FRANK JENKINS
Iditor
MALCOLM EPI.EY
Managing Editor
Entered as lecond class matter at the poitofflce of Klamath
Falls, Ore., on August 20, 190U. under act of congress,
March 8, 1879
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South Road Siory
Ed.tor'i Note: Continuing the Lindsay Applegate ttory of
th 1846 expedition which opened the famed South Emigrant
Road through the Klamath country.
Nmr
L. Applegate
By' ELIZABETH BUTLER LOOSLEY
I irvURING our travels next day, we trudged
J through sand and sagebrush, grease-
wood and heat. Sighting a volcanic wall with
a gap in It, we divided to in- : .
vestigate; the ones going to
the south found a stream and
lush meadows and got word
, to us. Allowing the jaded
horses to feed and rest, we set
out afoot to look over the
territory. We found a chasm
running east; sheer walls tow
ered, leaving room for a
wagon to go through with no
room to spare, so narrow was
the gorge. The bluff showed
signs of recent Indian encamp
ment. -
"How we did feast on rab
bits, sage hens and we saw
mountain sheep.
"Following the canyon, a stream bed, we
found after twelve miles of travel a pool of
water. Wenooned here; then followed the
stream for Smother ten miles and came out
on the east side of the ridge to Mud lake.
"It was here a year later that Captain Levi
Scott, with a few soldiers, came to meet a train.
Leaving the train at Mud lake, he and Mr.
Garrison forged ahead, attempting to find a
more direct route., Meeting two Indians, they
questioned them about the country. The sav
ages killed Garrison, and Scott, having raised
his arm to shoot, was struck with an arrow '
which pinned his arm to his side. Even so,
Scott managed to kill one Indian , and the
other coward fled. Scott didn't bother about
the cutoff."
Frank and Ed edged closer to Mrs. Apple
gate, to lean against her knees at this ghastly
tale.
But Lindsay Applegate told the happening
without drama he had encountered so much
on this expedition that it was a job to him
and with obstacles to surmount nothing more
His voice went on,, "We saw smoke or steam
along the ridge I've mentioned. A few miles
north we reached the ridge and at its base
were cold springs, also boiling springs from
which steam gushed. Several hundred acres
of meadow were fed by these springs.
"The cliffs were of black cinder formation.
It is one of the noted landmarks, Black Butte,
Black Rock. We rested here a day to decide
how to best locate the Humboldt river, then
known as Ogden's river. As a result of our
decision, we separated. Eight men went south
and seven, including myself, went east.
"The territory seemed a dry lake bed cov
ered with alkali, no growth to be seen. After
i traveling fifteen miles we were thirsty. Fin
ally, I saw rabbit trails all heading for some
- granite boulders that formed a ridge. ' And
on top of the ridge we found water! "Not
much, but by digging it out we managed to
slake our thirst. This we named Rabbit Hole
Springs. v .
"To the east from this elevation, we still saw
smoke. The plain below looked so hot and
barren we kept to the ridge and again, thanks
to the rabbit trails, found a very limited amount
of water. There were signs of Indian ranch
enes here. ,
(To Be Continued)
News Behind The News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, March 261 . promised p
few days back to judge the points raised
in the Churchill-Stalin debate which seemed
to stop halfway with Mr. Churchill's humorous half-way.
last rejoinder and Stalin's subsequent silence,
and I will do it today.
The Churchill challenge, I believe, was raised
primarily for diplomatic effect. I notice Stalin
cooled considerably (If temporarily) on the
warmest diplomatic subject then pending, Iran,
soon after Churchill spoke. Moscow came down
' all the way from threatening open belligerency
in the few ensuing days to a secret revolution
ary movement in Iran and an open discussion
about oil discussion not , being necessary if
'belligerency was to bo consummated by a cap
ture of that nation. The words of statesmen
are generally selected for such effects,
Yet the points raised by both leaders con
tained sound observations which were not
argued through to a conclusion when the effect
was, accomplished. Mr. Churchill recommended
an Anglo-American alliance on the ground that
the English speaking peoples had the same
ideals. I think he incorrectly stated his point
on this. The way of freedom for peoples has
been preserved in the form not of language
but of free parliamentary governments.
Elective Way Of Life
THIS method is not confined to any language.
It is the elective way of life by which
citizens of communities choose representatives
to parliament in free, secret balloting where
all parties are given representation. In Eng
land, this is done through a parliament which
operates by a somewhat different method than
our congress. In France it is a chamber of
deputies in a system more like ours, and so on
The natural assimilation of peoples of the world
indeed one which has already been made
throuch common ideals is this common ac
ceptance of parliamentarianism.
Stalin wholly misinterpreted this underlying
ground of the Churchill speech. He called it
Hitler move for war. The Hitler methods and
all totalitarianism are odious to free peoples.
You could see underlying Stalin's whole re
joinder the idea that liberty is only liberty
against fascism, not freedom of people. Indeed
he has a Soviet and recently had an election
but one party was represented and it was
recognized by all free people as a controlled
popularity contest for his government. His
Soviet does not represent parliamentarianism
in form because it is a council of workers care
fully chosen by one party and subject to the
will of the one party master at the top.
Any ideological division of the world on this
fundamental basis would put Stalin in league
with the fascist nations, and . parliamentary
nations on the other side.
Fascistic Action
Ik OT only that, but the whole system of action
I N in Russia m or e nearly resembles 1
fascistic. The Stalin answer, for instance, was
not a radioed speech to the people like Church'
ill's, but was presented as a series of selected
questions made to him by his controlled news
paper, Pravda, together with his responses.
(Contrast, this with our free press conference
methods common in one form or another in
all parliamentary countries.)
Again, Stalin attributed the spread of com
munism to the yearnings of the people in Eu
ropean nations he has seized. ' The peoole were
not consulted in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania
Yugoslavia and elsewhere. Whatever yearnings
they had for or against communism were not
presented to the world at large. Communistic
influence did not grow in Europe from this
method, but by seizure of governments or tf
instituting aggressive, political movements in
such nations as France and Italy, where parlia
mentary forms prevailed. And in none of
these parliamentary nations even yet has a ma
jority favored communism. Among the parlia
mentary countries, the communists have their
strongest representation in France where it was
necessary for them to make a combination with
the socialists, their former hated rivals, in
order to win even the status of a segment in a
coalition control.
These are the points I would like to have
seen Mr. Churchill pursue. They could be fol
lowed all the way through both speeches. If
this had been done, the international atmos
phere might have been cleared by the debate
and a ground for the common understanding
established. As 1 say, I think they stopped
SIDE GLANCES
Work Under Way
On Grain Elevator
Work on the $398,000 grain
elevator to go up :for Tulana
Farms at Worden, was under
way this week with excavation
of the basement completed.
Henry George and Son of
Spokane, Wash., grain elevator
specialists, have the contract for
the ob and the contractor's side
track-will be laid by the South
ern Pacific, starting the first of
next week, according to Ben
Henzel of Tulana Farms.
Materials for the project will
start arriving next week and the
entire construction will be com
pleted in time for fall harvest.
Motorists driving south on the
Weed highway are watchim?
wun interest me progress on the
elevator, one of the largest in
me siaie wnen completed.
In 1945, the leather soles of
all men's, women s and chil
dren's leather shoes in the Unit
ed States, fitted together, would
cover only IB square miles. .
Hans Norland Fire Insurance.
123 N. 6th St.
Stromberg-C a r 1 s o n Radios.
Derby's Music Co.
Just Unpacked!
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MANSTORE
731 Mala St.
Sprague River
Mrs. Al Thomas of Westwood.
Calif., spent the weekend here
with Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Borough and family.
Owen Riddle has been re
turned to his home from a Klam
ath hospital where he spent sev
eral days receiving medical
treatment. - .,
Several of the ranchers in this
community are dehorning and
branding cattle this week.
Mrs. Andrew Ortis attended a
meeting of the Junior Indian
council at Klamath Agency on
Wednesday evening.
Sharan Ttoff, small daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Roff, was
taken to a Klamath Falls hospital
Thursday evening. She was bor
dering on Dronchial pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Ike Travis are
visiting Mrs. Ruth Walker. Since
January they have been living in
Redding.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Brother
ton have moved into the Lopez
property on New Church street.
Mrs. Anna Wolford and son
Scott were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lahoda of
Malin.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Cook and Mr.
and Mrs. V. Bodner were week
end guests in Medford.
Mr. and Mrs. K. Disonde are
in Ashland this week with rela
tives. Mr. and Mrs. Gail Ridenour
spent Monday evening and Wed
nesday morning in Ashland. A
brother of Mrs. Ridenour. whom
she had not seen for three years,
was home on a two-day pass en
route east.
Mrs. ' Martha McBririe and
Helen have moved here from
Larger Field Crops
Foreseen In Oregon
PORTLAND, March 26 (fP)
Oregon's field crops this year
promise to be 4 per cent larger
tnan the 1945 plantings, the .bu
reau of agricultural economics
here announced today.
' The annual spring check
showed farmers in the state
planting 241,000 acres of spring
wheat 17 per cent more than
last year. Barley acreage was
estimated about the same as
a year ago; oats down 4 per
cent; corn aown z per cent; po
tatoes down 2 per cent; tame
nay up z per cent. ,
Market For Fir
Bark Reported
PORTLAND, March 26 (IP)
A market for second-growth
Douglas fir bark was reported
today by the U. S. forest serv
ice. A Dallas, Ore., tannery has
asked for the bark, to be used
as a source of tannin extract,
the forest service reported. The
bark has often been discarded
in the harvesting of poles, pil
ing, saw logs and pulpwood.
Klamath Falls into the Leon Har
ling house. Helen is employed
by American Box.
Bryan Thurman was injured
on Tuesday while at work in the
yard at the box factory. He was
taken to Klamath Falls by Owen
Ludwick, production manager,
for an examination. He was able
to return home.
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(Heavy Clamp Boxes)
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inclusive
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"Every time I jio to the movies it tnkes me a day or two
to get used to these gawky boys our own ngc then I go
to the movies again 1"
National Potato Letter
Spud Shipments Reported
Very Heavy Since March 1
There is little, if anything, in
current potato demand and sup
ply to justify today's markets.
The March 1 stocks report' re
leased by BAE last week in
dicates total supplies of old stock
potatoes were slightly more than
60 million bushels nearly 10
million over a year earlier. In
the - meantime, since March 1,
shipments have been very heavy,
amounting to well over 15,000
big cars to March 16. On a farm
weight basis this is close to 18
million bushels in rail movement
alone, although seed shipments
this season have been delayed
and much of present movement
is seed. We have a hunch we'll
wind up with a quality market,
with junk going begging and not
enough good quality offerings to
fill demand. Folks have too much
cash to want poor quality unless
they can't get anything else.
The early crop still is under
a question mark. Conditions are
average or better in most early
sections, and there is enough
acreage to produce a "thumping"
big crop,- weather permitting.
Early spring acreage now is re
ported as 10 per cent above Jan
uary intentions. If that pattern
is followed by other early sec
tions, and yields stay up, we
might go as much as 10 million
bushels above last year's very
big early production. Trade
whispers have it that acreage in
southern California may reach a
figure so high we will not men
tion it until we check further,
but such tales don't fit with
earlier stories of fertilizer short
ages.
Movement
Shipments last week held up
strong at 7475 cars, only seven
cars less than the previous big
week and an average of 1246
cars daily. This includes a heavy
seed movement of course, and
also renewed Canadian buying
activity. Idaho is down over 300
cars for the week but Maine
jumped about' as many. Red
River valley put out 2381 cars
for a daily average of 397, which
tops Maine. Changes in most
other states not particularly sig
nificant. We can expect some
areas which normally clean up
early to begin folding up any
time now chiefly Nebraska,
Colorado, Oregon and Washing
ton. Not right away, perhaps
but they don't have many left
and stocks include seed for local
sale which will not show up in
the shipments.
Car Supply
Most areas have had enough
cars to ship at capacity, but
Maine has been so far behind in
delivering seed orders that some
planting areas have become pan
icky. So far as we can tell, there
have been enough cars in Maine,
and are now, but the carriers
couldn't handle them. Some say
because of other freight; some
because of inadequate and out
worn equipment; some because
of failure to use all available
portals. Whatever the reason,
the seed is backed up. So, effec
tive noon, March 20, a priority
order went into effect which
gives cars first to blue-tag cer-
tuica seed, regardless of destina
tion but without diversion privi
leges. That should get the seed
moved without letting it eet too
much into consumption along the
eastern seaboard, we under
stand every effort was made to
get the job done without priori
ties. But It goes to show that If
an industry goes too long with
out doing what's good for the
country, some sort oi compulsion
is necessary. Same thing 'could
happen on ceilings.
Demand and Market!
Maine is showing some of the
reaction anticipated in our re
port of last week, with good
demand turning to slow; stronger
market turning to weaker; and
prices a dime below the high
point but still 25 to 40 cents
over cx-cciling, Idaho reports a
slow demand, marKct about
steady, prices 10 to 15 cents
below last week but still 15 to
20. cents over ex-ceiling. North
Dakota has ruled very slow with
the market dull and weaker and
too few sales to establish a price.
Colorado is a bright spot, with
moderate demand, slightly
stronger market, and prices
equal to 5 cents over ex-ceiling.
Wisconsin continues with a slow
demand, dull market, and prices
for a single car 15 cents under
floor. Michigan has had a fair
demand, market about steady,
prices 5 to 10 cents below the
recent high point but still only
5 cents under ex-ceiling. New
York tops all late areas, with a
good demand, market about
steady, and prices well above
week ago at 55 cents over ex
celling. Volume is small, with
only 54 cars each of the last two
weeks, Dade county, Florida,
reports a better situation than a
week ago, with moderate de
mand, market slightly stronger,
prices 20 to 25 cents over floor.
In the terminals conditions are
mixed. Chicago reports slow to
moderate demand far old, fair
for new; market firm for new
and western old, slightly weaker
for northern old. New York re
ports dull and slightly weaker
for old, slightly stronger for new.
Atlanta held steady for old,
steady to stronger for new. Bos
ton is slightly weaker for old,
dull for new. Detroit held about
steady on old, weaker on new.
San Francisco, about steady for
old and new, with Klamath Rus
sets still strong at $3.75 to $4.00
lor u. b. No. 1, size A.
Canadian movement is now
approaching 5400 cars, with new
impetus from Inclusion of lied
River valley commercials in the
deal. Canada really is short of
potatoes and should continue to
be a customer at least until its
own crop comes in. The French
deal has slowed about to a stop
and it is reported that the sixth
boat will have to be filled out
with other cargo. This is due to
withdrawal from Red River val
ley and other areas, not being
able to keep up the pace.
Starch diversion pokes along;
deliveries to Muscatine recently
were resumed but are insuffi
cient for normal operation. An
Idaho processor is reported to
have contracted to supply really
large quantities of either de
hydrated spuds or potato flour to
a distiller. If true, there should
be little difficulty in cleaning
up Idaho's low grades.
USDA made its long-awaited
The World
Today
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP World Traveler
is
PARIS, March 2(1 A distin
guished Frenchman remarked to
me during n dinner conversation
that his country Is very 111 mul
that he believes the oilier west
ern allies should treat her ac
cordingly that Is, with firmness
when she is ?,)jw"v;-:.l
u n rcaxonamo,
and Willi ma
te r i I aid
w hen she
needs It.
This line has
kept running
t h r o u g h my
mind so per
sistently that 1
finally decid
ed to incur-
twtnifn II hm-rt.
Probably It MacKENZIE
has stuck with mo because I'm
sure from my own observations
that mv friend's diagnosis Is cor
rect. Whether his prescription
is right Is something to bo de
termined by thu allied govern
ments. Apropos of this, one notes that
former Clovernor Harold Slassen
In his New York speech asked
Americans that they "promptly
extend credits under proper
terms to those who seriously
need them, which Includes Eng
land, France, Greece and Rus
sia." Position Grave
I've stressed the point of
France's Illness In previous arti
cles, but her position Is so seri
ous that It can't be over-em-phoslzcd.
It's grave, not only
for her but for the world at
huge, because this Important
country Is as vital to global well
being as Is your arm to your
body.
France's ease Is rendered es
pecially grave by complications.
As this column previously has
reported, she Is 111 economically,
politically and spiritually. She
was sickening when Hitler
loosened Ills bllt.krclK. and the
shock of her frightful defeat,
coupled with the hell of the nazl
occupation, led to the present
crisis for crisis it is.
Needs Moral Holp
My French friend of the din
ner conversation Is right when
he says his country needs moral
us well as material help. She
isn't tlw Frnnrn of old. The
general public is bewildered and j
is increasingly Inclined to ex
periment with political nostrums
in the hope of finding relief.
Then there's another element
entering Into the situation, and
that is Injured pride. What else
could be expected In the case of
a nation which so long was one
of the world's dominant
powers? France finds it hard to
accept the change brought by
the lUtlerlan conquest, and this
has been responsible for many
of her International political
moves which haven't found
favor in the eyes of all the allies.
Slio Is fighting to retrieve her
former position.
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Teachers'
Salaries To
Be Studied
Members of the high school
board, District No, 2, last night
In regular sesslun undertook the
study of comparative teacher
salaries after Superlntendenl
Arnold Ciralapp hud submitted
Hillary teacher studies from
throughout Oregon, the scalo ef.
fectlvu this spring, A report will
be heard later.
It was unofficially learned
that Paul E. Skeou, recently
named to the board to replace
Arthur Dickson who moved
from the district, had recently
received orders to transfer h(s
business connections to Salem
and would not ho able to accept
his duties. No one has been
named to replace Skven who
represents the Altamont district.
Official action will be taken
soon, Gralapp said.
Resignation!
Two resignations were accept,
ed by the hoard. The.Rev. Fred
crick C. Wlssenbaeli. Iimtnicioi.
in art, resigned duo to press of!
cnurcn mi i ics aim inn board
named Vcrn Swansen to fill mil
the remainder of the school year
In that department,
Vernon Kuykendall, Instruc
tor of chemistry and science, al
so resigned his post, effective at
once,
Joe Pealc, supervisor of phvsl- i
cal education, presented plans j
for dressing room Improvements
at Klamath Union high school.
These rooms ore needed duo to)
the heavy Increase in nhvslrnl
education enrollment the lm.
proveinents will bu mude effec
tive providing thu vocational
building project is successful,
Cirulapp advised.
The board moved to purchase
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two buses, n,,"Ti
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announcement of marketing
charges this week, for the 1940
support program. Instead, they
set up f.o.b. prices at two stages:
(1) sacked and loaded on carrier,
and (2) bulk, ungraded on car
rier. When questioned, they told
us schedule of allowances would
have required considerable extra
computation for each transaction
with chances for errors and de
lays. F.o.b. schedules give com
puted results only al stages of
distinction likely to be Involved,
Also note that, under PACA
rules, "f.o.b" requires potatoes
to be In "suitable shipping con
dition" when loaded. Vendor or
borrower is not relieved of lia
bility just because a car passed
inspection when shipped. It goes
out of condition en route, and
an, inspection at destination
shows development of damage
inherent In the load when
shipped, like field frost, blight
rot, sunsculd, etc., the vendor or
borrower may find the car on
his hands and a long way from
home. This provision was part
of the 1945 loan program, but
many, especially irowcrs who
don't usually load cars, were not
aware of it.
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