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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY n, 1052 PAGE SIX SSl-'--'j! They'll Do It Every Time ,- - By Jimmy Hatlo HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON FRANK JENKINS Editor Entered u second clasa matter ht the poat otlice of Klamath Palis, Ore, on Auguat 20, 1906, under act of congress, March 8, 187g MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ma Aasoctated Press li entitled exclusive) to the use for publication ( all the local news printed In this newspaper a well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mf Mall . months $6.50 By Mall year $11.00 I - k aXk XfUttJJt urn OiOWlOA By DKB ADDISON CONFU8IN' BUT NOT AMUSIN': We've just had a Ions session with a potato grower. He's one of the men who has been very active In growers affairs, and has been par ticularly Just now on the OPS busi ness. . Here's the pure quill. A grower who has potatoes in his cellar knows that the calendar says that It's February and convp hell or hlRh water he's got to sell one of these days. OPS has the thing clarified, it has men here, the market is start ed for spuds, so he might as well oo it now. Well, a. regular shipper one of the firms which normally handles most of the Basin crop, can buy epuds (we'll keep it on the basis of No. Is, 2 Inch minimum) for 3.86 a hundred. The grower has to furnish the sacks, otherwise it' 13.88. (Of-course,-' he's heard of some instances where somebody has made presents of the sacks to the grower. Well, skip that) Then another thing he's found out is that if he can find a chain grocer outfit somewhere which needs spuds. It can pay him $4.01. In this case he'll have to furnish the sacks, but will be allowed 16 cents for being a country shipper. That makes the $4.01. Of course, that by-passes the shipper who has been buying his crop for years, and it may break him. So. if he's going to do that he might. as well go whole hog and find an independent store somewhere. The independent can give him $4.71. The gimmick here is that, unlike the situation of selling to the chain (or distributee; same basis), this time he can add 30 cents for sacks (to the $3.65) then also add another 86 cents for being country shipper, carlot distributor. Intermediate something - or - other, and then something else. ' In the meantime, he's found an other angle. A shipper, or distri butor, or wholesaler, or somebody. " "r V -" UttfcjaAnattte... ...... WASHINGTON Wl What is the real secret of how to be a success in Washington? - Wilbur Peeble, the " average American citizen, gives the answer in a letter to his wife about his one-man investigation ot J&e government;-, .i.. r'-',.- Dear Trellis Mae. Well, honey, I found out how you get to be a big shot here. Getting elected or appointed to an important job is just the first step. The real art Is to hold the job. And to do that you got to have Ghosts and Indians. As I get it, a Ghost is a fellow you get to write all the speeches and public papers you would write yourself if you only had the time. But naturally you are too busy shaking hands and making iriends. An Indian is an information ' ex pert. He is the fellow who knows au tne things about your job you would learn yourself if you Just bad time. Let's say, for example, you are appointed Secretary of the Interior. Three days later Rep. Headstrong oecldes to Investigate you because:- 1. Your wife snubbed his wife, or 2. You forgot to invite him to a cocktail party, or . S. Nobody else is investigating your department that week, or 4. He's up for re-election, and he has to" get his name in the pa pers some way. Well, the House votes him $75,t. 000 for the investigation, and Rep. .neaosiroug- nires some gnosts to write speeches denouncing you and rents, and some Indians to dig up dirt about the Job you're doing. When you go into the commit tee hearing, he says: "Let's get down to the real is sue. Just why is the Department of the Exterior doing nothing in the matter of exports and imports of brooms to and from Czechoslo vakia? Answer yes or no?" Well, if you don't have your own battery of ghosts and Indians ready you are a gone Secretary of the Exterior. But if you've got your Indian handy, he whispers the right an swer to you, and you say: "So long as I am secretary no red-tainted foreign brooms will be admitted to these shores, and none of our own fine clean American made brooms will be sent to po litically polluted areas. Besides we need 'em all to sweep out our own defense plants." At this the spectators break into applause. After a m'onth or two during which you have collected $10,000 from speeches and magazine ar ticles written by your ghosts the investigation collapses. But it has been a big success al around. You have made a name as a patriotic pumio servant, and Rep. Headstrong has decided to run for BILL JENKINS Managing Editor can hire 'him. if he's on the pay roll, then he can go ahead and grade the spuds, sack them (we're not sure where the sacks come from this time) not as himself, the grower, but as an employe of the wholesaler or whoever it was. Then he . . . then , . . (The arithmetic of our notes is a little confused on this deal, so we'll let it lay where It's at.) ' At this point, another grower conies in with the word that the army wants 1200 cars right now. It can't get 'em because the army requires a three per cent grade tolerance. The grower knows It's three per cent but three per cent of what? At any rate, the three per cent ol whatever cuts him down that much, so he's not going to sell to the army. The prediction, then. Is that the army may step in and freeze all potatoes in the cellars. (Freeze them from sale; . not by. the ther mometer.) Of course again, you have to re member that one OPS office says you can do some of these things while another office says you can't. Most generally, the OPS man says he doesn't know.- (One OPS official, for instance, was reported to have told a San Francisco wholesaler, who was out of spuds: Co ahead and buy them however you can. We're not inter ested in what the grower gets. We're interested in the consumer.) Behind It all the grower has in mind the possibility that one In equity may be corrected, if the OPS follows through and brings our price regulations up to a par with Idaho's. ' - As a result, the consumers" down south are running out of potatoes, we're continuing to make healthy contributions to the bureaucrats c remember March 15) and well. the planned economy of our great wnne father is conlusin but not amusin'. fs.x -fK'-i - i ' . ., the Senate on his record as a tight er for clean government. The ghosts and Indians? They've been paid. The only thing lost. Trellis Mae, Is the taxpayers' $75,000. It seems a- wasteful system to me. but a ghost I talked to said it was necessary to keep the states men from strangling in their own red tape. "As a matter of fact us ghosts are now getting assistant ghosts and the Indians are getting assist ant Indians," he said. "We have to things are getting that compli cated." He said he felt ghosts were per forming a public service in mak ing politicians sound educated. He remarked the ghosting industry in American dated back to the days when Alexander Hamilton used to handpick adverbs for George Wash ington, who. he said, couldn't tell a aangnng par ucipie' irom a bang. nan. - That made me mad, Trellis Mae. "Well. I always thought Thomas Jefferson did a pretty fair job of writing tne Declaration of Inde pendence," I said. "And how about that little speech Abraham Lincoln scribbled down on an envelone al) by himself on the way to Gettys burg?" Well, he said, he would admit that either of them might have made a pretty lair ghost, and add' ed: "It is too bad Lincoln didn't have a new electric typewriter at Get tysburg. No telling what he might have written then!" I'm beginning to think, Trellis Mae. tnat i ll never reauy under stand Washington. Your loving husband, wnour. Pendleton Takes Over Roundup PENDLETON Wl The city of Pendleton took over the Pendleton Round-up grounds Thursday after a series of conferences with the Round-Up Association. Under the deal the city will main tain the property, leasing it each year to tne association for round up time. The city will take a per centage of Round-Up receipts, and also will keep other revenue earned during tne year. The association estimated the property was worth $500,000. It said $185,000 had been spent for improvements in the past live years. WEED CHIEF RENO lT) Rex Warren of the Oregon State College Extension Service at Corvallls was elected vice nrssident nf the wtnn uooh onierence here Wednesday. C. I. Seely of the Idaho Agricultural Ex- neHmfinr fitatlnn , named president. WIN gkfs . PioneerOffictSuppty 629 Main Phone 7412 OPl. imi KIMi rtWTIO STEWCAW. St. WCtUi BLOOD DONATIONS ASKED Klamath Falls citizens are being asked, along with all other communities, to donate to the blood bank. On next Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 11 and 12, the Red Cross bloodmobile will be in Klamath Falls, taking donors scheduled for January as well as February. If you care to donate, you are asked to fill out the at tached coupon and mail it to the Red Cross offices in the Armory immediately. The Clinic will be open from 12:30. to 5:30 p.m., Monday, and from 12 to 4 p.m., Tuesday. Please list an alternate time on your card. Nursery service will be furnished those with small children, and transportation will be furnished those wishing it. The blood will be taken at the Armory. KLAMATH COUNTY BLOOD PROGRAM Donor Pledge Card Name ... Address Telephone Group Affiliation .-. I am willing te donate nj bleed throaia, the Red Crete Bleed Program le aeelil la earing eemeene'e life. PREFERRED TIME ' . LIST DAY ALSO ' i. "'".",'" I"1" iiwyT ('.! riAj. i1 1"' "a j Criticism is the very essence of democracy. If we are not at liberty to criticize, and to choose alter natives among men and politics. we are not tree. But criticism must fall within the bounds of decency and fair play, and must show a fundamental loy alty to the ideals and institutions ot the United States. As election year fever begins to grip some of our more vocal Amer icans, ibere are signs that a few of them do not intend to be held within such limits. For instance, a midwestern edi tor recently referred to President Truman as a "political Idiot." And another in the area wrote the cap tion, "Cannon Fodder for Harry's Fake War," over a story listing men who had Just been selected, for induction into the armed forces. FAIR PLAY The latter declaration is partic ularly irresponsible and inflamma tory, and does not meet even mini mum tests of loyalty and fair play as Americans understand them. In the first place, no U.S. soldier Is ever "camion fodder." Anyone who knows how the American Army operates knows that the GI is the best cared for doughfoot In the world. The U.S. officer husbands bis fighting men, trying to keep them going as effective soldiers and at the same time showing concern for their needs as human beings insofar as battle-field con ditions allow. To label potential GI's as can non fodder is to imply that they are thrown recklessly into combat without regard to their lives. Noth ing could be further from the truth. Indeed, the exact opposite Is the U.S. Army goal. As for the Korean conflict being "Harry's Fake War," again the in temperate editor Is on shaky ground. One may argue that we invited the way by declaring openly we would not defend Korea. The open statement seems clearly a costly error. But the military put Korea in the "Indefensible" category, not ? 4, , v A7 9 andstiUgw Ttwt'l eed weitlm, eJ we keve the efttver. State FerM Meeeet AeleaMelff lanranee Cam pony ttrivel te laeefe eely larefel driven. Car eft I dfiverf have fewer ulderitt. Yea pay Hie itllinj oft eely Mice ttiefi Mm klad af laaecaaaa SMte Fflrra if fomeul fer. Se It ceire State fvm leu H de eeilaeet, and eeeaeie Stat Farm ll mutual eer-ipwty, Mia eolicy-heloin eet the Mvlaae. If yea dee'f hav thli lew celt dependable car Invrmee, caN . 3262 kl aaeat ihew yeu hew yea can tat ceaipleti erelecilen it law eeet Wm. N. 2133 Madison g&v RXIR voean see, STOP J4y - jj BU'KTS ecstiYTT, (Home) (Business) (Business) (Home) (Signature) Mr. Truman. SAD MISTAKE Apparently, too, we sadly mis Judged the South Koreans' ability to defend themselves. We thought they could handle any trouble from the North. Yet. having made these mistakes should we then have compounded them by yielding Korea and per haps much more of Asia to the Communists? Was there no point at all in resisting aggTesslon once it had begun? Do you let the ship go down without a struggle simply because you have foolishly left the ports open? This Is a counsel of hopelessness that would lead us into a war that surely would be no "fake." Of the man who called the Pres ident a "political idiot," It can be said he has plainly transcend ed the bounds of decency and good taste. Whatever the President's shortcomings, no fair-minded American speaks of him In such degrading terms. People who resort to this kind of outburst merit no following. Americans need no help or guid ance from them in safeguarding their lives and their country. For these men are not warmed by the high Ideals we serve. They wish only the comfort of indulging their own violent prejudices with out restraint. PRICE VIOLATOR FINED SINGAPORE Iffl Beating the price ceilings In this British colo ny can be an expensive business. The proprietor of a small cafe In a Singapore amusement park was fined $133 for charging 20 cents for a cup of coffee. The maximum controlled price for. a cup of cof fee is about one American dime. COX RITES PRINEVILLE m Funeral serv ices will be held Friday for Remey Cox, newspaper publisher who died unexpectedly at his home here Tuesday. Most business houses here will close during the services at St. Andrews Episcopal Church. ? ijtete jrote GOEN Phone 3262 I li Mil iii IV i T ?i Mmi' - W4y TRAFFIC 5HE aud paxBiy wxtorr WAU0S3 F SHE DID"" inf iViir ii -ifiW ili irrn r ill Vel By JEAN OWKNS Jim Tockey, senior, was elected King of Hearts of the annual King i ol Hearts tormal last night at a ! regular meeting of the Jobs' Dauiih ; tors. The lour kulglils elected are ; Shannon Oldham, Ralph Curroll, Marvin Nersclh and Tom Murdock. These boys will be honored at a. i formal all-school dunce held to ! morrow night at the armory, Coro Inatlon will take place during the I intermission. ' Escorts are Jean Owens. Mar ! lene Howard, Sharon Ulenger, Car idyn Boyd and Judy Clark, j Programs will be available Sat i urday night al the door and dur lug the day at the armory. ! "Youlh Model legislature will j be held In the spring, and the four try-hi-y groups are holding lmpor ! tant meetings all this week in order jto elect their delegates to repre jsent their club at the Salem con ference. I Every year the YMCA sponsors i this "Youth In Government" move . ment which has representatives front all the schools In Oregon. This group ot students prepare bills to present when they actually take over the legislature of Ore gon for three days. , A governor, main state officers. I representatives, and senators are i elected at pre-conference meetings held In the various sections of the state. This program gives students a grand opportunity to learn the workings of state government first hand and to express their own ideas freely. KU has always had a large delegation to represent their school. Merrill Hi News By YVONNE CONNER and EDNA MAE REEVES Merrill high. too. had undergone an epidemic ot Influenza an I suf fered more, when two of our first string basketball players. Wesley Hasklns and Bill Welshans 'sal out the Huskie-Antlcr game Jan. 31. The Antlers won a victory of 15-48 over the Huskies in the A game. Merrill's B team won by 26-25. Last Saturday night the Huskies and PeD team traveled to Chllo- quin for another conference game. tne enaing score was m-jn ln vor of Chiloquln. The B game was won by Chiloquln, 40-22. Girls of the drill team' could be seen all day Jan. 30, in their purple end gold uniforms. But there was a reason, pictures of the drill team were taken for the annual. OLD MOVIES RUN AGAIN NEW YORK IAT Television hav ing revived old motion pictures, film theaters have begun to show Interest in re-runs. Several in stances have been reported where neighborhood and other theaters have put on speclar "film festivals" restricted to pictures that long since have been off the current list. La Boheme" KACHIfrCEXTU PERTORMEO ON COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS ! RECORDS CM Id aha Hmt TMi i BrnlHwr rletoniiittl I WE HAVE IT! other great numbert available on Columbia , LPC 33'$ "Messiah" "Porgy and Bess" "Die Fledermaus" "Beethoven's Fifth" MUSIC CO. 120 No. 7th Ph. 4519 AIM? (Kditor's Note I Thli la (he ninth of 10 alurlri eiplalnlni how la make out jour 1051 In come tax return,) WASHINGTON il') Remember these points before making your 1061 liiconio tax return on the 1040 long-iorni, 1. Besides Form 1040, you need that 10-pugc government pamph let, called "How lo I'repnie Your U.S. Income Tax Keliirn." It's the Instruction sheet for us ing Form 1040. You have to use the tax m to schedule on (he buck lor flMUrlng your mx. 2. When a wile has no Income, a couple cun t lose by filing a Joint return oil Form 1040. For ll lo bo a. Joint return, both must sign It. In moat cases, but not all, they'll save with n Joint return when both have Income. Since llioro are ex ceptions, try ll Jointly nud sepa rately lunoio turning it in. fr vnn turn t.t wftmn-ntrt rMnt-n. and later reiillr.e you would have saved by a Joint one, you can at tiny lime belore March 15, 1 5S, withdraw those srniuulc returns by substituting a Joint return to get a rciumi. 3. Bo sure, before sending your return lo Ihe collector, Hint you uttnch to It all your withholding receipts F'urni W-2. Form W-2, given by your boss, ts the prool of Ihe money he paid you and Ihe Income tax he withheld iroiu your pay In 1061. N 4. You file Ihe return bv send ing It to Ihe Internal Revenue col lector for your dlitrlrt. With II you must pay In full any tax owed. If you were overtaxed in idi tut 1961 income, note lhat fact on line 8. naite I, Indicate Ihoro whether you want a refund. 5. II you're one of the self-employed people who must pay a So clnl Security tax now on your In come from sell-employment In 1051 show what your Social Security tnx Is on line 6. B, page 1. The tax is 2 U per cent on the first $3,600 of your self-employed In come. You must pav lhat Social Securi ty tax, plus any income tax owed, when you file your return on Form 1040. Sell-employed people, besides Form 1040. must also use another, .separate form, called Schedule C. There they provide Information on which they base their Soclul Se curity lax. . Be careful to claim all the exemptions lo which you're en titled. For each exemption you knock $M0 off your Income. What's left is taxable. Evervone flllnir a return irets S600 off for himself, another $800 if he's blind and still another $000 If he s 1 If you want to live long, you should be born a girl, and not a boy. Contrary to fiction and the views ol some men, woiupii are not the frail vessels which per haps men would like to think they are. Indeed, except for muscular de velopment and a periodic handi cap supplied by nature, women are really Ihe rugged sex. Womrn are more resistant to Ihe fatal e((ccts of most diseases than men are with the exception of con ditions peculiar to the female (ex. Oirls and women appear to be much more robust than boys and men. Most of them accept Illness more philosophically and possibly mis helps them to recover. It Is easy to understand lhat men are more exposed lo accidents at least this used to be the case be fore the days when so many wom en worked in Industry. It Is not so easy to see why men should be so much more sus ceptible to certain types of heart disease such as coronary throm bosis and other disorders Involving the blood vessels. Women can withstand cold better than men. The reason for this Is at leas', partly because thev have a thin layer of fat under the skin which helps to Insulate them. When In swimming and at formal parties, the difference Is usually obvious. Almost every doctor will agree , TRAFFIC TRAGEDY OREC-ON CITY lifl Patricia Bloom, 3, Oregon City, died In a hospital here Thursday after being struck down by an automobile near Canby the day previous. She wandered onto the Pnclfic High way (99-E), while visiting at her grandmother's house. ."" Jim n .yirmFmiK m m .mii..ii nmnujyjnniiiia .- m You're invited lo the ANNUAL M BROADWAY HALL Sat., Feb. 9 MUSIC BY MCDONALD'S ORCHESTRA ADMISSION: $1.00 Per Penon Sponiored by Molln Fir Department H.V And you get $000 olf for each dependent but nothing extra If he's blind or 06, Note: A wife Is not considered a dependent, so Ilia rule on exemp tions for wives Is a little compli cated, If your wile had no Income and is not nnmeohe else's dependent and you itlone llln a return or If she did or dltl not hnvo Income but files Jointly with you you get a $000 exntnptlun lor her, plus $1100 If she's blind, plus $I0U If she's 06. Nolo: If your wlin hud any In-t-onio al nil, no mitUer hmv small, you get nn exemption for her unless aha files Jointly with you. It a wile files separately, nho claim her ex emptions on her own return, 1. Anyone with $6,000 or morn Income in-1 fur deductible hit- son ul expenses what Is culled a stnndiird deduction. It menus that without Itt'iulKlng or having it) provo anything you take a deduc tion nf 10 per cent of your Income up lo a limit of $1,000. You deduct Hmt much from your Income before what's led ts taxable. Exiimnle'. Jones, Income $0,000 sinndtird deduction of 10 per cent Is $1K)0. Smith, Income $10,000 standard deduction ol 10 per cent gives him the limit, $1,000. Brown, Income $16,000 can take no inure llinn lhat limit ol $1,000 unlets his expenses wero more and he wants lo Itemire. Anyone whose deductible ex penses amounted to more than that standard deduction can clniin them In lull but in lhat case ha must lleiul.o Ihrjn all on pngo a Ol lurni 1010, and be prepared to prove he had them. And right here, (or husbands and wives, conies a problem which a single person, with $5,000 or more Income, doesn't havo on form 1040. flint single person taxes uie standard deduction. If that a not enough lo cover his expenses, he can claim them all by Itemlnliig. When a husbiind and wife file a lotiit return whether or not both lintt Income they enn take the Mnndunl deduction or Itemire lo net more limn the alnmlnid deduc tion gives them. Bui note: When a husband files separately and It ninkes no tllller- ence whether tne wue mil or tiiim i hnvo Income he no longer can take that standard deduction up to $1,000. lie enn lake only a flal de duction of $500. Example: Jones had tD.ooo in come, his wile had none. If they (lie Jointly, he takes a stnndnrd deduction nf $000, 1( for some rea son she falls to (He Jolntlv with him. he sets nnlv $600. Thrv lose $400 on that deal. lhat on the average, women stand pain better than mn do. Tills may rot have any relation- lo their re sistance lo disease, and Is proba bly Just a sign of their adaptabil ity to the role of child-bearing. For every one hundred girls born mlo this world, there are about one hundred and three boys. From lime of birth on, however, boys die off at a more rapid rate than their alsters. By the lime the later years of II fp are reached, from seventy-five onward, there are more than twice as manv women living as there are men. The change In the proportion be tween Ihe sexes Is brought about gradually because more men than women die at almost every age. With an ageing population and per iodic wars taking olf even-more men, Ihe time Is not far distant, If It has not already arrived, when women will outnumber men throughout most of the country. Even now thev are said to own more property. This will be a new experience for a country which al ways before In Its history has had an excess of men. SPEEDY lONC-LASTIIH. rtief ftr AGONIZING ACIIES-FAII1S at prompt rtlttf rubon Mtutroll ll Inauntly crrMri needed het riKht whore ppllfnl, You rtn fret Muttflrola'a great putn-reMrrlnt medlcUoD peedlnK fraih blood to tha painful irrn. bringing mrlng Tet, If pln U lntnii buy L'urtv Htrong Mu sterol. Any drugatore. a uim&fi I - a j :;: ,'..-..',J SKIPPER OF WRECKED CRAFTCnplaln Ltidolph von Tiiiigoii of liulford, N. J., skipper of llio freight cr Miyel which went aground on Capo llatlcras, dries ship's papers over a portable heater nfjer lie and his crew of 20 aban doned ship, The captain left the ship wearing only shorts and a bathrobe. . Parking Eyed In Lakeview LAKP.VIKW A move lo exnand the two-hour parking roue In clown town Lakeview, Willi a three nun. uie pnrklng xiuie nenr Ihe post ol lice, wus taken by the Town Conn- ell this week. Town Attorney Charles Foster wns anketl by the council to rtrnw up a new parking rone oritliiiint n liiroipoiatlng the piescnt pnrklng ronet nud new ones tlenlgnnteil Tuesday night bv the council. Ihe council also dlncusHrd a urn- posnl for the volunteer firemen (or cermlsalon lo buy properly and build a new lire hnll lo house tlm lire trucks and disaster car. Min or Carl Lnnge asked Councllmnn Hen Franklin lo meet Willi the firemen and dlscii detnlls. Ihe pnrklng problem came up In discussion of parking meters. Council members stntett that the present move to expnnd the pnrk lng Inw Is being mntle In an ef fort li relieve parking coitKcititm without Ihe meters, but added that If this measure mils to do the )ili then they will have to consider In Mulling parking meters. MKV MDKK ATTRAtTIVK DENVER i.f.-lt' prnbablv par donable II Denver men like lo think they are somewhat moin desirable In feminine eves Hum thev were 10 years ago. For every 100 women In Ihe Colorado Capital, there are now only 03 men. In 1040. the ratio was 08 men to 100 women. Tim llorlon, rugged defense ilnrl thsA of the Pittsburgh Hornets In American Hockey Leitgue, wenrs contact lenses on (he Ice. CARPENTER OVERALLS Tops on the j In a recent national survey conducted by a prominent publishing company among men on all types of jobs . Lee work clothes were voted the leading brandl Style No. C-74 ? Uniantorlitd Style No. C-84 ., Sonlorlied CARPENTERS Sizes 32-48 93 HARDY'S A 820 Main I
