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-By BENNETT CERF-
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tains and a hospital.
2. Answer: Cleopatra,
Mata Hari and Florence
Nightingale. Question: Name
three dead women.
3. Answer: Washington
Irving. Question: Who was
the first president. Sam?
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"Duty," points out Dean Johnson, "is a task we look forward to
with distaste, perform. with reluctance and brag about afterwards."
O 1358, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feature Syndicate.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is written at Red Bluff,
on the evening of as lovely a
day as California or Ore
gon or even the State of
Jefferson ever saw. The
sky is cloudless, and has ob
viously been that way all
day. Off to the east the jag
ged outline of trie Sierra sum
mit is as sharp and clear as a
beautifully cut cameo.
This is the end of the first
full week of November, but
the weather is the weather of
spring soft and warm and
mild. It isn't always that way
at the end of the first week
of November here at the head
of the Sacramento valley.
TS everybody happy as peo
- pie should be on a day like
this at this season of the year?
Wel-1-1-1-1-1, no.
The cattlemen aren't hap
py. They aren't happy for
the simple reason that there
'has been no rain for months
on end. When there has been
no rain for months on end,
the grass, isn't what it should
be. And when the grass isn't
what it ought to be no cattle
man is EVER happy.
I know. I grew up in the
cattle business. And long
ago though that was I can
still remember the unhappi
ness of the cattlemen when
the grass was short and dry
and scarce instead of long and
lush and abundant.
When a cattleman thinks of
heaven, he thinks of endless
vistas where the grass is
green and fresh and knee
deep to a steer.
TEHAMA county, of which
Red Bluff is the seat, was
a cattleman's heaven when
the first Americans came to
California. It was a cattle
man's heaven when Ewing
Young, after getting cross
wise with McLoughlin and
the Hudson Bay Company to
the north and the mission
aries to the south of him in
early Oregon finally made
his peace with both of them
and was sent south to bring
cattle back to the Willamette
valley.
" It was in the general neigh
borhood of what is now Te
hama county that he found
the cattle he sought. They
had been raised by the Span
ish Dons, who knew then that
this part of the Sacramento
was cattleman's heaven. It
has been cattleman's heaven
ever since with a relatively
brief interlude in the 1850's
when.it was head of naviga
tion on the way to the gold
country farther north.
It was during this period,
incidentally, that the fantas
tic idea was conceived of di
verting the Klamath river
down through the lava beds
and thence into the Pit,
where it would find its way
into the Sacramento above
Redding. It was believed that
addition of the water of the
Klamath to the water of the
Sacramento would so aug
ment the Sacramento's vol
ume that boats could navigate
it as far as Redding, thus ex
tending water traffic closer
to the gold camps.
The diverson got into the
first California legislature,
but got lost in the shuffle in
that fantastically busy session.
Interest Boost
On Vet Loans Seen
San Francisco-CPD-The Vet
erans Administration may ask
Congress for permission to in
crease interest rates on GI j
home loans, according to Di-1
rector Philip N. Brownstein
of the VA's Loan Guaranty i
Service. j
The GI rate is now 43,4 per :
cent. Brownstein told a press ,
conference Monday the VA '
would probably seek a boost
to the level of the Federal
Housing Administration, 5V
per cent.
Brownstein said shortage of
mortgage money caused VA
appraisals to drop one-third
between August and October, J
when they totaled 30.000.
FHA Commissioner Norman
Mason said he did not antici
pate any change in the FHA
rates.
Nike Missile Test Declared Successful
Washington -(UPD-The Army sile has for the first time
announced Monday that the successfully knocked down a
supersonic Nike-Hercules mis-1 test target more than 100,000
feet high.
It was the latest in some 200
tests of the dart-shaped air de
fense weapon. They have been
conducted at altitudes from
5,000 to 100,000 feet.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuaiday, November 11, 1958 5
The Nike-Hercules is capa
ble of carrying a nuclear war
head against either a single
plane or formations of air
craft some 75 miles from the
launching point. The weapon
is being installed at Nike sites
in this country.
DED BLUFF has remained
I the capital of this cattle
man's heaven to this day. It
is at Red Bluff that the An
nual Bull Sale is held. It is
at the Annual Bull Sale that
cattlemen from all over what
is still the cattle country
gather in the first week of
February to buy and sell
bulls and to chin with each
other. There is always a lit
tle doubt at these sessions as
to which is the more import
ant the bull buying and sell
ing or the chinning.
Red Bluff is STILL'the cap
ital of cattledom in this part
of the Far West. And the Bull
Sale is still the big social and
commercial event of the year.
Already, with the Bull Sale
three months off, reserva
tions are being made for the
big event. Already there are
preliminary thrills of antici
pation from the northern lim
its of the town to the southern.
BUT
And sadly this is said
CHANGE is in the air. No
longer are CATTLE the be
ginning and the end of all
things in this one-time cattle
kingdom. INDUSTRY is
creeping in. Big woodwork
ing plants are locating in the
area. Population, is burgeon
ing. New stores are opening
up.
Still-
Thank heaven i
The Annual Bull Sale is
still big stuff in Red Bluff
The flavor of the Old West
still lingers among us. For
that let us be grateful.
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