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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1958)
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 21, 19SR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OHEfJON . v::.A .,t r ANNUAL BAZAAR of the St. Augustine's Church in Mer rill will give away a bride doll with a complete outfit of clothes, made by Mrs. Joseph Brandejesky of Klamath Falls, on Saturday evening, November 8, at the parish hall. A smorgasbord dinner will be served from 6 until 8 p.m. with no charge for preschool children. Mrs. Jackie O'Connor, Klamath Falls, Mrs. Donald Brechtel, Malin, and Mrs. Dan Barry, Merrill, are dinner co-chairmen. Mrs. Don Ratliff, president of St. Augustine's Altar Society, is general chairman of the affair which will feature various booths, including fancy work and cooked foods, and games. Survey By New York Paper Indicates Democrat Gains Nearly As Many Salesmen As Buyers In Land Boom By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent ORLANDO. Fla. (NEA) If all the lots staked out in Florida's incredible land boom suddenly sprouted houses and occupants, the state s population would jump by 30 million plants have been built in this area lor proximity to tne iape Canaver al missile test base 80 miles from here. But the bulk of Florida's popu lation boom has consisted of el derly people. A survey of the firms promoting these big land V.vm at Indavs rpi-nrd rate oftproiects reveals that upwards of construction, it would take more 1 7a per cent oi me customers nave than 10 years to build homes on the countless subdivisions where sites are now being offered. 1 doubt whether one ot those electronic calculators could have kept up with exact figures on acre age and funds invested," says a spokesman for the Florida Real Estate Commission here in Orlando. Theer are 30,000 licensed real estate salesmen and brokers in this slate, a ratio of land-sellers to land about triple the average in other states. And that does not include thousands of salesmen. en gaged in mail-order and out-of-state land-selling activities. Honda tana is being peddled in all the states, territories and dozens of foreign countries Florida is enjoying a substantial industrial expansion. This is bring' ing in new citizens. Many defense NEW YORK (AP) The New York Times said today a nation wide survey of political conditions by Times correspondents indi cated Democratic gains in the House of Representatives in the Nov. 4 election. The Times said the general im pression, slightly more than two Weeks before the election, was that the Democrats might gain from 15 to 40 House seats. This would give them a com fortable majority in the next Con gress. When the present House was at full strength, the Demo crats held 23S seat, and the Re publicans 200. The Times said the survey was not intended as a final forecast. It noted that many races were reported close and subject to change in the closing days. Not, included in the survey were Maine, which voted Sept. 8, and Alaska, where elections will be held Nov. 25. The Times survey reported: Democrats were confident and many informed Republicans pri vately agreed with them that they would add to their present House majority. Correspondents of the Times re ported that the Democrats had fair to excellent chances of adding one or more House seats in New York. Connecticut. New Jcrscv, Pennsylvania, California, West Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, Washington, Maryland. North Da kota, Kentucky and Ohio. There seemed to be little chance that Vice President Nixon would get the nationwide vote of confi dence in the Eisenhower adminis tration for which he has asked. Nixon has urged campaign audi ences to vote for Republican House and Senate candidates who would support President Eisen hower's program. There were few signs of the landslide that some Democrats predicted when they said their party would gain 60 to 80 House seats. Other samplings of political opinion reinlorce the impression of Ihe limes survey that the Demo cratic gains m the House propor tionately would fall below the ex peeled Democratic increases in Senate scats. Recent surveys, including those by teams of New York Times cor respondents, have shown that the Democrats might gain as many as 10 or 14 Republican-held Senate seals, while no Senate seat now held by a Democrat is in serious danger. The last Senate was divided 40 Democrats to 47 Republicans Education Commissioner Relates Capital Views Official Cites State Ruling OLYMPIA (API Unless the law is changed the state can't withhold industrial insurance pay ments to Stale Penitentiary pris oners disabled by pie-prison on- the-job injuries, an official said Monday. A. L. Wiley, supervisor of the industrial insurance program, commented after State Rep. Tom Copeland (R-Walla Walla) report cd at least three prisoners were drawing money for loss-of-time accidents that occurred before they entered the prison. Wiley said the attorney general's office held in. 1956 that eligible claimants in such cases were en titled to compensation. "Under the opinion, Wiley said, 'our hands are tied until such time as the law is changed." Wilev said he didn t know how many prisoners tlfiw are receiving industrial compensation, but he added his department sends a doc tor into the prison to check closely on such claims. "If the doctor says they can do even the lightest work such as sweeping floors in the prison we'll cut them off," Wiley added "The ones who arc receiving pay ment are physically unable to even sweep floors. eventual retirement in Florida as their motive or buying. John N. Webb, a University of Florida population expert, says: Between 1950 and litov the state sained more than a million and a third in civilian population. This has contributed to a 50 per cent increase of persons 65 years of age and older. This is striking when compared with a rate of increase around 20 per cent in mis group the nation as a whole." Another University of Florida ex pert, George B. Hurff, says: Ease of living, tne neiiet mat there's more elbow room here, sunshine and warmth and good fishing, in about that order, are the things people think they will find in Florida which make tnem want to retire here. The trouble is, some retirees find that the problems re suiting from uprooting themselves to come here are not compensated for bv the sunshine The University of Florida is plan ning extensive new researcn on this Question. Newspaper and state otlicials are YAKIMA (AP) The slate's administration of the National De fense Education Act will not be interfered with by the federal government, a federal official told Washington stale educators Mon day. Lawrence G. Derlhick, U. S. commissioner of education, made the statement in a conference with members of the Washington State Research Committee for the Gift ed Child. But, Derlhick said, his depart ment is tapping the best educa tional brains in the nation in or der to work out guides for use by the individual states for im plementing the act. which was passed by the last congress. He said the federal government does not intend to force the states to conform to a set pattern, al Demos Hear Solon's Wife ALBANY, Ore. AP, - Mrs. Richard L. Neubcrgcr told an Al bany Democratic rally Monday night there is much in common between successful teaching and effective political leadership. The wife of Oregon's junior De mocratic senator, speaking on be half of a measure to allow teach ers lo serve in the Legislature aid it was "one of the most justi fied measures on the ballot this November." "Not only would this amend ment put teachers on equal terms with the rest of the citizens of the state, it would make it possible for the public to draw on the great potential 0f leadership and lusckground which our teachers can offer," Mrs. Neuherger said. She is a former school teacher and three-ierm member of the date Legislature. MEETING SET CORVALLIS 'AP The annual sectional meeting of the Ameri can Society of Agricultural Engi neers will be held at Oregon State College Oct. 22-25. Scheduled speakers include Eu gene G. McKibben, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture research service. though individual plans for guid ance and counseling of young stu dents toward higher education must be approved by his office belore Hinds can be released Derthick met with the commit tee at the invitation of Lloyd J Andrews, state superintendent of public instruction, who appointed the group to study guidance and counseling of the state's gifted children. , Derlhick is here as a guest of (he Washington Stale School Su perintendents Assn., now holding its annual meeting. The convention was told by An drews Monday that it was the su perintendents' responsibility to sec that students get the most educa tion for the money. He told delegates they should "promote and encourage practices that will give our children the best education with the greatest effi ciency in the use of funds, per sonnel and facilities available Increase Noted In Forest Fires OLYMPIA (AP) Forest and brush fires burned over nearly 28 times as many acres this .year than in 1957. The State Department of Natural Resources reported Monday that 1.566 fires burned over 16,170 acres through Oct. 15 this year! while 42 blazes singed 581 acres during the same period of 1957. Most of the blazes were blamed on lightning, smokers, debris burners, locomotives, campers, arsonists, slash burners and log ging operations in that order. constantly warning possible cus tomers for Florida lots to see any land before they buy it and be sure they understand what living conditions are like in the state Everyone (ears a repeat of the notorious land boom of the '20s. Some land which is under water part of the time is being offered. Some swampland is being peddled by crooks. But this appears to be minute fraction of the total sales effort. The vast bulk of the selling is free of fraud or chican ery. And a great deal of the boom is in the offering of attractive lots and homes which will give low cost retirement in a land once be lieved only available to the rich. Ten dollars down and $10 a moat for four io six years will get you a lot with maybe some shade and close to the water. Lots selling for $2,000 will guar antee shade and water. Oceanfront property at Cocoa, for example, is between $175 and $700 a front foot. Al Sarasota it's between $300 and $2,500 a front foot. There are some jokers in the picture. Persons buying Ihe $10- down lots who want to sell within the next few years stand a good chance of losing money, experts say. By Ihe time this land is offered to individual buyers most of the speculative value has been drained off. One tract of land wound up -jiwisiiiaaaauf eviiw sH bur times, with each seller t.,ig a handsome profit, before it was finally broken into lots of public sale. On some projects, most of the in come from lot sales is going back into large advertising programs, with promised improvements be ing short changed. If sales slow PAGE SEVEN ft J&& -1 down these projects could collapse, and lot buyers v. ' be stuck with unimproved land. "The hope for this boom continu ing is to keep it clean," says a Real Estate Commission lawyer. "If we do this nobody will feel he has been cheated by Florida real estate." - IT LEAVES YOU BREATHLESS! GET ON THE VODKA WAGON WITH the greatest name in VODKA 80 1 100 Pioil Distill) Inn (nil. Sli. Pmii Snintlt III. (On. II Hiiiblun). Hiilliil, Cow ELECTED SECRETARY ELLENSBURG (API Election of Roy Holland, Bremerton, as secretary of the Washington State Sportsmen's Council was an nounced Monday by Council Pres ident H. J. Smelsey. 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