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THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. ORE.
March 21, 1941
THE KLAMATH NEWS
KLAMATH NEWS PUBLISHING CO, Publishers
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MALCOLM EPLEY Manasinf Editor
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Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath
Falls. Oregon. November IS. 1932. under act of March 3. 1879
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Commendable Cooperation
KLAMATH'S law enforcement agencies the sheriff's
office, city police and local division of the state police
are cooperating closely and commendably in their in
vestigation of the Buffalo lunch killing case.
The case has many difficult angles, and all the re
sources of these agencies will be needed to solve it They
need, also, the cooperation of the public.
Local law enforcement agencies have been building a
good reputation for this county in suppressing and punish
ing violent crime. Because of the seriousness and sensa
tionalism of this case, it affects that reputation. Let those
who may be inclined to commit crime of that nature know
that it's not healthy to try it in Klamath county.
Agreeably Surprised
"NN their visit in Klamath Falls this week, several mem
wbers of the Portland party with Queen Dorothy Gast
and her court of the Oregon Winter Sports association
' spoke with both surprise and admiration at the sort of a
city they found this to be as well as its relationship witn
Crater Lake national parte.
Like many Portlanders, these folks thought of Klam
ath falls aa a lumber camp or some sort rather than a
modern city. They didn't know just where it was lo
cated. They didn't know its highway connections. They
were. agreeably surprised, and this city should receive
some favorable mouth-to-ear publicity from the visit of
these young people.
The job of educating Portlanders and others of the
lower Willamette valley on the characteristics of the
Klamath section has been long and tedious. There is
still much to be done. The Willamette highway is cer
tainly going to help, and here's hoping that more of the
downstate people use this superior route when they travel
south the next time.
Local people have on occasion asked us what the
press of Portland has to do with the lack of enlighten
ment in the metropolis concerning some of the upstate
areas. Certainly the Portland newspapers are generous
with their use of news from this area, and we can make
no complaint on that score. It is possible, however, that
there is a, policy of eliminating some of the upstate news
from the city editions of the Portland papers, which are
the editions that Portlanders read. Constructive news is
not usually sensational news, and it may get left out of
the later editions while sensational, but none too favor
able items, are retained. If Portland city readers had op
portunity to read more of the favorable community news
about this district, which the Portland papers print gen
erously in their early editions, Portlanders might know
more of the truth about us. It s an idea.
At Stake
WASHINGTON, March 20
From under the blanket of
enthusiastic defense publicity.
troublesome cries are coming In
Increasing volume. More re
organization obviously cannot be
long delayed. The Bernard Bar-
uch statement demanding atten
tion to economic phases, price
fixing on industrial products and
food, and freezing of wages, was
only a mild Indirect disclosure
of difficulties encountered.
The annoyed groups In the
trenches around defense head
quarters are talking now of the
necessity of Immediate coordina
tion of economic effects (Mr.
Bench's first point). Some nickel
plants, they say, are on the verge
of going out of business because
they have insufficient raw ma
terial. The priorities board tells
them, in a hypothetical case.
three-fifths of their production
must go to defense Industries,
which means they must lose
three-fifths of their old private
business. With only two-fifths
production left to supply this
whole outside market, they must
ration their finished product
among old customers. They could
charge any price they wanted to
ask.
Manufacturers of aluminum
pots and pans are not far away
from the same predicament, and
motor manufacturers are only
six months or so away if steel
priorities come by July 1 as ex
pected (Mr. Roosevelt's Cano
Dunn report to the contrary notwithstanding.)
Salem Incident
HIGHLY embarrassed are the good people of Salem
over the disgraceful performance of a group of
Salem youths who nearly mobbed the Astoria basketball
team last Saturday night after Astoria defeated Salem
for the state hoop championship. There is the usual talk
of investigation and possible breaking of athletic rela
tionships, and the Salem newspapers have been doing a
good job of deploring the occurrence.
The Capital-Journal calls the actions of the Salem
youths a "disgraceful exhibition of hoodlumism" and the
Salem Statesman calls the mobsters "spoiled brats who
couldn't take it." The incident was particularly embar
rassing because Salem is the host city to the basketball
tournament, and there has been some effort to have the
event transferred to some other city a movement that
will probably gain force as a result of the rowdyism of
last weekend.
The unfortunate Statesman not only found itself in
the unpleasant job of berating young citizens of its own
community, but in a news story it mentioned a national
guardsman arrested in the affair and said he came from
"Fort Stevens, Wash." Inasmuch as Fort Stevens is in
Clatsop county near Astoria, the Statesman unwittingly
added insult to injury ind Clatson ceoDle didn't imnn
the error.
The whole thing will probably blow over and it is
hoped the lesson to Salem's younger generation is such
that nothing of the kind ever happens again. We are
interested because, had the tournament gone a little dif
ferently, Klamath Falls might have been directly concerned.
CONTROL BOARD
CALLED FOR
Some sort of economics con
trol board la called for by these
developing facts. Unless some
governing agency takes hold of
the effects of the vast expendi
tures, the spiral of Increasing
prices, then Increasing wages to
take care of Increasing prices.
and then more prices, more
wages, will soon reach a threat
ening altitude. The symptoms of
increased food prices and union
demands for higher wages have
already appeared.
Greatest sufferer will be the
salaried employe and small busi
nesses comprising the great bulk
of the unorganized people of the
country.
The weak spot In Hitler's
armor still is Italy. The British
know it, but cannot get at it.
Unclosed avenues of subterran-1
ean information from Rome de- J
scribe Mussolini as a broken
man, forced into retirement by
failures. Criticism of his conduct '
of the war is expressed'openly on
street corners, and goes unpun-j
ished. Yet the chances of revolu
tion or a separate peace with!
Britain seem to be out of the cur
rent question.
Italy cannot break away from
Berlin because her economic
sustenance is now coming from
uermany. Hitler Is still feeding
in a million tons of coal a month
and practically all gasoline and
oil used in Italy now comes from
Germany. If she cut away from
the axis now, Italy would face
economic starvation.
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Scout Groups to
Assemble for
Parade Saturday
All Boy Scouts. Girl Smut.
and Campfire Girls Thursday
were asxea to meet on Klamath
avenue between Second and
Third streets at 8:30 Saturday
morning to assemble for the big
parade which will wind dawn
Main street to kick off the third
annual fund financing drive.
scout headquarters asked that
all be in uniform and bearine
all troop flags.
A scientist finds that women
painted in the middle ages. We
find that they still do.
Why Not Try It?
A NEWS item tells us that the Central Labor council
has appointed certain of its members to attend city
council meetings every Monday night and thus keep in
touch with city affairs.
The Idea is a good one and others might well follow
JL Unless there is some controversial matter scheduled
lor consideration, the council chamber spectators' section
is usually occupied by less than half a dozen citizens.
More people should attend these sessions. They are
the clearing house for municipal activities of all sorts,
and opportunity is always given for members of the pub
lic w cuke uiiu any ui me uiauasiuns in which they are
interested.
A good way to know more about city government and
local problems ia to go at least occasionally to council
meetings.
Federal gasoline taxes (at the
higher rate imposed for national
defense purposes) will total
$390,000,000 during 1941.
It Is estimated that during
1041, American motor vehicle
owners will pay a state gasoline
tax bill of about (900,000,000.
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