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By MALCOLM EPLEY
v-nEY call it the "air-conditioned route" be
j cause it traverses high desert and moun
i.j .i valleys, where the bracing atmosphere
contrasts with the oppressive summer humidity
of the lower Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
But we like to think of pwetfrgw-j
the inside route to Los An
geles via U. S. 3A5 as a "pano
rama of the west" because it
presents so much that is typi
cally western as people like to
think of the west.
The route, from Klamath
Falls, passes down our valley
to Tulelake, thence to Canby
and Alturas, where it joins
US 395, the Three Flags high
wnv. From Alturas it eoes
south to Honey lake valley and CTLEY
Reno, through the Carson valley, over the Sierra
hump to Bishop, down the Owens valley and
across the Mojave desert either into Los An
geles direct or farther inland through San Ber
nardino and Riverside to San Diego.
We know quite a lot about this route, be
cause we've driven over it four times in the
last two months. We'll dispose of the question of
speed by reporting that we left here last Fri
day morning at 9 o'clock, went to Pomona, and
returned Sunday night about 9. There was
brief mention of the route in this column two
months ago. So many people have asked us
about it, that we'll try today to give a few
more detailed impressions. Readers who don't
like that sort of thing from people just home
from a trip can switch to Paul Mallon imme
diately without hurting our feelings.
Western Items
COMING home Sunday alone (we traveled
about 650 miles from Johannesburg on
that day) we had opportunity to itemize, men
tally, those features that add up to the obser
vation that this route is the "west, in big doses."
The items:
The little hotel where we stayed in Johan
nesburg, where we occupied a room off a pa
tio and where the proprietor asked us not to
waste water "because it costs 34 of a cent a
gallon."
The Owens valley, where the plain line of
the Los Angeles acqueduct along the foot of the
Sierras and scores of pumping plants in the
valley floor recall how Los Angeles took the
.water from the settlers "for the greater good
of the greater number."
Bishop, Lone Pine, Independence Owens
valley towns that do big business with recrea
tionists from crowded Southern California
and where motels and iishworms are major fea
tures of that business.
The mountain wall its rugged sides
marked here and there by a road, a firebreak,
or a pipe line, and its summit crowned with
snow and glacier peaks like Mt. Whitney, the
highest in U. S. These are dramatic mountains
like those in calendar pictures slide peaks,
shouldering the sky, their huge creases filled
with snow and ice. They are there over you on
this route, most of the way from Inyokern to
Alturas.
The absurdly shaped Joshua trees of the
Mojave.
Big desert-mountain lakes, like Mono and
Topaz, strongly reminiscent of our own Upper
Klamath.
Pine forests in the high Sierras, where the
road is a lane through the rust-red trunks of
the mature ponderosas.
A white water stream rolling through a
rock-studded mountain gorge.
Quieter streams, meandering through moun
tain meadows.
Thousands of white-faced cattle grazing in
green pastures around Bridgeport, high coun
try county seat dominated by an old-fashioned
white courthouse with a red roof.
The old Victorian-style residence at the end
of Bridgeport's main street, steep-roofed to
shed the snow.
A gold dredger working in a muddy stream
above Mono.
The lush meadows and grazing cattle of
Carson valley.
The "D" for Douglas county looking out
from the mountain wall over Minden, Nev.
A brightly dressed Indian woman sitting
beside a little stream near Carson City.
The dude ranches of western Nevada.
The games at Reno..
The high desert, where your road stretches
ahead in full view to the distant horizon. You
reach the horizon and there it is again, an al
most exact duplicate of the previous picture.
The people at the service stations, cafes, and
other places of business along the route. They
are friendly westerners, genuinely glad to see
some one and seemingly unworried about the
mount of business you are going to give them.
The long drive through the pine woods from
Canby to Tulelake basin, where signs remind
you that deer are likely to be crossing that
highway.
Horse mountain, a concentrated example of
the west's storied "rim rock."
The jagged teeth on the crest of the Tule
lake peninsula.
These are things which we observed and en
joyed on a lonely auto trek Just yesterday
from Johannesburg, Calif., to Klamath Falls,
Ore. and which, when it was all over, we
found we could classify as typically, distinc
tively and consistently western as people every
where like to think of the west.
The Man From Up
ONE of those friendly service stution people
told us a true little yarn that'll do to
finish this.
It seems they were to elect a supreme court
judge in California, and as usual down there,
sectionalism entered the picture. It was south
ern California's turn.
A competent lawyer from Bridgeport, in the
high Sierras, somehow got himself considered
for the job.
The southerners objected, asserting he was
from the north.
The northerners objected, claiming he was
from the south.
His rejoinder:
"I'm not from the south or north. I'm from
up."
There was no place for up in California's
political scheme of things, and he didn t get the
job.
SIDE GLANCES
News Behind The News
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON, May 27 Congress is
gasping in a life or death debate over
OPA as if the protection of the people against
ravaging inflations and extortionate prices, lies 1
in how their battle goes, but if you will walk
into a grocery store, you will think someone is
kidding.
In my corner grocery, I find it necessary
to buy a dozen inferior eggs which I cannot use,
in order to buy a quarter pound of butter which
I want. My complaints to my friend the gro
ceryman, always bring his response that the
wholesaler requires him to take the bad eggs
in order to get the butter, and there is nothing
else for either him or me to do. He advises
me to use the eggs in cooking where their in
feriority will not be apparent. This daily sub
ject leaves us both speechless, frustrated but
taking the eggs. My soft beverage dealer re
quires me to purchase an equal amount of in
ferior soft drinks for the high grade quality I
wish to purchase, and my friends who buy
liquor tell me they have encountered the same
experience in their purchases of whiskey. To
get it they must take an inferior brand of
brandy or some undesirable liquor they do not
want and this (they tell me) they pour into the
sink.
How great a price Increase is concealed in
these operations is evident in the case of candy,
I was forced to pay 80c for a pound made
up only half of the chocolates I wanted, and
half of cheaper gum-chewing kinds I did not
want. The price of a full box of Chocolates at
this store formerly was 60c. The 80c new
price therefore represents a 33 13 per cent in
crease, or would if I got all chocolates as for
merly. Now, however, I must take half in
candy formerly selling for 40c a pound or less.
Therefore the total increase in price is above
60 per cent, about half of which amount is visi
ble and direct and the other half of which is
concealed in inferior quality. (Talk about wast
ing food!)
Consumer Ignored
SINGULARLY the whole congressional fight
over OPA has been conducted without the
slightest consideration of these realities affect
ing the consumer, indeed influencing the whole
national economy, displaying as it does the cor
ruption of price statistics as issued by the gov
ernment, the unrevealed extent to which infla
tion has already been carried, and the bald,
plain fact that OPA is just not working.
Everyone knows black markets are bigger
than the white markets in various necessities
of life, but few realize except the careful buyer
how great is the official skinning of the con
sumer, and small business in general, by the
total collapse of quality standards. Some or
ganized housewives marched up to Capitol Hill
creating a great fuss and demanding OPA, but
they said nothing about this major situation
which is apparent to anyone who goes shop
ping. Indeed, not a single amendment in the
house and senate committee took up the ques
tions of "tie-in" sales which is the trade terms
for the current abuses.
As a shopper myself, I have been forced to
the conclusion from experience that if the bat
tle against inflation rests upon these shennani
gans of OPA, it will never even be fought. It
is not only over, but was never actually begun.
There is no limit to which prices can be in
creased by the tie-in sales or quality deteriora
tion. With both worked together, they can pro
mote an inflation of devastating effect without
OPA admitting that there is an inflation and
pointing naively to price ceilings which have
become inconsequential numbers written on
walls.
Ct. WW T UK MWTKt. WCtK IWU 1. MT. Off I
Autoist's Body
Found In River
YKEKA. Culif., May 27 The
body of Cleve Barry, 80, who
was killed May 21 when he
bucked his cur over a lOUfoot
cliff on the Klmnuth river roud
near Somes Bur, wus recovered
from the Salmon river on Thurs
day, seven miles from the scene
of the wreck.
Hurry, u tui live Slsklyoiiun,
was employed by the stain hu
rouu of public rouils nml hud
been workinx on the Klmnuth
river roud Hi the time of the acci
dent. Fellow employes miw him
buck Ills cur over the edge nf
the bluff mid into the Salmon
river as he was attempting to
muko room for nn oncoming cur
on tho nurrow highwuy.
When a rescue party reached
the bottom of the enibiiukment
UtKAlU NfcttK. Hlallialb talll, Ilia.
iiiimiav. Mar it, IMS, Cat raar
a alinrl (line Inter, (ho uivldeiil
victim could not bo found mid
a seurch hud been unilerwuy
aliu-e thut time.
Tlimsiiuv'K dlnnivery was
niutle bv a Somen llur iinin who
found the body floutinu in the
wuler Just below Somes llur
bridge.
Hurry wu born In Sawyer's
llur, SUklyou county, unci he
hud niutle his homo there unci it I
Forks of Salmon until 10211
when he uccepted employment
with (ho stutu hlghwuy di'piirt
ment. Survivors include his widow,
Annie, who hud been staying ul
Somes llur to be with her mm
buud while ho wu employed In
Hint vicinity, two dnuuhters,
three sisters, and one brother.
hI m i', Mi'Mlnnvllle, vlrt presi
dent, (.'. II. Kinliiiilf. Pendleton, was
luinieil ilUlrli'l officer.
Annuities?
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SERVICE
LAUNDRYMEN ELECT
EUGENE, Muv 27 (V) The
Stute l.uuuilry Owners imsoelu
lion, which closed Its iinmiul con
vention here Suturdiiy night,
elected Alfred ltiiwllnmin, Port
land, president, and It. II. Windl-
i
' Bj III If IIS nana !! a
JOHN H.
HOUSTON
attrarssNTiNu tui
EQUITABLE LIFE
Anuronco Society
ND Tats,
III N Ilk raaaa iltl
"Of course beauty comes from within we just try to
draw it outl"
STATIC
i3:
Virginia Vass, tho ladder
climomg miss at the head of this
column, was the only thing I
could find to help out a blue
Monday. But, there she is, Vir
ginia Vass. star (or one of 'em, at
least) of the ABC daytime show
"Glamour Manor."
a
Frank Jenkins and Mac Eplcy
were two of the Klamath Falls
men to attend the Crowder Flats
Modoc Defense council meeting
last week, and they're still won
dering if they are the only two
of them to get back. It seems
that while they were at the
flats it rained all over a nice
mud road, leaving them with an
extremely perilous surface to
drive on, what with dodging
ditches and so on. And Just to
make it perfect, after going
through the mud without a bit of
trouble, they run out of gas at
Henley. Getting a lift on the
highway at 2 o'clock in the
morning isn't the easiest thing
to do, but a good life paid off,
and a fellow that Mr. Jenkins
had given an elm tree to some
years ago came by and pushed
them all the way into town.
Nothing like a nice quiet little
trip for the nerves.
a a a
Trips seem to be on the agenda
around here, because we Just
heard from Chuck Cecil yester
day that he is grounded at Van
Nuys. California. So. as the
scene opens this morning we
tind Cecil sitting in his lnylor-
craft in California, woefully
staring at the weather and won
dering how his mike at KFLW
is getting along.
a a a
The shortage of announcers
around here is becoming acute.
First Cecil is grounded in Cali
fornia, and then, this morning,
we hear from Mel Baldwin that
due to technical conditions be
yond his control, he has to visit
a dentist this a. m., and have a
front tooth pulled, which Is
liable to leave him with both a
hole in his face and a slight
lithp for a few duys. Blue Mon
day, indeed.
a a
One cheerful note for today,
at any rate, and that Is that the
long-awaited Neal baby is with
us. The Neals haven't gotten
around to letting us know the
name as yet, but it's a girl, born
around 2 o'clock Sunday morn
ing. I'm told, and weighs in at
7 pounds 10 ounces. Congratu
lations, Don.
Classified Ads Bring Result.
Police Arrest
Man On Parole
Andrew Billy, 32, parole vio
lator from Folsom prison, was
arrested by city police yester
day afternoon on request from
California prison authorities
who said that Billy failed to
stay within the requirements of
his parole by leaving his resi
dence and employment in the
state.
He waived extradition and
was placed in the county jail
to be held for California offi
cers. James Bradshaw, Klamath
Falls, posted $5 for failure to
procure an operator's license,
Ben Simmons, Riverside apart
ments, put up $5 on a like
charge, and Albert Rogers, Cas
cade apartments, was cited into
court for running a red light.
Hal Ogle, 622 High, and Mrs.
W. H. Hunt, 305 Hillside, each
paid a $5 assessment for allow
ing dogs to run loose.
Ten drunks, one drunk and
disorderly and one vagrant ap
peared in police court this
morning, and 14 drunks bailed
out over the weekend.
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Charlie Bplvnk Orcn."
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Git nil Hard v. News MBS
Rex Miller MBS
Dance
Henry J. Taylor MRS
News Ronndup, Concert
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Music At Ten Like It
Lawrence Welk Orch. MBS
Modern Aires MR.
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7:1.1 Slop and Go Show
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M MAY 28
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Imperial Singers
Jimmy Oerssy Orch.
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lt:00 News
lt:U Man or the Street
12:0 Ladles Be Seated ABO
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M MAY 28
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News
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Farm Front
Living with Geo
Organ
Johnson Family MBI
Fdward Lloyd Tangos
Loral News
Zeke Manners MBS
John J. Anthony MBS
Request Hour
Rarea f Best
OPA
Here's Row with Pete
Howe MRS
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Rei Miller MBS
Klamath Theatres
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Story er the Goese Girl
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