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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1943)
PAGE TEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON 'Aujruat 23, 1043 The Mr'terlous Land . . It U our own. Actually' most of ui know little more of the (acta of life In our timber coun try than we do of the Everglades or the New Georgia jungle. Take, for example, the wee folk of our woods; or one family of them, the kangaroo mice. How many varieties are there? What is their size? How do they look, and how do they leap? This mice mystery is a little one, but interesting. On a grander scale, there Is the mighty mystery of the struggle of growth between the Western hemlock and the Douglas fir. If you should, for example, drive from Granite Falls, Washington, into the Mt. Baker National For est, you may note a curious ex ample of this conflict. A vast mountain slope is mainly hem lock forest, but there are small dense islands of fir. These arc a darker green. One, in the cen ter of the slope. Is a giant in size, and it has the perfect shape of diamond. Seen in the early morning sun, the distinct shape and the contrast in green hues are striking. In brighter light the hues blend. What is the story of that for est mystery? There are many others of the same kind through out the Douglas fir region. They illustrate a condition that is vital in the future of our land. And there is the mysterious menace of the mountain beaver the "boomer" to that future. We the people of Oregon and Washington are kept in ignor ance of these things, and so are our children. Little attention is given to them in the schools of the two states. It's No Fault of the Teachers . . We have reason to be ashamed of the neglect of forest educa tion in our schools. With a half dozen striking exceptions, the neglect has been well-nigh com plete. The school children of Mississippi, Alabama and the Carol inas are far more informed . on the forests than ours. Junior ' forest education in Washington and Oregon has been left to the state forestry departments, the federal government and indus try. School superintendents and teachers everywhere are eager to have study materials. Inde pendently and individually, those of over two hundred schools have asked for and re ceived the educational booklets, maps and posters produced by American Forest Products Indus tries for school use. Their use, however, must be crowded into the authorized curriculums, which do not provide for forest study as a subject in itself. The three booklets, "Ameri ca's Forests," "Trees for Tomor row," and "New- Magic in Wood," are primed with simple facts and fine pictures. Two large maps and five posters, all in color, complete the set. Every boy and girl in the Douglas fir region should have them. If any reader would like a set, a postcard request to "Out of the Woods," care of this newspaper, will bring one free, postpaid and all. Greta Guards and Junior Wardens In round numbers, ten thous and boys and girls, mostly aged under 16 and over 10, are in the Green Guards of Oregon, and the Junior Forest Wardens of Washington this year. Their work is prevention of forest fires, and it gives them a very real part in the war effort. They patrol, they keep lookouts, they distribute fire warnings, they clean up fire hazards. It is work that provides them with the first important lesson of Douglas fir forestry fire control. In September those boys and girls will return to school. Cer tainly their first lesson on forest land use should not then be put aside. There should be means and materials in our school cur riculums whereby the forest edu cation of the Green Guards and Junior Wardens may be carried on by experts the teachers of the nation's two great forest states. Keno Mrs. R. L. Atcheson, sister of Mrs. Guy L. Moore, is visiting here from Los Angeles. She ar rived Monday night, August 16. Mrs. Jennie Cone arrived in Keno Sunday night for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Ray Hinshaw. Marjorie Huskinson was one of a group of the church people who went to Ashland on Mon day evening of this week. C. H. McKeen was called to San Bernardino, Calif., this week by the death of his mother. - Mrs. C. C. Huskinson of the Keno Cafe and Grocery and Mrs. Harry McAllister were transacting business in Ashland cn Thursday. "Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Sharpe were visitors in Keno on Fri day and Saturday. Sharpe was principal of the schools last year and Mrs. Sharpe was teacher in the grades. The Sharpes are moving to Bly to be in readiness for the begin ning of -school August 31. Sharpe will be the Bly princi pal for the coming school year. '. Donald Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Johnson, visit ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Chase at Medford several days last week. While he was gone, the Frederick boys. Dem and and Ronald, helped Mrs. Johnson with the milk delivery on the route. Katheryn Ramsey returned this morning from Gold Hill where she visited with friends several days this week. trip to Klamath Falls last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry of Che mult, Ore., have moved to Trail, Ore., accompanied by Mr. Hen ry s father., Mrs. Joe Bellavance of Joe's Cafe made a business trip to Klamath Falls last Monday. ' . r : Jethro -Wood, the man who in vented the modern plow, whit tled his first models out of potatoes. Strange Occupation Of Kiska Puts U. S. On Road to Tokyo 13 THIS TRUE? FORT DEVENS, Mass., (!') Japanese soldiers really bcliove the propaganda handed out to them, according to Pfc John F, Mouncy, Jr 28. Tfc. Mooncy, now nt Lowell general hospital recovering from yellow Jaundice picked up In the South Pacific, told iutcrvlowors that Jnp prisoners captured on T Guadalcanal .bollovod Chicago was being bombed every day and that they actually were fighting In California instead of on the "stinking, rotting and mnlnrln ridden 'canal'," Tho drunken driver's weakest cxvuko Is thul ho didn't know ho whs I muled, i Worry Is whttt you sometimes can rend netweon the Hues on a person's fuco, By The Associated Press Occupation of Kiska Island without a shot being fired one of the strangest military events of the war places the allied war machine on the shortest route to Tokyo, military chiefs agreed to day. "We are now on the offensive in the Pacific." said Lt. Gen. John L. DoWitt, commander of the western defense command. 'The Jap is on the run. The reoccuoation of Kiska has cleared our shortest highway to the Japanese empire." Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kin kaid. commander In the North Pacific, agreed that it means "We have completed our north ern road to Japan." Chain of Bates ... "Our completed chain of air and naval bases also will protect our surface vessels and our ship pine unite two-thirds of the way to Tokyo." he said. Maj. Gen. William O. Butler, commander of the 11th army air force which paved the way for in vasion with a steady, devastating bombing throuch treacherous weather, said the' way is now open for the operation of a multiple-jawed pincer closing on the enemy. , Northern Arm - "The 11th air force is now the northern arm of the pincer," he explained. "It is slowly closing in on the Japanese empire in co ordination with the seventh air force in Hawaii, the 13th air force in the Solomons, the fifth air force in New Guinea, the 10th air force in India and the 14th air force in China." While American and Canadian troops, some clearly disappoint ed at not finding some Japanese to kill, turned their big guns sea ward in the possibility the enemy might return, speculation deep ened as to just what became of the Japanese garrison of perhaps 8500 men or more. Escape in Subs Gen. DeWitt expressed the be lief the Japanese completed their withdrawal on August 8, escap ing in submarines or barges, and added that he thought it doubt ful many ever reached land. ! The American task force land-! ing on Kiska August 15 found that the enemy had fled and took I undisputed possession of the neaviiy-iortuiea Aleutian air ana naval base. Admiral Kinkaid said U. S. surface craft shelled "objects" in the fog at night "after the Jap anese began their evacuation of Kiska." and added that "We he- lleve we sank somo of their ships, ' but this cannot be confirmed." I Attack Flight This was the first indication that the Japanese may have been , attacked in their flight a flight which marked the first time they , had abandoned the Samurai war-' rior code and failed to stand their ground to the death. I Relentless air bombardment for weeks prior to the invasion undoubtedly killed a consider able number of the garrison. I More than 8,500,000 pounds of: bombs were dropped on military targets there within a year. Two , of the bombing raids were the; heaviest in the history of Pacific i naval warfare. ' Expensive "It was expensive," Admiral' Kinkaid said, "but we saved thousands of lives." 1 Gen. DeWitt tauntingly asked "Where is the Jnoancse fleet?" as he interpreted the significance! of the occuoation. His question I paralleled that of the Japanese; after Pearl Harbor: "Where Is the United States fleet?" 'The Jap navy is in hiding, dis persed," the general said answer ing his own question. "Part of it is on the ocean floor." Oregon Man Gets Legion of Merit WASHINGTON. Aug. 23 OP) First Lieut. Rodney W. Orange of Pilot Rock, Ore., has been awarded the Legion of Merit along with 15 other officers and five enlisted men for exception ally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding serv ice, the war department an nounced today. Sugar was regarded only as a medicine in the English-speaking world before the middle of the 18th century. THERMOID "V" BELTS FOR EVERY PURPOSE Refrigerators, Washers, Vacuum Clranrrs, Pressure Systems, In dustrial Use. " 1ft a V-BettSf Vtl" MERIT , WASHING MACHINE SERVICE 611 S. 6th St. Chemult Mrs. Gentry, employed at Porter's hotel in Chemult, had company arrive last Saturday. It was her daughter, Mrs. Pir tie, Mr. Pirtle and son Harrison all from east Texas. Mrs. Don Bertram of Bend, Ore., was a visitor at her par ents' home this last week. Hugh Porter made a business trip to Bend Friday. Ruth Thompson of Bend, Ore., is visiting at her parents' home in Chemult. 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