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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
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$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
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January 3
OPEN CLOSE
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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. '
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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
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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'
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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
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