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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23. lQg8 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE THREB Church Plans To Enlarge CHILOQU1N - The Chilo q u i n Methodist Church is plan ning to build an addition to the present structure during the' cur rent year. It is estimated that the cost will be in the neighborhood of $14,000. The financial committee for the building campaign announced re cently that although slightly over one half the time has passed since pledges for the 1953-1959 building activities were taken, money re ceived has not reached the 50 per cent mark. A total of $8,500 is to . be raised by the local church, with additional assistance from other sources to bring the total to the desired $14,000. Last fall the Eugene district church extension society, represent ed by Glenn Fundenburger of Klamath Falls, gave a check for $540 to the local church. The area has promised additional help la ter. House Number Plan Okayed MALIN The Malin City Coun cil passed a resolution at its Feb ruary meeting to put into effect a house numbering system in Ma lin to be carried out by the Malin Boy Scouts who will sell the num bers and put them up. Council Member Joe Halousek is working out the numbering system, the de tails of which will be announced soon, according to Mayor Leonard Petnk. . The city of Malin has purchased with assistance from the state and federal government, a walkie-talk ie radio system to be used By tne city marshal, fire department and in case of emergency by George Pappe. Malin area Civil Defense director. A report from the engineering firm of Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merrifield of Corvallis con cerning the Malin water system has been received. The three sug gestions made by the engineers are: H) Build a new tower at the present site of the old tower: (2) pressurize the 100,000 gallon steel tank located near the old tower; or (3) move the steel tank to a location up above the park. City council members would like to have the Malin residents come to the next meeting on Tues day, March 4, at 8 p.m. in the fire hall to discuss the water situation Former council Member Vince Zumr Jr., has moved and Joe Ha lousek has been appointed to take his place and Dan McAuliffe is now a council member in place of aarence-Kolkow. :.... Sunday Closure Discussion Set An invitation has been extended to the public and to all business men to attend a meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in the downtown head quarters of the YMCA for an ex change of ideas relating to the closing of all businesses on Satur day or Sunday in observance of the Sabbath. Chairman of the sponsoring or ganization, the Family Observance Committee. Al LeRoyce, said that if businesses were to close, it would be on "strictly a volunteer basis; a gentleman s agreement. He stated that the program is backed by industry, religion, labor and the community and added that the committee's possible target date for enforcing the closing would be Easter Sunday. LeRoyce said that the one ex ception to the closing would be stores that should stay open for the welfare of the community. Cafe Owner Dies From Rifle Shot YREKA George Stack, 52-year-old owner of the Buckhorn tavern and cafe here, died instantly early Friday afternoon from gunshot wounds which were apparently self inflicted. Officials with th Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office sai Stack appar cntly went to the deep freeze stor age unit in the basement below the tavern and shot himse'f through the head with a rifle slug. The incident is believed to have happened about 2 p.m., and Stack was tound a short time later by one of his employes. He had lived in Yreka for many years except for a short time ago when he lived in the Bay Area where he operateo a business. Funeral arrangements are pend ing with the Girdner Funeral Chapel. ROCKET EXPLODES MILAN, Italy (UP) A young university student was killed and another was seriously injured Friday nisht when a carnival rocket they were making explod ed in Iheir hands. Police said Ti ziano Gambini. 20, died en route to a hospital. Mario Premoli. whose bedroom was virtually de stroyed by the blast, suffered se rious arm and leg injuries and was hospitalized. 5W REALTY WV 119 So. 6th St. TU. 2-4671 KLAMATH FALLS, OHIOON REAL ESTATI INSURANCI i r V GENE FAVELL of Klamath Falls was quest speaker at the February meeting of The Artifactors, a group interested in Indian artifacts. His talk on the culture of the Columbia River Indians was illustrated by mounted exhibits of arrow, heads, including the one he it shown holding, and other artifacts. In his hand is an engraved stone pipe found in that area. The civilization he described dates back several thousands of years. Artifactors Hold Elections On Group's Third Birthday Roy Mattson of Merrill was elect ed as president of The Artifactors at the group s annual meeting held on February 17 at the fairgrounds exhibit building. Mrs. Mattson is new secretary-treasurer and bam Merriman, also of Merrill, was named as vice president. Outgoing president is Bob Anderson. The group observed its third birthday with a potluck dinner. Gene Favell was guest speaker. taking the Columbia River Culture as his topic. "The Columbia River Indians are known to have had 6ne of the most civilized cultures." Favell told the 40 members and guests present. The findings at the Five Mile Locks camp are known to date back 10.000 years and the Wake map camp dates back 1,000 years," he said. Because of favorable climatic Morse Wants Probe Of ICC "WASHINGTON l Sen. Morse (D-Ore) Friday suggested an in vestigation be made of two former Interstate Commerce Commission officials he said had exhibited "questionable conduct." One of the former ICC officials denied any questionable conduct. The other refused immediate com ment on the remarks Morse made on the Senate floor. In a speech to the Senate, Morse also said a special committee should be created to inquire into the actions of federal regulatory agencies. One of the cases Morse cited was that of Owen Clarke, a for mer ICC chairman. Morse said Clark's resignation late last year to become a vice president of the C&O Railroad in dicated Clarke tried for the posi tion while still serving on the ICC. Reached at his home here, Clarke declined immediate com ment. The other case mentioned by Morse was that of Edward M. Reidy, a former general counsel for the ICC who later became gen eral attorney for the Southern Pacific. Morse said that Reidy repre sented the ICC in proceedings in which a box company brought a complaint against the Southern Pacific. Morse asked in his speech: "Is this not a strange occurence to have an attorney for one party be come the attorney for another party in the midst of litigation?" Asked for comment on Morse's remarks, Reidy said: "I did not have anything to do with the box case after I left the commission, except to request an extension of time to file a reply to a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court to which the other side had consent ed in advance. "Furthermore, the Interstate I Commerce Commission and the j Southern Pacific were both on the i same side of the case." Reidy, who has lived here for 1 40 years, said he is a Democrat. LIQUOR RAP LAKEVIEW - Will R. Lemmer. 33. was found guilty by a justice court jury Thursday, February 20. of furnishing liquor to a minor, and was subsequently sentenced by Justice of the Peace O. C. Gibbs to 90 days in jail with a fine of $300 and costs. The case involved a 17-year-old bov. REMODELING REPAIRS GOOD TERMS AVAILABLE PLANS - ESTIMATES FURNISHED Wm. B. POWELL TU 2-4576 PRECISION BUILT HOMES conditions and the abundance of fish and game for food, they had leisure for artistic work and their items of personal adornment em ployed the use of feathers, furs, painted sticks, wood and stone carvings, Favell said. Many of the artifacts are effigy pieces, such as a carved buffalo he displayed, and most of the mortars, pestles and paint pots found are handcarved, he said. "They wore quantities of beads and bangles," the speaker said. "As trade goods they used Phoenix buttons, Northwest tokens and cop per goods. Their arrowheads are among the finest in the world. Favell said that the arrowhead or "pot" hunters date back to 1890. During depressions, some hunters sold artifacts for a living. He con fessed to catching the artifact fe ver in 1953 and has been an avid collector since that time. He has one of the finest collections in the state consisting of artifacts from the Columbia. Warner Valley, Klamath Basin points and from farther afield. At the close of the program, it was announced that the next meet ing will be on March 17 in the Klamath County Library. Local Man Held In County Jail Bob Redkey, 29, of 2255 Vine Street, was in the county jail Sat urday night, booked on a charge of assault and battery and held in lieu of $350 bail. The complaint was filed against the former Klamath Union High School and Oregon State College gridder by another football player, Frank Wilson of Oregon Tech, who said that Redkey burst into his room on cairtpus late Friday night and began calling him names. Witnesses said the altercation be gan downtown and then moved out to OTI. USBR Land Leased After Bid Opening The Region Two office of the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. De partment of the Interior, has an nounced that seven bids were re ceived at the bid opening held Feb ruary 20 for the leasing of four parcels of public land, for agricul tural and grazing purposes. The parcels are located in Lease Area K in the Lower Klamath Lake portion of the Klamath project. Project manager D. A. Gray said that Lester V. Wells, leased lot number eight for $2,572; Oscar A. Denault, lot number 12 for $327.77; Everett T. Reed, lot number 13 for $805 and George P. Andrieu, lot number 17 for $3,341.84. DRIVERS TEST A drivers license examiner will be on duty in Chiloquin, Tuesday, February 25. in the Indian Educa tion Office from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Department of Motor Vehicles announced. Persons wishing origi nal licenses or permits are asked to file applications well ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assure time for completion of the test. tVerM1! Oitty hilly Automatic Ommt ELECTROLUX hcfarr-AafMiW Urn tmt aWw TARKEL TWEET . Ph. 4-7167 2550 White St. Klamath Cow Belles Plan Official Bracelet Emblem The Idea of an official emblem of some sort for the Cow Belles has been under discussion since the formation of Klamath County Cow Belles some five years ago. so it seemed fitting that the first Cow Belle bracelet would originate in Klamath Falls. Mrs. Oscar Kittredge, beef pro- Cowmen Hear State Leaders An organized protest against lower east-west freight rates was made by cattlemen from 11 west ern states during the January con vention of the American Cattle men's Association, George Russell, president of the Oregon Cattle men's Association told 100 mem bers of the Klamath Cattlemen's Association annual meeting Sat urday in the Willard Hotel. Russell stated that the lower rates on dressed meat is detri mental to western livestock pro ducers, packers and labor, be cause it gives an unfair advan tage to their eastern counterparts. Meanwhile, Ed Coles, secretary of the state association, pointed out that the lower rates upset the "historical balance between east and west when the western indus try was forced recently to pay a higher freight tariff on live ani mals, v In other action, the local asso ciation reelected their present of ficers for another year. They are W. F. Marshall, Poe Valley, presi dent: Ted Hyde, vice president and Ray Petersen, secretary. Earlier, in the home of Mrs. Ir win Campbell on the Lakeview Highway, the Klamath Cow Belles, the cattlemen's auxiliary, elected 1958 officers. They are Mrs. Verne Howard, president; Mrs. Homer DeLama ter, vice president, and Mrs. Wil liam B. Decker, secretary-treas urer. The trio succeeds Mrs. Wil liam Marshall, president; Mrs. Oscar Kittredge, vice president, and Mrs. James Hammond, Mer rill, secretary-treasurer. Approximately 50 members at tended the business meeting and tea. Foresters Slate Lakeview Confab LAKEVIEW Supervisor Clay ton Weaver has announced that J. Herbert Stone, regional forester of the Pacific Northwest Region, will be a special guest at the annual meeting of the Fremont National Forest rangers to be held in Lake- view Monday, i ebruary 24, through noon Friday, February 28. Weaver will be in charge ot the session to outline a general work plan for the coming year District rangers and district as sistants of the Fremont Forest met Tuesday and Wednesday, Febru ary 17 and 18 for a fire confer ence led by John B. smith of the office of fire control from the re gional office in Portland. Smith was formerly a member of the Fremont staff. Funerals CODY Funeral services will be held from Ward's Klamath Funeral Home, at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Febru ary 25, for Wayne Earl iBill) Cody, 57, who died in Reno Saturday. Mr. Cody, a native of Dexter- ville, Wisconsin, was most recently employed as the custodian of the Klamath County (Jourthhouse, but by profession was a gyppo logger. having worked at several mills in the county. A resident here for the past 38 years, he is survived by his wife Cora (Babe) Cody; their daughter Barbara of this city, and his par ents, Mr. ana Mrs. Earl W. Cody, a sister, Mrs. Fern Francis and a brother, Brydn, all of Sacra mento. NO MONEY Weisfield's of Amsterdam 5 Direct Diamond "THE BARBARA DIAMOND SOLITAIRE With Matching 14 Karat Gold Band 2995 JW A single gleaming solitaire set In flfljf fff f na ' i delicately carved 14 karat gold, fcwsjff Jry NO MONEY DOWN V H S&Zr fofa ONLY 1.00 A WEEK M fcT IO0POBQ0I Stor Hour 9:30 to motion chairman for the state Cow Belle organization, designed the basic idea which has been car ried out by Arthur Rickbeil of Rickys Jewelers. The idea met with enthusiastic approval of the state officers and the national president has indicated to Mrs. Kittredge that the idea will be pre sented at the national level. Silver Cow Belle bracelets can be had on order with individual cattle brands at a moderate price. Additional bangles may be added as the individual desires. The standard bracelet will have a sil ver mesh chain . and the bangles will be of silver. The first gift bracelet from the Oregon Cow Belles is being taken by Mrs. Dave Campbell to Wash ington. D.C.. for presentation dur ing this week to Pat Nixon, wife of the vice president. The bangles were specially designed and exe cuted at Rickys and consist of a gold cow bell with diamond headed clapper, a zodiac emblem of Mrs. Nixon's birth month with the pres entation information on the re verse side, her birthstone sur rounded by pearls and another gold bangle with her initials in stead of a cattle brand. The brace let is 24k gold and hand executed. Mrs. Campbell, who lives at Bly, is president of Oregon Cow Belles. She is accompanied by her husband on the trip and they will be met in Washington by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cerber of Klamath Falls. As further promotion for Oregon Cattlemen, who have contributed funds for Mrs. Campbell's trip, she will take 100 boxes of beef candy, made by Brown & Haley, tor distribution to congressmen, School Show Time Changed "Come-In School" will be tele cast at 5:15 p.m. Mondays instead of 5:45. These telecasts which bring the schools home, are released by the Radio and Television Services of the Klamath Falls Public Schools, and is produced by Charles Wood house. Monday, viewers will see a sci ence panel discussion. The panel will consist of students of the Sci ence Department at Klamath Un ion High School who are under the instruction of Mrs. Gladys Her ron. The moderator of the panel will be Delmer Hawley. On The Record KLAMATH FALLS niRTIIS GIRLS DERRAH Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Derrah. February 21, In the Klamath Valley Hospital, 'a daughter wcigmng i ids., i.i ozb. ROYS LEPLEY Born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lepley. February 21, In the Klamath valley Hospital, a ion weign Ing 7 lbs., its 07jt. PEARSON Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Pearson, February 13. in the Klamath Valley Hospital, a daughter weighing 7 lbs., 10', 07s. 19.18 ROl'NDL'P Girls. 65; Boys. 65. NOW... at Basin Building 1x6 Pattern Pine . . . $55.00 per M 1x8 - 1x10 1x12 Pattern Pine $65.00 per M -in. Sheetrock .5c Sq. Ft. 4x8 34-in. Veneer ... S4.95 Ea. Basin Building Materials 4784 So. 6th Phone 2-2563 r- ItFU---- I i nritiniiinii DOWN TEPMS LOW Import 7 j&gfr I 3S9SBS 5:30 a rw lib . 3 HI MRS. DAVE CAMPBELL, center, will present an Oregon Cow ard M. Nixon, wife of the vice president of the United States, in Washington next week. At left is Mrs. Oscar Kittredge, beef promotion chairman of the Cow Belles and originator of the bracelet idea and at right is Arthur Rickbeil of Rickys Jewelers, who executed the de sign. Photo by Ellis Yater Control Project Filed LAKEVIEW Mike Hill, soil conservationist with the Lakeview Soil Conservation District reports that the application for assistance in making a survey of watershed control on the Thomas Creek-Cot tonwood Creek watershed has been completed and submitted to the sta.te engineer and the state con servationist. Next step in the procedure is a preliminary field examination by technicians from the SCS and oth er agencies concerned. Approval by these parties would result in the submission of the application to the SCS administrator in Washington, D.C. for approval. Neal Elliott, chairman for the Lakeview district, emphasizes the fact that the project is local with request for government aid, rather than a government project with local aid. Various groups and in dividuals assisting in submitting the application are the sponsoring groups of the SCS district, the Lake County Court and the town of Lakeview. Lakeview Water Users Inc., Lakeview County Chamber of Commerce, Lake County Agricul tural Planning Council, the grang es of Valley Falls, Westside, East side, Thomas Creek, the Lake County Farm Bureau, County Agent Oris Rudd and Phil Smith, county watermaster. Tune In! Sunday 1 - 2 PM KFLW and KFJI Simultaneously - on 2 Radios for Sensational STEREOPHONIC SOUND! AS 25 WEEK 701 MAIN STREET UNDERWOODS , MM THE MUCH DESIRED K O NO MONEY DOWN! USE OUR REVOLVING CHARGE PLAN! MAKES IT EASY TO IE READY FOR THE BEAU TIFUL PICTURE-TAKING DAYS AHEAD) KODAK Same as I He except: with out light meter, and with Retina-Xenon f2. 8 lens. SLIDE KODAK "300" Reg. $64.50 Now '54 00 WITH AUTOMATIC QUANTITY LIMITED Jt camera shop 706 MAIN ST. 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