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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1959)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4. 105!) J 3s IT'S COLD WORK when you go out on the water early to snag mullet in Klamath Lake. Here Fred Deamuth bal ances in a rowboat as he scrapes the bottom with a long pole with hook attached in an attempt to snag a big one. California Fish Department Subject Of Long Scrutiny By Outside Firm SACRAMENTO (UPI) A San Francisco consulting firm is put ting the finishing touches on the top-secret investigation of Cali fornia's Fish and Game Depart ment. A. Alan Post, legislative analyst, told a reporter that he won't even discuss the contents of the report in advance except for making a couple of state ments. "It's interesting and it's long,',' he said. William. Powell, resident part ner for Booz. Allen and Hamilton of the Bay City, was equally eva sive. Asked who will make the report public, Powell replied: "We , wouldn't. It's the property of our client, the committee." Post will turn it over to the joint legislative committee on the budget, headed by State Sen. Ar thur H. Breed Jr. (R-Oaklandi. The vice chairman of the com mittee and the assembly repre sentative is Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge (R-Felton). Post said the committee has ar ranged the meeting to receive the lengthy report, and probably ques tion those who prepared it. Powell will represent the consulting firm at the committee meeting in Sac ramento. The five-man field committee that formulated the . report has been disbanded and its members have returned to their former jobs. The report was asked by the 1957 Legislature, which appropri ' ated $100,000 for its formulation. Field work on it started in March of this year under the leadership ot truest bwiit, tormerly a game warden and deputy director and director of the Wisconsin Fish and Game Commission. "Perhaps a portent of things to come actually was indicated back in May when D. E. Warren, presi dent of the Weed Gun Club. charged the investigation actually was being directed by the depart ment involved instead of by Uie Legislature. "It's like letting a grand jury turn its case over to the suspect," charged Warren. "The man who is making the so-called investiga tion in this part of the state is Bert Lauckhart, who has been brought here from Washington (state) where he has been working as a game manager. "He has been traveling around Northern California with Fred Ross, a game manager for Cali fornia's Department of Fish and Game. They have been traveling HERALD 1 . . v tv And Game in an official state car and on state time. "Both Lauckhart and Ross have been trained in the same theories of game management and have read from the same books, said Warren. "Ross and his depart ment are under lire. "If Lauckhart, under such cir cumstances, gets the full story of what is being done to our deer herds, for example, it will really be a wonder." There have been others who charged the . investigative group actually would whitewash the de partment. But Swift, questioned by United Press International about these charges, flatly denied them. "It's common to have the public prejudge you in these matters," he said. "But we're going to state the facts as we see them without any fear or favor." Swift was asked about a state ment by Charles Bull, president of the Northern Counties Wildlife Conservation Association, that this was the first time he had ever known ot the defendant being al lowed to pick his own jury. "I don't want to get in any news paper debate about this matter They'll just about think what they want to, said bwiit. Swift then pointed out that he was working on a report for the Legislature nobody else, and "if these people want to prejudge Ihev 11 lust have to. K euess. - One thing is certain, almost. Re gardless of what the final conclu sions of the investigative group are, someone will object prob ably loudly to the findings. . Officials of the department say that they don't know what's in the report they have no advance in formation from their sources. But they also deny that a whitewash is in the making. One spokesman pointed out that all employes of the department had been instructed to help the investigators in any way possible. This would include furnishing transportation if that was asked ECONOMY DENVER (UPI) No one ever stole the scratchy old pens they used to have at the Denver post office, but Postmaster Ted Hefner slill thinks he's saving monej) by using ballpoint pens, even though 42 of them disappear every month. Hefner pointed out that servicing the old pens required 17 quarts of ink. 300 points and 1,000 band blotters a month. AND NEWS. KI.AMATI! FALLS. ORF.OON LIVE TANK on the dock at . . r iy are Taken out tor eating, mere are many wno preier xne sweei meor 01 1110 munoi any other fish. A good many of these caught at Williamson are bought by Klamalh Is residents and by' some as far away as Weed. v . 1 SNAGGING is another method- of bringing up mullet in the Upper Klamath Lake. Here Fred Deamuth of Williamson River Store snags a 15-pounder and hoists it into the boat. The fish was taken in about 10 feat of water off the Williamson. Schools hera are so thick that snagging is an effective, if hard, method of getting a boatload. CIRCULAR - SHAPED HOSPITAL BftOOKI.INE. Mass. (UPII The first circular-shaped hospital in this section of the country will open here soon. Built at a cost of $1,500,000, it will be known as Rrookline Hospital. Advantages of a circular hospital include: Rooms will be shaped like pie wedges, providing maximum space around the patient's bed', only two nurses' stations will be required on each floor; and no nurse will have to walk more than 50 feet to reach a patient's bedroom, compared with 70 to 90 feet in the conven tional hospital. 4 f 4 A. Williamson River Store keeps mullet in good shape until ti I f iL. 1 1 r xL lll. Sheepmen Plan Meet The National Wool Growers As sociation will hold its 94th annual convention at Portland on January 25-2'J. Headquarters will be the Multnomah. Approximately 600 to 800 of the nation's leading sheepmen are ex pected to attend. Several nationally prominent guest speakers will be featured at convention sessions including John A. Logan, president of the Nation pace rmv.v. V-4 , 4 iJT -"r iinii'iiiiiii -ilKrto-. al Association of Food Chains, Washington, D.C.: E. R. Jackman, farm crops specialist at Oregon State College, and Alexander John ston, wool specialist at the Univer sity of Wyoming at Laramie. Most meteors burn up as they race towards Uie earth, and Uiey descend merely as dust which' cannot be seen.
