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FRIDAY, JANUARY 6. 1956 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE FIVK Me .scapes Prison Lesseim By PAIL V. HARVEV JK eAUEM CM You cion't read nn.cn kuoui me Oregon Stale Pcnl tentiRiy ay more. It Is ercaphw ine ntaaiinjs because Waidea Clarence T. Gladden and his stait have quieted the place down, and we Keeping uie men locxea up. umuig iujo. only six men es caped. All were tru-slies who wonted away. That Is the lowest number ol essapes that I can remember. Con- ui'si u will; me 45 escapes in 1952 the year before Gladden took over. There were 38 In l&SJ and onlv seven in 1954. ' Gladden doern't take anv credit for that reco.d. He gives it all to the prison -clasoilicaUon commit tee, which is headed by L. R. Barne3, deputy warden in charge ot individual treatment. The classification committee de cides everything about what a prisoneF must do in prison. If he needs education, he Roe3 to school. II he needs to learo a trade, he lakes vocational training. It also decides the ticslish ques tion as to how much cusioilv a prisoner needs. II it maxes a mis take in giving a prisoner minimum . custody, the man escapes. So the committee has to be ngnt almos all of the time. ! The fact that only six minimum custody men, or trusties, walked awiy last year Is evidence that ine committee is doing well Besides Barnes, the members of Ihe committee are the deputy war- acn in cnarge ol mass treatment: Ihe two chaplains, the psychiatrist. me supervisor 01 clussiliration, and the educational director. "We haven't had anybody break out for a long time," Gladden says, "we hear lots of rumors, but none of them have panned out. "Bui, we have a lot of men who are thinking all the time about ways to get out. So we'll have tome attempts some time. In the meantime, all our officers and 6ian must stay on the alert. when a man escapes, he can have up to 10 years added to his eentence. Until recently, the judges have been adding a year,-to the terms 01 escapees, But lately, some of the escapees nave oeen gelling an extra 13 months or two years, and Gladden thinks this Is a good idea. Gladden has tightened the secur ity of the prison lately. There now are strict rules that won't let prisoners stand idle in the prison yard. There used to be hundreds. When I walked through the grounds last week with oladaen. I saw only one Idle prisoner on the grounds. Gladden took care of him quickly, putting the man back to work. Another security measure is the new arsenal tower, located in the middle of the driveway in front of the administration building. Anybody used io be able to walk into the administration building. Eut not now. The tower , guard stops everyone "and "questions him before letting him proceed to the main building. Yes, things are milch different now than they were in April, 1953, when Gladden came out of retire ment to bring order oui of chaos at tne prison. At that time, Gladden said It would take him about three years t get, the institution operating the way ne wanieu u 10 run. ' He worked 16 hours a day, and drove his men hard. Many em ployes were replaced. Discipline was restored among the inmates and employes. The food was Im proved Rreally. And the inmates were given a wide chosce of vo cational training, as well as edu cation through the college level. Now Gladden is pretty well satis- fled. , -. "We still have man? things I'd 1 lli.e to do," he says, "but I feel now that the Oregon .penitentiary is as good as any. in the United glatcs." v Spud Growers To Elect The aiuiual meeting of the Klam ath Potato Growers Association will be held at 1:30 p.m. Mondaj ut the -Men ill recreatlep hall. The major item of business will be the eiecnon of president, vice' president and three members - of the board of directors. The direc tors will be chosen from the Ken ley. Poe Valley and Malin districts. The present board Includes Fred Mueller, Bcnania, president: Bob Petiick. Merrill, vice president; Paul Falrclo, Klamath Falls: Ron ny Whitlach, Henley: Willia.n Tu- bach, Poe Valley, and S. M Streeler, Malin. Other parts of the meeting will include a discussion of recent de velopments by Dr. Ray Ross. Ore gon State College plant pathologist. ana Jack Ross, OSC farm crops specialist, and a discussion of the advertising program for Klamath potatoes. Figure Growth Quoted Wrong Dr. Harold Erickson, Oregon Slata Health Oflicer, Salem, was r-uoted in the Sunday Oregonian, January 1, as listing the popula tion growth of Klamath Falls since 1950 as .09 per cent. According to R. Frank Tucker, manager of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, this figure is a contradiction since Erickson's office in 1954 gave Klamath Falls' growth as 4.8 per cent. Tucker suggests that the figure of .09 per cent represents a transposition and that it should have read 9.0 per cent. Tucker based this figure on an increase of 5 per cent in the resi dential customers of the California Oregon Power Company and an Increase in school enrollment In the city schools of 9.4 per cent. Also the county school system has shown an increase of 8.2 per cent The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Company has shown a boost of 20 per cent ill telephone hook-ups in the metropolitan area during this period. Mrs. Lela Woods, operaior of the welcome wagon in the metropolitan area, reported visiting 1.100 new families from January 16 to De cember 20. 1955 There has been an average of 20 new babies a week, the majority of whose par ents came from out of stale due to the increase in employment. Tucker reports that employment has been making a gradual in crease until April. 1955 when there was a sharp increase due to con struction at the Klamath Falls jet base. Fowl Inventory To Be Taken The annual winter inventory of migratory ducks and geese on a national scale will get under way January 3 through January 16 ac cording to Chet Kebbe, chief of wa terfowl, Oregon Game Commission. More than 2,200 state and fed. eral waterfowl specialists will make the count using 146 airplanes for aerial surveys in addition to motor vehicles used on the ground. Every known waterfowl wintering area from southern Canada to Yucatan in southern Mexico will he covered in the survey. . Here in Oregon such places as the Klamath Basin,' the Columbia and Snake river basins, the Wil lamette Valley, Sauvles Island, and other areas where waterfowl soend the winter will be included in the count. Field agents of the Oregon Game Commission will participate in me inventory. The survey is of considerable val ue in showing the distribution of wintering waterfowl and particular ly shifts in distribution resulting from major changes in land and water management. Also, valuable information is obtained regarding the actual number of birds pres ent in certain areas and Nort America as a whole. . This is the eighth such survey which 'can be considered as com paring with the counts of previous years, nie surveys are run on a large scale, and by covering the whole continent in a 2-week period an accurate count of population numbers is obtained' with little chance of birds being counted twice. m n Mm United Air Line President Predicts Good Flying Year TRAINS WEM HALTED for iever.1 days in the Yuba City, California, area, whan flood water from the Feather River undermined right of wayi. Don Kettler, Herald and News pho tographer, obtained the above picture of the stretch of track twisted out of shape by the flood.' THE SEVEN. CLEVER COOKERS Our fourth meeting was held Monday, November 28,' at the home of our leader, Mrs. Ernest Gray, at 7 p.m. president, Martha Cantrall called the meeting to ord er, with the two pledges and the singing of America, which we have voted to make our . regular pro cedure. ., Roll call by secretary. Sue George, was the naming of a vegetable that grows underground. Next meeting we are to name a leafy vcgetaole. , Minutes of the last meeting were read, and ap proved. We had one visitor, Janice Cartwrlght, who was a houseguest of Mrs, Gray,. , Our leader, gave us an outline of our projects for future imeet, ings, . and we voted to have our last meeting on her birthday, which will be- December 28.- We will meet In the afternoon, ! as there is no school that day. Meet-1 ing time will be 2 to i. . . . Our demonstration . was vegeta ble. salad, and recipes were copied for other kinds of vegetable sal-, ads. Our next meeting; will- be on : potatoes, uur nomework will . ne making two kinds of salad, twice. . . Sue George, Newe Reporter' Our demonstration for this meet ing was lyonnaise potatoes. . See George,' News Reporter Prospects for new record traffic highs in 1936. bum for the sche tin led airline industry as a whole and for his company, are seen by w. A. Patterson, president of Unit ed Air. Lines, ni . year-end review, Mr. Pat lemon said the Industry might be expected to show traffic gains of anotner l to IS per cent over the record-breaking volumes of 1953. And for United Air Lines, he pre- oicieq an increase of around 13 to 18 per cent. Mr. Patterson said he believed there would be a higher average level of economic activity in 1950 than in 16m: that intercity com mon carrier travel would keep pace wun the increase in general busi ness activity, and that the volume ot air travel would increase at a more rapid rale than that of in tercity travel as a whole. United Air Lines, he said, should show Increases of 18 to 18 per cent in revenue-, passenger miles, 20 to 25 per cent, ' In cargo ton miles and 3 to 5 per cent in mail ton miles for the new year as com pared with 1955. Factors, he said, will include the normal growth ot tra.'fic - between cities on Uniied's Main Line, additions to Unltcd's fleet and aggressive merchandis ing. Currently United is operating 176 four-engine and twin-engine air craft. In 1956, the company will take delivery on 17 more four- enrine planes. Including five DC-6A Cargoliner.4 which will enable thr company to nearly double its pres ent all-cargo lift., ... United has 251 million dollars worth of new alicralt on order 175 million, dollars lor 30 DC-8 jet slrliners and 76 million dollars for 44 Douglas piston-engine air craft which will accommodate growth until the jeta arrive. - Results ior 1955, with December estimated, recorded substantial gains In all. categories of traffic 4 billion revenue passenger miles, up 20 per cent; 63,300,000 cargo ton miles, up 19 per. ecu'., and 2b, 330.000 mail ton mills, up 11 per cent. Mere than 3,500,000 revenue passengers were carried for a It per cent increase over the 1951 record. The anlns were accomp lished with an increase of 20 per cent hi revenue ton miles and IS cruising speeds of 550-575 miles an nour ana wnicn win reauce present travel limes by about So per cent. First deliveries will be made early In 1959. On many fronts, the company moved to further Improve Its facili ties aloft and on 'the ground, to increase lis pasoeimcr-cariro serv ices and to strengthen its route system. A 4 million dollar program was launched early in the year to In stall C-bar.d weather mapping ra dar in nil the company's Mainlin- ers. New electronic devices . to speed ud the bundling of reserva tions and ticketing were Installed In cities along the system. A 0 million dollar expansion' ol the company's maintenance base at San Francisco was announced as were plans for new facilities at the New York and Chicago interna tional airports. Under a Civil Aeronautics Board decision lHtc In Ihe year. Pitts burgh and Kansas City were added as new cities on United's system, to bring the total to 82. Also as Uie result of CAB actions, non- ftup service was inaugurated be tween the Pacific Northwest anc Chicago and United was authorized to resume service at the Caliiornia f New 'services and faster sched ules . were the order of Uie year. Nonstop DC-7 flights between New York ana both San Francisco and Los Angeles highlighted schedules which meant more and better adv ice for communities along the company's 13, 250-mile system. Air coach service was expanded to the point where il accounted for 33'.? p?r cent of revenue- passenger miles. Meanwhile, as a new econo my feature, United instituted air coach excursion fares of only 180 each way on round-trip flights be tween major Atlantic and Pacific Coast cities. . - J United initiated new interline agreements with a number of for eign lines, resumed an equipment -interchange with Branti'f between Ihe Southwest and Paoific North west and gave many cities along its system their first through inter national air freight rates under an agreement with Air Express Inter national. Through a reserved air freight system, the company pro vlded shippers with improved, ex pedited service. . . ... At year's end. the company had more than 18.000 employes, some of whom reached their 80th year cities of Santa Barbara, Monterey of service with Uie company dur- and Eureka. 'ing 1958 W. A. PATTERSON per cent in available seat miles made possible by the addition ot new aircraft in the first half of Uie year, i, ( i ,i . . . Outstanding in United's progres sive steps in 1955 was its order i for Jetliners the first to be placed oy any domestic airline. More than five years of intensive jet studies and analysis led to the company's decision to buy the four-engine DC-8s, which will car ry from 112 to 140 passengers at typewriters adding Machines For Sale or Rent MIGHT'S SCHOOL SUPPLIES 429 Main OFFICE SUPPLIES Phone 7412 Three Ranger Transfers Told LAKEVIEW Three transfers of personnel of the Fremont National Forest are announced this week by John McDonald, Fremont super visor. On January 3. Bill Steers, form erly timber management assistant at Silver Lake, transferred to Drews Valley as timber manage ment assistant to fill the position vacated by Robert L. Bjornsen who was promoted in November to district ranger of the Bear Sleds Ranger District on the Wallowa- Whitman National Forest at Wal lowa. Filling Steer's position at Silver Lake will be Ed Vinoski. who was forester in the Warner district. Bill Knechtel, forester, transfers from Paisley to the Warner district. McDonald said the Paisley posi tion will be vacant until spring when a new junior forester will be hired. Installation Set By Eastern Star A public installation for the 1956 officers of Aloha Chapter. No. 61, Order of the Eastern Star, will be held Saturday evening. January 7 at the Masonic Temple. The cere mony will begin at 8 p.m. Elective officers to be installed Include: Martha Powell, worthy matron: Harold Rush, worthy pa tron: Margaret Sheridan, associate matron: Joy Ustick. associate pa tron: Leona Selby secretary: Clara Sherman, treasurer; Hazel Rhodes, conductress and Gwendlyn, associ ate conductress. - All Eastern Star members and friends are invited to attend. THE SEVEN CLEVER COOKERS Our fifth meeting was held Tues day, December 13, at our leader's home; at T p.m., with all present except Judy Baumgart. j The repeating of: the pledges was followed by roll call, and the reading of the minutes by our. secretary. Sue George. Presldentl Martha Cantrall was in the chair. and carried the meeting along in good order. It was voted to change the meet ing dales to the- first and third Mondays instead of the second and -fourth, since-. our assistant leader, Mrs. Elsie Quinn could not attend every time otherwise. We voted to have a gift ex change at our next meeting, with a limit of 15 to 20 cents; and this meeting will be on our leaders' birthday, there being no school that day. We will hold a regular two hour meeting, with rice as the demon stration. Mrs. Gray gave lis a recipe for stuffed baked potatoes, which we all wrote down. .Each member present told of- a- way that they had prepared potatoes. Martha Cantrall was hostess, and served punch and cookies which she had made herself. They were delicious. The evening - concluded with the singing of Christmas Carols. .. . . i ' .-. ' Tentative Bid Award Told The tentative ' award of leases for the calendar year in lease areas "F" and "N" near Tule Lake, announced J. Pitts Elmore. manager of the Klamath Falls of fice of the U.S. Bureau of Recla mation. The bids were opened Wednesday. - ' There were no bids on lots' I. 3. and 4. Murel Long bid 83.867.24 for 804 acres in lot 6; William Kari dra. 84,698.11. 660 acres, lot 7; Carol E. 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