GENO KLUMP--Obituary--FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Reno Gazette Journal--February 10, 2010


Allen Eugene
KLUMP

Allen Eugene Klump passed away at his residence in Reno, NV on February 4, 2010. He was born AuguSt 1, 1928 to Myrtle and Virgil Klump in Gary, IN. Gene joined the Coast Guard at age 15 and served in the army in the late 1940's. He later moved to L.A. where he worked for the S.P. Railroad. He traveled extensively as an itinerant musician which took him to Alaska where he worked for BLM, Fish & Wildlife, the Alaska Railroad, as a radio D.J., and ran a bar.

He returned to Indiana and became night Manager for two bowling alleys. In 1963, Gene and Jane moved to Reno and opened Geno's Studio, a bookstore, coffee house and art gallery. In 1966, Gene co-founded Silver Circle Arts Council, attended UNR and resumed playing music. In 1969 Gene was photo lab manager for Studios Kaminsky. In 1973, Jane and Gene bought an acre of land which became Marigold Farms.

Gene was a master gardener with UNR's Extension and developed a program called "Mr. Vegetable" for school districts. In 1989, Gene started a radio career with "Mr. Vegetable's Garden Talk Line" on KQLO, retiring in 2006 from KBZZ. He received a National Broadcasters Association award, taught gardening at TMCC, was Captain Sheepdip in 1970, and reported weather data to the National Weather Service. Gene was preceded in death by his parents, by his spiritual daughter Marsha, and brother Luther Freeman.

He is survived by wife Jane of 47 years, sons Shim (CA) and Steve (HI), daughters Judy, Rodeen, Linda B. of Reno and Grace (HI); nieces Kathryn, Julie, Dorita and Lynn; nephews Jimmy, Steve and John, brothers-in-law Tom Webber (IN) and Jim Webber (NV), and many extended family members. Cremation will take place. Celebration of Life will be at Garden Shop Nursery, 3636 Mayberry Dr., Sunday, February 14, 1-2 p.m. In lieu of flowers the family asks that you donate to a charity of your choice.

(Photo--  Nevada State Journal--May 12, 1967)

SUBVERSIVE FOLK SINGERS--Pending Investigation--JOHN BIRCH RESOLUTION

Reno Bircher Asks Probe of Folk Singing

A Reno John Bircher, Dr. John DeTar, has asked Young Republicans to seek a congressional investigation of folk singing, indicating the Communists are using it as a tool "to ensnare and capture youthful minds in the United States." Dr. DeTar's resolution, published in the YR Inform-ant declares: "There is increasing and cumulative evidence indicating a deep interest in, and much activity by, the Communist party, U.S.A. in the field of folk music. Dr. DeTar, a chapter leader for the John Birch Society in Reno, says the resolution prob-ably will go before the Young Republicans at a meeting Tues-day.

He asks that the House Com-mittee on Un-American Activi-ties "investigate Communist subversive involvement in the folk music field; that the con-tinued, effective misuse of this media may not be further used as an unidentified tool of Com-munist psychological or cyber-netic warfare to ensnare and capture youthful minds in the United States, as it has so suc-cessfully and effectively capti-vated them elsewhere. "Folk music has been suc-cessfully used in the past by great political movements in history, particularly in the USSR," Dr. DeTar's resolution declares.

"The Communist movement has been successfully using and is now using all modes and media of communication with young people, including subtle-ties and the verbal subterfuges of applied dialectics in both poems and songs," the resolu-tion says. "It is becoming more and more evident that certain of the `hootenanies' and other similar youth gatherings and festivals, both in this country and in Eu-rope have been used to brain-wash and subvert, in a seem-ingly innocuous, but actually convert and deceptive manner, vast segments of young people's groups," it says. "The youth of our nation is acknowledged to be a major target of the Communist con-spiracy," it says.

Resolutions, the editor of the YR Informant says, must be printed in the Informant before they are read and proposed at: a club meeting.