HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore, Sunday, January 24,1900
CITY BRIEFS
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The Degree of Honor will hold
a potlucK dessert .Monday, Janu
ary 25, at 7:15 p.m. All members
in the drill team are requested to
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attend.
Clara Fink will conduct an or
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ganizational meeting for adult sew
ing classes Monday, January 25,
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at 7:30 p.m. in Room 115 at the
high school. For information, call
Mrs. Fink, TU 4-7470 on the week
end, or the vocational office, T'J
4-7595, during the week.
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"JOE" JOINS HIS FAMILY during family nights at YMCA Headquarters twice a month
for fraternity and frolic. Joe is the local Y's symbol during Worldwide YMCA week
which ends today. The annual Y membership roundup begins Tuesday. .
Family Aided
By YMCA
Though the YMCA is dedicated
primarily to youth, it also serves
adults particularly the family.
Twice a month, on first and
thud Fridays, families can get
together evenings at YMCA head
quarters and indulge in a variety
of experiences. The family is thus
itrengthened in its desire for scrv
ice, its character and health, and
becomes stronger as a unit, says
Y Secretary Paul Campbell.
Members can make use of all
the ample facilities at headquar
ters. What , is more, the program
encompasses persons from tod
dling age to the elderly.
A portion, an important one, of
the Y program for families is the
annual campout at Camp Mc
Loughlin at Lake of the Woods.
In a setting perfumed by ever
green forests and cooled by the
lake's chill water, families are
Urged to spend Labor Day week
end just working off tensions pro
duced by, pressure of daily life.
If they want to, they may make
Use of boating, swimming, water
skiing and other facilities.
The family camp program sup
plements the Y's day camp and
Diamond Lake camp programs for
boys.
Public Affairs
Meet Slated
A meeting to introduce the
Great Decisions public affairs
study program In Klamath County
Is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tues
day evening, January 26, at the
Klamath County Library in Klam
ath Falls.
The study program endorsed by
President Eisenhower and other
leading citizens covers eight sub
jects over an eight-week period
starting February 7.
These foreign policy subjects In
clude: Communist time table for
I960; Divided Europe; Red China
on the March: Chances for India's
Middle Way: Middle East; Africa's
Goals; Cuba's Revolution; and
U.S. Global Strategy.
Fact sheets tor each subject pre
pared by the Foreign Policy As
sociation are available. The Chris
tian Science Monitor is carrying
articles and additional sources of
reading matter are outlined.
A supply of fact sheets for use
In study of this year's Great De
cisions subjects has been received
by Klamath County's Great Deci
sions Committee and will be avail
able for examination Tuesday eve
ning at the county library. Jim
Lattie, KOTI, Walt Jendrzojcwski,
the County Agent's office, and Isa
belle Brixner, county schools, arc
serving on the committee. Jcndrzc
jewski remarks that the size of
the national debt and size ot the
annual budget for foreign eco
nomic and military aid and for na
tional defense lends some urgency
to public analysis of pressures af
fecting American interests, secur
ity and survival. A clearer pic
ture of national objectives and a
better understanding of foreign
policy seem desirable.
Duplicate Bridge
Played Recently
Nine and one-half tables of du
plicate bridge were at play Thurs
day night at the city library, ac
cording to Mrs. David A. Richard
son, director oi the Lakeshore Du
plicate Club.
Mrs. Leona Rubrrtson and Mrs.
F. V. Hyde took top honors In
north-south position, followed by
Mis. Lena Smith and Mrs. Wil
liam Grove, second, and Mrs.
Claude Davis and Mrs. Lloyd Co
ble, third.
East-west first place winners
were Mrs. II. 0. .luikeland and
Mrs. Robert Thompson: second.
Mrs. Frank Rickey and Mrs. Wil
liam Cunningham, and. third. Mr.
and Mrs, Chester Stonecyphcr.
SAFE PEDALING is afforded children who use the McCol
lam Safety Reflector thown here beneath the foot of Jim
mie McCollam of Malin. His dad, James R. McCollam, in
vented the gadget and hopes to market it.
Court Records
KIAMATH COUNTY
DISTRICT COUKC
Richard Alfred Hewlett, truck speed'
Injr. dUmissed motion district attor
ney.
Edward E. Moorman, violation bas
ic rule, 7.SO paid.
Mike William Moreno, violation bai-
lc rule, 10 forfeited.
Albert Frank Patzke, group axle
overload, $50.
Leslie Edward Price, petit larceny.
demurrer sustained; bail ordered re-
funded to defendant; released.
Benjamin Lee Davis, fall dim head
hunts, a.
Millard Junior Robinson, fail stop at
slop sign, $.1.
Milton nay Scsnler, passing on right
aide of vehicle, $3.
Jean Evelyn Nelson, fall slop at
stop sign, S5.
Keith J. Hedrfck, no operators li
cense, $7.30 forfeited.
flnland Emil West, violation basic
rule, $10.
John Doc, violation basic rule, dis
missed motion district attorney.
Glenn B. Head, violation basic rule,
$5.
Lyle Dean McFarland, defacing
building and contents, enter plea of
guilty time for sentence set January
2.1 at 9:30 a.m.: bail set $300; re
manded to sheriff.
Gordon T. Emery, combination over
load, demurrer filed; hearing set Jan
uary 29 at 10 a.m.; released on $Jbu
unit posted.
Robert N. Rowlett, combination
overload, demurrer filed: hearing set
January 20, 1900 at 10 am.; released
upon $07 ball posted.
Charles Elmer Cooper, comb mat on
overload, demurrer filed; hearing set
January 29, WW) at 10 a.m.; released
$41 Hail posted.
Kenneth Eudaily, combination over
load, demurrer filed; hearing set Jan
uary 20 at 10 a.m.; released upon
posting $o.t ball.
Enlist Quotas
Eased By CG
Enlistment quotas have been
eased (or the Coast Guard Re
serve's six months active duty pro
gram, said William L. McVey, of-liccr-in-charge
of the Eugene sub
recruiting station.
Some vacancies have appeared
on the Eugene reserve list, he
said.
The program allows men 17 to
21 years of age to participate ac
tively for .six months, then attend
weekly meetings and spend 14
days on active duly each year for
a period thereafter. The program
is (or men who want to attend
civilian schools.
More information is available at
the recruiting station. Room 13
Post Otlice Building. Eugene.
3 From Klamath
Emote In Play
Three Klamath Kalis students at
Southern Oregon College, Ashland
will play parts in the cast of "The
Sleeping Beauty." to ho presented
February 5-6 by the Southern Ore
gon Players, it is announced by
Dr. Dorothy Stolp. director.
Elano, the queen's page, will he
taken by Larry Ferguson; the king,
by Pete Lungrecn and Frytania
by Mary Irving.
New Gadget
Improves
Bike Safety
A singular facet of a gadget in
vented by a Malin man is that no
one has thought of it before.
James R. McCoIiam's safety bi-
cyle reflectors arc simple as the
hula hoop and probably increase
night-riding safety immeasurably
The reflecting tabs which hang
beneath the bike's pedals can be
tamped from thin metal and fin
ished with reflecting tape in one
or two easy operations.
McCollam said he can buy a
crude stamping machine for about
$1(M). More sophisticated machines
could stamp the plates, shape
f'anges which hook to the bike
pedal spindle and finish the prod
uct almost automatically, he savs.
Bi.t that equipment would have to
be specially designed and- would
cost much more, he said.
He is looking for capital back
ing, and may manufacture the
(L'vice locally.
I he tabs are absolutely sate for
riders. They hang beneath t h e
bike's pedals in all positions. Tlicy
move as the pedals move and give
a flashing effect, like blinking
lights on an airplane. They are
easily visible a third of a mile
away.
McCollam said he thought of the
invention about four years ago
while driving during a stormy
night near Redding.
Another idea he developed Is
now employed by manufacturers
ol Heavy earth moving equipment
It is a safety device for prevent
ing heavy loads of dirt from spill
ing when cables break on carry
alls. Unfortunately, some other in
vontor apparently thought of the
identical device about the same
tune and beat' McCollam to the
patent otlico.
His latest invention, though, is
in the hands of patent attorneys
and the patent is pending.
McCollam believes he can mar
ket the reflectors at low prices
cither wholesale or retail.
He is a construction worker and
log truck driver. His three chil
dren have bikes, and all use the
rellectors.
PLANE LOSES DOOR
EVERGREEN, Ala. (UPI A
door from an Air Force C-130
cargo plane landed on a farm
near here Friday touching off re
ports of a plane crash. Some of
the crew's personal belongings
1'iso were blown out, but LI.
R. E. Oppejoy brought the plane
down safely at Maxwell Air Force
Base, Montgomery, Ala.
NCO Wives Club of Kingslcy
AFB will install officers at their
meeting Tuesday, January 26, in
the NCO Club at 8 p.m. Installa
tion ceremonies will be followed
by a social hour. All members and
prospective members are urged to
attend.
Charles S. Riley, former resi
dent of Klamath Falls, son of
Charley Riley, this city, is a pa
tient in the Oakland (California)
Veterans Hospital at Thirteenth
and Harrison streets. Letters and
cards will reach him there.
Mary Martha Circle of Immanu-
el Baptist Church will meet at
p.m. Tuesday, January 26, . at
the church for installation of new
officers. Secret sisters will be re
vealed and new ones drawn. All
interested women will be welcome
Mrs. Hazel Drinkwater will be
hostess to members of the Happy
Hour Club at the home of Mrs.
C. C. Heidrich, 328 Washington
Street, at a 1:30 p.m. dessert
luncheon Tuesday, January 26.
Neighbors of Woodcraft Thimble
Club will meet Wednesday, Janu
ary 27, at 8 p.m. at the KC Hall.
There will be potluck.
Ingabord Wilkerson, 912 Pros
pect Avenue, has returned home
from two weeks in the hospital.
Emma Burk, 1612 Manzanita,
underwent surgery Friday in the
Klamath Valley Hospital.
Barge Blast
Kills Welder
PORTLAND (AP) One man
was killed and four were injured
when a gasoline barge blew up as
it was undergoing repairs at the
Swan Island dock here of the
Albina Engine Jt Machine Works.
The blast blew Edward E.
Soderberg, a Portland welder, off
the craft, police said. His body
was recovered four hours later
after extensive drag operations.
The injured, all reported in
good condition at St. Vincent's
hospital, are Archie M. Lichty, 54;
Larry Bergevin Jr. 19; Horace
Lincoln, 55; and James Banks, 47,
all of Portland.
The 200-foot-long, 900,000-gallon
barge was damaged previously
when a tug boat exploded Sept.
30 at Crescent City, Calif., and
was being repaired at the Port
land dock.
Joe Smith, head of the crew
working at the time of the blast
Friday night, said "there was a
big whoosh that blew me back
several feet and everything turned
black." He said he called roll
call after he recovered and all
answered except Soderberg.
Fire Department Investigator
Glen Richards estimated damage
to the barge was in the thousands
of dollars. He said the deck plates
were torn up and seams were
opened under water. The blast
damaged the wharf and blew a
manhole cover 125 feet into the
air.
Richards speculated that weld
ing torches might have set off
gasoline fumes, but said he did
not know the cause pending an
investigation now underway.
The Crescent City explosion
which initially damaged the barge
endangered the entire Northern
California community. It took one
life. The resulting fire there set
off drums containing highly com
bustible fuel and shot flames 80
feet into the air. Firemen brought
it under control just short o( 100
foot oil storage tanks.
Judges Request
Youth Corps
PENDLETON (AP) The Ore
gon Juvenile Judges Assn. urged
early creation of a youth conser
vation corps Friday before closing
its annual meeting here.
Judge Joseph D. Felton of Sa
lem was reelected president.
Others renamed were Judge's
Harry Fowler of Prineville. vice
president, and Robert D. Maclean
of Newport, secretary-treasurer.
The final speaker was Judge
Donald Long of Portland, who
discussed the White House Con
ference on Youth scheduled (or
March 27-April 1 in Washington.
D. C.
EU.IIT LEFT HOMELESS
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. (LTD -Robert
Thompson. 9. thought he
saw his cap gun under a bed. so
he lighted a match to make sure
Firemen said the discarded match
started a fire which left Robert
his six brothers and sisters and
his mother, a divorcee on welfare
aid, homeless.
WALTER W. STRALEY
Phone Firm
Announces
New Division
Formation of Pacific Telephone
Northwest as a new division of
the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph Company was announced
Friday by the firm's Board of Di
rectors, according to word re
ceived in Portland by Oregon Area
Vice President and General Man
ager F. M. Mitchell. The change
takes place February 1.
The board also elected Walter
W. Straley, now vice president and
general manager of the company's
Southern Counties Area at San Di
ego, first president of Pacific Telephone-Northwest.
He also becomes
a member of the Board of Direc
tors of PT&T.
At the same time it was an
nounced PT&T President Mark
R. Sullivan is stepping up to be
come chairman of the Board of
Directors and Carl 0. Lindcman of
New Jersey Bell is succeeding him
as president of PT&T.
Growth of the Pacific Northwest,
increasing complexity of phone
company operations and a desire
to bring top authority close to the
communities the company serves
were reasons given for the new
setup. The new management unit
will include Oregon, Washington
and northern Idaho.'
Headquarters for Pacific Tele
phone-Northwest will be Seattle.
Straley plans to maintain offices
in Portland also.
The Oregon Advisory Council of
Pacific Telephone will continue to
tunction as it has in the past, ac
cording to Mitchell. The council
is a group of Oregon business lead
ers which meets monthly to review
with phone company management
progress and plans as they affect
the communities served in Oregon.
Pacific Telephone-Northwest will
have a plant investment of 650 mil
lion dollars, serve about a million
and a half phones and employ
more than 15,000. The annual pay
roll and associated costs will be
94 million dollars.
Currently the company has some
550,000 phones in Oregon and 950,-
000 in Washington. The Oregon
employes number 6,000 against
more than 9,000 in Washington,
while Oregon plant investment is
about 250 million dollars compared
to a Washington plant investment
total of 400 million dollars. Oregon
1959 annual payroll ran about 36
million dollars and the Washington
payroll about 57 million dollars
The population of Oregon Is 1,790,
000 and that of Washington 3,103
000. The Washington-Idaho Area and
the Oregon Area and their advis
ory councils will continue to func
tion as at present. Sullivan said,
however, that Ben E. Bowling, vice
president and general manager for
Washington-Idaho and Francis M,
Mitchell, vice president and gener
al manager for Oregon will report
to the president. of Pacific Tele
phone-Northwest.
Fred Daggett
Death Noted
Junior Fred Daggett, 69. partner
in the Backes and Daggett Insur
ance Company firm, died at 9 a.m
Saturday at his home in Prine
ville, following a stroke.
He was born in California and
moved with his family to Klam
ath Falls as a small child. He
attended schools here and was
graduated from the old Central
Union High School.
For many years he was an of
ficer in the old Ewauna Box Com
pany of which his brother, the late
H. C. Daggett, was president. He
was a member of the State For
estry Department for approximate
ly 20 years.
The family moved to Prineville
in 1938 and he was associated
with the Alexander Yawkey Lum
ber Company at Prineville until
he retired from his lumber inter
ests about four years ago to de
vote more time to the insurance
business. He was operating the
Prineville office of Backes and
Daggett insurance Company at the
time of his death.
Survivors include the widow. Or-
pha Daggett of Prineville; two
daughters. Elizabeth Ann Lidstrom
of Prineville and Margaret Mer-
sereau of Crossct, Arkansas. He
was the uncle of Mrs. George
i .Jane Flitcraft of Klamath Falls
also.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
FRESHMEN students of Klamath Union High School will sell peanuts for the New March
of Dimes all next week, beginning January 25 after school, between classes and on Satur.
day. Freshmen are competing with other classes in ah effort to make the largest amount
of money to be turned into the school total. The class that accumulates the most cash
during the drive will sit in the seats of the seniors at a major assembly after the drive.
Left to right are Don Piper, Elian Frewing and Sue Ann Owens.
Honor Paid
(Continued from Page I) '
course being conauctea ny tne
chamber.
Others considered for this honor
were the Rev. Robert Groves, pas
tor of the First Presbyter
ian Church who has been very ac
tive in civic affairs including work
on the Hospital Survey Fund
board. Also considered was Wayne
Plaisted, a Jaycee officer, who
has been extremely active in
church and the YMCA.
THE YOUNG FARMER award
went to Holliday who farms in
partnership with his father, Lee.
He earned the honor through his
forward - looking techniques for
coping with heavy-alkali land
and with his records of cattle
productivity on his ranch near the
Weyerhaeuser mill. '
Two other young farmers, Du-
ane Blackman and Normeui Jacob
were also considered for the honor
Funerals
ANDERSON
Funeral services for Peter Mar
tin Anderson, 76, who died in this
city January 22, will be held
the Klamath Lutheran Church
Monday, January 25, at 11 a.m.
Interment will be made in Klam
ath Memorial Park. O'Hair's Me
morial Chapel is in charge of the
arrangements.
FORCE
Frank Force, 79, a native of
Grand Island, Nebraska, and a
resident of this city for 20 years,
died here January 22. He is sur
vived by a son, M.Sgt. Robert
Force, Portsmouth, N.H. Funeral
services will be held in O'Hair's
Memorial Chapel Tuesday, Janu
ary 26, at 2 p.m. Interment will
be made in Klamath Memorial
Park.
HAMEL
Milise Hamcl, 91, a native of
Montreal, Canada, and a resident
of this city for 33 years, died here
January 22. She is survived by a
daughter, Irene Hamel, Klamath
Falls. Funeral services will be
held Tuesday, January 26, at 9:30
a.m. in the St. Pius X Church
Recitation of the Holy Rosary will
be in the church Monday evening
at 8 o'clock. Father George Mur
phy officiating. Interment will be
made in Mt. Calvary Cemetery
u Hair s Memorial Chapel is in
charge of the arrangements.
ACREE
Funeral services for Claude E
Acree, 65, who died in Tulelake
January 19, will be h e 1 d in
O'Hair's Memorial Chapel Monday
January 25, at 2 pirn. Interment
will be made in Klamath Memor
ial Park.
Pedestrian Killed
In Accident
NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) - Ern
est Kelly Richardson, 54, died of
head injuries after he was struck
by a car as he attempted to cross
Highway 101 here Friday night
police said.
Officers identified the driver of
the car as William Gale Gillette
35. Newport service station opera
tor. Richardson was a Portland
construction worker employed on
a project at nearby Toledo.
FIRE KILLS THREE
RENSSELAER. Ind. (L'PD
A mother and two of her children
burned to death Thursday in
fire which trapped them on the
second floor of their home. An
other son and daughter survived
The dead were Mrs.' Gladys Bu
Ungton, 46. her daughter Con
stance Marie, 12, and son Chris
topher Faye. 9.
Under New Management
97 Trailer Court
Spaces With Cor Ports, Storogo,
Closo to Shopping
MR. It MRS. D. C. PITTS
Ph. TU 2-2626 Gmonsprinai Dr.
CHAMBER
OMMENTS
by GEORGE T. CALLISON
Assistant Mgr.
KLAMATH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
A hurried trip east on personal
business this past week kept me
from being present at the annual
meeting, into which so much prep
aration had gone, but all reports
indicate the meeting was an out
standing success. There have been
nothing but enthusiastic comments
about the principal speaker Page
Lamoreaux, a man with a burning
mission to meet the world's under
developed countries with the money
and knowhow of the American busi
nessman, loaned on a personal
basis.
Just about ready to go to press
Motherhood
Belt Given
To Princess
TOKYO (AP) Crown Princess
Michiko was given a silken mater
nity belt Saturday in a centuries-old
court ceremony believed to as
sure safe delivery of a child who
may one day be the 126th emperor
of Japan.
For Jan. 23, according to an
cient Oriental oracles, is the
'Day of the Dog," and belts pre
sented this day are supposed to
guarantee the mother an easy de
livery. The imperial baby is due
early in March.
Actually the princess, 25, has
been wearing a practical-purpose
maternity belt since Oct. 7, im
pcrial household officials said.
This is in keeping with the Jap
ancse belief that such belts help
prevent the unborn child from
growing too large and hold the
baby in proper position.
the ceremonial belt is more
luxurious. It is an embroidered
white silk cloth 12 feet long and
15 inches wide.
Despite the many breaks with
tradition that attended Michiko's
marriage to Crown Prince Aki
liilo, preparations for the imper
ial infant are steeped with ancient
ritual.
ine ceremonial belt was
brought to the young couple's res
idence in Tokyo by an emissary of
Prince Takamatsu, a younger
brother of the Emperor.
Emissaries of Akihito and Mich
iko were dispatched to the three
sacred shrines in the Imperial Pa
lace to report to the imperial an
cestors the belt delivery.
If the baby is a boy, one day
he will ascend the throne of a
monarchy over 2.B00 years old
according to legend.
Since Emperor Meiji's time.
girls have been excluded from the
line of succession.
The imperial household hospital
inside the moated palace grounds
has been readied for the imperial
birth.
Right after birth, a sword will
be presented the baby if a boy,
symbolic of the defense of his ex
alted station. It a girl she will
get a sword and a hakama, an
ancient item of clothing something
like an ankle length kilt.
uinstening lanes place seven
days after birth, followed by fur
ther ancient ceremonies to choose
a name and commemorate the
baby's first official bath.
The pomp and circumstance
over, the baby will be brought to
Akihito and Michiko for rearing
The young couple are against the
tradition of having imperial off
spring brought up by court cham
bcrlains.
f WATCH REPAIR
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CHUCK METZ
1 1 TU 4-S779 or TU 2-2S66
is an industrial development bro
chure which will stress this area's
unlimited timber resources and un
limited water resources in conjunct
tion with excellent transportation
facilities. Some of the booklet's
many pictures help point out ths
area's recreational opportunities,
which give us what industrial re
searchers would call "a high li
ability factor."
The importance of an adequate
water supply is stressed in the
brochure's introduction, which
reads, "Since time began, man has
thrived in direct proportion to the
abundance or scarcity of water
around him. The wealth in the
Klamath Basin is testimony to the
beneficial effects of the natural
watersheds, and man-made water
controls in this area. Utilization
of the plentiful water supply in
the Klamath Falls area for lrriga-
ion. hydroelectric power, and gen'
cral industry has made it one o
the richest areas on the west-
coast. This continuing prosperity,
promises to make it the largest
city between Portland and Sacra
mento in the next 10 years." -
Pretty heady words, some might
think, but a close look at the
facts would indicate that not
enough can be said about the im
portance of our abundant water.
With water supplies dwindling in
many areas some not too fat
distant from Klamath County
we are only beginning to appreci
ate the truth of the equation which
heads one section of the brochure,
and that is that water equals
wealth. "
So much that is done in a com;
munity today is done not for those
ot us who are enjoying its benei
fits today, but for those who will
follow us. This fact was tellingly
brought home to me as I waited A
for plane connections in the stun
ning Cleveland Hopkins Airport
Terminal Building. On a huge
bronze plate on one of the walls
of the building is this inscription:
"Built by the citizens of Cleveland
as an obligation to the future.
1955."
This same magnificent structure
contains what seemed to me the
perfect tribute to a man who was
a prime mover for aviation de
velopment in the Cleveland area.
Major Jack Berry may also have
been a Cleveland area Air Force
hero, although no one I asked
was able to say for certain. At
any rate, another bronze plate con
taining a bas-relief of the man,
also bore this inscription beneath.
replica of three sea gulls m
flight: "Major Jack Berry
if you seek his memorial,
look
about you.
More Vandalism
Vandals broke windows with
large rocks at Fairview and Fre
mont schools sometime Friday
night, city police reported yester
day.
Special
CHILOQUIN - Chiloquin Lodfd
A.F.&A.M. will hold a special
communications at 7:30 p m.i
Tuesday, January 26, in the lodge
hall. Degree work scheduled for
Monday, January 25, has been can
celled.
FOR LEASE
The Kern Hotel
and a Ground Floor
Corner Location in
the Kern Hotel
at 6th & Klamath
James Stilwell & Co.
Realtors
S17 Main Stroot