Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, May 25, 1958, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextMOB 8 A ' HERALD ANTD NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUNDAY. MAY 25. 1953 i3 - fc:. t vi-l tr-: DON HORSLEY, Bonanza, who with his wife is donating the beef for the annual Memorial Day barbecue May 30 for the benefit of the Bonanza Cemetery. The menu feat ures Weitern-ttyle food and will be held at the cemetery or the Bonanza school cafeteria in case of bad weather. Horsley is Union Oil distributor at Bonanza. Memorial Day Feast Set BONANZA The annual Me morial Day barbecue for the ben efit of the Bonanza Cemetery will be May 30 from 12 noon until 3 p.m. at the cemetery, or. if the weather is bad, at the Bonanza School cafeteria. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hartley and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Seater are co- chairmen of the affair. The beef for the barbecue is being donated by Mr. and Mrs. Don Horsley. Tickets are tl for adults and 50 cents for children. The menu is Western style with the barbecued beef, sauce, baked potatoes, rolls, cole slaw, homemade pics and cof- tee. ine price covers all you can eat. The proceeds from the barbecue will go for needed improvements to me cemetery. Underground pipe is being laid in the new section. Bob Davison is the caretaker. Memorial wreaths, made by the Bonanza Women's Club, will be sold at the cemetery Memorial Day and orders may be phoned to Bonanza 2154 or 2127. The pro ceeds .from the sale of the wreaths also go to the cemetery fund. City Has Interest To Buy Dunsmuir Water Company ' DUNSMUIR Interest in pur chase of the Dunsmuir Water Company by the city was ex pressed at the city council meet ing this week after representatives of the company explained another rate raise was contemplated and Southerners traditionally eat black-eyed peas on New Year's Day for good luck. Snake Proves Poor Mother NEW YORK un James A Oliver, a quick man with a blind fold, used one yesterday to sneak eight eggs from a 10-foot African rock python. Alter laying 21 eggs, the snake had curled herself around them. Two years ago she laid 20 eggs. They remained with her and none hatched. This time, Bronx Zoo officials decided, about half the eggs would be taken for artificial hatching. Into the cage went Oliver, cura tor of reptiles, and Keeper Ray Cummins. Holding a white cloth, Oliver took the snake by the head and blindfolded her. Cummins plucked eight eggs from the pile. The 36-pound snake's reaction? Total indifference. Zoo officials pointed out, how ever, that the seven-year-old mother, while nonpoisonous, has a vicious bite. increased service was not war ranted. ' Mayor J. M. Jones said the city might buy the water company if the price is right. Glenn Bowen and F. L. Ramey of Klamath Falls, water company representatives, said the company was currently losing money but the city could operate it more economically because labor and taxes were the major expenses. Bowen and Ramey had been asked to attend the council meet ing to discuss improved water service to the northeast section of town, an elevated area now with out water service when power fail ure shuts off pumping service. Both men said extensions and improvements, such as a gravity flow emergency supply, would have to be made at the customer's expense. Professional appraisal would de termine price of the water system, the men said, with present book value from $280,000 to $300,000. In other business the city coun- cilmen asked the city clerk to pre- INVITATION FOR CYPRIOT ATHENS. Greece (UP)-Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios. a bitter critic of the British govern ment, said today he had been in vited to attend a conference of churchmen in Britain but had postponed a decision on attending. He received the invitation from the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England. pare a detailed expenditure sheet to show how much the city was receiving for its planning dollar. The planning commission has re quested continuance of a seven cent planning surtax. Mayor Jones said he found last year's report by Hahn, Wise and Barber, pro fessional planners, elementary and probably applicable to any city. It was also announced the city was acquiring a 1940 Seagraves fire truck for $350 through surplus property arrangements made by Harold Beale, director of civil de fense. C. U. Taylor was named deputy surplus property officer. Surfacing of the streets -of the Kaleta subdivision without street assessments being levied against adjoining property owners was also protested by Mrs. C. H. Dod well at the council meeting. Mayor J. Morgan Jones and Councilman George Manne defend ed the action as a measure to en courage home building. Mrs. Dod well pointed out a precedent was being established that might obli gate the city to surface other streets and reminded councilmen that property owners in the older section of Dunsmuir are still pay ing street assessment obligations. The council recently approved surfacing the streets at the earliest possible date in order that FHA approval might be obtained for the construction of six homes. The work has been estimated at $3,400. Automobile Dealer Joins School Board DUNSMUIR - Reg Thorn, auto dealer, has been elected to the Dunsmuir Joint Union High School board over three opponents. Dunsmuir voters gave Thorn 105 I voters; Mrs. Juanita Baughman, a wnte in candidate, 46 votes: James Periera, 45 votes and Ter rence McCormick. 33 votes. Castella. also part of the district, favored McCormick, a Castella resident, with 83 votes: Thorn, 41; and Periera, 7. In Dunsmuir. Dorothy Baugh man got two write-in votes and C. H. Baughman, one. Kathleen Graves and Harold Baughman were reelected to the Dunsmuir Elementary School board. They were unopposed. Jua nita Baughman got two write-in votes in this race also. OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT inquire DREWS MANSTORE Ph. TU 4-4122 OSBURN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. Mm. J. B. Early Jos Early Jr. ProprleUrt Thoroughly Modern America's pleasure boat fleet nearly tripled in a decade an! grew by 345,000 small craft duf mg 1957. CLAUDE BIEHN, new car salesman at Dick B. Miller Co., says, "You can finance your new Olds mobile for only 6 at Dick B. Miller Co., so you Auto Buy Now '. . , come in and I'll make you a deal!" Adv. GLORIA CAHAN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Cahan, Merrill, and a junior at Merrill High School, has been selected by the Mer rill American Legion Aux iliary Unit No. 80 as a rep resentative to Oregon Girls' State at Willamette Univer sity in Salem from June 16 to June 22. Harris Photo Phone Official Promoted MERRILL James Kirby. dis trict manager ot the Morrill-Mnlin-Tulelake area of the Columbia Utilities Telephone Company lor the last five years, has been pro moted to general commercial and tralfic manager with headquarters in Mcdford. Announcement of his promotion was made today by O. D. Hood. Mcdford, president of the telephone company. Kirby, employed by Ihe company since 1045, will lake over his new duties Juno 1. With his wife Eliza beth and two sons. Bill, 10 years and Jimmy, 6, he will leave May 28 for their new home nt 2!) W ind sor, Mcdford. The Kirby home here has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Dale Walker. Kirby will he succeeded by Rob ert M. Graves, presently senior switchman nt the Oakridge. Ore gon district office. Ho will be ac companied to Merrill hy Mrs, Graves I Doris), a son Gary and two daughters. Gloria and Cathy. Numerous posts have been held by Kirhy during his residence here. He Is a past president of the Merrill Lions Club, is current ly deputy district governor ol Lions Clubs of Klamath and Lake counties: has been president of lb city council for two years: served as chairman of the 1955 Klamath Rasin Council: is treasurer of Hoy Scout Troop No, 7 and a member of the U.S. Independent Pioneer Telephone Association. Mrs. Kirby is aiso in scout work, serving as treasurer for t ub Scouts, Pack 7. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kirhv are members of, St. Paul's Episcopal initrcn. Mamatn halls. Mrny and 1. raves Doth are graduates of Klamath Union High School, class of 1942. SNEAKY BUSINESS DAYTON. Ohio if Dayton police were hawng "good husi. ness" at a radar speed trap until things suddenly dropped oil. Checking up ahead of their trap they found a woman standing in the street holding a big sign read inc.: "Speed Trap Ahead." The woman. Mrs. Margone Strinway. ?2. of Dayton, explained that she "insidrred radar "sneaky." CUSTER'S CAMPAIGN Gen. Geoije Armstrong l'u!cr launched his li! fated expedition against the S mix Indians in l.i.n from Fort Lincoln, near Bismark Army Defers Nike Changes At All Sites MIDDLETOWN, N. J. u Sc cret modification work on Nike Ajax missiles has been halted at Army launching sites throughout tnc country. Acting Secretary of Hie Army Hugh M. Milton Washington an nounced (he suspension of the work F ri d a y in the wake of an explosion which took 10 lives at .i missile base here. He said similar modifications have been completed "on hun dreds of other missiles in bther areas without incident." They are designed to improve performance. Meanwhile, experts probed the wreckage of the launching racks at the Nike base here, seeking a clue to Thursday's series of blasts. Ihe modification was being made on one of the missiles when something went wrong. The mis sile blew up and touched off sym pal none explosions in seven others. Jagged fragments showered down on the nearby countryside. Windows were blown out in homes for miles around. Six soldiers and four civilians wero killed Three other persons were injured. ihe base itself suffered nearly half million dollars damage Five launching pads were dis abled. Seven others are still opera- live. The eight Nike Aiax missiles like those poised at the other bases around New York City, carried TNT warheads. The Army has announced plans to equip all 'ho bases later this year with Nike Hercules missiles, capable of carrying atomic warheads. An Army officer said Friday I ho chances that such an atomic warhead could explode accidental ly are "extremely remote." Rrig. Gen. Charles II. Duff, nling commanding general of the 1'irsl negion ol the Army Defense Command, made the statement as civilian demands grew for an ex planation of Thursday's tragedy. KosKioms ol tins township, some 25 miles south of New York Cilv sought assurances that no such ac cident will happen again. 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