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IIKRALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore.
MnnclM'. March 21. 10fi0
MARKETS and FINANCE
Stocks
NEW YORK (AP)-Most steels
and motors declined as the stock
market moved irregularly in quiet
trading late this afternoon.
Volume lor the day was esti
mated at 2.400,000 shares com
pared with 2,620,000 on Friday.
Gains and losses ot fractions to
a point prevailed among key
clocks.
Jones & Laughlin diopped more
than a point. Off about a point
were U.S. Steel and Ford.
Youngstown Sheet bucked the
downtrend, rising about 2 points
on word the company wants a
boost in the authorized shares for
possible use if the slock is split.
Fractional losses were taken by
Republic Steel. General Motors,
American Motors and Studebaker
Packard, the latter recovering
slightly after falling to 13' on
a block of 10.000 shares.
American Shipbuilding rose
more than 2 on top of a 17-poinl
rise last week linked to various
rumors.
I'.S. government bonds turned
lower.
NEW YORK STOCKS
By TIIK ASSOCIATED PRESS
Admiral Corporation 111 '
A. J. Industries 5
Allied Chemical 50 'i
Allls Chalmers 32
Alcoa 88 't
American Airlines in u
American Can 41) 'i,
American Cyanmirlc .VI
American M & Friy 54
American Moiots 22
American Smelling 43
American Tel & lei 87
American Tobacco 104
American Viscose 34
Anaconda Copper 52 rr
Armco Sleel 60 !
Atchison Railroad 21
Bendix Aviation 07 't
Bethlehem Sleel , , 4(1 'i
Boeing Airplane Co. 25 '
Borden Co. 44 '
Borg Warner 40 '
Burroughs Corp. 30 '
Canadian Pacific 24 T
Caterpillar Tractor 211 U
Chrysler Corporation 52 "n
Cities Service 43 '4
Consolidated Edison 02 U
Continental Can 43
Crown Zellerbach 44 '4
Curtiss Wright 21 '',
Douglas Aircraft 36
Dow Chemical ' 88 '4
du Pont de Nemours 225
Eastman Kodak 103 '
El Pato NG 28 i
Emerson Radio 13 '4
Firestone Tire 37 '
First America Corp. 26 '4
Ford Motor 73 '
General Dynamics 44 'u
General Electric 87 'j
General Foods 102
General .Motors 45 'i
Georgia Par Cp 48 '
Goodyear Tire 37 '
Great. A. & P. 37 !
Great Northern 46
Great West. Sugar 22 '
Gulf Oil Co. 28 '4
Idaho Power 47 '4
Illinois Central 30 U
International Bus Men 425
International Nickel 102 i,
International Paper 112 '1
International T & T 35 '1
Johns Manvillc 32 '
Kaiser Aluminum 44 '
Kennccolt Copper 78
Libby, McNeill & Libby 10
Minnesota Mining 178 U
Monsanto Chemical 44 '1
Montgomery Ward 46
National Cash Hcg. 53 '4
New York Central 23 '
Northern Pacific 41 '
Pacific American Fish 13 14
Pacific Gas & Electric 64 '.'4
Pacilic Tel & Tel 27 '.4
Pan American Airways 18
Penn Dixie Cement 211 '
Penney (J.C.I Co. 114 I:
Pennsylvania R R. 13
Pepsi Cola Co. 3ii '2
Philco Corp. 33
Phillips Pet. 42 1
Polaroid 108
Pugct Sound P & !. 31
Radio Corp of Amer 66 '.4
Rayonicr Incorp. 20 '
Raytheon 44 (4
Republic Steel 3 1,
Reynolds Melals 58 '4
Richfield Oil 73 j
Safeway Stores Inc. 38
SI. Regis 43 '4
Sthcnlcy Distillers 2B '4
Scott Paper Co. 78 '4
Sears Roebuck & Co. 48
Shell Oil Co. 36 '4
Sinclair Oil 43
Socony Mobile Oil 38 ',
Soulliern Pacific 20
Sperry Rand 22 ui
Standard Oil Calif. 43
Standard Oil X.J. 43 s
Studebaker Packard 13 '
Sunray 22
Sunshine Mining 6
Swift & Company 46 '
Texaco 76 '1
Thompson. R.W. S3
Timkcn R Bearing 55
Transamcrica Corp 27 '
Twentieth Century Fox 35 '
t'nion Oil Company 35
Union Pacific 28
I'niled Air Lines 28
I nited Aircraft 37
United Corporation 7
United Stales Plywood 43 '
United Stales Smelting 31
United Steel Sleel 82 '4
Walgreen Stores 50 '
Warner Pictures to '
Western Union Tel 30 'k
Westinghouse Air Brake 28 3i
Westing'iousc Electric 40
Wheeling Steel 50
Woolworth Company 64 H
Livestock
PORTLAND (API - (L'SDAt -Cattle
salable 1,3110; includes 15
loads fed steers, four loads heilers
and around 30 per cent cows;
trade moderately active; led
steers and heifers strong to 50
higher; cows steady; 14 head lol
choice 1.055 lb steers 27.75; 21
head load high good and low
choice 1.060 lb fed steers 27.30;
several loads mostly high good
975-1,100 lbs 27.00-27.25: other good
sleers 24.50 - 26.50; ulility and
standard 19.00-23. 30; 27 head load
choice 860 lb led heifers 26.50, with
five head 1,029 lbs 25.50; good
heifers 24.00-26.00: ulility and
standard heilers 18.00-23 00 ; utility
cows 16. .50-17. 50: canncrs and cul
lers mostly 13.00 14 50, Holstcin
cutters to 16 00; cutter and utility
bulls 18.00-22.00.
Calves salable 150; Irade moder
ately active: vealers weak to 1.00
lower: few good and choice veal
ers steady at 20.00-33.00, two head
33.50; standard 23.00-28.00; cull
and utility 15.00-22.00.
Hogs salable 1.500: Made rather
slow, early sales butchers 25-50
lower: sows about steady: U.S. 1-2
butchers 180-233 lbs 17. 50-17.75
lots 16 75-17 75; few 250-280 lbs
16.O0-16.5O: 1-2 sows 300-375 lbs
13.50-14.00: mixed 1-3 lots 400-350
lbs 12.00-13.00.
Sheep salable 800; trade moder
ately active: slaughter lamb:
weak to 50 lower: feeder lamb;
tuny .10 lower; .slaughter ewe
scarce: few hits numbering about
300 head mostly choice with few
prime f'2-109 lb wooled lambs
22.00; few mostly choice 110-121
lbs 21.30: couple lols choice wilh
some prime No. 1 pelt lambs
20.75: few good I0.oo-19.50; good
and choice (eeder lambs 17.00
18.00; few cull and utility slaugh
ter ewes 2.0lfi.0).
STOCKTON (UPl-FSMNSi
Livestock:
Cattle salable 1. 000. High-good
1.140 lb fed steers wilh low-choice
included 27, standard 1.125 lbs
Holstcin slaughter steers 22.50.
Low-choice 703-970 lb slaughter
heifers 26-26.50. Standard cows 21
21.50. commercial 10-20. utility 17-
19, canncrs and cutters 12.50-17,
Utility bulls 20.50-22. Good to low-
choice 600-800 lb stotker and feed
er sleers 26-28.
Calves salable 200. Good ami
choice 350-525 lb slock slcer calves
23-30. Good and choice heifer
slock calves 25-27.
Hogs salable 800. No. t to 3
190-210 lb barrows and gilts 17.
No. 1 10 3 sows 300-600 lbs 8 50-
13. .mi. Good and choice 50-120 lb
Icedcr pigs 15-18.
Sheep salablo 200. Choice and
prime 85 lb slaughter sprin,
lambs 24. Cull to good wuoled
slanglilcr ewes 4-7.
GRAINS
CHICAGO (APi
High Low Close Prev.rluse
Wheat
Mai
May :.04 2 02'.
2.04'.,. 'i 2.03
2 05'n 2.04'k
1.83'4 1II3'4
1.H6 l.BH'i
1.111 1.91'
l.lilVn 1.14
1.16'a 1.16':
I 19 119
1 1SV16 1.16
1.10 109-n
.(SV'i ,7434
.74s. .74J
.7IV' .'O'n
.711-' 1 .70'.,
2.05'
1.83'
2.03',
I. S3';
iiy
Sep
l.Rli'i 1.86
1.91'! 1.91
Dec
Coin
Mar
May
1 14
1.1 tn
1.19
1.16',
1.13-n
l.lli'n
1.18':,
1.15'.
1.10
!l.v
Sep
Dec-
l.ltP.
.75'..
.74 1 4
.7P
.7ir'4
Oats
Mar
.74 -
.74 "i
.70':
70 'm
72'
May
ll.v
Sep
Dec
Rye
Mar
May
1.20 I. Ill', 1.19'.,
1.21' l.lil'i 1.21 'a
1.21'. 1.20 1.21
1.23'. 1.22 1.22'.
1.25'j 1.24'i 1.25'i
1.18':
1.20',
1.21'!
1 .22.
1.25
Jiy
Sep
Dec
Soybeans
Mar
May
2.12'j 2.10'. l.Vl'i-', 2. t 1 1 h
2.15 2.12': 2.l4'4-' 2 I4'k
2.16 -. 2.1414 2 IBV'i 2.t5.
2.09'i 2(!l'.i 2.09VU9 2.08'4
2.08'. 2.116'. 2.08 07a4 2.07'4
lly
Sep
Nov
POTATOES
SAN FRANCISCO
' I PI
FSMNSi Potatoes:
Russets Klamath V. S. 1A 2 -
inch minimum 3 25-5 30, U.S. 1 fi
ll ounces 6.00-6.25.
LOS ANGELES UTI-FS.MNS'
Potatoes:
Russets Klamath U. S. 1 ft.
ounce minimum 5.50. 6-ounce min
imum 5.75. bakers 3.75.
Church Planning
Joint Session
The Weslryan Service Guild and
the Woman's Society of Christian
Service of the First Mclhodist
Church will meet jointly in the
church parlors at 7.30 p.m. Thurs
day. March 24.
Mrs. Christine Murray and Mrs.
Vivian Vannice of the guild will
omtucl the program and worship,
i lilm strip. "Stewardship lor
Icnnnte." will he shown Lvnn Fei-
rell will sing The guild will serve
lea
The guild is a national organiza
tion lor employed women with a
program similar to that of t h e
Woman's Society of Christian Serv
ice. Mrs. John Dickinson is presi
dent of the guild in the Metho
dist Church here. All employed
women are invited to participate.
Joseph's Defense Counsel
Tells Of Two Witnesses
Michael Joseph's attorneys
opened the defense side of a first
degree murder trial today with a
! promise to produce "two independ
ent witnesses" to investigation of
a double shooting wilh which Jo
seph is charged.
The lirst ol thc-c wilnc.-scs was
Harold Horner of Sprague River,
who said he was on his way home
Iroin work on the Chiloquin for
est tire when he stopped at the
gale to the Lang ranch.
Horner said he and Elmer Ou
Firemen Get
Burn Colls
Local residents took advantage
of good weather over the weekend
to burn rubbish and grass, so sub
urban firemen had their hands
lull.
Grass fires raced on properly
occupied by ,1. II. Perry, 3430 Bis-
bee Street. Saturday afternoon, by
Mellon Baker, 2119 Ogden, Satur
day afternoon, by J. A. Ludlow.
4435 llomedale Road Sunday morn
ing, by Wilbur Smith, 2238 Crest
Street, Sunday noon, by C. W.
Lane, 3245 Walton Drive. Sunday
allernoon and by J. H. Reilmcier.
3953 Clinton Avenue, Sunday aft
ernoon. No damage resulted. In all those
cases, the fire was caused by con
trolled flames growing too exu
berant, firemen said.
Suburban firemen also extin
guished a smaii fire in the engine
of a car owned by a Mr. Bach
man, whose first name and address
lircmen did not obtain, at 4480
South Sixth Street Saturday aft
ernoon. liie of unknown origin burst
nut in a chicken house owned by
Robert Floding, 2401 Homcdalc
Road, Saturday evening, causing
little damage to some rabbit
hutches and some shingles on the
ide of the small building, subur
ban firemen said.
Police Hold
Auto Papers
City police have title and regis
tration papers of a car owned by
Leslie H. Cox at headquarters.
I he papers w ere found in the
vicinity of Filth Street and Klam
ath Avenue Sunday afternoon by
James Humptcr of Portland.
Officers said the papers indicate
the car in question is a 1950 Mer
cury sedan, Oregon license nuin
her 813 1858. '
Police, in other activity, had two
cars lowed Irom no-parking zones
over the weekend.
One. lowed Saturday allernoon
from Main and Sixth streets to
the Balsiger Motor Company, is a
1956 Chevrolet coupe. Oregon li
cense 8.1 1547, owned by Clinton
Pierce.
The other is a 1954 Ford lowed
from a zone fronting the Hart
llolel on Main Slreel lo Clyde's
Towing and Storage Service on
Klamath Avenue. It is registered
lo Thomas C. Campas and bears
Colorado license YV 1171.
Girl Escapes
Car Injury
A litllc girl had a close call
Saturday during a brush wilh an
uitomohile near her home at 2220
White Avenue.
Rosemary Lozano. 3. ran into
the street alter a hall and into
(he path ol ar eastbound car driv
en hy Allied B. Shirley. 247 Mar
tin Slreel.
Shirley said he was moving from
12 to 15 miles per hour and im-
iwdialcly applied brakes. The car
stopped at the moment it struck
the girl.
She ran home. Otlicers said.
after investigation and talks with
the girl's parents, the victim ap
parently was not injured. She vvas
playing a little later with other
neighborhood children. Shirley was
not cited.
Upset Hurts
Lake Woman
A Lakeview woman lost control
of her car on a sharp curve three
miles east of Olene on Highway 66
about 9 a m. Monday. The car
overturned and vvas damaged con
siderably. Mrs. Scott McDonald, who was
driving alone, was taken to Klam
ath Valley Hospital by Peace Am
bulance. She suffered a head lacer
ation and possible back injuries.
She was admitted to the hospital
and is under observation for pos
sible other injuries, o
Farm Worker Hurt
Robert Dixon. 59. of Malin was
admitted to Klamath Valley Hos
pital Monday at 9 a.m. lor di
agnosis of possible injuries he re
ceived in a farm accident at Tule
lako. Dixon tokl hospital personnel he
fell into an earth-working machine
He was working for Charles Blum-
cnthal, he said.
arte drove into the ranch and
iound two bodies under canvas. No
other person appeared in sight
The bodies, although not explicit
ly identified in the testimony
were thuse ot Harry Deman, 36,
and Okie Richards, 34. whom Jo.
scph is charged with killing with
a 30-30 rillc. Joseph, a 52-year-
old mason and ranchhand, is on
trial on the first of two murder
charges.
Under questioning by Attorney
David Card. Horner examined two
photographs of the bodies and dis
agreed with the position of the
bodies in relation to knives shown
in the photographs. He said the
arm of one body was shown closer
to a knile than when he had seen
the body a diflerence of two
feet away compaied to six or
seven inches away in the photo
graph, Ol the photograph of the
other body, Horner said the arm
was drawn in against the ribs
nut outstretched as in the pholo
graph. The hand held a knife in
the same position as he had seen
it, he said.
Card and Freeman Murray. Jo
seph's court-appointed defense at
torneys, maintained Joseph was at
tacked by Deman and Richards,
carrying knives, and had acted in
self defense. District Attorney Ar
thur Beddoc earlier told a live
woman, eight-man jury the knives
were planted.
Horner also described parts of
a discussion he heard between Jo
seph and Chiloquin Police Chief
Lewis Jones. He said Joseph told
lones Deman and Richards had
visited his cabin on the Delbeit
Lang ranch once that Sunday, had
returned later in the day, and had
attempted to attack him. Jones
was quoted as saying. "It doesn't
look that way to ne."
Jones doubted that the men
were carrying knives, Horner said,
so Joseph pulled back the canvas
tarpaulins and demanded. "What
the do you call that?"
Under questioning by Beddoe.
Horner said he had not heard Jo
seph ask Jones to "throw the bod
ies in the river or some place."
but said Joseph did ask Jones "lo
clean up the mess."
Horner said Joseph complained
that Deman and Richards had
been stealing his food and nothing
vvas done about his complaint. He
said Joseph did not mention that
a state police officer had visited
the ranch to investigate, as Bed
doe suggested.
Another witness was Pobby
Mitchell of Chiloquin. who said one
of the state's star witnesses, Ev
ans Rcnfro, had told him the day
after the shootings of having
walked away from the ranch when
Joseph and (he others began to
argue.
Belore the defense presented its
first witnesses, Murray moved for
dismissal of the indictment and a
judgment of acquittal on grounds
the state had failed lo prove all
the elements of the indictment and
lo prove premeditation, and that
the state's own case had placed
evidence of self defense before the
jury.
Circuit Judge David R. Vanden
berg, hearing the trial now in its
second week, denied the motion.
Oregon Weather
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
24 hours to 4:30 a.m. Monday
Max. .Mln. Prep.
Astoria 51 45 T
Baker 67 30
Brookings 57 47 T
Eugene 70 41
Huquiam 52 46 T
Lakeview 70 34
Medford 81 41
Newport 54 44
North Bend .... 52 47 T
Olympia , 69 40 T
Pendleton 69 42
Portland Aup't . 7t 40
Redmond 70 39 -
Salem 74 54 -
The Dalles 73 33
Eastern Oregon Fair through
Tuesday increasing cloudiness near
Cascades Tuesday: little change
in temperatures. Highs 65-75; low-
tonight 30-40.
Western Oregon Cloudy laic
tonight and Tuesday with scat
tered light showers Tuesd.iv.
Highs 52-62; low tonight 40-46.
Coastal winds westerly lo north
westerly, 12-25 m.p h. Tuesday,
Grants Pass and interior Fair
tonight with patchy valley foe:
partly cloudy Tuesday. Highs 70-
5: low tonight 38-43.
Northern Oregon beaches Con
iderable overcast with morning
log and drizzle. Beach winds west.
erly. 5-15 knots, increasing to 8-18
knots Tuesday. Highs 42-47; loy to
night 40-46.
Local Girl Held
City juvenile officers confined a
16-year-old local girl to the couniy
juvenile home Sunday on advice
Irom couniy juvenile authorities
pending investigation of charge
she ran away from home.
The girl vvas reported missing
Saturday. She was found and taken
into temporary custody by patrol
ing otlicers.
People Read
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C. U. DAKIN, left, Pacific Fruit Express agent at Klamath
Falls, is shown nailing up the safety plaque representing
132.096 accident-free working hours in 1959 for Pacific
Fruit Express' Northwestern district. Holding the plaque is
J. P. Ferron of San Francisco, PFE superintendent of safety,
who presented the award.
POTATO MARKET INFORMATION
(Furnished by Federal-State
Marketing News Service)
POTATOES
RAIL and TRUCK SHIPMENTS (CL EQUIV.)
KLAMATH BASIN
318.19-2060 19)9-60 1958-59
Oregon Rail 26 1,075 537
Ort gon Truck 27 1,810 1.580
Calif. Rail . 34 2.586 2.036
( alif. Truck 18 1.189 1,457
OTHER OREGON
Rail 3 4.509 4.337
COLORADO 26 3,637 4.317
IDAHO Rail 408 29,319 37,810
WASHINGTON Rail 5 9,132 6 780
U.S. TOTAL Rail 1,491 129,036 127,5.14
SHIPPING POINT PRICES: Friday
(SKD. PER CttT)
FOB KLAMATH BASIN PTS.:
NETTED GEMS
U.S. No. 1-A 2" or 4 ai. lnin. 4.65.4.75 lew $5
U.S. No. 1 A 5-14 oz 5 2.i-5.50 4.85-S5
U.S. No. 22" mill 3.00-3.25 few 3.50
NET PRICE TO GROWER
BULK AT CELLAR:
NETTED GEMS
U.S. No. 1A 2" min 4.00-4.25
U.S. No. 2 . 2.00-2.25 some 2.40
FOB CENTRAL OREGON PTS.
RUSSETS
U.S. No. 1-A Unreported
U.S. No. 1-A 6-14 oz. mill
U.S. No. 22" or 4 oz. mln. 50 lb.
NET PRICE TO GROWER
BULK DELIVERED WAREHOUSE
RUSSETS
U.S. No. 1A Unreported
U.S. No. 22" or 4 oz. min.
IDAHO PTS.: NET PRICE TO GROWER
RUSSETS
U.S. No. 1-A Too few
U.S. No. 26 oz. . lo quote
POTATO UNLOAD
38 CITIES Friday Week Ago
Hail Unload 357 .132
Truck Unload 378 355
Total Unload 735 687
Mof or Firm Gets Better
Of Exchange With Thieves
The Dick B. Miller automotive
company in Klamath Kails made a
pretty fair exchange of property
with a pair of thieves Sunday
night.
The thieves got away wilh
hubcap and five wheel lug bolts
from a Miller loan car. but the
company has the culprits' bumper
jack.
P, J. Mclintire. 1004 Main Street,
approached the pair and scared
Missing Skier
Found Safe
TIMBERL1NE LODGE. Ore.
'API Doris Johnson. 22, of Se
attle, who was missing overnight
on the slopes of snow-clad Mt.
Hood, was found today.
The Forest Service said she vvas
sullcring from shock and ex
posure, but otherwise vvas all right.
She tirst vvas seen by a ground
search parly. The search party no-
tilicd a search plane, which circled
the area while a snow tractor
made its way to the scene.
The young woman vvas tound in
Sand Canyon, about one mile wesl
of this ski lodge. She was on her
feet and walking at the lime she
was found.
She last vvas seen at about 9
a m. Sunday, while ruling a dou
ble chairlift below the lodge. She
had come here with nine others
from Seattle lor a weekend of ski
ing. When she failed to show up at
p.m. to begin a trip home, the
search vvas launched.
She vv.-is warmly dressed and
temperatures on the mountain
were above freezing last night.
PASTEGA'S MARKET
3616 Lakcporf Blvd.
has just received a new shipment of all varieties
Italian Sausages.
Mexico Chorizo Italian Salaccie
Portugese Linguisa Italian Coteghino
Italian Coppa Cotta Italian Blood Sausage
Polish Sausage, Italian Style
All Varieties of Salami
Open Sundays, and till 10 P.M. Every Nite
them off as they were attempting
lo remove a wheel from a 1956
Oldsmobilc sedan near McEntire's
home. The car had been loaned lo
a Miller customer during repair
work.
The thieves, two men, were about
lo load the tire and wheel into
their car. They dropped it and
roared away.
City police also received several
other reports of burglary and theft
over the weekend.
Edith Henzel, 711 Eldorado Ave
nue, told police Saturday that a
Ihief, during the previous three or
four days, had ripped a screen off
a window at her home, entered,
and stole a typewriter and some
canned foods.
Raymond Jacobson, 617 Lincoln
Slreet, said two Oldsmobile "flip
per" hubcaps were taken from his
car as it vvas parked in a lot at
Eighth and High streets Satur
day evening while he attended a
mov ie.
And R. J. Sumner, 229 Alameda
Avenue, reported the theft of one
Olds "holiday" cap from his car
as it was parked in his driveway
Saturday night. The other caps
were locked on. preventing the
thieves from taking them, he said.
Olficers also learned that win
dows locally continue to take a
pelting from malicious vandals.
Hugh O. Hile, Merrill, who is
building a home at 2236 Oregon
Avenue, said someone tossed an
object through a two by three-foot
window in the home sometime Fri
day or Saturday.
And Ruth Ryser, 2224 Main
Street, reported a four by five-foot
window was shattered Sunday in
her home. Investigating officers
believe the damage was done at
long range by a sling shot.
Local Committee Suggests
State Shift Welfare Funds
The State Public Welfare Com
mission now has in its lap a sug
gestion that it use some of its
surplus funds to pay some of its
debts.
The seemingly paradoxical situ
ation was created over medical
wellarc needs, and the money ap
propriated to pay for them.
The Klamath Couniy Welfare
Commission brought the matter
into focus in a special meeting
Friday when it drew a resolution
noting:
1. Klamath County ran out of
Firm Receives
Safe Citation
The Klamath Falls office of the
Pacilic Fruit Express was com-
nended Friday for helping t h c
company s Northwestern district
compile 132.096 accident tree
working hours in 1959.
C. U . Dakin. PFE agent at
Klamath Falls, joined in ceremo
nies at Portland when a plaque
vvas presented to the Northwestern
district by J. P Ferron ol San
Francisco, PFE superintendent of
safety.
Dakin said that last year was
the first lime in the history of
Ihe Northwestern district that the
Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cific territories teamed up to pro
duce an accident-free year.
PFE. which is jointly owned by
both of the railroads, reported
only 21 injuries out of 9.301,192
man hours in 1959. PFE is the
largest relrigerator car line in the
country wilh 30.000 cars.
Olher PIE district oflices arc
at Hood River, Hinkle, Eugene,
Portland, Yakima and Seattle.
Local Wo
Wins Honors
Mrs. Frances M. David, 633
Front Street, Klamath Falls, won
honorable mention in the second
week in White Satin Sugar Com
pany's big "Magic Sugar Bowl"
Oregon product statement contest.
Mrs. David's White Satin was
purchased from the Market Bas
ket. Forty five weekly prizes and 20
grand prizes are ottered in the
contest which ends April 14. Grand
prize is a $3,600 Oregon-manufac
tured Oasis Dream swimiiing pool,
completely installed. Other grand
prizes include a compact automo
bile, a refrigerator-freezer combin
ation, a hi-fi set, a slide projector
and 100 pounds of White Satin
sugar.
Contestants are asked to com
plete Ihe following paragraph in
35 words or less: "I have pur
chased White Satin sugar, the only
sugar grown in Oregon, and I be
lieve it is smart to support Ore
gon and olher Northwest products
because ...
A While Satin package top or
bag flap must accompany each en
try as proof of purchase. Purpose
of the contest is to draw atten
tion to While Satin's new package,
featuring a colorful, stylized sugar
bowl design, and to encourage sup
port of Oregon products.
White Satin has the only sugar
refinery in Oregon at Nyssa. The
refinery late in February complet
ed a 143-day continuous 24-hour
operation. Production was 175,367,
800 pounds, second highest pro
duction on record and only exceed
ed hy last year's 183.213.200
pounds. The White Satin opera
tion means more than 15 million
dollars annually to the economy of
eastern Oregon, wilh money going
to beet growers, refinery workers,
transportation, etc.
OBITUARY
LEWIS
VREKA Word was received
here recently by Judge James M.
Allen of the death of a sister,
Mrs. Joseph Lewis. 81, formerly
Nellie Allen, in Hubbell, March
12. Mrs. Lewis was born in Hough
ton County. Michigan. March 12,
1879. She came with her parents,
Edward and Mary Ann, to Siski
you County in 1880. In 1904, Mrs.
Lewis was married to Joseph Lew
is, Hubbell, and she returned to
her native state with her husband
where she lived until her death.
Besides Judge Allen she is sur
vived by 10 children and her sis
ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Marlahan. of
Vreka.
Wonderful New
UNIFORMS!
WHITE SWAN -
BOB EVANS
LA GRACE
5.98 to 16.98
non-hospital medical funds early In
March, and had to ask for a sup
plemental appropriation to get
through the month, but
2. The couniy has a surplus el
about $57.oiifl so (ar this year in
non-medical funds.
The county commission suggest
ed bluntly, in a formal resolution,
that the state commission "trans
fer unexpended balances of non
medical funds to the medical budg
et beginning at once ..."
County Commissioner Frank Ga
nong. an ex-ofticio welfare com
mission member, said, "It seem
ridiculous lo us not to provide
'medical' services within the total
budget when it is apparent we'll
be within the total budget."
The $57,000 surplus has been ac
cumulated thus far. The fiscal year
does not end until June 30, but it
seems lo the county commission
there will be a surplus, and it
hould be used lo supplement a
delicit medical budget.
Welfare funds are categorized
by Ihe state commission. Even the
medical budget is divided into two
pans, hospital expenses and non
hospital expenses like doctor bills,
drug expenses, nursing home op
eration, and other costs. Klamath
County has been running behind in
its medical program.
Hospital costs are based on a
fixed allocation each month. At
the end of each month the hospi
tal submits its bill. If the bill is
equal lo the allocation, or below it,
the bill is paid in full. If it is high
er, the hospital is paid on a pro
rata basis. In January the hospilal
was paid approximately 68 cents
on the dollar.
The balance of the medical fund
is allocated to the commission each
month to pay doctors, druggists,
and other vendors.
In March, Ihe couniy welfare
department exhausted its budget
by March 7 and actually went $500
in the red. It requested a supple
mental allocation from the slate
and x given $700, $500 to catch
up and $2(KI for life-saving drugs.
11 may buy nuihing more for lha
month.
In contrast with the partial pay
ment to the hospital and the abrupt
cut in other medical welfare serv
ices, the county continues to main
tain a balance in olher welfare de
partments. That's why the county
commission wants to transfer
funds.
"We're not dealing wilh t h
March problem so much as we
are wilh the whole problem," Ga-
nong said. "We'd like to see them
(the slate commission) take some
of this excess money and go back
and at least pay for what they've
already bought."
The action came at a special
meeling Friday, called when the
county commission learned of the
March overdraft. The resolution
was signed by Mrs. Richard Smith,
chairman of the county commis
sion. Ganong said the State Public
Welfare Commission had been
asked, informally, to make such a
transfer in the past. It refused.
Several times in the past year,
however, the county commission
has asked for supplemental appro
priations for its medical program.
As a rule, we have gotten them,
with some delay," Ganong said.
The resolution asks not only au
thority for an immediate transfer
of surplus non-medical funds, but
suggests that "at the close of the
fiscal year any remaining unex
pended balances be used to pay
hospital costs incurred since Janu
ary not previously paid."
Ganong said he felt the couniy
commission was providing ade
quate medical care, but added,
We're prov iding no medical care
when we run out of money, and
we're not paying for what we do
provide when vendors 'such as the
hospital) have to settle for 68 per
cent of their costs."
MEETING PLANNED
BONANZA The Bonanza Garden
Club will have a regular business
meeting. Friday. March 25, at the
home of Alta Dixon near Bonan
za. All members are urged to be
present since this is an important
meeting to discuss whether the
club is to continue under the pres
ent conditions.
EXCLUSIVE
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