FRIDAY. JULY 11. ma
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREfiON
PAGE 5 A
Park Board To Ask Voters
For An Additional 2 Mills
Voters may be asked to okay an
additional two mill tax (or city
park and recreation purposes
when balloting time rolls around
In November.
The Park and Recreation Board
Wednesday recommended the lev
ies be authorized for the ballot
by the city council, which must
give linal consent.
Meanwhile, the board authorized
J)irector Bob Bonney to work with
City Attorney Henry Perkins in
getting the necessary papers
drawn up.
!f council approval ensues and
if voters also say yes. then Dark
and recreation tax rales would go
from a present two mills each to
three each. In the fiscal year just
ended, two mills produced about
$27,000 in revenue for each de
partment. If the city's total
sessea valuation should increase
somewhat, as is expected for 1958-
59, revenues would also rise slight
ly. Direclor Bonney pointed out to.
day that park and recreation tax
rates of two mills each are the
same now as when the two de
partments were born in 1947.
He declared that more funds are
desperately needed "to adequately
maintain and repair all our facil
ities which we are not able to do
iw.
Bonney said We just have to
let things go now without fixing
them up." Random examples cited
Dy the director included paintin
roofing, road and parking lot
maintenance and improvement,
and landscaping.
"We need more personnel and
equipment to do our job right,
Bonney said, adding that more
recreation leadership personnel is
also badly needed.
"We spend about J2.70 per capi
ta on parks and recreation here.
while the minimum national Stan
dard is $6."
In other action yesterday, the
Park and Recreation Board:
Agreed with Bonnev and Mnnr
Park custodian Al Knowles that
the bears be removed because nl
the hazardous condition of their
pens. They may be restored when
adequate housing can be afforded
Heard Bonney report that S 9R1
admissions to the swimming pool
have been recorded in Mav and
lune. bringing in revenue of S5.4in
despite the unusually heavy
rains ol late. In May and June of
1954 when the pool ooened
oniy i5,ibb attended paying $4,
269.99.
Heard that the Basin Boaters
will improve a boat dock at the
Moore Park lake front, usine
raft, barrels and other reouisites
ine parx department has on hand
Heard that the Railroad Com
mittee has acquired lumber for
building steps and platforms at
the locomotive in Veterans Park.
The group is composed mostly of
retired railroaders.
Was notified that a pipe line has
been completed to drain off seep
age at Kicnmond Park. A nearby
residential garage may have to be
removed because of the line.
Authorized a hot asphalt coat
for the paved portion of the ice
rink at Moore, so as to restore life
to the existing blacktop and pro
vide a water tight seal. The street
department will be asked to do the
work.
V. L. PEARSON
Vodka Fiend
Burns Checks
PH1LADKLPHIA (API - A de
tective says Lawrence Nutter, 2.1,
stole a case of negotiable Ameri
can Express checks worth $500,000
and threw them away because
they weren't vodka.
Detective Vincent Heeney told
this story yesterday at a hearing:
Nutter took three cases from the
Railway Express Agency June 2
because he thought they contained
vodka.
The first rase he opened was
filled with vodka, which he and a
friend, William McCall, 28, sam
pled. Later McCall opened a sec
ond case.
"Take that stuff out of here. I
don't want it," McCall told Nutter
after rifling through the checks
Nutter obediently burned them in
a city incinerator.
Magistrate J. Amos Harris held
Nutter on $500 bail for trial.
Madame Chiang
Issues Blast
ANN ARBOR. Mich. l'Pl
Madame Chiang Kai-shek said
Thursday night it is a tragedy
that some "powerful minds" in
the world believe Communist
domination is preferable to nucle
ar war.
The basic issue is that of right
and wrong, not mere survival as
slaves stripped of human dignity.
he said at a special convocation
irf the University of Michigan at
which she received an honorary
degree of doctor of laws.
These Bears
Can Be Yours
Locomotive
Starts Trek
ATLANTA (API A steam loco
motive that used to travel at 60
miles an hour starts a two-mile
trip today that is expected to take
three days.
Army engineers plan to shift the
locomotive from an Atlanta and
West Point Railroad right-of-way
to the Southeastern Fairgrounds
by Sunday. The engine, Old 290,
was given to the city by the rail
road lor a permanent exhibit at
the fair.
The engine and tender weigh
more than 174 tons and are about
83 feet long.
The 32-year-old career of Old
290 includes pulling the Crescent
Limited from New Orleans to New
York. On its final trip it will pro
ceed along track sections placed
on Atlanta streets. The sections
will be removed and put ahead
of the locomotive as it progresses.
Church Aide
Visits Here
The Klamath Falls congregation
of Jehovah's Witnesses is being
visited this week by V. L. Pear
son, circuit supervisor of Brooklyn,
New York, it was announced.
George Hricziscse, presiding min
ister of the local group, in discus
sing Mr. Pearson's visit pointed
out its twofold purpose is of train
ing and teaching.
"Since Jehovah's Witnesses con
stitute a preaching society," Hri
cziscse said, "the first phase of
the week's activity is to provide
careful training for the local wit
nesses. Our concern is to equip
every one or the preaching fellow
ships of Jehovah's Witnesses in the
practical use of the Bible as a
help in fortifying the spiritual mo
rale of people in our community.
The public is invited to meet with
us at the local Kingdom Hall, 833
North Ninth Street, on Saturday
evening at 8 o'clock for this in
struction." Hricziscse also announced that
the second or teaching phase n(
the program will be emphasized
through the week as the local min
isters personally contact the citi
Jens of Klamath Falls in an effort
to stimulate greater attention to to
day's pressing need for religious
education.
Mr. Pearson will climax the en
tire week by addressing the public
at 3 Sunday afternoon on the sub
ject. "Meeting the Needs of Life
Seekers. Hricziscse said.
P1CARD PLANS NEW DIVES
CASTELLAMARE DI STABIA
Italy (UPI) Prof. Auguste
Piccard, famous explorer of ocean
depths, will make a series of
dives off the coast of California
late this year. His son, Jacques,
said today his father had reached
an agreement with officials of
Ihe Scripps Foundation of San
Diego, Calif., to give him aid for
his new plunges.
TOLEDO. Ohio (API Want
black bear? Two black bears?
They can be had for the asking
provided the taker has a strong
cage and knows how to handle
bears.
The bears are the property of
Mrs. Catherine Jacobs of nearby
awanlon, widow of carnival own
er W. B. Jacobs, who died last
Friday.
Ed Steusloff of the Toledo Hu
mane Society said if no new home
is found for the bears by Sunday
they will be shot.
The Toledo Zoo has all the black
bears it wants and Steusloff said
the cages at the Human Society
are not strong enough to hold the
bears, a male and female weigh
ing 500 and 3O0 pounds.
TIGER LEAVES
JACKSONVILLE, fla. IAP A
300-pound royal Bengal tiger
leaves by plane today to meet a
new mate at the Baltimore .oo
The tiger, on loan from the Ring
ling Bros, and Barnum 4 Bailey
Circus, will join Duchess, whose
precious mate died recently of
heart attack.
Hick'ry-Dick'ry;
Cat Ends Case
IUKA. Miss. ll'Pll For about
month, Mrs. Sue Vinson was
continually having to chase the
cat from atop the radio.
And the radio had been emit
ting a strange squeaking sort of
static.
Finally Mrs. Vinson removed
the back panel from the radio,
with the cat an interested on
looker.
A mouse ran out, the cat
pounced and the case was closed.
FIRST TIME
SPRINGFIELD, III. (UP1 -I
Mike Gibbons, 38. shot a hole-in-one
Thursday while playing his
first round of golf.
Canada Seeks
ike Assassin
OTTAWA d'PIi Royai Cana '
dian Mounted Police today tried
to unravel the claim of a taxi
driver that he had dropped two
men believed to be armed near
golf course where President
Eisenhower was playing.
About 30 extra constables were
called in to beat the heavily
wooded Hunt and Golf Club
Thursday after cabbie Nicholas
Skowronski, 27, said the men had
alighted at either end of the
course. No trace of the men was
found.
RCMP Inspector H. S. Cooper,
in charge of security during Ihe
President s three-day visit, re
mained non - committal on Skow
ronski 's story.
Skowronski. in a stuttering voice,
told Cooper that one of the men
was carrying "a leather case
about four feet long," which
"could have contained a rifle."
The other had "a leather holster
in his belt," he said.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty, who briefed
n'.-.vsmen four hours after the in
cident, said Cooper gave "not too
much credence to the story,
Bellowing Cattle
Ball Up Traffic
SADDLE RIVER. N. J. (AP-
The law got a call that 18 short
horn steers had departed the
Pruiksma farm and were clutter
ing up the four lanes of Route 17,
an old motorists' trail into New
York City.
The bellowing cattle were ball
ing up traffic.
Stale police at Ramsey called
or help from nearby police.
The cowboy cops cut the steers
out of the herd of cars and cor
raled them by the side of the rood.
Henry Hudson discovered the
island of Manhattan in 1M19.
Former Star
Asks Damages
LOS ANGELES (APt- Former
movie star Mae Clarke demands
a million dollars damages from
the company which produced a
television horror show featuring
the film rrankenstein.
She had a leading role in the
lilm, which was made 20 years
ago. She said the television pro
gram included a portrayal of her
as a has-been broken down, poverty-stricken
. and slovenly.
Miss Clarke. 48, asked the dam
ages for invasion of privacy. De
fendants arc Paramount Televi
sion Products, Inc., and Ottola
Nesmith, who, the actress said,
impersonated her on Ihe telecast.
FISHY
CHARLOTTE. N.C. t UPI I The
coastal fishint town of Morehead.
N.C, is being .represented in this
years Miss North Carolina pa,
gcant by ifiss Bonita Fish.
GOOD!
lis
WANTED
Experienced
TRUCK MECHANIC
Apply Buck Steinman
ot
Juckeland Motors, Inc.
lUh & Klomoth . TU 2-2581
MOVING?
your furniture
It in good hand
with..
Bend-Portland
Truck Service
Phone TU 4-4138 -1445
Oak.
LONG
DISTANCE
' MOVING
home quality
Cookies
4mm
o
Will Knock on Your Dor
with Gifts & Greetings
from Friendly Business,
Neighbors and Your
Civic and Social
Welfare Leaders
On the Ocasion of:
?0 Birth of a Baby
Engagement
finnouncemenQ
Arrival of Newcomers to
Klamath Falls
. No cost or obligationl
Phono TU 4-6115
All This For Just
HP
With Your Present Operating
Refrigerator IF IT IS NOT
MORE THAN TEN YEARS
OLD, a popular make in good
condition.
Big Family Sixe
11 cu. ft.
& LOOK! 42-lb. full width freezer chest on tejH
tV LOOK! Cold Contrel wtfli overnight (UfroaJiwjJ
LOOK! Five convenient shelves in deer!
TV LOOK! Frigidaire ewlty Meter Miser esutm
LOOK! Ne Money Duwri Only S7.31 pwfflrt!
J9st ojve us your operating refrigera
tor NOT MORE THAN 10 YEARS
OLD, of populor mokt and in good
condition and .
$
149
And All This
is Yours!
VERN OWENS'
Cascade Homo Furnishings
12 Rrat 4
Phono TU 4-8365
Penney's
ELEVATOR SERVICE TO ALL FLOORS
OPEN FRIDAY NIGHTSf
TILL 9 P.M.
ALL OTHER DAYS 9:30 TO 5:30
ro on n .
girls' better-made cotton school dresses!
3-inch hems! big sweeps!
Everything about this is incomparable at the price!
The Dan River Dri Don finish cottons appear in
plaids, prints, solids and combinations. The dress stylos
are so new and darling, you'll want an armful !
The tailoring could take spy glass inspection !
After machine washing, you need hardly iron ! Hurry
in. You'll congratulate yourself! What fabulous
savings are yours !
$
3
925
and At
SIZES 7 TO 14 SIZES 4 TO X
' ".
o . K r .......
GIRL'S
BALLERINA
HALF SLIP OF
NYLON
MARQUISETTE
00
Sizoi 4 to 14
Whce! Look at the hit of
the party, and the price'
6 yards of ribboned ny
lon maraisette tiers!
Nylon tricot h i p I i n e1
White, red, pastels. Hand
washoble.
SECOND FLOOR
WAIT!
Penney's
July
Blanket
Event
Starts Mon.
July 28th
USE PENNEY'S CONVENIENT LAY-AWAY PLAN!