Word: klamath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1900, said Judge Adlow last week, 327 men have died from prize-ring injuries. There were six fatalities last year. In the same week that Sanders was killed, Ralph Weiser lost his life in Klamath Falls, Ore. "In the absence of a law legalizing boxing matches, an assault entailing such consequence would constitute murder . . . Both of the medical examiners insisted that the objective of boxers who engage in a contest is to deliver a knockout punch. In their opinion a knockout punch means nothing more than to inflict a brain injury on the contestant...
Cold Comfort. In Klamath Falls, Ore., Housewife Pearl Ray, treated for second-and third-degree burns, complained bitterly that while she was away from home at a party, "someone had played a dirty trick" by building a fire in a normally cold kitchen wood range on which she was accustomed to sitting...
Literacy Test. In Klamath Falls, Ore., Clarence Strode, 22, after a hitch in prison during which he had been taught to read and write, was arrested for passing bad checks...
...pioneer woman in a gingham dress and a sunbonnet . . not this trash." Said Oswald West, 80, a former governor of Oregon: "The pioneer mothers would rise up out of their graves and pin a horse blanket around the hussy." "The pioneers," snapped Frank Jenkins, editor of the Klamath Falls Herald & News, "liked 'em slimmer...
...Klamath is only a beginning. North of it, on the coast of Oregon, run other short, fat rivers (the Rogue, Umpqua and Smith) that could be made to flow southwest at slightly greater cost. They would yield about 6,000,000 acre-feet and bring another 2,000,000 acres into production, perhaps in the Mojave Desert or the Imperial Valley. And above this ¼ladder¼ of rivers, as the bureaumen call it, lies the Columbia, the biggest prize of all. Its basin and adjacent "water surplus" areas now waste into the sea 300 million acre-feet a year...