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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1945)
fOUR HERALD AND MEWS Monday, Oct. IS. 1943 FRANK JENKINS Editor MALCOLM EPLEY Managing fcdlior Mambar. Aaaoclatad Praaa Mimbar Audit Bureau Circulation Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY IIAVING been granted a brief but pleasant M fling at sportswritlng due to our prcs- , . vi.nH.' 1 J there the other night we're yielding to the temptation to write something in this column on the subject today. Alter this outburst, we'll try to leave the matter to such able heads as Messrs. Scarbrough and Haines, our sportswriting professionals. There are four high school teams In the Southern Ore gon conference. We have seen three of , them Klamath Falls, Ashland and Grants Passin action, and of course we've heard plenty about EPLEY Medford. We'll hazard the opiniqn that this is as tough a circuit as there is in the state, which is in keeping with the record over the years. All of them have been showing up mighty well in early-season games against competition, outside the conference. Of the four conference teams, Medford alone has not yet met an opponent in the family. Its first conference squabble comes Friday night, against Klamath Falls. Klamath has won ona and lost one beating Ashland and losing by a squeak to Grants Pass. Ashland has lost one, and Grants Pass has won one. From here on out, these four teams will be engaging in some tough intra-conference struggles. a Build-Up , ONE of the toughest, of course, will com Friday night, when the Medford team Tigers, Black Tornado or Pearpickers, as you like will meet Klamath on Modoc field here. At no time in our memory has a prep team entered the conference season with such a terrific build-up as Medford has had this season. Just about everything possible has been done to frighten the wits out of prospective oppon ents. Billie Hulen, a former Medford sports writer who wields a mean forefinger on the typewriter, Is writing prep football for the Oregonian, and Billie, unquestionably with complete sincerity and honesty, has been lead ing the ballyhoo parade for the old tome team. Meanwhile, the Medford team has been do ing plenty to justify the outcry. It has defeated Eugene 52-7, Marshfield 40-0, Albany 68-0, and Eureka 38-0. . .. No Scoring Comparisons ". IT happens, however, that there have been no games which afford a scoring comparison between Medford and Klamath Falls. They have played no common opponents thus far. There isn't an indirect comparison available that means much. . ;. - ... How tough have been the opponents which Medford crushed : so decisively? Our only answer to that one is in the scores of their other games. We do not . have, the Eureka, record, but here is the season scoring so far for the Oregon opponents of Medford: EUGENE . MARSHFIELD ALBANY 26, Univ. Hi 0 O.Reedsp't 13 0, Medford 68 24, Spring'd 0 0, Medford 40 , 9, No. Bend 27 7, Medf 'd 52 0, Gr. Pass 20 7, Salem 14 7, Albank 0 0, Myr. Pt. 13 0, Eugene 7 '. Some years ago, Klamath had a terrific early season scoring record. Billie Hulen, then writ ing for the Medford Mail Tribune,, remarked that Klamath had done a lot of scoring, but that its opponents weren't too hot that any- . body could make touchdowns through a paper bag. As we recall, the Klamath-Medford game thereafter turned out a scoreless tie. . No Belittling AE do not Intend here to attempt to belittle YV the Medford record and prospects. They speak for themselves, and they are most im pressive. But it is just as well to point out that the Black Tornado, Tigers and Pearpickers are mere humans, Just in case the build-up may have produced some other Ideas hereabouts. It would be foolish to intimate to the Klamaih Pelicans that they are not up against a most formidable opposition. They are. But thero have been many occasions when the mighty have been upset in football, and it can happen again. It's a cinch it will be worth anybody's time watching the Pelicans work at it Friday night. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 The thermometer in both houses of congress went down to 32 degrees on the youth draft proposal of the Marshall report. No one said much about it but their private expressions showed fresh en thusiasm for a voluntary system. A rising senti ment for modernization of the national guard was evident, a method Mr. Truman is reported to favor. Not much progress has been made on the bills to institute new army and navy acade mics, or to break the deadlock over the Marshall (May) bill, but in the debate on liberalization of service pay, strong sentiment was generated for a democratic way of operating the future army. Congress seems turning that way. There was nothing in the Marshall report to make that tide stand. Still the retiring chief of staff, for instance, said the principle he is advo cating is "Identical to that of coaching a foot ball team." It Is precisely. But did you ever hear of a football team which was drafted away from its home for a year of service, on a fixed pay, and required to play? The democra tic way in football as in all other matters has been generally favored in this country. a Coach Seeks Volunteers THE coach seeks people who want to play. He picks those who want to volunteer their talents. By that means he gets from them the enthusiasm and cooperation necessary to oper ate a successful football aggregation. He thus generates energy and spirit. If a man does not wish to play a military or a football game he does not make a good player. He Is a liability to teamwork, a mal content who goes grudgingly about his task, doing only what is required by authority he fears. In war most young men want to get in on the game. In peace-time it means sacrifice of their chosen work, their education, and a year of their lives away from home and they cannot see the need for it, especially when untried democratic methods might furnish the army all the strength Marshall considers neces sary. . The democratic way of maintaining and training what we need for the utmost efficiency will require thoughtful attention of military authorities to -work it out. Democracy always requires ingenuity to meet its problems. But it has not yet found one it could not solve. a a . Modernize War Department EVEN better news than this was hidden in the paragraph announcement that the Hill bill to modernize the entire war department is to be taken up for hearings next Wednesday. It had been buried so deep by covert opposition and then decorated with red tape by the joint chiefs of staff that not even the president could get the report recommending' it, a report made last April (see columns a few days back dis closing the 'contents of the report; my fire started under the combined chiefs of staff seems to have made it hot enough in congress, if not among the sitting generals.) Thus on two counts there are signs of the cracking of the old regime in the war depart ment. The fighting generals and admirals in both services, and the young men with new ideas, are going to get a hearing for their bill, and the youth draft act is developing signs of senility. 5 I fought nearly a year against the youth draft. My first analysis of its deficiencies was pre sented in this space last September, when the gears were all greased to rush it through, and no one whom I knew was interested in stop ping it. I hit it again and again, as the Marshall (May) bill was delayed and delayed, but not until the congressional reaction to the Marshall report become noticeable, did I feel encouraged to expect success. I have only been at the single department matter a week and it has reached the hearing stage. I will be hitting that subject again . . . and again. - SIDE GLANCES O'tS com, iw ay w swvKf . iwc' t. m. mi u. wt. off. "Oli, there arc lots of things to Itilk ubout with n returned soldier tell him how you appreciate the nice things victory brings us, nylons, for instance 1" Telling The Editor Lttttrt prlntMl her mml not b mart than MA word In length, mutt be writ ten legibly on ONI tlOl ot the super only, and rntMt b Ugned. Contribution following Umm rules, art warmly wtl omotfk OLD FORT ROAD KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., (To the Editor) "The Improvement of the Old Fort road section interests us who live there and the reason for present conditions are sev eral, and I shall mention some of them and suggest corrections. First a considerable tract out side -the city's limits has been taken over by the county for tax delinquency, which accu mulated during the depression years and has been taken off the market. It appears to me that the property should - be placed on the market again, not to be sold in a body to some speculator, for then it would probably not be improved, but a block of it could well be given outright .to a family who would put say a thousand dollars' worth of im provements on it, rather than let it lay as it is, for then it would really be on the tax roll. It will certainly not be im proved as-ilong.as it is held as it is. ' ' Next problem is water, and if one family settles in that dis trict under present conditions they will have to pay for an extension of the pipe line alone or drill a well, cither of which is expensive, and further it is useless to plant trees or shrub bery without water, but if sev eral families would locate there Copco can well extend its wa ter line. That could solve that prob lem so far as that section is concerned, but Copco is limited to that-district by government regulation for I have found that they can serve water as far as my line but cannot cross it, so unless . that regulation is changed, I cannot join in assist ing others in getting the line ex tended unless that restriction on Copco is taken off. Next I will mention the dump ground, and that is another un fortunate relic of the depression years, which is not controlled by cither the city or county. We havo no quarrel with the present owners who are vie tims of circumstances, but we think that a remedy can be found without injury to the owners, if the city and county would join in purchasing a tract, say of that worthless swamp land south of the city septic tank and fill it In. Perhaps the present service could be continued by mutual consent for the benefit ot all around. A bulldozer could cer tainly do wonders toward clean ins ud the nresent dump and making it suitable for residence property. . The old Fort road section Is close in and is partly protected from cold winter winds by the hills; there is less fog than In the city. Perhaps when It is first set tled It mav be shacky. well! suppose it is Mills addition was a shack town at one time and later the tracts south of town, but they are growing out of it and so we say, "Give the old Fort road district a chance to grow. (Signed) F. L. Chitwood." Portland Man Dies As Result Of Fire PORTLAND, Oct. 13 W A v.lo-.n whlnh Rwf.nl hln frame pressing establishment and 4u,lllnr vnatprriAV Kllffnc&ted James B. Officer, 62, firemen saio loaay. Tn.rnetiontnt WHllnm OflPrZ said Officer apparently tried to escape but became confused in the smoke. The World Today By DtWITT MacKENZIE Associated Praia War Analyst lllll mm Mackenzie So Lavnl finally has collected tho whkos ot his sins. One might wish that his trial hiuhi't been surrounded by such emotional acenci but thero will bo few who be lieve ho wasn't guilty as charged. I met and Inter viewed Laval In pro war days when he was nt tho height of his power, politi cally and fi nancially. Tho first task of u reporter in doing an interview Is to alio up his man, and my Immediate and def inite impression was that Laval was a "bud 'un." He was smart and had groat capabilities but his God was Laval, and he was greedy for power. The rebellions In Java and Iiido-Chlnu, aimed respectively at French and Dutch rule, strlko me us symptomatic of a trond which Is part of our now em and that Is the transformation ot the European nations' empires into commonwealths. In short, empires as such arc on their way out. Sovereign Dominions Britain long ago recognized the signs and outdistance I time by inaugurating the. British com monwealth of nations, to which she now is planning to acid mighty India. Within this com monwealth tho dominions have sovereignty, but are linked to gether by tlca of blood and mu tual interest. Thero can be no doubt that other Imperial gov ernments must follow suit My Idea that commonwealths are logical successors to the em pires Is based on tho thought that the llttlo countries like Java, for instance which are now dependencies, will still need the economic and military support of the "Mother" country. That Is, they will need it until the world reaches that happy day when peace Is a fixture and small countries no longer need fear aggression from big nations. Then, of course, there's the bond of blood, which Is so strono In the case of colonies settled large ly by folk from the mother coun tries. All rebellions by force are nasty affairs, and those In French Indo-Chlna and Java are no exceptions to tho rule. The Javanese revolt has taken on particularly dire aspect through the nationalist declaration of what they term "A Mohammed an Holy War Against the Dutch Infidels.' Holy wars can bo very terrible. Position Complicated The position on the Island of Java one of the world's garden spots Is complicated. There are said to be two factions in re bellion, both of them seeking in. dcDendcnce. However, snnnuln ary fighting Is proceeding and the nature of it can be seen from I VETERANS! I A handbook of valuable I information Is ready for I you. Drop In, er call and aj we 11 mail you a copy. I atj3 Y0UH eeronoi a I $U Jl. Jfaudan J IBKPSISENTINO THi I vA.i.-.ni r i ip, a. tuui i adle Lira m IAnuronci Society tit N. Ilk raana SMI Seven Sisters Form Small Tangle Of Twinkling Stars By J. HUGH PRUETT . Astronomer, General Extension Division, Univ. of Oreg. A goddess has lost her necklace ji topazes, wonorously fair, And it lies, a shimmering tangle, On heavens blue tapestried stair. (F. Ina Burgess) Scarcely has a clear mid-Octo- oer twilight faded into night, when there filters through the lower' sky, somewhat north of east, a small spot of delicate, tremulous light. Should haziness dull the transparency near the horizon, careful observation is needed to note that this nebu losity is actually a tangle of tiny, twinkling stars. These are the Pleiades (PLE - ya - deez), Seven Stars, or Seven Sisters. Unusually bewitching are these stellar maidens, for once signiea tney noid one s atten tion in a rather mysterious man ner. More light seems emanat ing from this group than can possibly be accounted for by the six or seven little stars visible to the unaided eye. The explan ation is evident when only slight optical aid is employed. Then we find many stars In the net work which singly are just be low the brightness of easy visi bility, but whose collective lu minosity we actually delect. Small opera glasses show a dozen or more stars; strong field glass es, B0 or 60,. some in most at tractive arcs and fisures. Delightful Cluster This delightful cluster has in spired the poets of all ages. An ancient Hebrew asked, "Canst thou band the sweet influences of the Pleiades?" The Grecians, Homer and Heslod, sang their praises. Wrote Milton, "The gray dawn and the Pleiades be fore him danced, shedding sweet Influence." Tennyson declared these stars "glittered like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid." In classical mythology, the Pleiades were the seven daugh ters of Atlas, the giant who car ried the earth on his shoulders. Their names: Alcyone, Merope, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Taygeta, and Asterope. Orion often tor mented the lovely sisters by running after them. But the great Jupiter finally changed them to doves so that they might fly to the safety of the heavens, where even today some see in this cluster a flock of little birds. We sometimes hear of the lost Pleiad, for most eyes cannot see the seventh sister. Multitudes of Stars Powerful telescopes show mul titudes of stars in the direction of the Pleiades, but only about 900 are thought actually to be long to the group, all members of which are receding from us at around five miles per second. Some investigators find their dis tance to be 500 light-years, but others make it somewhat less. The Pleiades are in the form of a tiny dipper. (This is not the true little Dipper since the lat ter includes the North Star.) The brightest Pleiad. Alcvone fAl- si-onee), is 730 times more lu minous than our sun. Under the ODen skies of an Indian summer night, who will not thrill to the beauty of this tangle of celestial jewels, softly shimmering through the haze along the horizon! An automatic SOS alarm for vessels not having a radio op erator on constant watch was introduced In 1935. The origin of how a sIiId came to be called "she" can probably be traced back to the Greek mariners who gave their ships feminine names. - f for Pleasant oments Friend calls to friend, "IlU PM tlmelct't go" and million Pleasant Momenta twinkle forth scroti the land! High time for that Perfectly Harrelons -'. PM flaror In Old-Fathloned, Manhattan or Highball. So mlraculoaalr smooth, to snperUtirely mellow,. PM goet down and the tmiles come up again I " '"' I '"' llll" ' Proof. J NaUonal,DitUllwtProdneuCorn.,N.y.SlSlraJglitWhliker49Craia lVeatnl Spirits tho report that the Insurrection' ImIn' wnunnna Include nollOII darts hihI venomous snakes. Java Is a rich prlzo, it is slim island but extendi for 0112 miles, and Into this light space arc packed 45,000,000 people, of whom some 1100,000 aro Dutch, This ironical country produces rubber, tin, sugar, oil, quinine, coffee and many other tilings. It Is the business center for all the Dutch Hunt Indies. Long before tho rebellion the Dutch promised governmental changes In Java, However, since tho rebels decided to take things into their own hands, wo shall have to await the end of the re volt to loiirn what sort of settle ment can bo made. 4 Oregon Workmen Killed During Week SALEM, Oct. IB (V) Four Oregon workmen wero killed during thu week ending October 11, the stato Industrial accident commission reported hero But urcliiy. Thoro were also 17 claims for occupational disease and 744 accldunts reported to tho commission. Those fatally Injured wore Merlo Allen Thurman, Seneca, farm hund; Robert Jumes Hon, Sulherlln, head louder; Dave Argabrlglit, honct loader spray: and J. S. Turner, Corvulltt, ciioKor soiter. Woman Accidentally Shot By Young Son SILVEUTON. Oct, 15 W) Mrs. Hartley Uonncy was In the hospital hero today, wounded by a gun which discharged acci dentally while her 16-year-old son was cleaning It after hunt liiu trip. Hospital attendants reported tho woman critically injured. Radio Programs C II Mutu.l-Don Lee IMMI jM0 ko. Mon. Evening, Oct. IB, 1145 net m. m, naarltl ft a a I I a r, Niwa ill n I a i llanra lit S a all Is M HaM lilt Kvanlnf Oaa. vtrl ill r I t a lit a Uuarlil lilt Lana aaniar Ml HI a a a, lilt li s o r ( a. tram J i! M"l.""il. NwaralM ill lla nt Mann, rail a ft: ram n ot N.. a.,,, ua Tuesday, Oct, 16, 1946 tilt a. m. 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Still Meeds There's still plenty of work ahead! This war won't be ever until the last American fighting man is home again. Meanwhile, those men in the Pacific must still be fed and supplied. Then, they must be brought back here to the West Coast and transported to their homes. ' And it's up to Western raflrosds particularly South ern Pacific to do most of this big, vital job, That's why 8.P. needs skilled craftsmen! to keep equipment repaired and rolling for this job and for the giant task of reconstruction. You can help tho Army by taking a good 5. P. ob Your' Army urges qualified mon to take railroad Jobs now. At S.P., we especially need skilled craftsmen all kinds of skilled craftsmen. (See partial list at right.) This is your chance to get Into the most exciting work there is: railroading! Be right In the heart of reconver sion activity helping keep military freight, troop and kospltal trains moving You get good pay and plenty of extras that other jobs don't have, including hospital and medical care, Insurance and transportation privileges, and a fine re tirement pension plan. ' ' Get the details today, from your nearest S.P. Em- .ployment Office or Agont. There's no obligation. Get one of these jobs at S.P.! MACHINISTS PiriPITTERS CARMEN SIONALMIN ASST.SIONAIMEN BOILERMAKERS PLUMBERS CARPENTERS SHEET METAL WORKERS SWITCHMEN RAKEMEN (Other good obi may be pen In your area, Come In and find outl) Bee er write Tnlnmiittr. B. P. Btatlen, Klamath Filli, or atirtit S. P. Agtnt "A good outfit to b with" SNH
