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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Mondav. Doc. 2R. 105(1 PAGE 3 A Kansas Town Treasurer Stays On Job 60 Years Br LAWRENCE A. BARRETT Isas Stale Bankine Board and is a . IOLA. Kan. (NEA) Back in' director in the Kansas Bankers 1929 when Thomas A. Bowlus was Surety Co. He modestly presented with a diamond-studded pin (or his 30 years of service as Iola city treasurer, there was tome feeling that he might retire end take things easy. The feeling was a little prema ture. Bowlus has just become eli gible for a second diamond pin "for my other lapel" as he puts it. The active 85-year-old has held (he job for 60 years and has been unanimously reelected for another two-year term. But if you're thinking that 60 years is a long time to be on the public payroll, consider this: during six decades Bowlus' total income as treasurer of this south western Kansas town has been $2,413. Bowlus docs have time for ac tivities other than bridgets and taxes. He belongs to the Cham ber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Elks, the Allen Coun try Club and the Kansas City Club. The salary has never been much of an attraction to long service in the job. When Bowlus took over the treasurer's books in 1899, he was paid $40 a year. The salary remained at that figure until 1950 when the "high cost of living" af fected it and it was boosted to $50 annually. In 1951, all Iola city em ployes were given a six per cent, salary boost and Bowlus found his yearly pay upped to $53 a year In 1955, possibly thinking that Bowlus had "learned the ropes, the Iola city council boosted the treasurer's salary to $100 a year. Bowlus has served on the Kan- Co. He modestly admits that he donated the land on which the Allen County hospital was built a few years ago. Born In Iola early in 1874, Bow lus has lived his entire life in this community. He went to work for a local bank almost before he was old enough to vote, and has been president of the Allen County Kan sas Mate Bank since August 8, 1908. He has served as city treas urer under 20 different mayors and some three dozen different councilmen. Several times during his three score years in politics, opponents have campaigned against "the banker." On election night he al ways came out on top although in recent years he hasn't done any vigorous campaigning. Bowlus apparently has been too busy handling other people's mon ey to get around to matrimony. Although interested in world af fairs he has not traveled much al though he did slip in a trip to Europe about 20 years ago. Since the city of Iola owns its own utilities the amount of mon ey that has passed through Bow lus' books during his six decades as city treasurer is so large that even the banker accustomed as he is to talk in big figures can not estimate it. But at an age when many per sons are sitting back in a rock ing chair taking it easy. City Treasurer Thomas H. Bowlus of Iola, Kan., is going to try for his third 30-year diamonds-studded pin, Politicians in southeast Kansas think that if anyone can do it, he can. "X ' MORTY MEEKLE P, I POYOO THINK I PIPN'T f IT MAKE6 ANV V CATCH V PREFERENCE TO YOUR V THE QrARVINS I PA66. , I MILLIONS IN f . r X. INDIA? J 1 v 7 POVOO THINK IT WILL HAVE ANV EFFECT ON OUR RELATIONS WITH THE RU66IAN6? THAT'S WHAT COMB'S OF LETTING INTELLECTUALS GET ON THE TEAM. 1 Battle-Seared Fortress Tourist Attraction Today By TONY ESCODA CORKEGIDOR ISLAND, Philip pines un Sunday visitors splash in the surf, sun themselves on the beach or fish from the shell- scarred docks on this la'"""'!' shaped island guarding Bay. Elsewhere on Corrcgidor all is quiet. The jungle has grown back over tunnels and gun emplace ments in the hills. Often the only sign of life is an occasional snake slithering through the tall grass. A newly built tourist lodge sits on a rise a halt mile irom tnc spot where Japanese troops swept ashore in May, 1342, to stamp out the last spark of Allied resistance in Southeast Asia. Before that, Corrcgidor and Ba taan Peninsula, across the bay to the north, were the only allied out- Manila posts left in the wake of the Japa nese juggernaut. The ragtag army of 12,000 Amer icans and Filipinos on Corrcgidor had already beaten back one ma jor onslaught and were fighting on despite the rain of bombs and shells that spattered the island daily. For a time the Free Philippine government ruled from gloomy Ma It i i rum "'-t s swa- TOURISTS inspect 12-inch American mortars rusted in their last firing position toward Bataan. Handbills Ask Yank's Death linta tunnel and laterals dug out of Conegidor's bedrock, and from here a lonely Voice of Freedom" broadcast ach day. But by April, Bataan with Cor- cgidor, the key to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's defense on the Philip pineshad fallen. Ammunition for Corregidor's big guns had run out. So had food and medicine. The hospital wards inside Ma- lint a were crammed with sick and ounded, many of whom were to die later during the Death March to concentration camps on Luzon. The Philippine government, with en. MacArthur and his staff, es caped to Australia. The big Japanese push finally eame, and tins time there was lit tle to stop it. It ended on May 6 when Gen. Jonathan Wainwright surrendered. The "Voice of Freedom" went off the air and the big Rock fell silent. The silence today is more hum drum, punctuated by the laughter of tourists who come over on the Sunday excursion boats. They are shown around by the only soldiers left on Corrcgidor a handful of Philippine marines on routine se curity duty. The island is technically a me morial ground, but only a few tab lets and markers have been erect- Few are needed. The site of the Japanese land- ng is clearly marked by trees and shrubbery, torn by shrapnel, hich haven't bloomed since. The 23 batteries still have their 12-inch coastal guns and mortars, with rusted barrels in the same position as when they were last fired. A third of Malinta tunnel's 825- foot length has caved in, but there's room enough for sight-seers and a sign that reads, "Headquar ters, United States Forces in the Philippines.' ed. BAD-GUY SPOTTER Beatnik novelist - poet Lawrence Lipton, right, demonstrates his "Detector for Undesirable Habitues" to Susan Durst and Bill Riola in Venice, Calif., West Coast center of beatdom. Beatnik Lipton cooked up the mad, mad machine to spot, as he says, "bad guys," from subversives to teen-age werewolves. The detector was displayed during a hearing to answer charges that undesirables were sipping espresso in a local coffee house. JAKARTA, Indonesia (API- Pamphlets handwritten in Chinese appeared here Friday demanding death for Allan Lawrence Pope, 31, of Miami, Fla., who goes on trial Monday on a charge of pilot ing a rebel bomber in Indonesia's 1958 uprising. Somebody plastered the pam phlets on St. Paul's Church, fac ing the residence of U.S. Ambas sador Howard P. Jones. Parish ioners, mostly Indonesian Chris tians, immediately tore them down. Death sentence for Pope, ban- Bob Crosbys To Reconcile BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) The Bob Crosbys are together again, hopeful of saving their 21- year marriage. "We had a very happy holiday," Crosby said Sunday night. He told newsmen that he and his wife, June, dined together Christmas Day and attended ehurch Sunday. The couple separated after an argument last month. Mrs. Cros by told police at the time that her husband came home in an angry mood and pushed her. She said Crosby was stabbed in the arm and chest when she grabbed a letter opener to defend herself. Crosby's version was that his wife had fallen when he' at tempted to disarm her. The couple has five children aged 8 to 19. LA Counts Birds LOS ANGELES (AP) A special census is being held in a 15-mile area of Los Angeles today. It's for the birds. The Los Angeles Audubon So ciety, Inc., has 60 spotters count ing beaks in an area centered on Pico and La Cienega boulevards. It's part of an annual birdcount taken each year by Audubon units Last year 148 species were counted in Los Angeles. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson the American essayist and poet who said: "I hate quotations! Tell me what YOU know!" dit adventurer," the pamphlets said. "Prevent U.S. intervention." Communists and other leftists have been vociferous in demand ing the trial of Pope, who was in jured and captured when his B26 bomber was shot down in East Indonesian waters on an alleged bombing mission May 18, 1958. Crab Feed Set The third annual Klamath Air Search and Rescue Unit crab feed will be held Wednesday, January at 6 p.m. in the Pilots Lounge at the Airport Cafe. Announcement of plans was made by Rex Morehouse, KASRU president. Members should make reserva tions early. Guests will be wel come. A short business meeting will follow the dinner. DEGREE OF HONOR The Degree 'of Honor will hold its regular business meeting to nieht. December 28, in the KC Hall. There will also be a prac tice for installation and initiation of new members. All officers are asked to wear formals. YOU BE THE JUDGE Isnt it better to stay on the job than lose time taking Rtal treatments? fj Isnt it better to go to one who specializes in Rectal treatment than to suffer from treatments by inex perienced hands? Isnt K better to be cured quickly and permanently from PROLAPSE, F1S- i SURE, FISTULA, ANAL THROMBOSIS and other Rectal disorders WITH OUT HOSPITAL OPERA TION? ft You Be the Judge Th decision is youn, met nowl Dr. Reynolds Clinic Ntracopathic Hit !- Rectal Specialist M44 Cento. N.E., Sriem, Om. Phone EM 3-9460 Census Lists Farm Decline WASHINGTON (UPI) You can't keep. 'em down on the farm '. The Census Bureau reported Sunday that only one in eight Americans now lives on a farm .compared with one in six a decade ago. '. During the last 10 years, the farm population has declined by S.900,000, a drop of more than 15 .per cent. Newspaper SPOT ADS ore inexpensive repeated daily $1.16 Bank on prettier skin . IO mice In The Village Court sale . ITUSSY WIND & WEATHER LOTION What'. . body to do when raw wind. w sun glare roughen, JSS K soothe, moisturise, and help, heal detorgent-eors- hands. And it contams bexaehlorophene to help fight Infection, too. 1 t I os. rat. t 00 now BO 12 ox. r. 2 00, now 100 MStS M.US IU 840 Main TU 2-3475 its network of, On the hill called "Tonside .MacArthur s old command post still stands, an empty shell gutted by Japanese artillery fire. Scrawled in charcoal on one wall is this message from an unknown soldier: "Never say die." Police Charge Official's Son .M-.w 1UKK CAr") The husky tion in Washington, said his son blond son of a German arn.y cap tain serving in this country has been charged with trying to rape Brooklyn policeman's wife. The youth, llelimith Mainardv. 19, was arrested in Brooklyn Sun day after a battle with police. Detectives said the police offi cer's wife, Joan S.indcl, 31, had just entered the foyer of their apartment while her husband Karl, 35. parked their car. Mrs. Sandel said Mainardv fol lowed her in, seized her. and tried to kiss her. She screamed, fought and shouted that her husband was 3 cop. The youth fled and Mrs Sandel ran outside to her hus band. Together, the Sandcls cruised the neighborhood in their car un til they found Mainardy walking along. The teen-ager tried to break away. Mrs. Sandel phoned other police, who helped Sandel subdue the youth. The boy's father, Capt. George Mainardy, who is attached to the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- had never been in trouble. Mainardy, paroled in his fa ther's custody for a hearing Jan. b, was charged with attempted rape and felonious assault on a po liceman. Kditor & Publisher reports that daily newspapers in the U.S. and Canada reject each year adver tising worth millions of dollars be cause it does not meet standards of "truthfulness and good taste." Says Cranston Williams, general manager of ANTA, "... the daily newspaper puts its integrity ahead of all other considerations in preserving its standing as a truthful source of information for readers and a means of dissem inating truthful messages through advertising." J. 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