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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Monday, Dec. 21, 1950
Sad Homes Bear Burden,
Glad Ones Smile Again,
As Fate Plays Odd Tricks
NEW YORK IUPI) - Christ
mas is a magic word (o children
But in countless homes there arc
heavy hearts. In others, late con
trives to turn young tears inti,
(miles.
Across an often heedless nation
bnt on festive holiday and the
gentle blessing of holy things, the
sad homes bear their burden, the
glad ones smile once more.
Killer Slays
Rural Family
OSPREY, Fla. (AP) - A Christ
mas tree glitters today in an iso
lated home, but two youngsters
will never open the four gaily
wrapped packages beneath the
boughs.
An unknown assailant murdered
Clifford Walker, his wife, and
their two small children Saturday
at their rural home.
The bodies of the parents and
a 3-year-old son lay on the floor
not far from the Christmas tree
until discovered Sunday.
Officers theorize the killer was
1 friend of the family who tried
unsuccessfully to rape the mother.
They believe the murders oc
curred when the father and chil
dren arrived home from a friend's
house.
The victims were Clifford and
Christine Walker, both 23, their
son, Jimmy, and a 2 - year old
daughter, Debbie.
The parents and son had been
shot in the head. No murder wea
pon was found, but three .22
calibcr cartridges lay near the
bodies.
The girl's body was found face
down in a half-filled bathtub, and
Sheriff Boss Boyer said the killer
apparently held the child under
the water until she drowned. The
girl also had been shot, officials
reported.
Although three persons were
taken to Sarasota, 10 miles north
of Osprcy, for questioning, Boyer
laid he had no real suspects.
Jazz Trumpeter
Swaps Careers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Jazz
i trumpeter F. Allen Smith Is back
, teaching fifth grade pupils after
; a brief but successful tareer with
; big name bands.
Smith, 34, said in an Interview
Sunday that jazz and his desire
to teach had been in conflict for
years. He left a public school
teaching job in 1!)38 to go on tour
with Benny Goodman. In addition
he filled New York nightspot en
gagements and made recordings.
But, he added: "New York is a
rat race. Some people like it."
Smith got his teaching creden
tials after graduating from San
Francisco State College after
World War II. He teaches at Bur
nett elementary school.
It was just 35 days before
Christmas when two automobiles
net head-on at midnight in Mount
Kisco, N.Y., in a sickening rip of
nctal that deprived six homes
,ind 26 children of mothers. The
six, in one station wagon, were
returning -from a church moth
ers' guild meeting.
A youth fleeing police in a car
smashed into them. Two, mothers
of six, died. The other four, torn
but now off the critical list,
will spend a painful Christmas In
the hospital. Their 16 children
range in age from 2 to 13. Guild
members are preparing presents
lor the children and husbands.
In Angwin, Calif., Evelyn Hicks
12, will take a closer look at
Santa and the holly and tinsel
this year. This may be the last
time she sees them. She knows
that. Evelyn is dying of cancer
and has known about it for sever
al months.
A bright twist came in Enid,
Okla., when a boy, about eight
told A. M. Taylor, a Christmas
tree vendor, that he had to get
a tree for his grandmother and
bought one on the installment
plan. Taylor said the boy picked
one out, was told it would be
SO cents, and plunked dou)n two
cents. He said he'd make equal
payments for the rest.
Another customer contributed a
quarter, and Taylor shook hands
on a done deal with the young-
fter, who warned: "Don't you
send me no bill. We get enough
of them."
In Kansas City, Kan., life itself
was a Christmas present for
Patty McLindcn, 12. Born a blue
baby, worsening until six months
ago, she couid hardly walk, She
was given little chance to survive
much longer. Tins month, a sur
geon team used a heart-lung ma
chine and body cooling and re
paired Patty's heart.
She went home last week to the
family farm near Cedar Point,
Kan. With her went the doctors
promise of a normal, active life
In a Fort Worth, Tex., hospi
tal, Lynn Campbell, 17, worked
hard to learn to breathe three
minutes without mechanical aid
so she could go home in an am
bulance with her father for
Christmas. Lynn, a polio victim,
lies in bed and in daytime
breathes through a new devico
that feeds her air through a hole
in her throat.
Her father, Ervin, was In
Dallas veterans hospital with a
spinal ailment and had tentative
permission to go home to Bos
well, Okla., for Christmas. Lynn s
doctors said she could join him
in the ambulance if she learned
to breathe three minutes without
help, so they could put her in an
iron lung if the other device
failed!
"I've got lo do it," Lynn said.
"I haven't seen my daddy for so
long. I don't want anything else
for Christmas, just to go home."
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NEW OFFICERS of Crater Lake Lodge, No. 211 A.F.&A.M. were installed at the Scot
tish Rite Temple December 12. Left to right, front row, are Louis Fritsch, Virgil H. Barleen,
Gus G. Vlahos, Clarence A. Humble, W. Dexter Elliott, Joe E. Green. Back row, same
order, Arthur D. Howell, Charles W. Filh, Thomas C. Barnes, Walter F. Brown, Lloyd G.
Murphy and Jack W. Wright.
On The Record
SISKIYOU CC)i;.NTT
DLATHS
Ahrami. Chrittooher. 83. Klamath
River, December 5.
Blelcefley. Docla E., 89, Montague,
December 5.
Branum. Nlcholai B.. 77. Dorrla. De-
camber 3. .
Crumnton. Clifford C. 52. Hannv
Camp, December 11.
Dennia. riorence M.. 73. Yreka. De-
cemoer a.
Deter. David M.. 76. Montaaue. De.
cemher 11.
Kirk. Jamea E.. 68. Weed. De
cember 11,
Nelson. Ida Florence. 73. National
City. Decemher 11.
Smith, Roger, infant, weed. Decem
ber .1.
Wlnther. Elnar. 68. Yreka. Decem
ber 6,
NATO RAPPED
MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet
government newspaper lzvestia
aid Saturday "The North Atlantic
Alliance seeks lo ignore the thaw
In the international climate and
continues the dangerous game of
the arms race.
ADMITS EMBEZZLEMENT
CHICAGO (UPI) Robert E.
Cox, 36, a bookkeeper for the
Continental Insurance Co., admit
ted to police Friday he embezzled
between $.iO,000 and $79.0(10 dur-i
ing the past six years and spent
most of the money on "good
living."
Typhoon Gilda
May Claim 100
MANILA (UPI) - The Philip.
pine News Service today reported
that a launch with about 100 per
sons aboard is missing since' ty
phoon Gilda raged across the mid-
Philippines Friday night.
The agency said the passengers
were school teachers scheduled to
attend a convention at Samar Is
land in the Visayan Island chain
on Saturday. It said the launch
has not been heard from since
Friday when it left Zumarraga Is
land. The agency reported that Gilda
lett 12 persons known dead and
property damage of $2,500,000 in
its wake.
Agency Raps Illegal Sales
SUPER SECURITY
RAMBOUILLET. France (L'PI)
Security arrangements for the
summit meeting at the Rambuil-
Ict Chateau were so strict Sun.
day that the Secret Servicemen
who constantly guard President
Eisenhower found themselves
barred from the chateau court
yard.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
today opened an unusual confer
ence to tell the buying public how
to guard against "trickery in the
market place" and phony adver
tising.
FTC Chairman Earl W. Kintner
said the purpose of the two-day
"conference on public deception"
was to educate consumers on how
lo detect and avoid "being vic
timized by illegal selling methods,
particularly false or misleading
advertising.
Kintner said in a prepared
statement that the conference
could prove a boon to the reput
able businessman. "They will wel
come the sharper-eyed buyer," he
explained, "who no longer stum
bles into the illegal traps set by
the larcenous few."
Representatives of 47 major ci
vic, professional and welfare or
ganizations were invited to attend
the school to alert buyers the
first to be conducted by the Com
mission.
Kintner called it an experiment.
If it succeeds in developing use
ful teamwork in fighting tricky
selling devices, he said, a series
of additional sessions will be held.
The conference stems from a
recommendation of a study group
sponsored by President Eisenhow
er's Council of Economic Advisers.
It urged all government agencies
charged with consumer protection
to take steps to bone up the pub
lic on their work.
An FTC spokesman said the
meeting would provide a graphic
'tip-off to suckers on how the
selling rackets work.
Kintner told the conference it
could perform a tremendous serv
ice if it could take the "blissful
blindfold of ignorance from the
eyes of the bargain hunter."
He noted that the bargain hun
ter is most often the person who
can least afford to be swindled.
"And the reputable seller," he add
ed, "who tries to stay honest un
der the lash of illegal competition
may find that his books show a
profit only in heaven."
Mayor Carols Radio Listeners, Pleads Safety
LOS ANGELES (AP) Mayor
Norris Poulson played Christma.-.
carols Instead of discussing civic
Weather Table
SEES PRICE REDUCTIONS
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
(UPI) Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-
Tenn.) says his Senate subcom
mittee hearings on the drug in
dustry will force voluntary price
reductions. Kefauver, winding up
a week-long vacation here Sunday
said companies "charging unrea
sonable prices" will make the re
ductions because "the people
won't put up with them."
The average-sized sweet potato
yields 150 calories as compared
with 100 calorics for the average
sized white potato.
New U.S. jetliners are 62 nor
cent faster than the latest piston
wigine aircraft, and carry 70 per
coin more load.
Band & Orchestra Instruments
Repaired
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SCHOOLS REPAIR WORK INVITED
Rrrfrrnrea available on rrqurst) Only hr.t quality malarial used.
A1X WORK GL'ARAN TKED.
THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE
High Low Pr.
Albany, cloudy 23 It
Albuquerque, cloudy 52 33
Anchorage, cloudy 31 27 M
Atlanta, cloudy 48 34
Bismarck, snow 28 27 T
Boston, cloudy 29 14
Buffalo, snow 26 18 T
Chicago, cloudy 32 26
Cleveland, snow 35 27
Denver, clear 53 23
Des Moines, cloudy 33 28 .03
Detroit, snow 32 25
Fort Worth, clear 55 32
Helena, cloudy 35 16
Honolulu, rain 79 70 T
Indianapolis, snow 32 28 .13
Kansas City, cloudy 50 28
Los Angeles, rain 67 54 .11
Louisville, snow 43 31 T
.Memphis, clear 44 26
Miami, cloudy 75 65
Milwaukee, cloudy 28 17
Mpls.-St. Paul, cloudy 36 21
New Orleans, clear 59 47
New York, cloudy 33 26
Oklahoma City, clear 52 32
Omaha, cloudy 34 38
Philadelphia, cloudy 36 24
Phoenix, cloudy 67 56
Pittsburgh, snow 32 26 .04
Portland, Me., cloudy 29 10
Portland, Ore., cloudy 43 39 .03
Rapid City, clear 43 14
Richmond, cloudy 21 6
St. Louis, cloudy 44 32
San Diego, rain 64 58 .19
Salt Lake City, cloudy 40 24
San Francisco, cloudy 57 48
Seattle, clear 44 32 .25
Tampa, cloudy 73 57
Washington, cloudy 38 32
(M Missing; T Trace)
problems on his weekly
program Sunday night.
"During the Christmas season
'he people won't be too interested
in my headaches," he said.
The 15-minute program (over
radioi nation KFD was interrupted bf
only one "commercial" the may
or's plea for safe driving over the
holidays.
It was Mark Twain who said
"I would rather have my igno
rance than another man's know
ledge, because I have got so much
more of it (ignorance)."
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