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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1959)
TTKST)AY. JANUARY 20. 1959 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THREE Officials Back Chamber Plan ; Two political ollicials have Soundly endorsed the "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" program now be ing conducted by the Klamath County Chamber ot Commerce to plan and develop the Klamath Ba se's civic and economic future. The endorsements were received from County Judge Charles Mack and Klamath Falls Mavor Law rence Slater. Judge Mack wrote: "1 believe your program as out lined to me to be the most timelv and of the utmost importance to the citizens of this county. We have long needed just the sort ol action proposed in the "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" program, and I Want you to know that I person ally am one hundred per cent be hind the endeavor. May the cham ber and its members enjoy nothing but complete success in your ef forts." ; Mayor Slater wrote: i "Most certainly I am in full ac cord with your intention to expand the activities of the chamber. In my position as mayor of Klamath Falls, I have had personal experi ence with the program of work. Services and community spirit of the chamber and its members. As it is presently constituted, t h e chamber is an invaluable asset to (he Klamath Region. The contem plated increase in membership and promotional activities will benelit the citizens of the city, county and the entire region." Meeting Held By Church Group :MALIN The Women's Assnria. Won of the Malin Presbyterian Church met Thursday afternoon, Jenuary 15, at. the church with the tJ59 officers installed by Mrs. Por tia Aikins of Tulelake. :New officers are Mrs. J. Walter Browning, president; Mrs. G. C. Blohm, vice president; Mrs. Ger ald Brown, secretary; and Mrs. fcbyal Loveness, treasurer. Mrs. drowning presented the program books for the year with the theme, JNew Occasions, New Duties." ..Committee chairmen appointed and installed were Mrs. Harvey Qugston, fellowship, with Mrs. Merle Loosley and Mrs. Ethen Whitman as assistants; Mrs. G. C. EDohm, missionary education; Mrs. Ethen Whitman, social education HI action; Mrs. Marvin Shell, lit Cfature; Mrs. A. E. Street, world aervice; Mrs. C. M. Kirkpatrick, tfewing for world service. Mrs. Clugston introduced the member ship cards. 'Refreshments were served fol lowing the meeting by Mrs. Hab -Wilson and Mrs. Marvin Shell. CIIY BRIEFS March Of Dimes figures Asked PORTLAND (API The March ot Dimes was asked Monday to ffveal the amount of money col lected last year in Oregon, how it was spent and how much went qpt of the state by Portland May- J Terry Schrunk. chrunk also asked fund offi cials to tell how much was spent roaKing tne collections. He sent the request to Don Os- tensoe, state March of Dimes president, and Paul Hunt, Mult nomah County campaign chief. RUBY RING Loss of a ruby ring has been reported to city police by Leonard Valley, 210 South Eleventh Street. who says it was apparently lost on Wednesday, either in Klamath Falls or between here and Gilchrist. The gold ring had a large square set ting, with a lion carved in the cen ter of the ruby. All Reservations for the Centen nial dinner at the Winema Hotel have been taken. Anyone wishing to attend may call the following numbers in event there are anv cancellations: TU 2-4181. TU 1-7618 or TU 4-5704. Names will be taken on a first come, first served basis. Committee chairmen will assist if possible. Injured Mrs. Vera Clemmens of the Pioneer Community on the Ash land Highway has received word of an injury to a former Klamath County resident and pioneer. II. H. Van Balkingburg, 93, who lived and farmed here in his early days. He fell and broke a second hip. He broke the first hip about a year ago, has since been an invalid. He now lives in Ashland. Improving Mrs. T'. B. Burkhart, resident of the Pioneer Community is recovering from major surgery Monday in Klamath Valley Hos pital. Meeting of Social Secretary's Club No. 37 of Klamath Falls will meet in the Empire Room of the Winema Hotel 7:30 p.m. Thursday, January 22. National and state of ficers are expected to be present. Axel Miller is secretary. Conger PTA Schools Superinten dent Arnold Gralapp will discuss the life of Joseph Conger at a Conger School PTA meeting Wed nesday at 2:30. The program also will include a film. "The Chal lenge," depicting medical progress against birth defects, arthritis and polio. Babysitting services will be provided. The executive board will meet earlier, at 1 p.m. Meeting Carnation Club meeting will be held Wednesday, January 21, at 8 p.m. at the home of Eunice Mayes. 5206 Bryant, co-hostess Ves ta Stiles. Fairvlew PTA-Mrs. Elda Fletch er, special education teacher at Fairview, will be guest speaker at the PTA meeting Thursday, Janu ary 22, at 2:15 p.m., in the audi torium. Everyone is welcome. Meeting The class of 1949 reun ion committee will hold its next meeting Thursday, January 22, at the county library at 7:30 p.m. Merry Mixers will sponsor a be ginners square dance class at the South Sixth Street Community Hall starting at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb ruary 4. The first lesson will be free. Bill Mayhew will instruct For more information call TU 4-9967. Klamath Chapter Daughters of the American Colonists, will meet for luncheon at 12:30 on Saturday, January 24. The board will meet at 11:30 prior to the luncheon, both meetings to be held in the Crater Room of the Winema Hotel. Fol lowing the business meeting and election of officers the members will hear Mrs. Albert O. Roenicke, vice regent, speak on the "Domes tic and Social Life of Our Colon ial Ancestors." Carrying out the year's theme of Colonial Days in April, Mrs. Eugene Gjertsen will talk to the chapter about colonial architecture. St. Mary's Altar Society will meet Wednesday in the parish hall. Potluck luncheon at 1 o'clock. general chairman. The science sec tion of the children's departmen: of the city library has been desig nated beneficiary of the bridge-too For reservations, please call Mrs. Alan Baker, TU 2-3167, or Mrs. Loren Palmerton. TU 4-6624. Pelican PTA The meeting sched uled for Wednesday will begin promptly at 2:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. Mrs. Leigh Fenning will present her first and second grade students in a classroom demonstration. Former Basin Residents Widen View Of Blind Son By RUTH KING ilittle boy his freedom, to broaden Tim is the son of former Klam- his life and give him the courage ilh Falls residents. He was burnlto venture out on his own. He )lmd. He is the third child ol Bethel and Kdwin Schneebeck who ow live in Tacoma. The story ol I'immy and his mother's gallant iight to give him a chance to live a normal life, is told in the Janu- began taking swimming lessons at 2, had mastered diving by the time he was 5. During those early years, Bethel Schneebeck was working against lime, 4 lie time that the law de- Gl Turncoat Back In U.S. SAN FRANCISCO VPD Richard C. Corden, one of the 21 American turncoats of the Korean War. returned to the United States from Communist China Monday homesick. . . but very im pressed with socialism. The 31-year-old ex-Army ser geant said he plans to return to his former home at Providence, I!. I., and possibly get a job as a Chinese language translator. Corden was captured on Nov. 20, 1950. He said he refused to come home after the armistice be cause "I wanted to see what China was like." The former GI said he liked what he saw. The Chinese people want to he friends with America and are in terested in American industry, he said. Recognition of Red China and rejection of the "reactionary Chiang government which is sup ported solely by foreign aid" would go far towards cementing U.b.-Red Chinese friendship, he said. Corden denied he was ever a Communist. "1 haven't attempted to classify myself, he said. "But I am very impressed with socialism." Corden was asked why he re turned to this country. What made me decide to come home?" he said. "Hell, I just got homesick." Bus Driver Recovers Bag SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-An ab sent-minded woman forgot her shopping bag on a bus. Driver William T. Dunleavy turned it. in to the bus system's lost and found office. A tin box in the bag contained $6,280 in cash. Through a postcard, lost and found manager Paul Frashcr traced the bag and box to Mrs. Ann Commins, widow of a city sheet metal worker. Mrs. William E. Commins. a daughter-in-law, told Frasher the elder Mrs. Commins hadn t yet realized she had lost the shopping bag. "And we didn't know she was carrying all that money with her." Benefit Tea The 1959 Woman's Library Club benefit bridge party and tea will take place Saturday, January 24, in the clubrooms at the city library, Fifth and Klam ath, beginning at 1:30 p.m. The Oregon State Centennial will be ob served in decorations and costumes, according to Mrs. W. Don Miller, THEFTS REPORTED Two thefts were reported to state police Sunday afternoon. One was the theft of four hubcaps from his Ford car, reported by Paul Lewis, 1406 Ivory Street. The other was the taking of a red, 24-inch Schwinn Spitfire bike, be longing to 12-year-old L a n n i e Woods, 3116 Bisbee Street, from the neighborhood of a South Sixth Street theater. 23 yeaAil Monday, January 20, 1936 Clifford Jenkins, county 4-H club agent. Earl C. Reynolds, leader of the sheep club of Hen ley, ond Mrs. Elsie Burton, president of Klamoth county 4-H club leaders, returned lote Soturday night from Corvollis where they attended the annual state meeting of 4-H club leaders. Tuesday, January 21, 1936 Word hos been received' that Miss EsteNine Bell, formerly of Murroy's Solon of Beauty, in Klamath Falls, who is now attending the University of Oregon, has pledged Alpha Chi Omega there. Miss Sell is also af filiated port time with the beauty salon at McMorran and Washburn's store in Eugene. Wednesday, January 22, 1936 Miss Ella Redkey has been elected as the physical educotion instructor of Klamoth Union high school, a class which for the past two years hos been discontinued. Miss Redkey acted os girls sport director in the spring of '34 at this school. She hos since been employed at the Roosevelt grode school of this city. Miss Redkey will resume the duties os school nurse the first period of each doy. Thursday, January 23, 1936 Orth Siscmore will be the prin cipal tpeoker at the regular meeting of the Klamath chapter of AAUW Saturday afternoon ot the Pelican Grille. Sisemore's oddress will be upon the four omendments to be voted upon January 31. Fridoy, January 24, 1936 Members of the Klomath Falls National Form Loan association, holding their onnuol busi ness meeting at Klamoth Falls, elected Charles E. Drew, A. L. Mrshall, U. E. Reeder, E A. Geory and B. E. Kerns on their beard of directors for the coming yeor. The board in turn elected U. E. Reedrr as president, E. A. Geary as vice president ond R. H. Dunbar os secretory-treosurer. Saturdoy, January 23, 1936 Rudy Jacobs, prominent young business man of Klamath Falls, on Monday onnounced that he would open 0 new men's clothing store ot Sixth and Moin streets about Morch 1. The establishment will be known os Rudy's Men's Store. Iniur With THt JlcuulUf, 6a. FIRE LIABILITY Poul O. Landry V T Johruon 419 Mam Street Ph. TU 2-2526 AUTO PROPERTY TV 111 """ - ft ' r i m, sr.. Can children who are blind pos sibly win k in I lie public schools .uth sighted children?" While the little hoy was .Mill verv young, his iiioiIut iraveled widely lo contact personally those leader's .'.ho had worked with the blind, traveling at night, talking during .he day. Her search took her to manv .mums institutions and to -Jii states. Slv learned that in the Fast more and more blind chil dren were craduallv beina trained with sighted children m imlihr schools, private schools, ami iilhrr public eiliie..i:ni!.i institutions. She gathered inclines and d.iia on chil dren who had been sticcesslullv admitted lo public schools. She learned that the experiments over a period of years had been suc cessful. Armed with this information, she was ready to approach the public schools in Tacoma with her find ings. Kducalors were interested Bethel Schneebeck, to he prepared lor any eventuality, took her find ings to the Washington State Legis lature. In the meantime, she gave Tim- my a pair of roller skates and a would be admitted she was told. It worked. Timmy is now 9 years old. Me attended a boy's camp for two months last summer, rides a miliar bov's bike, takes Dart in pogo stick. He became part otlchildren's productions in Tacoma's the crew on the family cruiser.; Little Theater group and is a Cub He has felt his way through a newspaper office, a candy compa ny, a lumber mill, the Sealtle Tacoma Airport. Scout. Probably his most amazing ac complishment is the showing of Ins seeing-eye dot". Thunder, in liethel Schneebeck made her plea .five do sliuws. He trained wilh helore the Legislature, armed with Thunder ill the Kast, graduating pictures of blind children andlwnh honors, making a bus trio Irong arguments, and sought to keep her child at home. Parents of blind children sought her help. She kept her suggestions in front of the legislators. Actually there has been no icross town, alighting and cross ing the necessary streets and hea vy traffic in Columbus, Ohio, a city of 560,01)0 persons. Tim. his doq Thunder, and his family will visit Klamath Falls has a similar business in Tacoma. change in evslini; laws regaidiiig.snme day. coining to the home of Ihe Mind in Washington state. huljr. and Mrs. John Schubert, 2527 because of Ihe ellorts ol Mi s. , lichee Street. Tim's father oper- ncimcenecK and oiners interested, .alcd a news agency while here. ine icnai program lor tile Handi capped child has been tremendous ly improved." Timmy went to a private nursery school for two years, to kinder garten at the right age, the only blind child in a public school in Ihe state of Washington. If he worked satisfactorily with children Fully Automatic Cleaner ELECTROLUT O ELECTPKXJJX COM. Foctory-Avthorii4 M enW Scrvfct TARKEL TWEET with sight, other blind children Ph. 4-7167 2550 Whit St. TIM SCHNEEBECK and THUNDER ary issue ot Cosmopolitan. This is a brief resume of that story. The Schneebecks have a son Da vid in college and a daughter Judy in junior high school. On the day Tim s parents knew for a certainty that he would nev er see. Bethel Schneebeck began searching for ways and the means o carry out her resolution and her gallant fight has resulted in open ing the door to a normal life to all blind children in the stale of Washington. Tim was the victim of rclro- lental-fibroplasia, from which i many premature babies suffer. j Because there is no hope for this type of blindness, Tim's fam ily searched for ways to give the creed that he would he taken away from his parents and placed in a state institution to receive his schooling. That time was when he was 6 years old. She was de termined that Tim must not go, that she would find a better way. 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