Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, July 29, 1949, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textfo) Ull' nlhn ., YtfCti iN. I W"T.H" ' By FRANK JENKINS PHIS oddly interesting dispatch dicks off the win thl morning from London: "In ell of Britain ("Britain" con sists ol England. Scotland, Wain and north Inland) only SEVENTY people ara left with a nel Inooma of good pounda for tha year, after paying taxes." (Tha value of tha pound la offi cially pegged at Mm. Mo, you aea. In Britain Uiere ara only 70 paopla with D4.0UO t yaar toft, attar thay hava paid their taxes I THIS la Uia IM quesuon: Do you rackon lha common run of people in Uia British Iilia ara any better off now Uial thay hava hacked down tha number of rich people to practically nothing than Uiey used to be when there were Lors of rich people Personally, 1 doubt It, flNULR a successful free (liter prise eyatem, auch aa our. alaeya haa been, nearly everybody haa quit a lot, and few people hate a WHALE OP A LOT. Ululel socialism, nobody arena to have very much. lha bi appeal of socialism, aa a way of life, la to people who ara ENVIOUS OF THOttC WHO HAV MOHE. (Tha academic Ideal of aucialum la that everybody will have eiaclly tha same I In pracUce, auclalUm aeema to reduce tha Income of thoM who have more, but UOtaNT aeem to increase Ua Incomea of those who have leas. Personally, auch a system doesnt Ultaraat ma. e e e rCOKOK 8EKNARU SHAW paaaed hia Mrd birthday the other day. Pressed by an Uilarvlewer for a statement, ha waa reUcenL He -plaJnad that tha Interviewer would 11 money for the interview, but he Shawl wouldn t let any thine for It. and be added thai ha had never been much Inlareeted In Uansaclions I like that. I Ha did loosen up to tha extent of Ulllrif tha ambiuoua reporter that he had alwaya liked money when he waa younger and STILL LIKES IT Dow that he la older. CHUCKS! Everybody likea money. One b. trouble with tha world la that ao many people would rather take money away from thote who hava It than to WORK for It It haa alwaya aeerned to ma that the big trouble with enclaltem la that ll la mora aonotmed with takinf wealth away from Uhm who have it than with CRIATI NO a S W WEALTH. THAT, of Course, bring ua back to thia fundamental aueeUon: What la wealth? How la It created The economists tell ua that wealth la created by tha application ol labor to natural resource. That la to aay, clay la a natural resource. Water la a natural resource. Wood la a natural resource. SEPARATELY, they are value less. But when somebody WILLING TO WORK cornea along and mixes tha water with tha clay, molds the re sulting mud Into square, butlda a fire with tha wood and with Uie resulting heat bakaa the mud aquarae Into bricks out of which a house can be built WEALTH IS CREATED. e e TT appears to ma that If socialism would give as much thought to CREATINO WEALTH aa It gives to dividing up wealth that some body WILUNO TO WORK haa al ready created It would get farther and do mora good. Eugene Mill Race To Be Full Again EUGENE. July 30 lTv-The Eu fene mill rare will be flowing paat tha University of Oregon campus again In September. Cleaning of the channel, dry since IMS, la proceeding on schedule. Tha city council haa called bids for con struction that will restore water to the channel. Tha channel went dry when tha 14 flood washed out a taction of canal that allowed the water to run back Into tha Willamette river be fore reaching tha campus. Tha restored channel will get water at Its old Intake, but a plug and a lW-foot diversions! canal around tha break will bring water Into tha city. Creek-Side Farmers Win Decision In Swan Lake Water Use Contest Suit ALEM. July tt ) A aatUe far water la Swan Lake valley, aaal af Klamath Fall, waa decided leday In fever af M farmer located along tha tiny ereek that ga Into Swan lake. The ruling, by Slat Engineer Charles E. Hlricklln, la against Uie Llskry brothers and Hsnklns broth ers, who wanted all the creek water an It would flood the lake, and thus Irrigate their 1UB acre of crop along tha lake's edge. SUirkllns recommendation now goes back to the Klamath county circuit court for final order. What started all tha fireworks waa when H. lieuglaa Whltrllne, a farmer aa Anderson creek, decided ta build a iracrvclr an tha ereek for IrrlgaUaa storage. Tha Mekey and Haakane be a Uses a asoaghi a eeart FIIH'B FIVE CENTS l0 -o1 KLAMATH FALLS, OEEUON. FRIDAY, JVLt It. IMt Telephone Sill hm. 111 1 JT- W" 'II fo) Sudden Cloud Changes Over ! A 2:43, p. m. Quick formation and dUaolullon of clouda In the blue aummer aky art off another flying saucer fos tlp flurry In Klamath yeaterday. Althouth Uie altuatlon had a elm pie meteorological explanation, a lot of people were out craning their necka. and eome advanced the theory that myatrrtoue Jet air craft were releasing pulfa of moke. A couple of prurane or Former Coast Newsman Shot To Death ALICE. Texas. July z i- w. H. (Rill) Mason, program director of Alice radio elation KBKI. waa shot to death here todar. Deputy Sheriff Sam Smith Ick surrendered following the shooting. Maaun. In a broadcast yeaterday criticising a local dime-a-daiice palaca, had slated Bmlthwlck waa owner of the property. Smithwlck. ao. waa chanrad with murder. Uatn ihni ntar lha heart. 1 crawled M yards for help after being hIL He died thirty minutes later at A hospital. Tha radio man la survived be his wife. son. and a married daughter. Mason began his newspaper career In Oakland. Calif , and became nty editor of lha Oakland Post En quirer. Ha la widely known among Cali fornia, Chicago and New York newspaper and political figures. For a while he aided Oov. Earl Warren In hia crime investigations of California. Later Mason waa public relations director In Akron for the General Tiro and Rubber company. Ha left to direct the successful campaign In Mexico of president Aleman. Afterwards he established public relations bureau In Mexico. Seattle Phone Rate Up Asked SEATTLE. July (TV-A Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company plan to ak for another rata Increase of al.000.000 year waa disclosed here today. A company official reported the plan In advance ol a stale public eervtce commission bearing here today. He said It would be In addition to A 14.000.000 increase requested last fall which still la pending following aeveral hearings. Tha 17.000,000 total Increase would approximate a 14 per cent boost In telephone rates. Costa of Individual telrphonea would vary, however, according to lypea of service, the official explained. Ha aald tha new Increase was being asked because of "steadily falling earnings" and to provide for extensive telephone Installations at Increased costs. order to atop the rraervolr, and the errcalt court asked Htrlcklln to teak Inla all water rlfhta In tha valley, which fa seven mllea long and five mllea wide. The lake, however, ta enlr about a aqnare mile. Btrlrklln aald that for tha Llskry and Hanklna brother to lnigaus thelr 1039 acre with flood water from the lake, they actually have to flood more than 10.000 acre. He called thl A terrific wast of water. Of Ui 30 creek farmer Involved In tha order, only seven Actually hava water right now, Btrlrklln aald that In tha past 1 yean, there actually hava keen anly tw year when there waa enough flood water from the lake to Irrigate the land at tha Liskcya and the Hanklnaea. Strirklla aald tha eaaa waa lha flret af Ma kind. y AsEss Speed M Amis And -' . f ir "V 2:51 p. m. gulls, swinging high In the air In tha aame patch of aky. helped to tlmulata Imaglnatloni. A reliable amateur meieorologUt explained that warm air going up from the earth pushed vapor into a cold strata, where It condensed and formed the little clouds. Sub sequent warming, either by enter ing a warm strata of air or by action of tha sun. caused vaporls- Waynesburg Weather Watchers Keep Eagle Eye On Skies For First Sign Of Traditional Rain WAYNE8BURO. Pa . July 0P The good people of Waynea burg looked in vain this morning for the rain that tradition aaya almost alwaya falls on July 29. But die-hards were not giving up until tha final moment. Blue akir and a brassy sun hung over the Western Pennsylvania town as residents resorted to all tha tricks in folk-lore to bring oa even the slightest driule. Members of tha fire department were fining motorists 35 centa If they hadn't a ashed their cars today. It alwaya rains when you do that, you know. , , - Many earned umbrellas. A ffW had raincoats' and aome- wore rubber boots. Her and there a pretty Mux was attired In a snappy bathing auit. But there weanl rain cloud In the aky over thia Western Pennsylvania community. The weatherman wain" very cooperative. Hia beat prediction: A alight possibility of A brief Uiundershower. But a Uiundershower. no matter how brief, will be okay with John Daily, who la an attorney on any day but July . John put his law books aside and began a 34-hour vigil shortly after midnight. He kept an anxious eye on tha sky. using time out now and then to get reports from his aldea spotted through town. But now and then. John would reassure his fellow Waynea burgera. He's tha official "rainmaker' In Waynesburg. you aea. "Just look at the records and you don't have to worry about your money," John told the early birds who helped him with hia vigil. "Why, It a failed to rain on July 3 only five times in the paat 72 years." Dally haa bet a hat with auch fellowa as Bing Crosby and Jack Dempsey. Klan Shows Up In Seattle Area SEATTLE. July 39 A north end housewife told pnllc last night that the found a small cross, marked with tha symbol of the Ku Klux Klan. burning In her back yard. A rock had been thrown against the house shortly before the Incident, the said. Mrs. Olaf Maxsrold aald a small card on tha cross carried Uie m re sage: "The South has been taken. Tha North will be Uken. (8igned The K. K. K." Mrs. Maxsvold. a fisherman' wife, added: "If thl I a prank, I certainly cannot understand It." CAB Says NO To Two-Way Air Switch Klamath chamber of commerce haa been notified that the civil aeronautic board will not take up In ona rase tha Issue of changing airline service to Klamath Fall both north and south. The CAB sent a definite "no" yesterday to request from the local body that Ull be done. Manager Charlea Stark of tha chamber aald Uil mean that a hearing in San Francisco Monday, only question to be considered will be whether feeder line eervlce from the south will be substituted for the present United Air Lines main line ervlr. Stark, Senator Phil Hitchcock and Lawrence Slater, the latter two on the chamber' aviation committee, will be at the hearing, which specifically will consider giv ing Klamath' south side aervlc to Southwest Airway. Later, Stark said, CAB presum ably will schedule a hearing on a proposal by West Coast Air Line to bring aervlc In here from tha north. That would be held, of course, only In casa Southwest ta given the aotith lido eervlce. The chamber policy ta to demand continuance of fast, direct aervlc from her te Portland and Ban Praneieo. Hogback Siart r 2:57 p. m. 3:00 p. m. big and the quick dissolution of tha clouds. Tha altuatlon la not uncommon, he said, but people Just happened to get to looking and were impressed when they aaw cloudi form and disappear In few minutes. Wea Oudertan. Herald and Nrl pliotographer, took the above four picturea of the aame patch of aky over Hogback mountain over a Ex-Chief Of LA Police Faces Probe LOS ANGELES, July Ut-Ex-Police Chief C. B. Horrall s vacaUon haa been cut short. The big. bluff chief, who stepped down a month ago because of "111 health," la on hi way horn from Montana to face a county grand Jury indictment charging him with perjury. Four of hta aldea surren dered yeaterday on similar charge. The Indictment shared the lime light with tha death of Mickey Cohen' henchman, Edward ( Ned die 1 Herbert .one of the quartet shot In the ambushing of tha IHU gam bling cxar last week. The body of Herbert, about it, will be aent to New York for burial, and Cohen, about ready to leave tha hos pital, aald he Intend to attend the funeral. But before Cohan can leav for tha east, ha must get superior court permission ta do ao. He la under 1100 000 bond In the aasault case which touched off tha grand Jury Investigation Into police department vice tit'-pi with the underworld preying on lush Hollywood. Flying Discs? Nope! Nothing But Thistledown YAKIMA. July l (AN-A newa. man debunked "flying saucers" yesterday as nothing but thistle down. The reporter was sent out to check when Mr. Esther Horn, a school teacher, reported aeelng "revolving, round and shiny" eb Jrrta flying "quite high." "It waa Just thistledown." he reported after watching three of the "objects" from Mrs. Horn's bark yard. "When seen against the blue sky with nathlng to com para with, tha thlsUedown appeared several thoneand fact In tha air," he aaid. "Actually It waa anly about M feat ap." Saucer Talk 1 period of 17 minute when one set of cumulus clouda formed and then disappeared and another extreme right) started forming again. He trained hta camera across Esplanade from The Herald office. Tha high-swinging birds (not In picture! Incidentally ara believed by skeptics to be tha source of many of the saucer reports around here. Nudists Busy Sandpapering Park Benches DENVER. July f Early' arrivals to the National Nudut ! convention were busy today sand-1 papering benches. I Tha Colorado Runh.,h,n asn. i elation till be host to aome 400 member of the national group next week in Deer Creek canyon, in the mounulna.near Denver. v ,"4 , T- J. ,w r. ... : . Local nudists thought they had , things in pretty good shape until they took a second look at tha M j benchea built for open air meet- Ings. The benchea had splintered, i Some of the nudists put on their elothe and came In to Denver) for sandpaper. Vollry ball court have been laid out and a throne built for crown- , trig the king and queen of the convention. ! Rural electrification adminlatra- Uon workers ara stringing power I linn into lha camo area. i "My work gang keep dropping It tool and smashing their fin gers with hammer." said the fore man. "They cant keep their mind on the Job." Traction Strike In Portland Seen I PORTLAND. July 39 ( The : threat of a bus and streetcar suit i Sunday faces Portland. ' A long delay In promised arbitra tion led AFL motormen to call Uie strike to be averted only If arbitra tion proceedings start In the mean while. The union and the Portland Trac tion company agreed March 31 on arbitration of demands. Including a 36-cent hourly wage increase. The long Illness of L. C. Stoll. chairman of Uie Portland labor-management committee, prevented Uie start. Stoll was to have been chairman of the arbitration board. The union In voicing It strike threat proposed that Uie other two officers of the labor-management committee select another chairman. One of the officer represent em ployer. Uie other labor. Official or the traction company and tha union went to confer today. Nevada Grasshopper Hordes Pour Across Border Into Lake, Harney Counties, But End In Sight RENO. Nov.. July l JPt Ne-. vada's tremendous karde at graas. hoppers Is about through far this year, bat tram now an yaa eaa call them Oregon's grasshoppers. Federal entomologist returned from another survey of the locust stricken area with Uie report that two Uilrtls of the horde has mi grated across Uia Nevada-Oregon border this summer Into Lake and Hamry counties. But that Is about as far as they're going Uils year. "Most of them are In Oregon now, but Ihev are pretty well spent," reported W. M. Ms nee. I'. 8. bureaa ef entomology rrpreeenlaUva for Nevada. "They are losing their atrength and can't fly Into the prevailing winds anymore," ha aald. "They are dying off pretty fast and by tha middle of August there shouldn't be a hopper left In the area." That doean't mean, however, that tha grasshopper plage at at aa and far good. 'Aggressor' Nation Held PeaceThreat WABHINGTO. Joly Z lyPlTke rise ef "a new aggreaaer bent epoa e aggreaaer beat apea iXS'&Z I ataearblng tha eg W'ertd W eenea ef atrgeney defense, (Jew. Oasar Bradley taday. Tha army ehief ef staff testified before Use bests farelga affaire eoaamitlea In atrang support ef Use adaalniatraUoa'a piaa to help araa friendly Balseess. Ha followed Secretary of Drfense Johnson who gave the committee an estimate which be emphasized waa purely personal that the arms aid will have to go on for four or five years. At issue right now is a gl.4o0M0.000 program for one year. Johnson also renewed the admin istration pledge that the foreign arms aid plan does not mean more American troops going oversea. Bradley told tha committee: "la the place at the vaaqalalsed faa haa ariara thia new aggreaaar. beat apeei akeerbing the exhaestee) vteaaea. Tha epertre of anethrr woaud-ka eaaeter attempting la en slave aea petstry allied peaplea haa given s eeteee eg nrgesKy te He did not Identify the new ag gressor. Ta Europe Aa the anny leader testified a plane waited to take him and other member of the Joint cruets of staff to Europe to start putting P-n "" working form- Johnson emphasized that "no ."rTrv. ,w j Rep. Urlleld (rMont ",? imate of the o-veraU cost and duration of tha proposed pro. projected on a one-year Junt jo I96u r. .rmmatT , M m Br,vrd -, thlllk u,,, TMr tntm a ,,. Ih.. Th tmta tbuli grrms. , Trsr. hf Ml4 M the watieats reeeiv- lng help traerev their tea ability i hrlp tbemservea. Sehedaleil aa fallow Jehaeaa aa the stand were Gea. Omar N. Brad- ley. army chief ef staff, and ethers ef the high eaaamand. That grean, aaaklag aa the joint raiefa ef staff. ready far a ajair taaearr rer Earwpe thia afteraaaa after gtvtag the eeaaaaittee their views. The Joint chiefs ara geing abroad to dtseasa tha arses program aad general de fease plana with Earopeaa ail 11- i tary chiefs. Johnson In his testimony rein forced the administration's assur ance that no addlUonal American troops will be sent to Europe as part of the arm aid program. Ships To Try To Run Blockade HONO KONO. July 3 Five British and two Chinese merchant ships left Hong Kong tor communist held ports yesterday and today In what appeared to be the tint or ganized attempt to run the nation alists' blockade on a targe seal by shipping concerns here. The merchantman left In the wake of four British warships Constance, Consort. Com us and Cossacks which steamed out of the harbor of Uil crown colony yesterday en route to Japan. A British naval spokesman said the warships hsd not been assigned to escort any merchant vessels and that "it waa purely a matter of coincidence" that the merchantmen had trailed the warships. The hoppers or more technical-1 ly, locust lay millions of eggs be fore they die. From the eggs will hatch enough grasshoppers unless next spring's control efforts are successful to cover even more than Uie 3000 aquare miles they Infested this year. Next spring's Mg battle will tell the atory as to whether the hop pers will continue on their Oregon Journey. Federal, state and pri vate resources will ba mobilised foe a concentrated five - week light against the hoppers aa soon as thev start hatching between April IS and May 1. Egg beds already have been plot ted and will be mapped minutely thia winter. Tha campaigners will have only five weeks to get their killing work done because about five weeks after hatching the little hoppers sprout wings and from then on they ara Impossible to con trol. When they ara an the move, they are aa dene that a man ha to UJ NOMINATED Tom Clark hos been nominoted by Presi dent Truman to fill the va cancy in the United States supreme court. Im a I Senate Okay Held Sure On Court Post WASHIVGTO!. Jaly t i" Preatdeat Traxaaa'a aarprisr choice af Attorney General Tea Clark for Use aapreste eeart and Senator X Howard MeGrath far atternry gea eral gained general approval af sen ators taday. Although the president told hi new ccajrrmce yesterday that Clark and McOrath hadn't finally agreed to the. shift, there seemed little doubt tha two will announce then- formal acceptance next week. Ctarm. 4-year -aid Texaa lawyer, woald fill the eeart phvee left vacaad by the death af Associate Jaatlc Frank Marphy. Moving fata Clara's ptae aa the Batten's chief legal watehdag wwntd be MeGrath. 44-year-old ehaaraaaa af the aeaaaeratie tee. termer aettettor termer teiuase af Rhode Istaad. If arrangement can be made thia week-end for appointment of hi senate successor. McOrath la ex pected to agree to accept the cabinet post. Friends said that once he la con firmed. McOrath wnl resign as dem ocratic chairman. That would leave the post open for WtUiam M. Boyle Jr, formerly of Kansas City, who haa been aemng aa executive as sistant at a $30,000 yearly salary. Clark Indicated In a statement that be I ready to take tha court post. Observing that tha president had bestowed a great honor on him by j offering the place. Clark said: I "It a with haautlty that I ap-1 praaeh It. Bach a poeitiea Is the greatest challenge that eaa be plaeed before a sawyer. I haa I am worthy ef tha honor the president McOrath said he wants to talk ta his family and friends In Rhode Is land before he decides finally. Involved was reported to be an understanding about hia senate suc cessor. Most politicians Uunk that if Oov. John O. Pastore doesn't want Uie place himself, he will be urged by McOrath to appoint Mayor Den nis J. Robert of Providence. Whoever la named la likely to serve until a special election in 1950 McOrath t term runs through 1952. Despite his paalUaa as deaserratie national chairman, the Rhode la land arnatsr seemed likely to escape any aerieas criticism ta senate con siders lioc af his appointment, e Whether Clark would get by with out some harsh words remained' In doubt. Chairman McCarran (D Nev.) of the senate judiciary com mittee, which will handle both nominations, has had some recent brushes with Uie attorney general. Senator Kem (R-M0.1 criticised Clark in the 0th congress for what he said was the attorney general's failure to prosecute vigorously Kan sas City vote fraud cases. Kem wouldn't comment aa the possibility that he would renew his attack aa tha preaeat cabinet member. ' In any ease. Indications were the senate will confirm the appolut ( Continued on Page i caver hia head aa they roar acreas tha land. Experta resected that when thia year's horde was at Its migratory peak, tha roar af wing sounded like a distant waterfall. Presently, about two-thirds of the horde 1 In Oregon. Trie major concentration, Mabee aaid, I In the Hart mountain antelope refuge, extending some IS mile north of the refuge headquarter, overlook ing Warner valley. Mabee said he doesn't believe they will get down Into the valley this year. He was accompanied on the lat est Inspection tour by Frank Cowan, of the bureau of entomology's re search division at Bowman. Mont. Overall, the hoppers are AS mllea Into Oregon, covering aa area af about 5 miles by I mllea. Just haw tar they hava gotten Into California I aot know a def initely here. The last Mabee aaw of the California-bound hoppers aeveral week ago, they ware pretty thick across Issue Rises Over Bosses loiningUnion Tea Klamath FalU barber ahead oaed their doera few mlnate after aeon taday. A rearearntaUva af maater bar sacs said tha closing resulted tram a dispute ever maater barber' refaaal la lake reetrirted membership h the Journeymen's anion. L'niaa aT ficlals denied any knawledgo ef the cleeing er a dispute. A confab to attempt a aetUemenl of the situation waa scheduled fur 1 o'clock this afternoon between the master barber and union repre sentatives at the Ideal barber shop on 8. 7th. Some 8 hops Open The Isaac, according la a ancmeer af tha Maater Barbers aaeeeiaUaa. eaeae ap aster a anion eanteoliua that attop ewnere should belong ta the Jaaraeysmaa anion. The awaera af the 1 doaed shops do aot eeleng ta the anion, bat aome shop awaera ara alee anioa swembcr and these At 12 o'clock noon or shortly after union card In the 10 shop were picked up. tha Journeymen quit work and shop owners closed their . doors. It waa reported by master barbers. E. O. Patrick, secretary of tha local union, would not comment on the work stoppage. "It muat be a false report or ' something. Aa far aa 1 know, it is." Patrick told a reporter for Tha Herald and News. Patrick own hi own shop. A sassier barber not belonging to Use anion and whose shop waa classed said the an too s stand waa that tha shop owners aheald be aniea saeaaaera, bat weald be ma active, hava aa vat and ba enable te held office. The anion woald get VZi taiuatksa fees and gz.ll a aeeata dace, ha aaid. Meeting Held Years ago, the muter barber said, the union did not want shop own ers in ma organisation, vsneu a Journeyman bought a shop and ' went into business for himself, ha waa retired from the union. Now- the position la reversed, b said, and the union want tha shop owner in but without any rota ta the union. E. W. Tippery, president af tha local here, also declined ta talk a boat the week stoppage, aaying ha didn't knew anything about it and The 1 shop awaera affected ky the ateppege had a aseeting sliorliy before aewa and decided ta take a stand against the ensea s demand. No matter of pay. wonung hour or working condition ara involved In the dispute. Tippery waa informed by Tha Herald and New that it would wel come a statement at any tuna of the union's side of the question. He UIa he could not say aa to whether ' he would attend a meeting thl ! atternoon. Old Lookout Station On Its Way Out DTJNSMUIR, Calif, July 29 Hirs mountain, towering 300 feet above Shasta lake on the McCloud river arm. haa been a lookout In the Shasta national forest for 40 year. The arrival recently of the first ' load of steel for a modern pre fabricated tower marked the begin ning of Uie end for one of the oldest lookout in the Shasta re gion. The old building. 12x13 feet square, squatted flat on the ground. Because of It sUateglc location. Jutting out Into the middle of the McCloud river, from Its wlndowa the observer had a direct view Into the headwaters of the McCloud and most of its tributaries. It Is the sole lookout In over 300 square miles of some of Uie most ruRged country In the Shasta forest The new look out building will sit on top of a 30 foot steel tower, and visibility within effecUve range will be Increased ap proximately 24 per cent. the Nevada-California Una In north ern Lassen county. Some of them were known to have made their way about 15 miles Into California last year. Just how much dams ire the grass hoppers have done In Nevada. Ore gon and California this year, no on here I willing to estimate. They have eaten the foliage from thousands af range bushes, leaving only the naked stalks. Whether thia brash will revive next year I not known. The most damaged ranges are In northern Washoe and Humboldt counties of Nevada, and Lake and Harney counties In Southern Ore gon. That area Is sometimes called wasteland but Mabee sputters at that term. "It dependa apon year paint af view." he aald. "If yoa are aiding In tha middle af aa erehard, thai conn try ap there may took tike wasteland, bat to a aattle man that at pretty darned good range."