County Unit Bigger Than Connecticut Klamath District Wealthiest In Oregon; Itt History It Told Hero Kdtter! Xt: Fnllovlflf ! aaothar of a aarka of artlriaa on klaniath'a aduratmaal tlm arranged by tria Lraaua of Wotnra Volar. Thia atory was nrt-parad by lha aafataBM of County bcoool Supanntradtat Frad Pateraon. and la atrviafly rmMBCiand ad ta alav of tba Raad for a fullar public andarataxdlng of tha oparalloiu of taa aaec-aaaful couaty obII ayateia. yHE first school district in what Is now Klamath Coun ty was organized early in the 80's or the late 70s. The first district was located in Klamath Falls. Then followed Bonanza, which was of considerable im portance in the early history of the county. The third district was on Topsy Grade. From that time on, the terri tory that now comprises Klam ath County was cut up into num erous districts, many of them having large areas and also many of them having great wealth Others were very poor. It was a county of extremes. There were districts that had as much as $100,000 per school pupil in val uation. There were others that had as little as $1000 per child. A mill of tax in the wealthy dis tricts raised as much as $1500. In the poorer ones, one mill would raise as little as $15. A system organized upon the district basis, such as that of early Klamath county, would operate with some satisfaction when school needs were small and the communities were lo cated where wealth might be available. However, when the Industrial centers grew up and especially when settlement began in suburban areas where there was little value and many peo ple, naturally hardships were in voked upon the areas of little wealth. One of the principal reasons for the adoption of the county unit was to equalize as sessed values between the wealthy districts and the poor districts of the county. At the time of the adoption of the county unit, people were becoming transportation mind ed, and a school bus system can not operate successfully where district lines impose meaningless and difficult limitations. The administration of a school sys tem as it becomes larger makes the matter of selection, place ment and supervision of teachers too difficult and involved for the district system. The type and character of buildings, then erection, operation and main tenance also need trained super vision. Is May, 1922, the people of Klamath county organized the territory outside of the Klamath Falls city school district into a county district. The county dis trict contained at that time ap proximately 1000 pupils. It bad a school census of children be tween the ages of four and twenty of 1844. In the nineteen years since the adoption of the county school district, the school population has grown to 4941, and the census is 7379. Klamath county school district is the largest school district in Oregon, and also the wealthiest, outside of the city of Portland. The maximum length of the district is 112 miles; the maxi mum width Is 72 miles. It con tains approximately 6500 square miles of territory. It is thus larger than the state of Connecti cut, and almost twice the com bined areas of Rhode Island and Save My Dog Our Nellie, here, Isn't so little, but she's a real heroine. The 8-year-old German police dog smelled smoke, barked an alarm until she collapsed from the fumes and exhaustion, then was dramatically, if ungracefully, rescued from blazing Washing ton, D. C, apartment building by fireman. 0 Ct Jiy JS "''JflfWaWaal s IN WONDER TOWN This unit system. Delaware. The population is approximately 24.000. The set tlements are centered more or less in a few valleys, and in- austrial centers. Lumbering is the only industry, outside of farming and stock raising. The population is somewhat equally divided between farms and the industrial centers. The district has within its borders 228.7 miles of main line railroad and 84.73 miles of side track. The valuation of Klamath county school district is some what in excess of $20,000,000, About two-thirds of this valua tion is public service property and timber lands. The other one-third is farm property, per sonal property, and city lots. It is, therefore, readily seen that the large values of Klamath county school district are timber and public service property. Un der the county school district plan, these values contribute equally with all other property to the support of all the schools There have been organized in Klamath county 72 school dis tricts of which 28 are now oper ating as sub-districts. The others have been discontinued. The larger school centers are as fol lows: name Av. Daily Membership Bonanza 379 Keno 179 Fairhaven ?7 Shasta 302 Malin 257 Merrill 268 Gilchrist .215 Summers Henley 124 .358 480 162 Chiloquin Sprague River Altamont 730 Smaller centers are located at Weyerhaeuser Camp No. 4, Fort Klamath, Hildebrand, Lamm's Camp, Crystal, Swan Lake, Al goma, Beatty, Modoc Point, Kirk, Crescent Lake, Chemult, Odessa, and Pelican Bay Camp. The average daily membership of these smaller centers would run all the way from that of five at Crystal to a membership of ap proximately fifty at Algoma. Klamath county school district employs a teaching force of 181. In each of the larger centers there is a local school superin tendent. The general administrative control of the school system is vested in a superintendent, an elementary supervisor, a music supervisor, and an attendance supervisor. The legal control of the district is vested in a coun ty school board of five members. In each sub-district there is elect ed a local school committee of three members. The members of the local school committee act as the advisers of the superin tendent, and have local control of certain matters, but to a large extent their function is advisory. The matter of hiring teachers, erecting school buildings, pur chasing buses, routing of buses, and the other things that go to operate a school system are un der the control of the county school board. ADDED HAZARD CHICAGO (JP) Herbert Holmes and Earl Peterson were cruising at 1000 feet in a rent ed airplane when a cylinder head blew off. Holmes cut the ignition and peered around for a place to land. He put his shin into a glide and headed for a golf course, alive with 300 players. The ship made a perfect land ing on the fourteenth fairway. just an easy No. 7 iron shot from the green. ,: .si, Is the new school at Gilchrist, a . RURAL HIGH This it a FOR BLY YOUTH This is ath county. J 1 1 .1 iaifi' 1 t M472,K.i.':S': .a r -"at, " 7 V Xzfrr':V', , . IN SUBURBS The- Klamath Interior view of the library at (- f. -.. - H 'i If" ' ' ' ' - i( y 'y til I ( t ' ' y y t'-.' , ft l.wnvtl I- IhiaiaaWaatl :ar.iaii; II l naimi aaaaaaaaaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaatiaa.a,..,.,,, THE CONTRAST! Typical of the old fashioned, one-room schools of earlier days was the Vinson school In Langell valley, shown here. It was in operation until about 1915. Compare It with the modern buildings shown on this page. Some counties still have schools similar to this. lL:.rilH - orth.rn Klamath county "wonder front view oi the Keno high school. the comparatively new school V v. Jm. - alW suburban elementary schools Altamont Junior high school, . town," a part of the county building at Blr in eastern Klam are In the county unit. This Is a aaaata.-yy.ayt I -iW. fi1 J' a 1 I I V 1,1 The Battle of the Giants Her Are Thrilling Eye-Witness Accounts Of the Sinking of Bismarck and Hood, World's Greatest Battleships AN ENGLISH PORT, May $1 The chief petty officer of a British warship which brought In, survivors of the 35,- 000-ton German battleship Bis marck told today how British sheila "banged hell out of her" before three "steel fish" tor pedoes sent- the pride of the German navy to the Dottom. Approximately 100 officers and I men were rescued from the Bis- marck, sunk in a flaming sea battle last Tuesday morning. I The petty officer L. R. Crock-1 er. save the following eye-wit-: nets account of the Bismarck's last bitter hours: "We sighted the Bismarck about B a. m. Tuesday. She was then engaged and doing barely I 10 knots. I "She fired a number of salvors I which came over the top. We gava her three salvors tor'ard. The Bismarck had to be destroy ed and we were out to do it. Fires at Rodney "I could see explosions burst ing aboard the German, which was concentrating tier fire main ly on the Hodm-y (British bat tleship). I guru the nans were surprised to see us. It's my be lief, anyway, that thry didn't spot us until our salvoes crashed Into thrm. "Now the Bismarck was afire, but her guns were still roaring "At the end of an hour's ac tion, the Bismarck stopped mov ing altogether. The Hodney and another British battleship were banging hell out of her." As Crocker gave his dramatic description of the battle. British officials said the rescue of the Bismarck's survivors had to be halted because of the persistence of German bombers attacking British warships while the drowning men were being drag ged from the water. Continuing his story, Crocker declared: As we went In closer to do our stuff, I saw our shells knock the brains out of the Bismarck. We smashed her after-control and the fire aboard her was spreading. "But the nazis had guts. "The Rodney knocked her after-turret clean out until it was hanging over the side. The Bismarck was now ablaze from stem to stern, and her guns at last were silent." 'The order came to sink the Bismarck, and we banged her like the devil with our guns giving her roughly 40 salvoes. "After that, we put two steel fish Into the starboard side. I saw many of the nazla waving coats as the Bismarck's stern was awash. The weather was blowing hard by this time and visibility was low. That's how we surprised her. 'The torpedoes lifted her bodily out of the water. What a sight! Then a cruiser from port side slammed a third tor pedo into her, and that finished Faith in America and Coast Expressed by Phone Chief By BOB LEONARD A marked faith in the future of America and particularly the Pacific coast was expressed here this week by N. R. Powley, president of the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company. Powley, on a stopover in spection tour of the new Klam ath Falls telephone building, said he was gratified by the recep tion the city has given the new structure and the recently-in stalled dial system. The wire leader was on his way back to San Francisco after greeting Ore gon members of the Bell sys tem s Pioneer club in Eugene. It Is a mistake, he said in res ponse to a reporter's inquiry, to predict a given future for Ameri ca or any part thereof on the basis of unknown factors. Al though one phase of economic activity may falter, Powley In dicated,, others yet unborn will take its place. A deep-seated conviction In the unity of America was evi dent in the veteran telephone man remarks. The unity is there, he asserted, although the country may have different opinions on how best to achieve its goal. For Americans as Individuals, Powley maintained, there lies a need for a greater crusading faith with service as its object, for the world, a renewal of the attributes of decency, honor and respect between men. Apparent through a half-hour conversation with the telephone executive, was his lasting belief in min i spiritual values. The world,. Powley said, cannot af ford o destroy those values in favor of material things. Mater ial gain is but an expression of spiritual Ideals, he stated. 'No society," according to Pow-1 Did Bismarck Have 50,000 Tons? LONDON, May 31, AP The Bismarck was a 50,000 ton vessel Instead of the 33, 000 carried in official regis ters, a British naval officer who participated in the Ger man battleship's destruction declared Friday, Such a tonnage would have made the lllsniarrk world's largest warship. The 42.000 ton battle cruiser Hood, which the Bismarck destroy ed, had long been classed as the world's lariirst. "The Bismarck was un doubtedly far above any thing we had thought of," said the officer. her off. It was the last shot fired. "The Bismarck stood up for a few seconds and gradually keeled over towards the port side. No Raits "Then she turned right over, showing hrr keel, and slid bark As she disappeared she seemed to break up. "There were a lot of Jerries in the water and there was noth ing for thrm to hold onto not even a raft although some of them were wearing Japanese lifebelts. It thry had had rafts or bo)U mon ot ,nfm would h,vt) been saved. "We steamed up to the sur vivors and started picking them up. 'There were roughly about eight (In one group) and they were punch drunk with gunfire and didn t know whether thry were coming or going. "German submarines and air craft were reported and this caused rescue work to be sup ped. We beat it. 'There were no casualties on our ship. "I couldn't understand a ship of the type of the Bismarck not having rafts. The biggest thing I saw afloat in the water was a piece of timber about six feet long. "On the run back to this coun try one of the survivors died and was buried at sea. "We didn't have the nazl ensign to use at the burial so an old German imperial ensign was used. "All nazl officers and men on deck gave the nazl salute s the remains went over the side Full naval honors were carried out by the British officers and men. "A former nazl naval attache In London who was one of those saved gave short thanks to the British officers. He said, 'It is a bad policy to pick up any sur vivors in wartime.' That nazl seemed very indifferent whether ne was rescued or not. ' ley, "can long remain unless its members abide by the truth they una ana Keep, For each per son, contentment lies In the find ing or his beliefs and convic tions." Of any single thine. Powlev Is perhaps proudest of his elec tion to the presidency of the Telephone Pioneers of America an organization of over 81,000 telephone veterans of 21 or more years of service. From the wholo of our Inter. view with the intently earnest utility leader we gathered a forceful impression that Pow ley's entire life had been bufll on a basic stone of scrvlceSi service to fellow employes, serv ice to customers, service to coun try, service to life. N. H. Powley By J. H. N. NIXON Reuters Special Correspondent With the Royal Navy LONDON, May 31 1 wutchsd "Kltl n tfliatlla" Uhl-h culminated In the sinking ol the as,000-ton German battle ship Bismarck. Standing on the bridge of one of his majesty's ships 1 saw Ilia 41,100-ton 11MS Hood, long the world's largest warship, go down only 200 or 300 yards sway with hrr guns still firing. The end of tiie mighty Hood was an almost uubrlievablfa. nightmare. Shortly after tlia' engagement ben u 11 sholls hit the 21-year-old battle cruiser. There was a bright shevt of' flame and alio blew up. Parts of hrr great hull ware thrown hundreds of frrt Into the air and In a few minutes all that remained was a patch of smoke on the water and some small bits ot wreckage. Tho battleship Prince of Wales was hit soon afterward by a 15 Inch naval shell but the damage was slight. Pursuit The "battle ot the giants" was the climax of a cluiae by the Hood and Prince of Wales and their accompanying drstroy era at lop speed to prevent the Bismarck from brruking out In to the Atlantic to attack con voys. Pursuit began off Iceland and continued hour after hour iuj the eerie half-light ot an Arvw tic night. The cruisers Suffolk and Nor folk, which had been shadow, ing the Bismarck since the big vessel left Bergen, Norway, kept Die Hood and Prince of Wales Informed of her move ments and thus helped find the quarry. It did not get completely dark at any time that night. We sighted tho enemy at 8 a. m., when a curtain of anew suddenly lifted. For some mavcos cut ships - sped on toward the Germans to shorten tho range. They too (the Germans) turn ed In toward their pursuers and the world s biggest warships were thundering toward each other at a combined speed of probably more than 60 miles an hour. The tension of waiting for tla.. battle to begin became acute. The "open fire" order was given by signal. Almost simultaneously, or ange-gold flame burst with a roar from the Hood's forward guns. Within three seconds puffs of black smoke shot out from the Bismarck as she open ed fire. The Prince of Wales' guns then began firing. Dense clouds of yellow cordite smoke en veloped her bridge. She was to the left of the Hood, two or three hundred yards away, and still surging forward on a paral lel course. Fountains of Water Fountains of water shot up in her wako first about 100 yards behind her and then only 50 yards astern. The Hood thundered on an then, suddenly, she was hit. w A shell, or shells, appeared to fall just forward of one of her after 15-Inch gun turrets and great flames and heavy black smoke burst from her. The Hood continued to fire ' and still raced forward. What happened next was a strangling, sickening sight. There was a terrific explosion and the whole ot a vast ship was enveloped In a flash of flame and smoke which rose high into the air in the shape of a giant mushroom. Sections of funnels, masta and other parts of the ship hurtled hundreds of feet into the air and some of them foil on our ship. The Hood's bow tilted verlU cally Into the air and within threo or four minutes she wag gone entirely. w A destroyer was diverted to rescue work and managed to pick up three of the ship's com pany two seamen and a mid. shipman. All this time the Prince nf Wales continued pouring shells at the Bismarck. More than once spurts of water showed she was straddled. Again shells from the Bis. marck crashed near the Prince of Wales, but she come out of the battle with little damage. 1 n e n tno Bismarck turned away to be mirsucd all thni day and night and tho next day over the Atlantic at top speed. Twice during the night the Prince of Wales fired salvos and aircraft mado attacks. finally thcro camo the it mm. atic message that the cruiser Dorsetshire had torpedoed thnsi. Bismarck. f Civlllnn pilot tralnlnt? are given in approximately 700 colleges and 211 non-rnllooa. units.