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U.CP C32.lt3.ri3Y N-:3t'A?SK SEC1I0M GEN.p.if , fja llOCUitiHiS .017,, EUAJSafi.GaEG. cca?. ! T1m- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS -. What to talk about today? Let's talk about WORDS. ; . That thought is prompted by the (act that up to the time this is written the news today is JUST WORDS words put together to fill space so that we who make news papers may have something to fill them with. How about SERENDIPITY? It's a word that has had quite a bit of play in these parts here in the dog days, when there isn't much of moment to write about It was sprung first by Bob Chandler, of the ' Bend Bulletin It was picked up and given a whirl by the Eugene Register-Guard, which mentioned several recent users of it among them Senator Richard Neuberger of Oregon. Sen ator Neuberger,, back in Washing ton, spotted it and explains in a letter to this writer: . . "I have read with interest and profit your recent column about 'serendipity.' I believe the word was originated by Sir Horace Wal- pole. He took it from a famous old proverb about the three mi gratory princes of ancient Serendip. which was Ceylon. Wherever they went, they had a happy faculty of making auspicious discoveries, al-J ways by accident. "I applied the word to my own ordeal with cancer because this en tire experience frightening as it has been has helped me to be come a more effective and influ ential advocate of the medical re search which is needed to save so many human lives. I .thought the beginnings of the word might in terest you." Charley Sprague's Salem States man wasn't caught napping. It, too, was aware that the coiner of "serendipity" was Sir Horace Wal pole, fourth Earl of Orford, who lived and wrote back in the 1700's Incidentally, in his "little Gothic castle," as he described his resi dence at Strawberry Hill in Twick enham, he set up a printing press on which he printed several of his own works. That's one way to get books published. The Statesman adds: "The word really fits editors who often stumble unexpectedly' on ' ideas that make good grist f o r their Underwood mills. Walpole's coined word, however, seems to' us a good example of what Herbert Spencer in his essay on Style calls the 'immense pomposity of ses quipedalian verbiage.' " a.. : Hmmmmmmmmmm. Another form of what. Herbert Spencer so aptly terms "sesquip edalian verbiage" is what is com ing to be called EDITORIALESE, which is a form of written speech that sounds pretty, like the tinkling of a brook, but carries .no punch . When a newspaper writer falls . Into the use of editorialese, it's bout time to send him to the showers,-, - . ', ; , , ; t- , Octavus Roy Cohen, whose un- Walpolian'and un-Spencerian style was far from editorialese, was fond of having one of his down-to-earth characters retort scornfully to an other character who was indulging in high-flown language: "You says words, but they don't mean nuffin'." That precisely describes editori alese. ' I Stalls uamt&tm 8. Z XSj mnhi unrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnrrfM rnee rive cents a rages KLAMATH FALLS, OKtl.u,, thlhsuay. jlly jo, 1939 Telephone 1U 4-xm mi. hi.iii I . m Tafia aw , , i v J . ""..,.:: i 'V .- M . ' tf. .: -it:, - - . 1 - V' - x ' f.rW - m I l - avails: ; .. i j -j , Firefighters Pour Into Pollard Flat Area Blaze By PEGGY WALSIC DUNSMU1R - Firefighters from all purls of California as well as New Mexico Hopi Indian firefight ers were converging on a blazing 2.800 acre fire in the Pollard Flat vicinity about 21 miles south of here. Approximately 1.000 men have been able to build a fire line around only about 50 per cent of the blaze which is burning about one-half mile west of U.S. 99 in very rugged country. Present indications are that the blaze cannot be contained under 5.01)0 acres and officials predict it will be Saturday night before it can be considered controlled. In addition to the army of men on the fireline. there are. 13 bull dozers and eight tankers on the line. Aerial activity includes bor ate spraying and a helicopter to move men to vital spots. Damage has been estimated at $500,000 in timber and $28,000 to the watershed area. Crews from almost every Forest Service area in California are on the scene. The Ralph L. Smith Lumber firms in Castclla and Mount Shasta have closed down and sent both their mill and log crews to battle the blaze. McLeod has also sent 200 men to the scene. Soldiers from the National Guard at Red Bluff have set up camp at Pollard Flat. The fire broke out about noon Tuesday and is said to have been triggered by a burning deserted house in the area. Officials are still investigating in an effort to Board Of Higher Education Tours Prospective OTI Sites , x SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE A LONG, LONG TIME AGO that scenes such as this were on every hand. : As a sort of a public service the Herald and News presents this picture taken during a recent spring season along the Rim Drive at Crater Lake in the hopes that it will bring a faint flicker of hope to Basin area residents in the middle of the current hot season. The picture is at least proof that if we just wait long enough the heat will go away and the shows will come again. Such scenes offer hope to the weary firefighters for an eventual end to their labors, assure us all that there will be another water source for next year and prove again that "it can happen here." Tafe Of Terror Continues . . ,. V J" For Her, Man She Branded Strikes Again, Uses Knife; .. GRtVAS BALKS AT PACT ATHENS (UPD Gen. George Grivas, a leader of Cyprus' fight for independence, announced Wednesday he would actively op pose the present international agreements by which Cyprus is to attMn nationhood.-In so doing, the EOKA guerilla chief openly broke with Archbishop M.akarios who has given public support to the agreements reached ( earlier this year by Britain, Turkey and Greece. CANOGA PARK, Calif. (AP) , Four years ago a man slipped into a pretty housewife's kitchen and grabbed her as she stood ironing. Patricia Faye Smith smashed her iron against his face. The man fled, screaming, his face branded. Two weeks later she received a crudely written note. "I'll get you, it said. For Mrs. Smith it was the -beginning of four years of torment.'. . Once the man appeared again at her home and tried to rape her but fled when her children came home. Countlt.-s times her phone has rung. A man s voice would say: "I'll get you." Three times the Smiths moved from one Los Angeles suburb to another. .They were beginning to feel secure in their home in Canoga Park. . . Then,. Wednesday the man re turned. Mrs. Smith, 39; recognized him. A long, livid scar stretches from his left eye to his mouth she said. ,' - She said he forced her into the bathroom of the home, ripped off her blouse, and pulled a penknife. She said he told her: "Now you are going to know what it feels like to be ugly. She said he slashed her on the ankle twice, then slashed at her shoulders, arms and thighs. Her oldest son heard her screams and pounded on the locked door. Mrs. Smith said the man smashed her face with his clinched fist and warned: "I'll be back to finish the job." Police put out an all-points but letin for the scarred man, whose identity isn't known. '- ; Police reports verified Mi's. Smith's story of years of torment Officers have been seeking her assailant since the first attack. Confusion Has Its Full Day RICHMOND. Va. (AP) Vir ginia Gov. J. Lindsay Almond Jr. says he'd like to fill the request made by Nebraska Gov. Ralph G. Brooks, but he can't. Brooks wrote Almond asking him to urge his , congressman Frank M. Karsten to try to work out a suitable financing plan for the federal interstate highway system. ... Trouble is, Virginia has no con gressman Karsten. And Democrat Almond's home district represen tative is Igulp) a Republican- Richard Poff. Rep. Karsten is from Missouri like the Congressional Directory says. Ksi rater V' ? ' ' ' J PJantBIast Rocks Town - PORTLAND, Conn. (AP),- Ex- ploding chemicals shook two com munities early today and lit up the predawn sky as flames de stroyed a chenycal distributing depot, No deaths or injuries were reported. . ; - . Thirteen tanks of industrial chemicals exploded in the" blaze, which a fire official said , appar ently had started accidentally. ThfbigEest blast, which knocked sleepers from their beds here and in Middletown across the Connec ticut river, came when a 13,000 gallon tank of alcohol went off. The flames at times burst like rocket blasts 500 feet high. Flam ing debris was scattered over a wide area. C. Albert Mugford. manager of the ; company, Phillips - Bros Chemical Co. Inc., estimated the loss at approximately half a mil lion dollars. ' ' The firm, which employs 14 per sons, is in effect a warehouse. It receives chemicals, recuts them and reships them. The depot housed about 1.000 drums of in dustrial chemicals. FOREST FIRE fANGERl TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair, and warm through Friday. Low tonight M-65. . High Friday 90-9S. a- ,, High yestcrday r -SO Low last night, ..........!,..... 54 Precip. last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 ... ', 5.S2 Same period last year 19.47 Northern California Fair through Friday, scattered thunder- showers in high Sierras. Stee! Strike" m Sought lay blame for the loss. Joe Elliot, Sonora, timber man agement olliccr for the Stanislaus National Foiest is directing oper ations. Kenneth Webb. Chester. Lassen National Forest, is acting as safety officer. Webb reports lliat so far only one injury has been reported among the fire crew. The huge crews on the fire line have now left southern Siskiyou County and northern Shasta Coun ty without forest service standby lire protection. All fire districts and community volunteer lire de partments have pledged them selves to fight fires outside their normal district while the condition exists. Redmond Spuds Hit By Freeze REDMOND (AP) Freezing temperatures in the Redmond area caused an estimated $150, ooo damage to the potato crop, officials said Wednesday. The mercury dropped to 32 Monday night at Redmond. 20 at Lapine and 22 at Alfalfa, a com munity 20 miles east of Ijedmoiid. The damage estimate ycaivc from Jim McAllister, Deschutes County agent, who toured the re gion's nearly 1,500 acres of potato fields. i t Many potatoes still will grow, but have lost their size and -quantity, he said. Damage, he added, varied from 10 to 80 per cent in various spots. - REPAIRMAN TOO LATE RAEFORD, N.C. (UPIl-A de fective television set that already had given shocks to several -members of a family Wednesday elec trocuted nine-year-old Linda Fur mage. A repairman was to have picked up the set to fix' It today. Fort Rock Area Fire Finally Corralled In Junipers fUMPER TRUCKS such as this one sprayed countless gallons of water on the big Fort Hock burn this week and last in an effort to keep flames from gobbling mora than the 25,000 ert if hai already burned. - ' ; By HELEN PARKS FORT ROCK A 35-man'crew remained on the line Monday after noon in what was hoped to be the mop-up stage of a 25,000-acre fire 20 miles northeast of Fort Rock. A stiff wind kept Bureau of Land Management personnel from relax ing their vigil. ' The fire started more than a week ago following an electrical storm; More than 95 per cent of .the burn thus far is in juniper-forested lava beds. The 29 square miles of lava surround Lava Mountain, an area inaccessible to equipment. The isolated spot is a great dis tance from highways and five hours were required to move equip ment in when it was needed. Early Sunday morning an all out effort was made to stop the blaze by backfiring. Sixty five men took part m the operation. With eight tractors and dozers and the county road grader, 40 miles of double fire break 20 feet wide en circled the lava beds. This was a safeguard . against shifting winds The fire burned and endangered much rangeland and several ranch es in' the area needed protection. Bill Leavell. range manager for the Lakeview BLM grazing district, indicated that lack of telephone communication was the biggest handicap. It was necessary to tely entirely on radio. Main difficulty was in getting communications out Both Lakeview and Prineville of fices were busy with conversations regarding local fires, making con tact from here difficult. Wayne Gilbert of Princvilh; BLM radio technician, and Law rence Rose of Vale, radio techni cian, spent the entire time here on duty since early last week On the plus side In the battle was the effective use of air serv ice, according to Lew (Jake) Har ris. also from the Lakeview BLM Office. Alan Withers of a Klamath Falls air service flew about 15 loads of borate -slurry. On on flight he made a pass at a finger of fire running toward the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. 'Chub Frazce. The fire came within quarter mile of their home. Jim Cheatham, also from the Lakeview office of the bureau, was observer and radio' man. The flights were especially sue cessful in reconnaissance ad in bringing parts for disabled Ve hides. The recently improved facilities of Lakeview Airport made a good flying job possible. At least one nighl landing was made possible by the use of the new lights fire strategists have spent from eightlo 10 hours a day in the air. Twelve women from the Fort Rock area have worked in shifts as Ire camp cooks. ' NEWYORK 'API Federal mediators continued efforts today to break the steel strike deadlock. They also kept ah eye on the aluminum industry where scat tered strike threats remain. Contract extensions have been agreed upon in the bulk of the aluminum industry, but contracts expire Friday , midnight in some segments where -no extension has been, made., , Joseph F. Finnegan,; director of the Federal Mediation and Concil iation Service, flew from New ork to Washington Wednesday to confer with Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell. The secretary serving as President Eisenhow er's fact-finder in the lB-day-old strike which has .shut down al most 90 per cerit rot the nation's steel production. Federal mediators met with leaders of the United Steelwork- ers of America Wednesday and scheduled a session with industry leaders today. Neither side gave any evidence of making a concession. - The industry continued its re sistance to any labor cost in crease, on the ground that would spur inflation. The union, which seeks an in crease of 15 cents an hour in each year of a new . contract, contends that the industry could pay the in crease out of rising profits and ncrcascd productivity. , By TOM STIMMEL The Slate Board of Higher Edu cation visited town yesterday to look over the potential site for a new OTI campus. Or that's what the board thought it was here to do. Instead it learned from OTI Di rector Winston D. Purvine that: 1. Rather than one site having been selected already, three sites are under consideration. 2. It's the board's job to make the final choice. Board President Henry F. Cabell of Portland said he was under the impression that a site had been selected. Purvine said .this, was not so. . , An OTI Site '"Fund Drive was launched in mid-June at an early morning breakfast at which time Vern Owens, drive chairman, said OTI wanted a 130-acre site off Alameda Avenue, including the present Klamath Hardtop Race Track. Cost of the site was esti mated at $50,000 and a campaign was launched to raise that amount of money by public subscription. Owens said about $30,000 .of the amount had been raised, including pledges. But yesterday Purvine led four members of the board on a brief, dusty tour of three sites. One was the much-publicized site by the race track, but the other two Purvine did not wish disclosed at this time. The board first discussed the business at a luncheon in the Wine ma Hotel. Then it made its quick lour. Purvine said he .would tell the hoard all about the three sites under consideration. "We don't want a rubber stamp thing here, he said. "We'll tell all, good and bad, so the board can make its independent judgment. Cabell said he thought the board was looking at a silo already chos en. He said the board had planned a regular meeting at Southern Oregon College in Ashland, a hoard-operated institution. It de cided at the same lime to come to Klamath Falls to look over the Klamath Experiment Station, which is operated by Oregon State Col lege, a board charge. While in Klamath Falls, Cabell said, the board decided to look at the new OTI site. . The site it had in mind was the site publicized through the fund drive. That was the 130 acres ex amined by a legislative Joint Ways and Means Committee during the 19o9 Legislative session; it was the site looked over by Dr. John R. Richards, chancellor of the State System of Higher Education, and it was the site recommended by three members of the State Board K of Education, undeY which OTI vrilH' continue to operate -anlir 'July T,' 1060 when it becomes a charge of the ftateoard of-Higher- Edu cation. ' ! .' "" The board spent most of Its-tour -time at the Alameda Avenue site, was driven by Purvine past an- other of the three sites, and stopped again at the third pos sible site where the location was sketched out with the help of hastily-drawn plans. When the board will make its choice isn't known yet, Cabell said. It has no pressing deadline to meet. ; The luncheon discussion inevi tably wandered to the subject of OTI's transition from its present status toward a curriculum. with' more emphasis on technical train- . ing. Purvine told the board: "It is my opinion lhat 80 per cent of the people who have formed an oprnion about the tran sition of OTI are pleased with the direction it 'is going." Board members had few com ments on either the possible sites or the curriculum change. The school isn't officially in its charge yet, and the change in authority happened rather suddenly. Earlier the board did visit the Klamath Experimental Sta tion. Members here were Cabell; board members J. W. Forrester Jr. of Pendleton, Allan Hart of Portland and Dr. Ralph E. Pur vine, a distant cousin of the OTI director. Also present at the luncheon were Dr. A. L. Strand, OSC presi dent; Dr. M. Popovich, OSC dean of administration, and Dr. Eu gene Pallctte, board secretary. FOUR MEMBERS of the State Board of Education looked over three possible sites for new OTI campus yesterday. This shot was taken from the publicized location on AlamoeU Avanua. From left are Allan Hart of Portland: Winston 0. Purvine, OTI dirocfor: ' Dr. L Ralph E. Purvina of Salam; Henry F. Cabell of Portland, board president; J. W. 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