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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1959)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 195f HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE FIVK Russians Determined To Put Starch In Laundry MOSCOW (UPD Russia's seven-year plan (or catching up with Western living standards has got ten under way with suggestions in the official press that it really shouldn't take a month to get clothes laundered or two months to get a dress cleaned in the So viet Union. That's how long a citizen must expect to wait if he makes use ot the few laundries and dry clean ers that exist in Leningrad, the country's second biggest city, ac cording to the newspaper Lenin- gradskaya Pravda. Meanwhile, other papers in oth er cities have listed other exam ples of goods shortages, poor qual ity, high prices and bad service. This wave of candid criticism is being directed by the authorities against the legion of government and Communist Party functionar ies who handle the production, sale and maintenance of consum er goods and the provision of serv ices under the Soviet system. To a large extent it is they, the managers, who are being counted on to make a success of the gran doise program adopted in Feb ruary for bringing the Soviet Union abreast of Western Euro pean living standards by 1965 and of the United States by 1970. The wrong kind of manager, the Leningrad paper made clear, is the dry-cleaner official who was overheard by the paper's team of investigators refusing to I accept a woman's dress because "it has spots on it." When the woman persisted that that was why' she brought the dress around, , the functionary said it was not 'urgent" and would take two months to clean. The long queue In front of the dry-cleaner could read a sign say ing the establishment was accept ing only 30 articles of clothing that day, IS as ordinary and 15 as urgent." The paper did not say how long "urgent" work took. But it reported that a laundry it checked into took as long as a month to wash and iron clothes. although a year ago it took only two weeks. A tour of furniture stores in the city of Riga was made by re porters for the newspaper Soviet Latvia. The paper said Latvia is specially noted among Soviet re publics for its furniture. Yet it re ported that "everywhere we heard complaints by customers about the shortage of furniture and the lack of inexpensive pieces." A pair of newlyweds fortunate enough to have been allocated an apartment in a new building were looking for new furniture. They wanted something "light, attractive and inexpensive," the paper said, "but where was it to je found?" "Elegant furniture or simple de sign may be seen at exhibitions," the paper said, "but it is no where on sale, even though some models were earmarked lor pro duction as long as two years ago." If you succeed in buying what you want, maintenance is a head ache, several articles suggested. Leningradskaya Pravda said sim ple things like getting a key made or a dress or suit altered or button sewn on" are difficult to accomplish and cost much too much. "Sometimes fixing a lock comes out costing more than the lock cost to buy," it said. A man" who took a damaged vacuum cleaner to a receiving point for repair was told to come back in a month The newspaper Zarya Vostoka reported on. the "tribulations of television set owner" in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, who needed new tulie for his set. Nowhere in Tbilisi could he find a tube that would fit his model, which he pur chased only in 1&F7, YOU ARE HOW ' ENTERING A ' DANGER ZOME the pubuc highway Good Luck UNDER THEIR NOSES DIYARBAKIR. Turkey UPl Local police finally have closed the book on Eyup Krol, whom they'd been hunting nine years for a shooting. They found him at the Di yarbakir police station where he had been working since rJw as a night watchman. 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