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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1953
.25 Years Of
By BERNARD GAVZER
Associated Press
Newsfeaturra Writer
While the 13 years of prohibition
failed to turn the United States
dry, the 25 years of repeal have
tailed to make the nation wet.
During the Prohibition Era
when it was illeeal to nroduce or
sell alcoholic beverages there
was many a boozy oasis (or the
citizen who did not like to drink
bis water straight,
On December 5, it was exactly
25 years since ratification of the
21st Amendment. This was the
law which turned on the spigots
again.
But not wide open, as the ac
companying map illustrates.
Tor today there are two states
where prohibition is in force. These
are Oklahoma and Mississippi. Ad
ditionally, there are 10 states con
sidered less than 80 per cent wet
By definition of the Licensed
Beverage Industries, Inc., this de
gree of wetness is figured on the
basis of total population in a state
where there is local option. For
instance, let us say there is a city
ot 400,000 where liquor is legal,
surrounded by 10 dry cities of a
total of 100.D0O population. This
would mean the entire area is
80 per cent wet.
The LBI says 83.8 per cent of
the nation is legally wet This fig
ure closely approximates that giv
en by the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, which says 25
million people live In areas where
hard liquor is banned.
The WCTU continues in its cam
paign to prohibit the sale of liq
uor, wine and beer, a campaign
which began 84 years ago and
saw its darkest hour with the re
peal. The organization works to
ward this end mainly in local on
tion elections. Thus, in a thorough
ly wet city such as Chicago, you
will find a dry precinct such as
the one taking in the northwest
corner of B3rd Street and Cottage
wove Avenue.
All but eight states (Arizona
California, Iowa, Nevada. North
Dakota, South Carolina, Utah and
Wyoming! and the District of Co-
lumbi have local option provisions.
Naturally, 100 per cent dry Okla
homa and Mississippi have none.
Additionally, there are 17 so
called monopoly slates. These are
states which engage in various
ways and degrees in the sale of
liquor. They buy from the producer
and sell . to the customer. The
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Repeal, But
soufct. itcHseo 8tt woosrxts tc
"""V.-"1 I - s O Y, HE WAS DEAD.'
j Less Than 50 W V
m so to low w -J
C No Local Option Provision
O Stale Monopoly
workers are state civil service em
ployes. While a state may be a monopoly
state, it docs not mean it is 100
per cent Wet. Of the monopoly
states, North Carolina is less than
half wet; Alabama in the 50 per
cent category; Vermont and Maine
the 70 per cent bracket; Vir
ginia 80 per cent and New Hamp
shire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Washington and West Virginia in
the 00 per cent division.
On the other hand, legally dry
Oklahoma and Mississippi number
among the heaviest moonshining
states in the nation. In 1957, agents
of the Internal Revenue Service's
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Divi
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THI MIOHTY STORY OF
The Greatest Event in History I
Prohibition
1 STATE CONTROLS LIQUOR SALES.
AND 3MIUN6 TO COHSUMCR
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sion seized 18 stills in Oklahoma
and 356 in Mississippi. In the en
tire southeast quadrant of the na
tion, 19,681 stills were seized. With
ir this quadrant are Alabama,
kansas. Georgia, Kentucky. North
Carolina and Tennessee which are
considered less than 70 per cent
legally wet.
The LBI claims that repeal has
done much to make this a nation
of moderate drinkers, rather than
the booze hounds of prohibition.
It says that during the years of
the "Noble Experiment," the per
capita consumption of alcoholic
beverages averaged 2.0 gallons
compared to 1.25 gallons per year
now.
GLASS Of MILK?'
OVER THE
GARDEN GATE
EVERGREEN GARDEN CLUB
By Verona Dahler
Mrs. C. (Edna) Hammond, 2202
Oregon Avenue, was hostess for the
November meeting of the Ever
green Garden Club when members
talked about a variety of subjects.
Mrs. Robert Luscombc, presi
dent, asked members to answer roll
call with the names of good gar
den books or magazine articles
on gardening they had read. Elev
en members answered.
It was announced that the club
would help make wreaths for the
Moose Lodge to be sold for the an
nual operation Santa Clans, also
that Boy Scouts are selling tea
sel pods to raise camping funds.
House plants and their care and
new birds seen recently were on
the program. A clever doll, made
of quince, coat hangers and pipe
cleaners, was exhibited by Pansy
Jackson. Mrs. Verda Urbach dis
played new garden hooks, includ
ing one on roses by Rockwell and
Grayson. .
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huge castl
Lingers
In banging the drums for
peal's 25th anniversary, the LBI
further states that the industry is
responsible for the direct employ
ment of 1.200,000 persons at, an an
nual payroll of more than four bil
lion dollars. In 19d7, the alcohol
c beverage industry produced more
than four billion dollars in public
revenue from taxes and licenses
$2,900,475,000 federal, J997.527.135
state and $113,752,712 local.
It also consistently argues that
repeal did away with the lawless
ness and crime that flourished al
most through the entirety of pro
hibition s 13 years.
CITY BRIEFS
Show, Bazaar Wreaths, swags,
table and room decorations for
the holidays will be sold by the
Klamath Falls Garden Club's
Christmas Idea Show and Bazaar
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in
the city library auditorium. Gift
items and cooked foods from
garden club members' favorite
recipes will be sold, and a silver
tea will be served.
Parly The annual Christmas
party of Catholic Daughters will
be held Monday at 8 p.m. in the
Sacred Heart Parish Hall. The
limit on exchange gifts is 75 cents.
Daughter Born A daughter.
Kimberly Jan, was born Saturday,
December 6, to Mr. and Mrs.
James W. Metier of Berkeley, Cal
ifornia. The baby weighed 6 lbs
14 ozs. at birth. Mrs. Metier is
the former Twila Greene of 840
Rose Street.
Oregon Stale Mothers' Club
is sponsoring a cooked food sale
at the Low Cost Market in the
Town and Country Shopping Cen-
ter to raise money for a scholar
ship. The sale will be held on De
cember 12. starting at 9:30 a.m.
and will continue on December 13.
Any Oregon State mothers not
contacted are urged to phone Mrs.
Homer Ellis or Mrs. Ellis Matth
ews.
Junior Red Cross There will
be a meeting of the parents spon
sors for Junior Red Cross, Tues
day at 10:30 a.m. in the Red
Cross office, county library build
ing. Headed East Paul J. Bradv.
forester with the U.S. Forest Serv
ice left Friday morning for a
months vacation accompanied by
his family. The vacation will be
spent in Boise with Mrs. Brady's
family and in Chicago with his
family.
Happy Hour Club will meet
at the home of Mrs. C. C. Heid
rich, 328 Washington Street at 1:30
p.m. on Tuesday, December 9.
Christmas Program The De
cember 10 meeting of Mills PTA
will be a Christmas program put
on by -all ot the first, second and
third grade children in Mills
School Auditorium at 2:30 p.m.
Refreshments will be served in
the cafeteria following the
program. The public is invited to
attend.
Funerals
BUTLER
i VREKA Funeral services
were held on Tuesday afternoon,
I December 2, for Mrs. Edythe Kath
ryn Butler, 75, who died Friday
I night in the Siskiyou County Gen
eral Hospital. She had suffered a
heart attack at her home early
Friday morning prior to the time
' she was admitted to the hospital.
iShe had been in failing health the
'past year.
Mrs. Butler was born in Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, on Mav 26.
1883. and was married to Clifford
E. Butler on May 16. 1907 in Fres
no. The couple had resided In
Yreka since that time. Mr. Butler
I is a veteran Yreka attorney and
owner oi a title company.
Mrs. Butler was a member of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution and a past matron of
'Stella Chapter 39, Order of the
I Eastern Star in Yreka.
Besides the widower, she leaves
a daughter, Mrs. Catherine Vroom
'man: a sister, Mrs. Jennie Still;
and two grandchildren. Ger
ard and Susan Vroomman, all of
Oroville.
1 Funeral services took place at
i p.m. in Girdner s Funeral Chap
el, with the Rev. Father John S.
Martin ot St. Mark's Episcopal
Church as officiant. Interment
;tnok place in the family plot of
the Evergreen Cemetery.
New York City has about 542,
000 homes In the 1-famUy, Mam
ily categories.
Business News
- By FLORENCE JENKINS
TED CHARLES
The largest griddle in Oregon is
in Lane Products Company's plant
at LUgcne, according to T. W.
(Ted) Charles, president-manager
of the concern who was in Klam
ath Falls last week to introduce
King Charles baked pie shells
which his plant turns out at the
rate of 15,000 a day ... the big
griddle is used for tnglish Muf
fins ... a twin-spout machine
pours 2'i ounces of muffin batter
into two rings at a time every
two seconds, turning out one muf
fin per second all day long .
they are quick-frozen in the 10
degree-below-zero sharp room
before they get cool enough for
staling to begin (staling starts at
52 degrees. Charles explains, and
by quick freezing the muffins can
be thawed and reach the table
oven-fresh) . . . they are the only
English Muffins made in Oregon
and are distributed locally by
Medo-Land Creamery ... the
baked pie shells are distributed
by Hudson House and Boners Food
Co . . . the size of the griddle is
fr! square feet.
Innovation. . . . The Northern
Pacific Railway has announced
that coach tickets will be hon
ored in Pullman sleeping cars on
the Mainstreeter between St. Paul-
Minneapolis and Seattle-Portland
and intermediate points on an ex
perimental basis . . . permission
iranled by the ICC extends until
May 15, 1959.
Western Fabricators, 1239 SE
12th Ave., Portland, has been
awarded contract for construction
of a 12x20-foot prefabricated metal
building for Pacific Telephone Co.
at Bly, according to Thayne w,
Cole, Klamath Area manager for
the company. . . . $65,000 will be
spent by the telephone company
installing new equipment and a
whole new dial system with Elgin
as exchange nrcfix to go into oper
ation in April.
William L. Wales, Jr.. 4512 Clin
ton Ave., has been named Klam
ath Falls city engineer on a con
suiting basis . . . conditions in the
arrangement provide that he may
continue his private engineering
practice ... he is also consulting
city engineer for the city of Chilo
quin and is currently completing
plans for extension ot sewerage
service to West Chiloquin . . . bids
were opened on Friday niRht for
the extensions for East Chiloquin.
. Wales was raised in hlamath
Falls, a graduate of KUHS and
Oregon State College in 1943 .
after release from active duty as
an officer in the Air Force he en
tered practice with his father for
seven years before establishing his
own offices . . . among other big
jobs is the Tulana Farms grain
storage warehouse set-up near Wor-
den ... his practice extends
through Northern California and
Southern Oreaon . . he is a mem
ber of the American Society of
Civil Eneineers. American Con
crete Institute and is a registered
professional civil and structural
engineer.
Klamath Falls is fortunate in
having a postmaster who works
for improved mail service for his
area . . . applications tor pre-
Christmas work at the local post
office from 35 persons have been
nrocessed by Postmaster C. L.
tangslet . : . he expressed pleas
ure at the high type of applicant
and his work crew for this season
is comnlete ... he also expressed
gratification over the success of
the "Mail Early' promotion this
year . , . replying to a query on
how mail is being handled .for
Kingsley Field, Langslet said the
Air Force is currently picking up
ts own mail at the main post of
fice ... he has been informed
that additional military personnel
will move this month into the Air
Force housing development, so the
Klamath Fails Post Office plans
to take over mail delivery for the
Armed Services Housing shortly
after Jan. 1 ... at the same time.
at least one city route (which
serves 780 families) will be divided
to Improve mail delivery service.
Gifts for patients In Oregon's
hospitals for mental Illness aren't
coming in very fast this year,, ac
cording to Mrs. Hagnn Moore and
Mrs. Eric Majors who. with Mrs.
E. A. Geary, member of the state
Mental Health Association board.
have done most of the collecting
sorting and shipping of the gifts on
a volunteer basis to the hospitals
for the last several years and it
has meant many hours of work
far into the nieht with no rccom-
nense except the satisfaction of a
iob well done). . . . Items may be
BEER BAROMETER
SAN FRANCISCO (UP!! The
state Board of Equalization of
fered some proof Saturday that
California had a warmer October
this year than it did last year. Cali
fornians drank 18.533,843 gallon?
of beer this October 2.299,12f
nxre than they did In October.
1957.
left at the Klamath County TB &
Health office,. 209 E. Main or will
be picked up by calling any one
of the three . . . don't gilt wrap
the items, but used (or new) gift
wrappings are needed so that pa
tients may assist in the wrapping
at the hospitals . . . practically
anything is welcome . . . particu
larly things which can be busy
work at the hospitals, such as yarn,
crochet thread, material for quilt
pieces, cookie, cake, muffin or
fi'bsitng mix, a bag of buttons or
heads, costume jewelry . . . you
need not buy new things . . . this
is an opportunity to share.
Bids are to be opened at 11 a.m.
on Monday by Harry F. Keating,
base procurement officer, 408th
Fighter Group, Kingsley Field, for
installing a north boundary fence
at the base. . . . IFB 59-14 .
work consists of furnishing a 1 1
material, tools, labor and equip
ment to install 1.692 lineal feet of
4-foot 6-inch chain link fence
mas will be opened at 11 a.m.
on Dec 22 by Harry F. Keating
base procurement officer, 408th
Fighter Group, Kingsley Field, for
contractual services necessary to
modify the alert hangar at the
base . . . eight sets of plans have
been sent out . . . plans and speci
fications available with above of
fice ... IFB 59-16.
The Amalgamated Sugar Co,
producers of Oregon's own White
Satin Sugar, report earnings for
the year ending Sept. 30 of $3,408,
313, up nearly $150,000 over the
similar period in 1957 . . . new
earnings per share of common
stock were S4.57 this year com
pared with $4.34 last year ... the
company reports a bumper crop
of sugar beets being processed at
the Nyssa, Oregon, plant . . . nu
tritionists say there is no differ
ence in beet and cane sugar m
sweetness and cooking characteris
tics.
Another company which does
lot of business in Oregon and lo
cally which has a fine financial re
port, according to figures just re
leased, is Morrison Knudson Co.,
Inc. . . for the nine months ended
Sept. 30, net earnings per share of
common stock was $2.30 this year
compared with $1.74 last year.
The Oasis, a teen-age club to be
operated by Dan Duff and Les
Moore, at the Ashland - Weed
junction (former location of the
97 Club), is working toward a for
mal opening date ... a soda
fountain for the serving of ice
cream, soft drinks, hamburgers
and hot dogs is going in . . . there
will be no alcoholic beverages al
lowed on the premises . . . city
curfew laws will be observed and
all teen-age dances will be chap
eroned. . . . opening date will be
announced.
Lakeview Minine Company, the
$6'4 million uranium operation at
Lakeview, is expected to add
gross payroll of about $85,000 a
month to that community ... it
is estimated that $130,000 m month
ly paychecks were cashed in Lake
view d u r i n g the building opera
Hons, adding approximately one
third to the county payroll.
The fine line of Gourmet Foods
is now handled in Klamath Falls
by Your Slore, 721 Main St. . . it
is a General Foods Corporation line
and highly recommended for gifts
and specialties. . . . Your store is
operated by Lewis and Virginia
Wayburn.
0
A well known West Coast adver
tising man. C. P. Constantine, sen
ior vice president of the Botsford,
Constantine tc Gardner agency at
Seattle, has turned author ... he
has signed a contract with Exposi
tion Press of New York for publi
ration of his book, "I Was a Moun
tie." ... He is a veteran of nearly
42 years in the advertising business
m the Pacific Northwest.
West Coast Telephone Co. has re
ported that its 1958-SJ property tax
es in Oregon were the highest in
the utility's 30-year history ... its
property tax bill in the 14 Oregon
counties where it operates was
$530,319, up nearly $81,000 from last
yiar. according to Lyle E. Cross
West Coast's Beaverton district
manager. . . . Klamath County is
third from the bottom of the list
with $4,132, compared with $3,288
last year.
Public smorgasbord for the bene
fit of the travel expenses to the
Shrine East West game for the
KUHS band will be held in the
Town it Country Shopping Center
on So. 6th St. on Friday, Dec. 12.
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. . . tickets
are available there or from Klam
ath County grange members or
Jaycees at two bits apiece . .
there will be ample parking and
four serving lines . . . food is be
ing contributed for the lunch by
food manufacturers and processing
firms represented in this ares .
their salesmen will contribute their
time and efforts in the preparation
and serving ... all of the money
goes to the KUHS band for the
New Years trip.
O
Suburban Klamath Falls' annual
Christmas tree lighting ceremonies
will be held shortly after 7 p.m
on Tuesday evening, at the Town
s Country Shopping Center, So.
6th St., according to Jess House,
House of Shoes ... a 150-foot tree
has been cut, brought in and set
up by Ned Putnam, logging con
tractor and pilot (he flew the com
mittee over the Lincoln area last
Sunday to spot a suitable tree
vhich he and his crew cut under
n Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. per
nit). . . . Col. Jack Williams, base
-ommander at Kingsley Field, will
lush the switch to turn on the
ishts . . . last year's ceremonies
tttracted a crowd ot more than
i.OOO persons and even more are
xpected this year.
Art-Sleuthing Attorneys
May Have Hit Treasure
CHICAGO (AP)-Two attorneys
who dabble in art sleuthing and
collecting have picked themselves
I'i million- dollars in master
pieces, says a Vatican art expert.
The lawyers' outlay for the
three paintings? Just $2,200.
Extraordinary luck, says the
Chicago artist who advised them
to take a chance on their pur
chases, "just like finding dia
monds in the street."
Prof. Amadore Porcella, cata
logist for the Vatican Gallery of
Art, pronounced .ihe lfith century
paintings authentic Friday. He
described them as:
"Christ Carrying the Cross." by
Giorgione; "Sacred Conversa
tion," by Giovanni Bellini: and
"The Massacre of the Innocents,"
by Raphael Sanzio.
The lucky barristers are Ru
dolph Vasalle and Paul Delaney.
Delaney told a newsman he
bought the 17 by 15 inch Giorgione
for about SI. 000 from a Chicago
dealer who apparently Ttnew little
of its history.
MAY VISIT RUSSIA
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPD-
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr
Negro integration leader, is con
sidering a visit to Russia next
May, his secretary said Saturday.
The secretary did not say wheth
er King had been invited by the
Russian government- or planned
to make a private tour.
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The painting, one of the last by
Giorgione before his death in
1510, was valued by Porcella at
one million dollars. The Venetian
artist painted only about one dozen
masterpieces.
The other: painting owned by
Delaney was termed by Porcella
"the great lost masterpiece of
Bellini." The attorney said he
bought It in 1955 for $l.ooo. The
catalogist says it is worth $300
000. Last July. Vasalle walked out
of a Chicago auction house with
a small H by 16 inch painting for
which he paid $170.
That one, says Porcella. Is the
Raphael. Value? $300,000, declares
Porcella.
Advising the attorneys was Al
exander Zlatoff-Mirski, Chicago
art restorer and sculptor, who has
passed previous tips, though with
somewhat lesser results.
"I look at the painting and see
its possibilities as a great one,"
he said.
"Sometimes, it is valuable.
Sometimes, the buyer does not
even get back what he paid for
the painting plus the cost of res
toration. That's why so many of
these 'finds' . are bought at auc
tions. Dealers cannot or will not
pay for the restoration."
Asked why he himself did not
purchase the paintings he had
hunches about, Mirki answered:
"I cannot afford to speculate.'
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