HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
SATURDAY. MARCH 22, U)A3
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Editor
BILL JENKINS
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- By BILL JENKINS
Sometimes It can be hard to
live up to what we like to refer
to as our Ideals.
I'm suffering from that right
now.
Like Voltaire who once said he
didn't agree -with the chap but
would defend with his life his (the
chappies') right to say It.
I defend the right of the writers
to write and the publishers to
publish the books they do today.
All part of a free press. But I
can't agree with their choice.
I refer to the recent trend away
from good wholesome whodunits
that has sprung up among our
budding authors.
used to be iin the good old
days) you could go down to Uie
magazine stand and iind halt a
dozen fresh and gory murder mys
teries. Now you look over Uie
same shelves and find that the
brain teasers are mostly reprints
of old books and all the new ma
terial runs to the love story type,
"lyivo Ammir the Havstacks. One
Night Stand, city 01 wve. nucn
Hike to Romance, She Wanted
IfWP Ptl "
These may be all well and good
and no doubt will sell well. Other
wise they wouldu't be on the
nheives. . . .
But I find it hard not to shed
a nostalgic tear for the good old
tiays when men were men and left
their women to co off and face
sudden dealh via the gun, knife.
drowning, torture, cagea apes ana
what not that the blood and gore
boys had been feeding us for so
many years.
What happened to the Thin
Man? Where has Jimmy Valentine
gone? 'Are there to be no more
Raffles In our literary boundaries?
Even the red-blooded and virile
writers of the present day have
slowed down. Mickey Spillane has
given his Mike Hammer a rest for
some months now (not that the
guy didn't need it) and there has
not been a real honest-to-goodness
chilling shocker for a Ions time.
If you don't like the romance
stories you can always turn, of
course, to the historical novel but
these are so heavily dusted with
fiction as to make them almost
unbearable. Or they are direct
steals from the master pieces of a
bygone age. You know you've read
it before but keep on going to see
what new angle the author will
work out to ease his way through
he treacherous rapids of the pla
giarism laws.
The same kind of pap turned out
for those thin-minded people who
haven't the energy or the intelli
gence to choose their own reading
but belong to book clubs and sub
scribe to the Readers Digest and
allow their minds to be packed
with the opinions, prejudices and
beliefs of another. (They don't
even know if the editor is a man
of intelligence, character and
knowledge or not. All they care
about is reading something they
can quote at a cocktail party with
out having to study to get It.)
Anyway, let's bring back the
whodunit. In this world of strife
and pain there must be some re
lease. And it's not to be found in
the arms of a literary roue or
along the paths of a distorted and
twisted historical monstrosity.
If you'll bring back our mystery
stories and restore the vitality and
gristle they used to have, you'll
succeed also In bringing American
literature back up to a level where
it belongs.
We've let ourselves be" led Into
every pitfall that man can devise
to date, but, please, let's not let
our nation down by bastardizing
the written word. There is a high
er aim in writing than the mere
fact of a few cents a word paid
by the publisher.
The so-called "better books" that
Various clubs review and that you
quote with pride are mostly a lot
of high-minded hogwash with little
or no meaning. The serious and
studious works turned out by hon
est authors go unheeded because
the heroine, if any, turns out to
be flat chested.
But in the good old mystery
story you have a solid foundation
from which to launch greater ef
forts. Let's bring back the whodunit!
Notice a story In the paper yes
terday that the legislators are talk
$cumA
ABC's
WASHINGTON Wl The pro
fessional politicians must be badly
confused. Life was comparatively
simple until the primary election
in New Hampshire and Minnesota.
Go around and meet the people,
shake hands with them, and get on
the TV screens in their living
rooms so you can get your Ideas
across to them. They seemed like
three obvious and wonderful ways
of getting votes.
And maybe they are. But the
results in New Hampshire and
Minnesota don't prove it. At the
same time they don't disprove it.
The uncertainty of all this must be
a hardship on any politician who'd
like an easy formula.
General Eisenhower, whose TV
appearances have been few and
far between, who stayed in Europe
where he didn't meet the local
lieople, and who never shook a
local hand trounced Sen. Taft in
New Hampshire and far-outdistanced
him in Minnesota where the
voters had to write in the names
of both men.
Yet Taft has probably made
more TV appearances In the past
few years, and particularly In the
pnst year, than any office-seeker
in the country. He spoke and shook
hands all over New Hampshire.
He stayed out of Minnesota.
The Taft people shrugged off
Elsenhower's New Hampshire suc
cess, where the state political ma
chine was backing him, and they
expressed satisfaction nt Tr.'t's
ing about holding a meeting to dis
cuss weather control.
What la weather control?
New one on me.
If man can control the weather
who is the dirty so and so that
controlled all the snow for us this
winter?
I've always regarded weather as
one of the great cosmic mysteries
controlled by gods higher and
mightier than mere man.
And now the legislature wants to
take It over.
How ridiculous can man get?
I'm not gonna mention spring
again, honest, but if I did it might
be to mourn another loss.
The stub tailed gopher.
Over the years as aerlculture
grew and grew the poor little old
gopher (there went a lot of friend
ships with farmers) tossed in the
towel and went over the Oreat Di
vide. There was never a sDort that
had more appeal to the average
man than picking a good meadow
on a warm and snrinelike dav and
shooting gophers. You hunkered
down in a field of sweet-smelling
clover, took a good resyt with your
trusty shootln' Iron, scanned fne
area with a Dair of classes until
you found your squirrel and then
aiunea wnanging way at him.
Nice clean sport, helpful to
everyone out me gopher.
Lot more fun than sitting around
a smoky tavern and shooting pool.
But there aren't gophers left to
shoot.
It;s a sad old world, 'alnt it?
Someone walked in this office re
cently and left a handful of those
G-E wild west show cutouts lying
around. Yesten '.ay your editor took
the bull by the horns (no mean
feat if you've never tried it) and
attempted to prove that he had at
least the ability if not the brains
of a ten-year-old child.
Five hours later thirty two of the
sixty-five odd pieces were assem
bled. Horses, mules, cowboys, a
stagecoach (with wheels that turn
and a four horse team) an Indian
tepee, a cowgirl and a scene de
picting a hunter running down a
brace of buffalo.
It's true what they say.
Any child can assemble this.
Any child, that is, who has a
college degree, a masters from
MIT and a father who is a civil
engineer.
But it serves to pass the time.
And proved to the customers that
all editors eventually come to cut
ting out paper dolls.
T feel a little better about not
getting things done.
Last fall, a few days before the
hunting season opened I took a
shotgun down to Carl Schubert to
have some work done on it. Rib
was busted loose, a suspicious rat
tle somewhere down in the works,
etc. Told Carl I didn't need it until
the season opened but had to have
it by then.
The next thing I knew it was
this week and I was talking to Carl
one day. Suddenly remembered the
shotgun and my demand to nave
it out not later than last October.
Started to apologize to Carl and
what did I find out?
He hasn't finished the gun yet,
either.
So I guess Carl knows me bet
ter than I know myself.
Of course, had I sons down
there two days later the gun would
have been finished. Carl's too good
a gunsmith to let that slip up on
him.
But it must prove something or
other.
Like maybe that people are
prone to forget things?
Hank Semon Is packing around
a fascinating little clipping from a
Portland paper.
An ad offering a sea-going boat
for hire for a year or longer.
After reading it yesterday we de
cided to take the owner uo on his
offer and shove off for a few
months at sea.
Only two arguments over the
thing.
Hank wants to go to Alaska.
I want to go the the South Seas.
If we can reach a settlement on
that score there will be only one
small hurdle to surmount.
Anybody got any money lying
around they don't need?
Tlteuifoju)
showing in Minnesota although El
senhower ran far ahead of him.
The Elsenhower people, of
course, piayeo up ineir victory in i
both states for all it was worth I
and, considering the attention giv
en the victory, it seems to be
worth plenty.
The only other place where It
seemed the people could express
their feelings about the two men
was In New Jersey in a direct
preference primary but now Taft
has withdrawn there and says he
won't campaign. This will cloud
up the vote there.
But if any politician Is drawing
a lesson from the Taft-Elsenhower
results, Senator Estes Kefauver
rises to haunt them because Ke
fauver in a write in vote In Minne
sota and a direct preference in
New Hampshire ran far ahead of
President Truman.
President Truman did Just what.
Elsenhower did: He stayed away
from New Hampshire and Minne
sota and never shook a hand in
either place. ,
Kefauver trooped all over New
Hampshire, sticking out his hand
whenever he could to strangers.
saying "I'm Estes Kefauver,
Ma'am. I'm running for President
and I'd like your support."
While the state Rpniihliran mo.
chine backed the victorious Eisen
hower in New Hampshire, the
slate Democratic machine backed
the President against Kefauver
NEW YORK tf Space is no
longer a matter of distance.
To conquer the gap between us
and the moon is now a matter of
money, relatively no more expen
sive for the American nation todav
than it was for a shopgirl a genera
tion ago to gamble her year's sav
ings on a voyage to Bermuda.
They say they can reach the
moon and they will.
ihe age of the "rocketeers" has
changed all our standards. Nobody
any longer really knows what space
and time are, except by the old
measures of how far the heart you
want to be with is from you Biid
how long it takes to reach here.
But space and time are words
the scientists use to measure the
universe. And they are shrinking
that universe like a drying apple.
They are conquering the old
barriers of time and space, but
whether they are getting closer to
the heart's desire of the world
remains to be seen.
Can I tell you of two personal
adventures in time and space to
point my meaning?
When I was a boy, the biggest
voyage I remember in space was a
wintry 45-mile trio with my uncle.
It was in a weather-cracked ism
glassed, model T Ford steering
across the vaguely-charted, muddy
landscape between Kansas City and
Lexington, Mo., my father's birth
place. Our destination was known,- but
our route was a gamble. Our
vehicle, sturdiest their known, was
still a doubt. But it held up. The
tires didn't, but they could be
blown up again. We didn't think
anytlunz on lour wheels in inose
days could go that far across those
mud tracks in mat temperature.
It wasn't until I saw Korea that I
knew God gave men colder days.
But I still remember the warm
sense of victory when the beaten
little car wheeled home.
T remembered those 45 miles or
conquered Missouri mud again the
other day when I sat In a New York
restaurant and heard a 39-year-old
man tell seriously how he had
made plans to ro to the moon.
KICKIN' AROUND
l
jQjy i) V J Uiow CROSS
"I'M TRYING TO GIVE TILL IT HURTS, BUT
I'M FEELING BETTER ALL THE TIME"
who drowned Truman in votes.
This completely contradictory
situation can only add to the dis
may of the professional politicians
in search of simple solutions to the
vote-getting problem.
Add to all this the fact that In
the past few years Kefauver un
like the seldom TV'd nut still
victorious Elsenhower has pro
bably been seen on as many living
room TV screens, if not more, than
Truman. For Kefauver was on TV
dally when his Senate committee
was investigating crime.
It's quite possible that the voters
In New Hampshire and Minnesota
simply did what came naturally
voted lor the man they liked
without being Impressed by local
speeches, handshakes or TV ap
pearances, .So? QaihounA
Oil
MIRRORS
for any room
tbo Bomei
S5T E. Mln
His name was Wernher Von
Braun, the German inventor of the
deadly V-2 rocket that almost
forced Britain to capitulate in the
last World War.
Von Braun is a tall, blond, blur
eyed scientist who now is enlisted
on the side of American arms and
says he warns to be an American
citizen. There is no doubt he is a
genius. He has already proved It.
His genius Is now devoted to a
very simple proposition. He spends
his time selling it with the same
simple ardor of a young salesman
peddling a new vacuum cleaner.
He has figured out a wav he can
shoot up a rocket some 1,075 miles
or so beyond the reach of gravity.
He has figured that If he can
shoot up twelve of them he
can build a doughnut - shaped
watchtower holding 36 men who
con spy down as they circle the
earth every two hours and use
Uieir platform through radar to
control the world.
"An enemy Just couldn't hide
any more." he said. "We could
call down fire on him wherever he
was. If we don't build this space
station, the Russians will sooner
or later."
Von Braun says he can safely
get men uo and back from this
whirling space station, even rocket
them on to an exploratory trip to
the moon and return them whole.
"It would take only four billion
dollars and ten vears to do." he
said. "That is only a fraction of
the Amelrcan military buduet.
Listening to him I had no feeling
of doubt that his project could be
done. But I had no sense ot victory
over space. I only felt depressed.
If Von Braun is voted the money
he wonts and bold men carry out
his nlans successfully, they will
have , negated the obstacle of the
sky.
But when. 30 vears ago. I made a
45-mile trln into the unknown to
visit my father's birthplace there
was someone we had come far and
risked much discomfort to see.
waiting at Journey s end.
Who s wojting up yonder?
Israel Is now exporting marble
from quarries unused for almost
2,000 years.
The copper blues of ancient' Per
sian clay tiles were obtained- by
using glazes that were free from
lead and aluminum.
The world's first peat-burning
gas turbine engine has been built
and is now operating in uiyaeoanx,
Scotland.
British scientists have success
fully completed a series of tests
In which TV was used to help
deep-sea divers.
Britain now produces about 40
per cent of all the food she con
sumes. People DO TOO
read small space
ads - you are! '
Red Planes
Blasted By
Sabre Jets
SEOUL. KOREA. I. 11 S In!
planes outnumbered 3k to 75 hit
mrce Communist MIGS In a swirl.
lug air battle over Northwest
Korea late Friday, cllmnxlnir our
of their most successful weeks of
ine air war, the U. S. Fifth Air
Force reported Saturday.
Alter a 30-mlnule butt!, hlch
over sinanju American F-86 Snbre
jets pilots claimed one Communist
MIG-15 probably destroyed and
two others damaged.
During the week ended Friday
U. N. pilots destroyed nine Russian
built lighters, probably destroyed
three and damaged 36. the Fifth
Air Force said.
Only four Dlunes of the Fifth
Air Force were lost one Inolr
combat, two to Red ground fire
and one for an unknown reason. .
overcast skies Saturday kent
most Allied warplanes on the
ground and limited the ground
I tenting to a few desultory Red
probes.
"There were about 19 lavrm nf
clouds over North Korea, and a
mile snow," an Air Force spokes
man said.
F-84 Thunderlct fighter-bombers
made a few close suonort strikes
aRainst Red front lino positions on
the East Coast. They destroyed
bunkers and trenches and three
Red-occupied buildings. F-51 Mus
tangs of the South Korean Air
Force attacked Red rail lines.
There were some patrol contacts
on the Central Front Frldoy. Hase
and overcast limited fighting on
the eastern and western flanks of
the155-mlle battlcllne.
Two Red groups of undetermined
strength probed U. N. positions
northwest of Chorwon. but the
attacks were brief and small.
Carrier-based planes and Allied
warships hammered both Korean
Coasts Friday.
Sailor Wins
$2000 Suit
SEATTLE lifl William Olynvk
will get approximately 30 a day
for the time he spent chained to
ihe rail of the steamshio Clvdc L.
Scavey on a trip from Java to
Houston, Tex.
A Superior Court lury which de
liberated less than four hours
Friday evening awarded the for
mer boatswain J2.000 Instead of
the 100,000 he asked.
The New Westminster. B.C.. sea
men was chained to the rail of the
Isthmian Steamship Co. vessel aft
er he returned from a trip ashore
at Batavla, July 17, 1948. He was
kept there until the ship reached
nuusion of days later.
At Houston he was acaultted of
assaulting the captain but convict
ed of assaulting Ihe second mate.
closing testimony Friday fea
tured a deposition from the mail
who had been master of the vessel
when the chaining took place. He
was Sidney Erick Williams, who
said he had been afraid Olynyk
might "stir up" mutiny.
The sole nuroose was for the
safety of the ship and crew, "Capt.
Williams said In the deposition read
to the Jury. The steamship com
pany was - defendant In the suit.
Printers To
Top Pay Spot
SALEM (IV) Employees of the
printing and publishing industry
were the highest paid grouo at
$86.47 a week, or 12.39 an hour.
Next were logging and mill work
ers with a weekly wage of $83.09.
Weekly carnine.i for other in.
duRtries: Plywood and machinery
workers, $81; food products, $03.64;
furniture, $5.80; paper products,
$78.57; metals $76J6; machinery,
$81.23: communications and utili
ties, $71.67.
The average weekly wage was
up $1.57 from January and was
$5.77 more than In February, 1951.
The average hourly wage was up
11 cents from one year ago to $1.99.
Dr. E. M. Causey
Pastor
BEATING THE MARRIAGE DEADLINE Four American soldiers and their Japanese bridc.i
sny "I do" at the U.S. Consulate in Tokyo. More than (500 servicemen paid $'2.:)0 each at
six American Consulates in Japan dtirini; the last three days before the deadline to quali
fy their wives for entry into the United Slates. Left to riijht: Itii hard Netherctit performs
ceremony for Donald L). Kuhn of Itcllf lower, Calif., Raymond II. lirothcrlon of Cos An
geles, Joseph Kozloski ,f Oliphanl, l'a., and Iiobert H". Vai ner of Monterey, Va., and
their brides.
ionaress
On Army Engineers
African Air Base
WASHINGTON i,Vi Conurawtoll
nl charges of fraud, waste and in
efficiency In building inultl-milllon-dollar
airbuses in North Africa
brought ft drastic slmkcui) Satur
day of Army Engineers who
bundled the Job. ' .
Secretary of the Army Pace
started the action lute Frlduv.
Ho also notified private contrac
tors working on the huge overalls
project that he will suspend or ter
minate their cost-plus-ftxed-fee con
tracts unless they take prompt
remedial action.
Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson
(D.-Tcx.) of the Senate prepared-
Sugar Beet
Growers On
Losing Side
ONTARIO Ore. t.B Sugar beet
growers of the Nyssa-Nampa Dis
trict took- a hHi million doi.ur
beating with Uie announcement
Friday that unharvested 1951 beets
were not lit to be processed.
Some 2,0u0 acres were left un
harvested because of weather.
About half the acreago is In Mal
heur County. The loin I loss Is put
at 40,000 Iodh with a gross Income
value -ol $500,090.
Jed Lewis, manager of the
Nyssa-Nampa District lor Amalga
mated Suur Company, made the
report of rapid deterioration.
Lewis said Uie plant had been
on a stand-by basis for weeks hop
ing that growers would be able to
gei Into the Held and speed the
beets In for processing while they
still could be salvaged. But It's
too lute now. he mi id.
there Is some question of wheth
er the farmers will have to dig
them anyway lo prepare their
Melds for the 105J crop. Lewis hrU
he thought mat probably tills would
not be necessary.
'ihere will bo a partial recovery
for the growers through federal
abai'iliimnrnt payments. Cilen L.
Hutchinson, chairman of the Ma -
heur County Production and Mar
keting Administration. ald the
payments would average $15 to
$20 an acre. The growers have
an Investment of around $70 to
$80 an acre In the beets they
couldn't get harvested. This pay
ment money comes from a process
ing lax on sugar refineries.
Cause of the harvesting failure
was unusually wet weather In Oc
tober and November followed bv
an early freeze.
Crime Group
Lingers On
OLYMPIA Ifl The on-SKaln-nff-
agaln hearings of the Leeislatlve
Crime Investigating Commlt'cc
were off again Saturday.
Committee Chairman Albert D.
Rosellinl said the committee wux
authorized a new State Supreme
Court order to go ahead with
crime hearings In Aberdeen Mon-
any as planned, but he does not
think It will.
He said ho thought the hearings
should be put off until after the
high court can rule on the scope
of the committee's authority.
The hearings Into crime and cor
ruption In Grays Harbor were
blocked last week when an Aber
deen police officer obtained a rul
ing from Thurston County Super
ior Judge Charles T. Wright that
the committee had no authority tu
delve Into vice conditions nl the
locnl city and county level of gov
ernment. Judge Wright was to have en
tered a formal order lo that effect
Friday, but Rosellinl obtained a
State Supreme Court order pro
hibiting him from doing so.
The high court will hear argu
ments next Frldav as to whether
Judge Wright shall be permanent
ly enjoined from entering orders
Guests Welcomed at
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
North Eiqhrh end Washinqfon ,
SUNDAY, MARCH 23
9:45 a.m., Come to Sunday School
1 1 :00 a.m., Worship Sermon,
"JESUS WILL COME AGAIN"
6:15 p.m., Training Union, Showing
Reliqion$ Film
7:30 p.m., Worship, "CHRISTIAN FIRST
PRINCIPLES"
Lowers um
ncs Mibrnmmittre. which has been
iuvcMlKattllK the Alrlcall pl'uiivl
for months, announced the Penta
gon orders alter rcrolvtng a let
ter nun Pare outlining llirni.
"Tills should help Ihe Army, the
Air Force and especially Hie tax
payers." Johnson said. "It titket
steps that should have been taken
a long lime ago."
"This Is ti warning In this grcup
of builders and till other govern
ment cnnlnii'lnrs in this nation,"
the senator Mild. "We don't Intend
to tolerate Incompetence on 'con
tracts if It Involves a suck ol col
fee or a million dollars."
Johnson said h's watchdog mm
mlttre will continue Its Inves'.iita
tlon and public healing uu the
bases.
Pace promised that the Armv
will take energetic action "to re
cover all -money" shown by con
gressional hearings "lo have been
improperly spent."
Ihe ru.sh order on Ihe top-
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BORDER BLOCKADE Trucks line tip for almost two
miles along U.S. Route 20 at Canncatit, O., as the drivers
halted in protest against Pennsylvania's 45,000-potintl
truck weight limit law. The blockade began at midnight
and scenes like this were re-enacted at many points along
the Pennsylvania border.
Apprentice 'Plans
To Be Talked
SALEM, Training of appren
tices for The Dalles Dam and
Blue Sox
Open Drills
T AWlTVTiru Tlin ninn Knv r.nn.
tral Oregon League baseball cham
pions, open practice for the lob'i
season intioors lue.soay.
Mnnnnn- Html, Mnmor Is nslrltlo
all candidates to report to the
i,HKevicw jiign Bcnuoi gym r.ou
p. m.
blocking the committee's hearings
Into locnl crime.
Over
Waste
! srcrrl sir bairn wan drcltlrd upon
shortly after North Korean Com
muiii.sls Invaded South Korea in
June, IIIM.
The Army engineers were put
In cliai'Kc of Ihe project and Ihry
asknl five lui uf c-outriu ting fli mi
to form a combine, Alias Construe
tors, to rush completion ol live
bases. Speed was the prlmo con
sideration. Original cost estimates of 'JfiO or
300 million dollars now have soared
to 455 millions as sitrs have been
switched 'everal time'
The secretary said he hud di
rected 1,1. (len. Lewis A. Pic k, cllli f
ol Army Knglneers, lo relieve tho
two riiKHieer ofllcrrs now In clmnin
in Africa, Col. Clrorge Derby and
Lt. Col. Leonard llusemau.
He said ling Gen llorvell I".
Walsh will "command n nrw en
gineer division in the Mediterran
ean area, and the Moroccan air
bases will come under Ills super
vision." -fl
fliidge projects will be discussed
at The Dalles Monday bv llie
Stale Apprenticeship Council.
Council officials reported Friday
there are 2,290 apprentices In the
slnte. Most of thorn l.uu
lire In Portland. There nro 1110 in
Ktigene and 110 in Halcm.
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