to pro vide more payrolls, there will be no more Klamath water running to waste. It will all be USED. There will no longer be any sur plus. It is now expected that by June or July of this new year men will be busy in the canyon of the Klam ath below Keno beginning the long delayed Job of building power plants to use the Klamath's falling waters . to provide power to heat and light our homes, run our do mestic appliances, pump our ter and turn the wheels of new In dustries to provjde new payrolls and fatten the economy of all this great area of Southern Oregon and Far Northern California. , It can be said without fear of contradiction that the beginning of the new year of 1956 will mean the beginning of a bright new era in the Klamath country. Navy Reveals KF Base Bids SEATTLE M") Bids for two projects at the Klamath Falls Air Force Base, opened by the Navy here Thursday, totaled $1,562,114. Only one bid was received on each project extension of the runway and relocating of Bureau of Rec lamation facilities. Morrison Knudsen Co.. Inc., of Seattle and Boise bid SI. 234.000 for ihe job of extending the runway 2.200 feet. Thompson and George&on of Portland bid $320,114 for relocating the reclamation bureau facilities from the airport to sites in Klam-; ath Falls- and in Tulelake. An officer in the Navy's public works section, which handled the , bid opening, said both bids were slightly over the government esti mates. Re said they are being : taken under study before an award Is made. i Later in the day the Navy an nounced award of the Bureau of Reclamation relocation contract to Thompson and Georgeson. i KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, IwImKm ' h iiiij I fill '! wm ' " )V fj-i VuuT0"1 If Iff ' . nieiivau ceuwTY ,1 ' THE CALIFORNIA ORICON KLAMATH Rlvia OWSR Sketch $70 Million May Be Spent Proposed Klamath River "We foresee great things lor the Klamath country in the next few years," was the jubilant comment of John C. Boyle, vice president and general manager of California Oregon Power Company, at Med ford when he learned of the In terior Department's approval in Washington, D.C., of the Copco Bureau of Reclamation contract. "It is definitely good news for us all," he added. The next steps necessary before actual work can start on the first part of the $70 million, 12-year revised program planned by Copco include licensing by the Oregon state hydro-electric .commission, approval by the state regulatory bodies of California and Oregon and the filing of a copy of the con tract with the federal power com mission. During the time it takes for the contract to be forwarded to the regional office in Sacramento and then to Medford for the necessary signatures, the legal department of Copco is preparing the formal applications to be presented as soon as the contract Is signed. It can reasonably be expected that final approval will be re ceived in the near future, Boyle said. This approval also protects Irrigation water for the present and for the future in the Klamath Basin and Northern California, he added. ' "Because of delays, Copco has decided to combine Big Bend No. SHOOTING HOURS OREGON January 2 OPEN CLOSE 7:06 4:46 January 3 OPEN CLOSE 7:06 4:47 CALIFORNIA January 2 OPEN CLOSE 7:04 4:44 January 3 OPEN CLOSE 7:04 4:44 SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 195 OWSR COMPANY BEVILOPMINT of proposed river development 1 and Big Band No. 2 and increase the output from 50.000 to 80.000 kilowatts," Boyle said. "This will bring the cost of the combined project to $12,700,000." While if Is difficult to estimate In advance the tax revenue to the city and to Klamath County from the Big Bend projects, tax experts have set the figure at approxi mately $118,400 annually from that portion alone. Copco's 1054-55 property tax paid to Klamath County on existing properties amounted to $274,893. When the $70 million program is completed, today's estimate of the total annual tax Copco would pay to Klamath County is $850,000. In addition to tax benefits to the city and county, Boyle remarked that labor costs run up to 40 per cent on construction work of this Alaska Has Heavy Snow ANCHORAGE. Alaska (UP) Sncwbound Alaskans dug out from the heaviest early winter snowfall in history today but officials agreed "the worst is over." "However, the big job of re moving the snow still Is ahead." said George Shannon, Anchorage city manager. "It will probably take us several days to get the Job done." M. R. Shrock of the Territorial Employment Service here said the "help-wanted" sign was out for men willing to shovel snow. There were 25 applicants but more than a 100 more men were needed. The snow fell steadily for more than 60 hours from here south to Vakutat and the mayors of both Anchorage and Cordova declared emergencies at the height of the storm. Hundreds of stranded cars still remained on streets and highways and taxicab drivers were doing a lanosnae business wun iramc a virtual standstill. Nellie Brown, Anchorage's first woman resident, snowshoed Into town from her home three miles away yesterday. "I used to come in to town this way back In the old days and I'm still not too old to snowshoc in again," she said. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Cloudy Sunday, occasional lirht rain and snow Sunday nlrht. cloudy Monday. Low Sunday nifht 28. High Saturday 26 Low Friday night I No. 3366 By Copco In Development kind. He expressed the hope that work could start on the Big Bend projects by the summer of 1956. Because much of the generating equipment, water wheels and other machinery must bo manufactured to specification and usually re quires about two years comple tion date would be early In 1959. During the two and one-half years of construction on that portion of the over-all program, a payroll of about $22 million a year would be added to this area. Schedules ron the overall pro gram have not been made, the Copco general manager stated. The upstream storage part of the program will provide 580.000 acre feet of water storage at Aspen Lake and Round Lake projects. "That will give us another Up per Klamath Lake of water stor age plus 25 per cent." was (he way it was expressed by Sam Ritchey, local Copco manager. The completed project will pro vide 313,000 kilowatts of power, which is just about double the ca pacity of the present Copco sys-, tern plants. ' Telephone Silt x if I- 1 ;!jt .- j9 O'jdbjdSfj C. BUZ LARKIN, local insurance was caught pondering the new 9 o'clock photographer. Same at California Flood Cost Total Gains SACRAMENTO, Calif. Vfi By the best available reckoning, billion dollars went down the drain in Northern California's unparal leled Christinas floods. A billion dollars counting more than 150 million dollars In property wrecked by the wild, rushing deluge, plus the value that tne wasted water would have had for Irrigation and other uses. Theoretically, state and federal engineers say, all or most of the disaster could have been averted with man-made projects either proposed or in the talking stage. "If all the projects advanced in the California Water Plan had been built, the damage would have been negligible." said Harvey O. Banks acting state engineer. The plan calls for 270 major dams throughout the state and contains features which state en gineers say would have spared hard-hit Yuba City.- Santa Cms, Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, the San Joaquin Valley and just about every other area Hooded last week. In addition to their llfe-and prop- perty-savlng features, the engin eers said, the works In the Cal ifornia water plan would have made it possible to store much of the estimated 84 million acre feet of water that fell on the northern two-thirds of the state in less than a week. , Eighty-four million acre feet that's enough water to cover the entire state with over 10 inches of water. Or, another way. It is t times all the water consumed lu California in a year. Fewer Hunting Mishaps Told PORTLAND I Oregon had fewer hunting accidents in 1955 and a spokesman for the State Game Commission expressed hope that safe hunting campaigns are beginning to pay off. Nine hunters died of gunshot wounds in 1955 and 21 others suf fered non-fatal wounds. The year More. )3 were killed - and 11 wounaea Ron Shav of the Game Commls-I slon said that in all the 1955 hunt- ing accidents only three of the vie- tlms were mistaken for game. The rest were attributed to accidental gun discharges, described by Shay as "absolute carelessness. Several state agencies and sportsmen's group Joined In hunt ing safety campaigns the past year, one or these was the Gov ernor's Red Hat Day. which re ceived extensive publicity. In addi tion. Shay said, several hunters' safety courses, patterned after those sponsored by the National Rifle Assn., were held In Oregon. Complete hunting accident re ports have been available only this year and last. Shay said. State po lice and county sheriffs now make such reports to the Game Com mission. Five of those killed this year were deer hunters. The four others were bird hunters. An additional four duck hunters drowned in three separate acci dents. BULLETIN At midnight Saturday the nation' traffic death toll had reached 106, at com pared with 260 at the cor responding hour of the 1955 Christmas weekend in which traffic accidents claimed 609 lives. man on North Seventh Street, year Saturday morning by the last year. Ice Skating The ikatltif rink t Moore Frk should be open this after noon If It does not storm Rec reation Director Bob Bonnej an nounced yesterday. He said that the rink would be open from 1-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. unless there Is a snow or a sharp drop In temperature which would crack the surface of the rink. If there are any changes, announcements will be made on Klamath Falls radio atatlona. Farm Issue Bulks Large In Congress WASHINGTON OB Foreign pol icy and farm aid legislation took top billing Saturday as congres sional leaders returned to Wash ington for the opening of the 1956 legislative session Tuesday. Sen. Wiley of Wisconsin, top Re publican on the Foreign Relations Committee, laid recent statements by Russian leaders Nloolat Bui ganin and Ntklta Khrushchev will spur a strengthening of "our over all military-diplomatic position." Suggesting that congressional leaders adopt a New Year's reso lution to "try to keep partisan pol itics out of our International relations,-" -Wiley predicted the R e d leaders' comments will prompt Senate and House committee to "give the armed forces the bene fit of the doubt on proposed in creases" In appropriations. "If anything, we should be in tensifying our guided missile, nu clear and related programs," Wi ley said. Wiley predicted nevertheless that administration plans to seek an In crease in foreign aid funds will face a fight in Congress. Another big battle is shaping up over farm legislation, which Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Democratic floor leader, said will get early attention. Johnson, hack In Washington af ter what his doctors called "a most satisfactory recovery" from a near), hvihck !! iuiy, bhiu uw Senate will meet briefly Tuesday and then ' recess . until Thursday, when president Eisenhower's State of the Union Message will be read oy ciar..$i'00UT Bouses. When the President's recomnien- datlons have been heard, Johnson said he will confer with the com mittee chairmen, all Democrats, and then call the Senate Democra tic Policy Committee together to map a legislative program. "There is no priority on any bill rlgnt now," Johnson told report ers. He indicated that farm legis lation and disaster relief bills in spired by flood damage at both ends of the country this year will get early consideration. Tax cut proposals appeared rel egated to the background tor the tune being. There was an air of sweetness and good will among the lawmak era as they streamed back to Washington to take their places In the opposing firing lines. This may have been due to the holiday sea son as well as to the absence of any Immediate crises- House Republican leader Mar tin of Massachusetts said for ex ample that he doesn't think the coming session is going to be "as stormy as some people think." BRISK BATTLE RABAT. French Morocco M French troops patrolling the Riff Mountain area of northern Moroc co Friday fought a brisk battle with a well-armed rebel band and killed 10 of the outlaws, officials announced Baturday. They said there were no casualties on the French side. March Of Dimes To Aid Will Open In BY MAX WAUCHOPB Thanksgiving Day 19M will not be remembered as a happy day by the family of Mrs. Donald M. (Jeanne) Baldwin, 4403 Shasta Way. On that day while visiting Mrs. Baldwin's parents in Salem with her husband and two small chil dren, Scott and Kathleen, Mrs. Baldwin was struck down by the terrible disease of poliomyelitis which has left her paralysed from the waist down. The disease struck without warning. Mrs. Baldwin was rushed to the Salem Memorial Hospital where she was kept until February 19, 105J When she was transferred to the Northwest Respiratory and Re fiabllltatlon Center- In Seattle. Washington. This is one of the 13 such centers operated by the Na tional Polio Foundation and sup ported by funds from the March of Dimes drives. While the young mother was In the Salem hospital she was kept In an iron lung part of the time. When she was out r' the lung she used a rocking bed. These ma chines are used to aid the breath ing of polio patients. The Clackamas County Sheriff's Reserve Unit mercy vehicle, a re built bus. was used to take Mrs. Baldwin to the Seattle polio cen ter. She was transported on a rock ing bed believed to be the first time a patient has been moved on one of these beds. While at Seattle ma Baldwin Xi M S t OLIVE CORNETT Olive Cornett Declines Office Mrs. Olive Cornett, national Re publican committeewoman from Oregon since 1948, announced here Saturday that she will not seek reelection at the state-wide pri mary next May. During her first four years as a committeewoman, Mrs. Cornett also served as a member of the executive committee of the Re publican National Committee. She will hold the committeewom an post until after the Republican National Convention next summer In San Francisco. 'I also intend to continue as an active party worker until the gen eral election next November," she added. A successor to Mrs. Cornett will be elected in May. Oregon Is the only state In the union that picks national committee members at the primary election. This applies to both the Republican and Demo cratic parties. Man To Try Vodka Sales WIESBADEN, Germany l,f) An American liquor salesman said Saturday he would leave next month for Moscow to try to sell American vodka to the Russians, The American kind, -he olalms. is "more friendly" than the Rus "wilK"' Crawford. . 40. representative in Europe for U.S. liquor manufacturer, hopes hi. Irh o;lll tlmiill ",orf anil-. Ms trip will stimulate its" among the Russians and publicity for his firm Ho analyzed the vodka situation this way: "American vodka is made from grain. Russian vodka Is made from potatoes. People who eat too many potatoes are aggressive, like the Irish. Hence, American vedka may make the Russians less ag gressive." (Not all Russian vodka Is made from -titocs. More frequently, it is n -. from rye or barley). SAINT NAMED VATICAN CITY (IP) Pope Pius XII has named the Apostle Mat thew patron saint of bookkeepers. The Apostle was himself a -keeper of accounts before he became a follower of Jesus and one of the writers of the Gospel. NO PAPER The Herald and News will not publish an edition Monday, Jan uary t because of the New Year's holidays. Normal publi cation will resume Tuesday, January 3. Klamath County Tuesday was rehabilitated so that she only used the rocking bed for about the first three weeks she was at the center. As soon as Mrs. Baldwin was able she began taking physical and occupational therapy. This physical therapy Is given polio patients to rebuild the muscles damaged by the disease. The occupational ther apy teaches the patients to ac climate themselves to living with their damaged bodies. They also are taught to use the various mechanical devices which have been developed to aid them. Mrs. Baldwin moves n round her home In a special wheelchair and she Is able to perform some lipht household duties such as drying the dishes and dusting. The Na tional Polio Foundation's Klan.ath County Chapter has purchased a special hydraulic lifting device which permits Mrs. Baldwin ti move herself in and out of bed. The work of the National Polio Foundation and the aid given by them at their rehabilitation centers was lauded by Mrs. Baldwin. These centers are used to teach the polio patients to rehabilitate themselves to living with the after effects ol the dread virus. They are support ed solely by the funds collected by March of Dimes' drives staged every year In the U.S. The drive will be kicked off in Klamath Coun ty on Tuesday. The Klamath County Chapter of the National Polio Foundation was contacted when Mrs. Baldwin was 30 Thousand Stampede In Wild Melee NTIGATA, Japan W) Thirty thousand New Year's worshipers stampeded at a famed Shinto shrine at five minutes after mid night Sunday and trampled to death at least 112 persons. Dozens still were missing and 16 were Injured. It was Japan's worst recorded New Year's tragedy. A soramble for sacred rice balls thrown to the crowd by Shinto priests apparently touched off the tragedy. The terror-stricken mob collapsed a (Moot stone wall by the sheer pressure of surging bod ies and created new disaster. Crowds thronged the lyahlko shrine at this Sea of Japan port 267 miles northwest of Tokyo for traditional prayers of thanks and pleas for good fortune in the open ing minutes of the New Year. The shrine, major Shinto place of worship for this area, stands on high ground. The crowd pressed forward on the platform before the altar and up narrow stair ways and, passageways leading to the altar,' Shinto priests mounted two tow ers and threw the traditional mochi, Japanese rice balls, to the ear of the nuge crowd. Some of the worshipers many of them children had finished their prayers as the rice throwing began. Tsuneo Togawa, reporter for the newspaper Asahi, said those near the altar "swarmed back down trie stairs to catch the mochi, crash ing Into the arriving worshipers. Some stumbled off the stair case- or were crushed under the oncoming human wave," Togawa said. , "There was a pile of dead and injured at the bottom of the stairs. Some tumbled down and some were trampled," said Hyoahlo Takahaahl, a shrine official. The mass of humanity pressed forward toward the altar even as more and more errtfled worship ers iosi. meir looung ana were en gulfed under trampling feet. "I felt I was in a human gale," said Terue Tamura, a farm house- wile who was trampled on the stairs. "My feet left the ground. Then., I waa pressed . under .the. - 1 friends warn killed instantly' LeST 'y H . a aV!!.. scf?f' ",.., and bakes it own rice cakeV Bui " Daes." own Ilce CaKeS. But tne worsninnrs sniiffht mnihl thrown by the priests with the special blessing of the shrine for good luck. The tragedy struck as thousands of temple bells all over Japan were ringing in the New Year and hundreds of thousands jammed ths Shinto shrines thanking their gods for bumper crops and praying for good lortune in 1U&6. At the Koyasu Shrine, about 100 worshipers were kneeling before the altar with heads bowed and hands elapsed in prayer when the disaster struck, police said. Hundreds were standing on the platform before the altar. Thousands pressed behind down t. series of stairs leading from Ihe altar, along a paved passage way and out all the way to the main gate of the shrine. They were waiting their turn to worship at the small open-air altar. ' Suddenly the packed mass of humanity moved in a wave of ter ror. Shrieks rent the air. Men, wo men and children fell under the trampling feet. Screaming with fright, hun dreds around the platform fought towards the narrow stairway, pushing against the crowd which at the start of the stampede still was surging forward. Polio Victims stricken. Tom Perkins, permanent chairman of the Klamath County chapter, said that to date the polio foundation has spent $10,251.01 for Mrs. Baldwin's treatment. The polio group official said that the foundation Is continuing to aid Mrs. Baldwin by paying for physi cal therapy treatments which she takes locally. Perkins explained that the foun dation takes care of polio victims until they are well or until medi cal authorities decide that no furth er Improvement Is possible. The financial ability of patients to pay has no bearing on the aid they receive from the foundation Perkins stated. p The funds collected during tw March of Dimes drive SI3 63J was collected during the Janery. 1956 campaign are split la lf. Half Is sent to the National P110 Foundation and half remains in Klamath County, Perkins sald When the funds of a cainty are exhausted, as they wej in Mrs Baldwin's case, then tse National Foundation sends funds back to the area which needs tham. Mrs.. Baldwin manages her home and two small children, Scott, four-years-old. and KatWeen, two, with the aid of a housekeeper. Her hus band. Don, Is work unit con servationist for the U.S. Soil Con servation 8ervice attached to the Klamath Soil District. He is a vet eran of World War H and a gradu ate of Oregon State College (See rk lures as Page . 0
