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    HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1052
They'll Do It Every Time
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FRANK JENKINS
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BILL, JENKINS
Managing Editor
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. on August 20, 190S, under act of congress, March t, 1171
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NOBODY SEES TWEM, CT"-
THE MUSICIAN'S ALWAYS , JX X'EWAf 6
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;r 'By BILL JENKINS
iOood' i niorning. This is being
written while most of . you are
still in .bed. (And I wish I were,
tool As a matter of cold, hard
tact it in just a few minutes after
live o'clock and another dajl has
gotten off to a start.
But it's not all bad at that. You
wake up pretty completely by the
time you finish knocking a quar
ter inch of ice "off your wind
shield. Then you crawl through
the deserted streets, trying to see
through the film on the windshield
and get past the inure cast by
the street lamps. There's something-
almost eerie about being the
only car on the streets. You miss
the noise and bustle of even-day
traffic.
The office Is a strange, dark
mysterious space when you come
in. During the night someone has
come in and rearranged all the
furniture so you tall over a couple
of chairs trying to find the light
switch. You find your typewriter
and readjust it. The office mystery
has visited again, (he does everv
night) No matter what you do
someone comes in and changes all
the stops on the typewriter, hides
your pencils, scissors, rulers, etc.
So by the time you have the
desk squared away it is almost
time to go to work. Which by now
Is the last thing you want to do.
You pace over and stare out the
window, waiting for the prowl car
lAliaieliiiaaiaaiagMaMi
i ' By DEB ADDISON -IN
ONE EAR AND' OUT THE
TYPEWRITER: .
i Any discussion of wildlife and
recreation must delve into conser
vation. Animal populations are a
direct product of environment. . .
depend ultimately on soil and wa
ter and the pattern of vegetation
they support. 1
Man has so altered the face of
the earth that he has become the
grea limiting factor for all living
things including man.
Supplies of waterfowl, song birds,
fish, game, fur-bearers will be de
termined by how much consider
ation man gives to them in his
practice of agriculture, forestrv,
grazing and other forms of resource
control.
i
We sing America: "I love thy
rocks and rills, thy woods and tem
pled hills." We sing with patriotic
ferver, but how many consider the
basic meaning of the words? The
more i see of our blasted rocks.
dammed rills, cut and burned
woods, end bulldozed hills, the more
I'n forced to the conclusion that
the average American holds no
consideration for the love he ex
pressed In the song.
The great force of nature lovers
is being organized. These organi
zations are demanding of each and
everyone connected with resource
planning that they give adequate
consideration to the out of doors
and wildlife.
After all, this phase of resource
. management should teach us, in
our own selfish interests, that it
pays a community handsome divi
dends. The value of wildlife is inter
twined with all the values of re
creation. Fishermen, in one year,
1W7, spent $1,350 million: hunters
spent $760 million: while the spect
ator sports of baseball, football,
boxing, and so on, only rang the
cash registers to a slim $275 mil
lions. StiU, outdoor recreation goes begging-and
unrecognized. Take our
newspapers, which are supposed
to reflect public interest. Turn to
the sports section, and though out
door recreation tops spectator
sports 10 to 1, what do you find?
Reams and reams of copy booming
the spectator sport field, with sel
dom a mention of the out of doors
Interests.
Ten years ago I made a study of
er
Ballot Again In Disguise
By HALE SCARBROUGH
The prohibitionists are . at it
again, trying to dry up Oregon.
Petitions are now being circu
lated over the state to put on the
November state ballot an initia
tive measure euphemistically and
misleadlngly titled: .
"Constitutional Amendment Re
lating to Alcoholic Liquor."
The relation is pretty strong. The
measure is a bone-dry proposal
which would prohibit the manufac
ture, importation and sale of liq
uor, including wine and beer, in
Oregon.
Undoubtedly the misleading title
was chosen for the ballot to de
lude some persons Into thinking the
proposal only In certain respects the
present Knox law under which Ore
gon liquor business Is conducted.
It Is, however, a prohibition
amendment, pure and simple
The Blitz-Welnhard Brewing Com
pany has started a court action to
fcei tne supreme uouri v force
Attorney General Oeorge Neuner
to change the ballot title so that
it will read:
"Amendment Prohibiting the
Manufacture, Importation or Sale
of Alcoholic Liquor."
This state's election laws regard
ing ballot titles are nrettv loose.
though, so if enough people (about
jh.uou ot inem sign imv initiative
petitions, the prohibition amend
ment probably will go on the ballot
Ivovember in disguise.
Oregon has been a wet state
sinct 1S33, when national prohibi
tion was repealed and the people
of the state by a vote of 143,044
to 7J.74S repealed Oregon's consti
tutional prohibition amendment.
Since that time there have been
at Mast five attempts to make ba
to roll down the street. You get
another drink of water. Back to
Uie window. It's always the same.
But it's really not so bad after
you get used to it. Just like swim
ming in cold water. It's only the
initial plunge that hurts.
Winter or summer there is one
thing that stays constant here in
the basin. No matter what time of
the year or hour of the day you
walk past the First Presbyterian
church on the corner of Sixth and
Pine you hear a loud, cheerful
amount of chatter coming from
the sparrows hidden in the tower
ing vine that clambers up the bricx
front of the edifice. Somehow you
seldom see the birds. They siay
neatly holed up behind the leaves,
but you get the impression that
they are keeping a very close eye
on you as you pass and making
comments about you all the while.
Green grass Is beginning to show
up m a lew spots around town
where the snow ins melted off.
I see this only as a false sign
of spring and a thing not to be
trusted. We are in for plenty more
bad weather. Plenty! And. any
way. I'd rather be pessimistic and
pleasantly surprised than optimis
tic and disappointed. But I'll have
to admit that those two or three
days of comparatively mild weath
er felt good. Viva la Spring!
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the recreational use of the Klam
ath Basin. At that time I discov
ered one million man days were
spent in outdoor recreation, in just
one year. Hunting and fishing were
just part of that total. Today, I
guess it would be doubled.
The state of Oregon makes much
over its vacation attraction: 100
million dollars thev say it brings
to the 'state. How much of this be
longs to the Klamath area? What
is the value of a million or two
man days s p e n t in the open
spaces?
We take outdoor recreation for
granted, like the rising sun. It's
basic value appears to be bevond
our comprehension. ,
This problem Is a bone of con
tention between engineers of the
oureau of. reclamation and conser
vationists. The bureau would like
to place, a dollar sign, on every
thing in nature, so it could bal
ance these values against potatoes
or gram or nydro power.
You can see the question coming
to a nead right now on Tule lake.
What i-. the value of ducks and
geese, shoreblrds. waders and all
the other life on the marsh lands?
Will this question be decided upon
merely by balancing the value of
farm crops against the money hunt
ers spend In the pursuit of a few
species oi waieriowi?
Our civilization is confused, cron.
ing; yet at the same time new
spiritual horizons are opening be-
lore us.
There is a growing national
awareness of the beauty of the
country: a tremendous Domilar an
ireclation of wild country and wild
life; and a growing desire to keeD
some of it for au time.
People are beginning to seek re
laxation that is only possible in wild
country. . .a budding national ap
preciation tor tne open lands.
Here. then, is an ODDOrtunity for
tne community to capitalize upon
the bounty of natural beauty that
nature has endowed upon It. Here
is a challenge to the community
to do something constructive, to
plan for its own resource destiny.'
(That was Ken McLeod talking.
You must have gathered by now
that he thinks there are more
ways of getting good out of our
natural resources man oy consum
ing them. Amen.)
Aimed at
sic changes In the liquor setuD bv
way of the general ballot. Only one
(in 1944, giving the state alone the
right to. sell beverages containing
over 14 per cent alcohol) has been
approved. A good many other at
tacks on the Oregon liquor law,
either to liberalize it or make it
tighter, have died natural deaths
in the Legislature or have failed
to make the ballot.
In 1938, 1940, 1948 and 1950 the
voters bv big margins refused to
make changes in the existing liq
uor law.
They probably will do to again
in 195?.
Down through the years the liq
uor situation has. long been a
rather steady Item on state bal
lots, along with the sales tax and
the cigaret tax neither of which
has ever been approved by . the
people. They've received Legisla
tive approval, but through the In
itiative and referendum the people
hold the power, and the cigaret
tax and sales tax have consistent
ly been voted down.
The cigaret tax will come up on
the state ballot again next Novem
ber. The last Legislature passed a
three-cent per package tax. tleing
it in with a . fair-trade law that
would add another two cento to
the price of a package of smokes,
but the Portland Central Labor
Council (AFL) circulated petitions
HOTELS
OSBURN HOLLAND
IU0INI, OKI. MIDFORD
Thoroughly Modern
Itr. and Mrs. J. E. Eariey
Proprietors
nd Joe Eariey '
M TELEVISION C vfS, f J'V
THE WEAR GET-UPS ysZ&if&W
THAT LOOK LIKE fcEfffl -6gWW Jt'-GMfo
REJECTS FROM BUN'DLES
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NEW YORK t This is to an-
! nounce the arrival of a new baby
ai our nouse.
one s precocious, one aoesn I
walk, but she gawks and she talks
and she says the cutest, strangest.-
most boring things.
Ihe stork didnt bring her. It
took two strong men to deliver this
baby. They set her up on her feet,
grunted, gave her a look of deep
dislike, and departed.
But we loved her on sight from
her shiny glass forehead to the six
little knobs in her tummy.
Yes, after all these years, we
have become the proud parents of
a television set. She is blonde like
my wife, Frances. Because of the
17-lnch eye in her forehead we Im
mediately christened her "Little
Miss Cyclops."
Frances said she took Miss Cy
clops on the spur of the moment.
She went into a music shoo to buy
a phonograph record and the sales
man asked her if she was interest
ed In a television set.
"Why. yes, " she said. Just to be
polite. Whereupon the salesman
threw himself ou the floor, put his
arms around her ankles, broke Into
tears and began to mumble hys
terically "At last! At last!"
"After that I felt I Just had to
buy a set." said Frances. "So we
brushed the cobwebs off the near
est one, and I told him, 'wrap 'er
up. son."'
She brushed off his grateful of
fer to throw in a free grand piano,
two harmonicas and a week's visit
to Brooklyn.
For the formal debut of Miss Cy
clops we invited in three trusted
friends. After dinner we adjourned
to our new nursery.
The big moment was at hand!
What would be our baby's first
words? That is an anxious time
for any proud parent of a tele
vision set. I know one man who
lost face permanently because his
set didn't say anything.
It Just burst into wild, maniacal
laughter "Ha. ha. ha. ha. ha, ha!"
It was still laughing when he sent
it back to the store.
Nervously. I toved with the
knobs. A light came into my baby's
Mobilization Threat Came
Closer Than You Think . . .
WASHINGTON W The United
States came closer to all-out mo
bilization this winter than the pub
lic realized.
Mobilization officials' now say It
would have meant the closing down
entirely of the automobile and all
consumer hard goods industries,
layoffs by the millions In non-de
fense industries, countless short
ages of things people buy, infla
tionary pressures. ; .
The decision was In doubt until
around Christmas. Then President
Truman decided to take a calcu
lated risk that Russia would not
strike real soon and spread the
expanded defease program over.
four instead of three years.
Now, officials say, we'll have
butter with the guns throughout
unless new fighting breaks out.
Before Mr. Truman made up his
mind the military had been allotted
much of the nation's strategic ma
terials. Now It is giving some of it
Dack .to industry. .
Under the program Mr, Truman
approved, uie same upward curve
of arms deliveries will continue
throughout 1952, arriving at a peak
of slightly more than four billion
dollars a month next January. But
then, the peak levels.: off Into a
plateau", finally tapers off 18
months later. Then, spending will
decline. How far is anybody's
guess.
and got enough names .to: referend
the tax measure. A good many of'
the names were obtained In Klam
ath Falls. The Ideal Central Labor1
Council was instrumental In get
ting petitions circulated here.
cigaret taxes have been vetoed
bv the people of .Qregpn four times
previously in 1926, 1942, 1945 and
i47 out bv decreasing majorities..
This might be the year a cigaret
tax Is allowed.
The sales tax; In -one guise or
another, has been voted down by
the neonle of Oregon at least five
times In 1933, 1934, 1936, 1944 and
!J)47r-and always bv a big vote.
usually about 3-1. In 1947 the tax
wts cloaked in the garments of
benefits, for schools and welfare
(usually soft spots with the voters)
but it was defeated.
The sales tax-Isn't due for the
ballot this year.
But it isn t dead. It 11 be along
again.
SINUS INFECTIONS
DR. E. M. MARSHA
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eye. Then she flashed on her screen
guess what? An old movie I I
felt proud of her at once. It's nice
to see a child with a grasp of the
past.
But no sound. I had a horrible
feeling our television set wns back
wardvocally retarded. But no.
She mumbled a bit. feeling lor
words, then spoke out clearly:
"I think that Dutch water Is a
belter drink than French cham
pagne." .
Well, now,- wasn't that really
clever, considering her age and
sll? None of us there even knew
what Dutch water was. (We still
don't) I went over and patted
Miss Cyclops on her flat blonde
head and she Immediately said
sunply:
"It's nice to be a woman again."
Then she warmed up and ran off
three old movies in a row.
I would like to say Miss Cyclops
has continued her success alter
such a fine debut. But she hasn't.
Frances didn t mind her as long
as her screen stuck to puppets.
musical saw players, horse operas,
and closeup views of politicians,
and tenors badly in need of a ton
sillectomy.. But lately she has been
on a crime Jag.
Miss Cyclops is plumb crazy
about gory homicides. She switches
from a fratricide to a patricide
to a matricide. And just before we
go to bed she conies up either with
an eerie uxoricide (husband man
gles wife) or a gruesome marlclde
(wife mangles husband).
We never know wnat : "cme is
coming to bat next.
"That television set Is mentally
unhealthy," said Frances. "It's got
me so I can't sleep. Last night I
dreamt that that thing crawled into
bed and hit me -with an ax."
"That thing" is what she now
calls Miss Cyclops, and she will
hardly go Into the room with it
alone. I even suspect she locks it
in while I am away at work.
Mv own feeling is that If our
pretty new baby doesn't get less
creepy mere soon win oe oniy on?
blonde left In our house and It
sure won't be Miss Cyclops.
Jet Engine
Said Ready
HAWTHORNE. California IIP)
Ground tests have been completed
on a baby jet engine designed for
use in private planes.
. Northrop Aircraft, " Inc., an
nounced Sunday the engine is be
ing developed by students at the
firm's Northrop Institute, aero
nautical school for civilians and
Air Force men.
The 172-pound engine will be In
stalled soon in a Ryan Navion
plant for air tests and is' expected
to propel the light' craft at 300
miles an hour. The four-burner en
gine uses 80 octane gasoline.
Army Brass To
Speak at AP Meet
NEW YORK (P Gen.' Alfred M.
Gruenther, chief of staff at Su
preme Headquarters of Allied Pow
ers in Europe, has accepted an in
vitation to address tne ' annual
meeting of Associated Press mem
bers in New York, Monday, April
21u . .
Robert McLean, president of The
Associated Press, announced the
acceptance Monday and aaid Gen.
Gruenther would be the speaker at
the annual luncheon.
Gen. - Gruenther. at B2. Is the
youngest four-star general in the
U.8. Army.
CASUALTY LIST
WASHINGTON Wl The Defense
Department Monday Identified 64
more j battle casualties in Korea.
A new list No. 493 reported 12
killed, 37 wounded, one missing In
action and four Injured.
.It also listed tiro dead who were
previously reported missing.
Dcwaro Coughs
Fran CoBiaen CtkEs
That HANG ON
Creomuliion relieve promptly because
it foes right to the teat of the trouble
to help loosen and expel germ laden
Ehlegm and aid nature to soothe and
eal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial
membranes. Guaranteed to please you
or money refunded. Creomuliion baa
stood the test of millions of uteri.
CREOMUL'SION
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HAROLD ICKES
Harold Ickes
Dies Sunday
WASHINGTON l.fl Death came
quietly at dusk Sunday to Hnrold
L. Ickes. 77. the New Dealer whose
Lsliarp wit and blunt speech stormed
lor two decades across the national
scene.
Ickes. self-styled "Old Cur
mudgeon", died at 6:25 p.m., EST,
in a coma at a hospital here. He
succumbed after an 11 weeks ill
ne.ss following complication of an
old arthritic condition.
Virtually an unknown In 1932
when President Franklin D. Roo
sevelt appointed him secretary of
the interior, Ickes had become one
of the most turbulent ligurc.i In pol
itics by 1946, when he resigned in a
huff to President Truman.
"A unique fiRiire In American
public life Is lost to the nation."
President Truman commented Sun
day niht. adding:
"He was wlthnl a true patriot
and a many-sided citizen whose
passing leaves a void In our na
tional lite not easily filled "
Funeral services are scheduled
for Wednesdov at All Soul's Uni
tarian) Church in Washington.
Burial will be at Sandy Spring,
Md.
Actor May
Get US Visa
WASHINGTON W The State
Department has recommended that
British author Graham Greene,
who says he once Jokingly became
a Communist, be admitted to the
United Slates.
Greene, author of "The Third
Man" and a prominent Roman
Catholic convert, was denied a visa
under the Internal Security Act.
A Slate Department spokesman
aaid Sunday night that last Thurs
day it recommended to the justice
Department that a visa be issued.
He said the action was taken under
nrovlsion nine of the act. a section
allowing such recommendations If
entry Is in the national interest.
1 T Clann livlMhlna Clrnfnf
aid Sunday' he was abandoning
efforts to get a visa and would
return to England. He said refusal
of his request evidently stemmed
from 8 four-week period In 1922
when he Joined the Communist
Party "as a prank."
Bus Driver Will
Keep At His Job
NEWARK N. J. Wl A bus
driver set to inherit $90,000 says
he'll keep his Job because "It gets
Into your blood like wanting to
fly."
The bequest comes to Stuart
Holzman on his 25th birthday, next
Oct. 24.
His main Interest since he was
five years old. he says, has been
driving a bus.
"I like people and 11 s interesting
work," he declared.
He Inherits lhe money from the
estate of his grandfather a New
ark, wnoiesaie . outcner.
DURHAM, N.C. W Fred Camp
bell, Freshman tackle on Duke's
football team, has won the No. 1
position as heavyweight on the
squad. His chief competitors for
tne spot were Leon suer ana can
Holben also tackles on the grid
team.
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SUPPERTIME Waitress
Home's modern kitchen as
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SHOWING HOW he rolls his own cigarcts, Salvln Klron entertains 80-ycar-old John Elder,
left, and ex-boxer Charles Kelly. Kelly, still abounding with the athletic touch, is partly
blind. All three are patients at the county nursing home. (Story on Pago 3). V
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Grain Store
Probe Finds
Shortages
WASHINGTON Ml - Congrcsa-
men probing Uie government's
grain storage program report that,
In Texas alone, they turned up
fchorlugcs valued at 13,620.000.
The Agriculture Department dis
closed some time, ago thot there
were shortoges. A Senate commit
tee also conducting an Investiga
tion was told recently the Texas
discrepancies might hit lour mil
lion dollars.
A House appropriations subcom
mittee, headed by Rep. Martin,
D-Mlsx., released Its report Sun
day, together with a transcript of
closed hearings. .It aaid staff In
vestigators found Texas elevators
and warehouses short 629,305 bush
els of wheat and 84,488.500 pounds
of grain they were supposed to
hove In storage. Total value was
fixed at 13,820.000.
It also reported that at least 20
employes- In the Agriculture De
partment's Production and Market
ing Administration accepted gra
tuities from firms with which they
were doing grain storage business.
Listed gifts ranged from help in
getting a car at discount to a med
ium silted fruit cake. Consequences
varied from dismissal to letters of
caution.
The subcommittee criticized the
Commodity Credit Corporation, the
Agriculture Department Agency
which handles grain storage. It
paid the CCO had failed to check
facilities for storing the grain and
had paid big; sums to prlvnte
groups which had leased facilities
from the government at fees much
lower than those they collected.
The craln was bought and stored
as part fo the farm price support
program.
The subcommittee said It found
nothing to reflect in any way on
this program, noting that the CCC
hurl handled 14 "- billion dollars
of loans and purchases with less
than one billion in losses.
"However, ... the organization
and thr oneratine nollcles of the
corporation leave much to be de
sired." the report aaid.
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First Cook Dorothy Hurley looks on from the tray-cart, (Story
SPARKS RED CROSS DRIVE E. Roland Harriman, na
tional president of the American Red Cross, unveils the
original painting of the 1952 fund-raising campaign at the
headquarters of the New York City chapter. The annual
Red Cross drive goal is $85 million. . '
SPORTS HEADLINES
pair of Michigan State co-eds have
been making the sports headlines
recently. They are Elaine Lewlck
of Hamtrack, Mich., who won her
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