PAGE SIX - HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1052 FRANK JENKINS jfcjltOT t I Entered ai second class matter at the post office ot Klamath Falls, Ore, f : on August 20, 1906, under act of Congress, March 8, 1879 t , MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for publication ot n! the local news printed in this newspaper as veil as all At" ucwi . SUBSCRIPTION RATES S months 6.50 By Mall ... Bjr. Mail SMoakd ' ' .By BILL JENKINS ; There will bo great rejoicing in ' the state today. t There will also be heard the wolf 1 howls of victory, the clinking of ; glasses and Uio general uproar , that goes, vfith'any celebration of "veterans.. The bonus Is-gonna be paid. Ain't It grand?.. . Let' us hope -that there is the same sound oi rejoicing about nex tax time when the state has to settle down to the task of piunHng up $55 million to foot the bill. It's a nice theory but that ts-4 far as it goes. ,It amounts to pet ting paid twice for the same Job. The veteran was paid for his time in the service and is now being paid again. And the funny part of it is that he was. and is. beiiii; paid merely for doing his duty. Every time we seem to be mak ing a little headway something touches off the voters again and they go on a wild spree of. trying1 to spend themselves rich. At least let's hope that we can get this one paid off before the people of Oregon vote in a bonus lor World War Three. Having to pav two at once would be quite a By DEB ADDISON This started out yesterday to tell you about the state high school basketball tournament at Eugene. After mentioning that we didn't gel there in time to see the Pelicans play It degeneratol into an ac count of the 25th reunion of some has-beens whom you never heard of before and probably never will gain. Now for the tournament. The Old Champs (and that's spelled with an "a", friend) from the vantage point of the back row of the grandstand devised the strat egy of bow .to beat Swede Halbrook and his Lincoln mates. Nobody took our advice, so the Tower made 51 points and Hal brook li Co. are the New Champs. Here's the way we did It. On offense, we beat Halbrook down the court whenever we could. That accounted for some points. When he got under the bask't first with his helicopter arms de fending it, we took our shots from out behind then- defense. It was easier to take those opn, set, long shots than to try and come up through the Halbrook tent. We made most of these (you knew how to pot 'em from center in our day) and that accounted for some jnore points. v And on these long shots, we fol lowed in like crazy. In our enthus iasm to boom in and get the. ball we mussed the Swede up a little and had a few fouls called on us, but ft upset the pattern of Hal brook li Co. and the tall Tower teetered a time or two. On defense, we used a 3-man floating zone against the other four Lincoln boys. Our center, who was only 11 Inches shorter than the Swede, played in front of him. Our big guard, who was only 13 inches shorter, played behind him. Every time they got a pass off for Hal brook to tip on in there was a scramble. Our two boys finally fouled out but the Spire didn't make 'em all like he did against Central Cath olic. Then, whenever we got a free throw, we took the shot Instead of taking it out of bounds. That ic counted for another 15 points and was enough to win the game. ' The only hitch was that our play ing all was done from the back row, grandstand. Halbrook didn't know anything about it. He just kept flipping them in against frus trated Central Catholic, and Lin coln is the New Champ. NEW YORK (fl Stray thoughts of a new video fan: A new form of exercise in the American home is getting up to answer tne teiepnone only to dis cover It Isn't your own phone ring ing its tne pnone on a television program. It elves you a sheenlsh feeling. but on the other hand it also gives a man a good excuse at least for not answering his own phone at an. Television is credited with build, ing up a national public for sev eral political figures. But this little view box can des. troy as well as build. And isn't this already becoming evident? The American people love a hero, but the glamor of a hero who talks too often and is seen too much soon wears thin. People weary of him. Part of the success of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous fireside chats lay in the lact he dldn t make one every day. Are some statesmen already making the mistake of inviting memseives too 01 ten into American living rooms via the television screen? It is a thought that must cost them considerable soul-searching, because It Is a long time between now and November. The political epitaph of some candidates may be this: "I voted against him because I mi i n 11 1 iiIit 'ii mi 11 1iiniirmm' was Just plain tired of seeing nis face, and couldn't stand the idea of looking at It for another four years." s The trouble with using television as an electioneering medium Is that even the wisest speaker, the most veteran campaigner, doesn't realize the point at which he may begin to bore more people than he Interests. Television Is without doubt the BILL JENKINS Managing Editor year s.11.00 chore even for modern man and his ideas of econcmics. The green, green grass is bo Binning to break through In spots You spot It in lawns around towns and on a few sun-warmed baliks around the country side. The ire is going off the lake, the farmers are going crazy waiting for fielos to dry out. the ecese arc heamnu north by the hundreds of thousands and the Sporting News Is bark to headlining baseball, looks line a change in the weather. Speaking of geese. There was a yarn in the paper last night to the affect that fish and wildlife mm were banding geese with plastic bands around the neck in order to find out their flight plans. The Idea being that if you spot a kooso wearing a colored necklace you re port it to the nearest federal agency along with such pertinent information as the goose's direc tion, altitude, ancle oi ilieni and probable plans. Then they check back on the color of the neck band and find out which way he went. Wonder who will be the firs', to spot one in this area? Vv tcpiA a : ij Fighting the 25-year-old battles all over again, the question came up of how our team got to be a winner. There were taller men in the od position. ("Buck" Buckley, who used to own the Standard Cleaners here, was one of them.) There were faster teams: there were cleverer teams; there were more sensatlor.l shots. Bob Brown was a good coach but he was no Svengali. In retrospect of a quarter century (some outsider was unkind enough to put It that way) the answer as that we were pure amateurs: We played basketball for the love of it, for the love of doing it better than the next team. Individual competition was fierce on the practice court, but on the floor against five strangers the plav was as a team, to win, that's all. A good team can be beaten. A champion gets beaten btft once. Our outfit took a defeat early m tne season found out that it could nan. pen but that it was not necessary. From then on we knew that v.e COULD win if we played It right, and from then on went after each opponent as necessary to win. (And this included leaving yours truly to sit It out on the bench for inter minably long spells.) The halftlme intermission of a basketball game is a dull time. A time to get up and stretch your legs and have a Smoke. The bOUO spectators in McArthur Court in Eugene can't all get out and stretch so they have something or o!hr going on between halves. At the high school title game last Saturday they introduced the Old Champs, the "boys" who'd gotten together to tell each other how good they were 25 years ago. Here, for a moment it was the real thing again. Waiting to go on, you got the whiff of sweat as the other players came off. Here was that scared, excited feeling as you measured the awesome size of those players. Your name was called and you walked on the floor the playing floor. The crowd was forgotten . . . things were about to happen . . . For a brief moment it was a game again, and you were there on the floor rarin' to go . . . A few words were spoken . . . and you filed out, to make your way to the grandstand, back row . . . for the second half of the real game. . And for you reader, you can re lax. This won't happen again not. Ill ISTf. 77- 'Jvf greatest entertainment bargain since the free shows the Caesars put on in the Coliseum at Rome. Mediocre as many of the pro grams are, the average man, what ever his interests or educational level, can find 10 to 15 hours of entertainment worth his attention. The programs would be even bel ter If as much time, talent and effort were nut into them as are put into the commercials. That is why more and more thoughtful viewers prefer the artful and tuneful com mercials to the drab programs that precede and follow them. Maybe the answer is for the spon sors to concentrate even more on the commercials and drop the pro grams aiiogeiner. My small God-daughter no longer looks at the programs. But she drops her toys and comes running to watcn tne commercials, iney re more exciting. Much has been written about the euect 01 television on children. But how about exploring Its impact on housewives and household pets. My own wife, for examnle. hasn't darned a pair of socks or sewn a button my clothes since our set arrived. . . . ' I've got TV eves." she cxnlalns. "Just can't see to thread a needle any more." As to household pets, a fr end of mine who owns a cat had to give up television In her home alto gether. "I had to choose between it and my cat." she said. "Mv cat was Jealous. Everytlme I turned on television she attacked the set and tried to scratch it to death." On the other hand I have besrri of another lady whose cat likes to sit and stare- at the television set all day. Doesn't care about nnv particular program, but wanders aouui tne nousc, restless ana Un" They'll Do It, Every ;Time ttBLl.fOUUSLE.' WHO 00 iGO THINK XXJ'RE CKDEKIN VvlXINDr'HUHr oooo tuouM I TWMK, your T4ae,HiWPets stKrr! XX) CWT 6MUT ME UP! TM (50NN4 TELL VOU WH4T ASEW4MTEO AT KVR I THINK Of XXI MBlE-IU. SEE XXJ rW-LOCIN3 WIPE OF VOURS f SO AHSAO! FlRfJ rl VVELL,BEFORE HXI DO.X QUIT.'.' AH I 1 ...Tl' IV 2m OH I HI HVO tTV.5 .. It. 01 ft .. 5- COOKIES KLAMATH FALLS On behnlf of the Klamath Area Girl Scout Coun cil I would like to take Uiis op portunity to thank all who assisted me and all whq bought ' cookies thus making our annual Girl Scout cookie sale a great success. .Mrs. Fred Karlson Cookie Chairman FLOOD CONTROL KLAMATH FALLS The front page article by Hale Scarbrough in the Friday, March 21, Issue cf the Herald and News "Flood Cont-.ol On Lost River Should Open Up More Tule Homesteads." appea-3 to have left us in a wee bit of confused state of mind. We ask. "How is it possible for a nice clean drainage ditch In the headwarters of Lost River to add to flood control when such con struction makes It possible for the waters from that part of the coun try to rush, unimpaired, down the river to the lands below: drainlna Lengell Valley in the. shortest pos sible time?" Just how ths expedited system of drainage will afford "protection ' to the Tule Lake Basin from flood appears to be an enigma. Our federal Bureau has repeatedly told us that the way to prevent floods is to provide bigger and better reservoirs to catch and hold the excess flows of water. Of course, by so doing, we would also obtain a series of "multiple use benefits" from the construction, a fact usu ally confirmed by a series of pseudo-economic computations by bureaucratic experts. . Now we are told that a nice; clean straight channel that can bring flood waters down stream in the quickest possible fashion w-fi be a protection for the lands In the valley below pardon my con fusion. I am quite sure that the astute engineers of the Bureau can ex plain this unusual phenomena quite happy, until thd , set 5s switched back on. I have also been.- told about a dog that whines unless the video screen is tuned to a Western movie. "The only way I can figure It out is that he is a city dog," said the owner, "and It Is only by looking at Western movies that be ever gets to see trees." TONITE on KFJI FAMILY THEATRE at 7:00 " -. THE CISCO KIP of 7:30 . n and What's The h , Name of That Sonjj .' at 8:30.1 V:? 1150 Wafrj MUTUAL BROADCASTDtO STSTDf rWii'H:ll,H.','WJM m m a . w is!iia 1 1 1 - aniirtiTiinr IwiiSjV 1JN uu" I WW this famous Jtk QjBig' westerner TtT TONIGHT at 5:30 (Sfes i KFJI-vr C twb MteKwsr OUV iM THE JOirJT SO I rWT ALL VEAR-POT THE to err at OFFICE DANCE IS MIS KI6MT TO HOWL"' AND 1UAT , MS H1FE HAS HOLCHNS MM VOMi ALL M6HT BUT HE GOT Amy! I HOPE THEY'VE LOT OF WAR 4 1.Q dearly in their simple non-tcchnt c.il fashion of bafflegab and re lteve us of this horrible feeling nf irusiration in irvum to i uure tiio thing out . For a number of years we have been lead to believe that the wat ers of Lost River ran out on tho alluvial plain of upper Langell Val ley only to sink into a porous soil structure that formed a large sub- terreman catch basin acting as an underground reservoir. This refr. voir was capable of holding a con. siderable portion of the river's flow and in the winter would store up flood waters then release them in a steady flow from big springs in the lower portion of Langell Valley Basin. This fortuitous system of water regulation provided by Mother Na ture, naturally would not satiIv the engineers and so they muit take steps (at a slight additior:il charge lo the cost of -the project! to correct this erratic method that Mother Nature has used to re Charge the ground waters of tin: Langell Valley Basin. ' So the engineers are going to dis a ditch which should prohibit a:iv large 'degree of water percolation io uus underground reservoir. ""SiDear Bill: action w ii oe a mosi interesting " should settle for all time the spec- uiauon over vne source oi me oigi springs on ixisi ttiver. li u is I'ue Prom the (lrst of June through at as some contend hat these springs , ,east 0clober j , expcct ,0 see are fed from waters stored up n you clBd on, , the brlc(eat of the Langell Valley Basin due to shorts pongee shirts, and sandles Lost River getting "lost." the attrh mled wlln bobby gox would provide the answer Wntm Too, u you cari flna- no au(uble which once could percolate into rcadlng matter at Carmlchael's, I the underground reservoir will bcsugKm vou conlmuc rending those able-to rash down the man pro-conllc SUpplements which have so video" channel without seeping lmoigreally mfluenced your wrmil t0 springs should diminish in flow due to the fact their supply source would be curtailed. The winter an! spring flow of water in Lost River would then be increased by tne amount of water subtracted from the springs and greater quantities of water would 1 nave to oe spuieo irom 1-051 tuvrr into Klamath River than at tne present time, this extra discharge would have to be compensated by greater drafts from the Klamath River to Lost River during the ir- Announcing the newest Triple-Action m r ONLY Low down Youllbt floppier with a ffoovtr VERN OWENS' CASCADE HOME COMPANY 124 No. 4th By Jimmy Hatlo THE BOSS WAS JU6TXBWT kcaut TO FuKSIVE AHO FORGET BOOT LAST' YEAR. REAIEAiBERP WHEN TKfctiBLE' CHIN YiAS DOHS THE ADVK3 WITH OL LAUr BECOME " ' THE OL' TRUTH SERUM BFEfJ BVWJRKINO-'THlSIS , THE REALTKEWSI.EOM- .TOMORROW rCUU. SEE GOT A THE ohEU. OF HIS in I n 7:1 BONDS TO rawest self Opfce PARTIES ars. &XO FOR MORALE-' AWKE FOR BETTER RELATORS BETWEEM EXECUTIVES AHO employees (on, yew?) rlgatlon season. Since 1938 the Bureau has been dumping each year some 110.000 acre feet of water from Lost River Into the Klamath: yearly umoui.is have ranged from 234.'J00 acre ievl down to 44.350 acre lect. The an mini draft from the Klamath River lo Last River has been around S4 000 acre fect of water; yearlv amounts ranging from 34.100 down w .. Just why tlie Bureau engineers should create a project that will Increase the Hood potential and la bel It "flood control" is one of those unexplnnuble actions of bu reaucratic gobbledegook, however j " could be. the Bureau lacks the """i loruiuac 10 aau a arain. age system by Its true name be cause they seek to hide the fact that a comparatively few acres ut land will be "benelllcd" by an ex- pensive boondoggle. When, if ever, "the flood" doos come and I mean the "Hood1' spec ter the Bureau people are always rattling In the closet, the people ol Tulclake arc quite apt to get wet feel because the Bureau Is doing everything possible to get the wat er there in the quicke.il and most direct fashion. When that tune comes one wonders If the Lost River Division Channel will prove to be a trap Instead of a route ol escape. Ken Mrl.fod 413 Ultll Ancr hllvlI1R rcnd Monday nlghl-s Bullbourd (Billboard?) I am suf. lenng B BKKruvated anal hemhor- rage ,or you and your suffering. Sincerely, Robert I1. Currln 412 N. 11th St. Meteors are luminous bodies usu. allv referred to as shootlna stnru. when they fall to the earth they are ca'.ied meteorites. " Jefferson's Manual" is the basis of the rules of procedure In both the U. S. Senate and House ol Representatives. uu Cleaner Model 29 High cleaner performance at moderate cleaner cost . . . that's Hoover's newest . . ; Model 29! 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Western Powers Face Up To Russia; Plan German Tie Despite WASHINGTON W The West. em powers gave evidence Wednes day of pushing ahead with plana lo cement as much of Oermri-y as possible to the Western world legardlesa of Russia's tactics. i he toughened policy of the United Stnlei, Britain and France for dealing with Oernian questions where Russia la concerned war spelled out III a note sent to Mos cow Tuesday and made public by the three nations. This 600 - word declaration, re sponding to a new Soviet propositi of March 10 to start work on a Oermiiu peaco trraty, aid two things: 1. It served notice on the Krem lin that Western nations, In clo.-; cooperation with the anll-Coimmm-Isl government of West Oerinnny, arr firmly committed to ileiug Germany In wnole or In part to a "purely defensive European community." State department officials who helped draft the note said this There's Still One Born Every Minute Almost Chief Freed In Bay Wreck OAKLAND, Calif. Wl A Su perior Court Jury says a Navy chief was not responsible tor the Bay Bridge bus plunge that killed eight persons and Injured 31 ser iously. Orvllle C. Russell Jr.. 25. form erly of Independence, Kas., was prosecuted because his automobile had hit a bridge abutment and knocked a Inrge concrete block Into the traffic lane. A few minutes later, a Grevhound bus crashed Into (he block and plunged over a bridge railing and 42 feel to the ground. Tlie crash occurred In Gftober. Acquittal was voted Tuesday. Russell was acquitted of bolh manslaughter and drunk driving charges. The 2000 portholes In the trans atlantic liner. Queen Mary, contain .00 sq-iare feet of glass. Each year, more thun 2.000,000 chickens end 300, COfl turkeys ro reproduced In the Arkansas valley of Colorado. 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Official)! here predicted the new note would lie lollowed by a Inn 4 series of exchqnues such a '.ns taken place regularly In the lni',1 five years. These exchanges over the venrs have coiul.itciilly reflected a bald ening of the antagonistic positions of the Communist and free nall'ms. WETUMKA, Okla. i There's a sucker born every minute but Wetumka thinks It has more than Its share. So, for the second straliihl year, the City Council hns de.-lgnated Aug. 30 as "Sucker Day." The Incident dates back two years ago when a smooth-talking stranger, calling himself F. Bnm Morrison, breezed Into town with a big story about a circus which was on iLs way to Wetumka. The towaipeople kicked In money to teed the elephants and auiiuuls. Morrison even sold the hot dog concession to an unsuspecting mer chant who stocked up with a year's supply. The big day came, but the circus didn't, and Morrison could not be lound. But the City Council mlnht hsve passed over "Hurker Day" this year were It not for another em barrassing Incident, March 15. the mayor,' Chamber of Commerce, and townspeople lined the streets to welcome the Oklahoma City Chamber of Com merce and Its famous "Kiltie' Drum and Bugle Corps, Again the hour arrived, bu' the Oklahoma City delegation didn't show up. Tlie mayor checked his letter from Oklahoma City, and found the date was April 15, not March 15. Mock Battle Features FORT IIOOIJ, Tex, I A mush, rimming cloud ot smoke, blllowliiK Inslly upward In a blue sky sis. imlcil the use of almllated atomic, weapons In a muck war that Is coldly realistic. An hour and a half after a brigade of S'Jiul Airborne "Augrea. sor" troops parachuted from ylunl transport planes Tuesday, Hit Klomiu cloud burnt over the drop mine. It Wat irally Just a smoke bomb limed to rxplotio at about 1,600 fret, Tho Army ciiiiimimliiiio, No. t of Operation Long Horn, bigurnt rtlr-urttliml llinni.iiVMr f,t II u titil- Itaiy history alitted briefly' with. out oeiiiu: mo u. . H, ground Itl'KHu rlll,.H,..,H . .... ,. iigaliiNl the BgBicssor ground 'I'll.,. M.n . II . a ' . , .... u pianns in ""'""w nurit con. trolled the sky. . . I Trior tu the maneuver's atart. jl.t. tien. William Jloje. Fourth Annv .commander utid ihsiiruyer director,' hua iiniioiinced -iiiomio ! weapons would bc used in im. Ijilatrd fashion during tho Mnrtu jAi-Aprll 11 war game, .I t I At the snnin time, the, Arftiy j announced U.S. plm ,,f ,(, Hinted nlom bombing Victoria. Ho :2' """" Alice and Hondo. Boulh lexaa towns held bv tha ' KumcsMir forces In o smelly l"Pr part f 1P operation tilt ; involves lls.ooo men 1 JJiip paratrooper wa, killed in the drop uh,n , ,,, , . " : announced a., a brigade In " "i 1.31(1 men. Tinny-four were in. Jured. including Col. Stanley I a?! son, youil.1,,1 commander of t J-'5 Airborne Infamry Itegi . o suffered . broken hlp.ttjv" J Jumpers recetved fractured JeJ, and one a fractured back. HoweStl Cuts Budaet i budget-cutting drlv, ps, ,hc . ! J..7a Interior Department ; appropriation bill was set up m the next tarnel. 9 I Already dimmed from President I rumnii s requested 62.00 600 by he Appropriations Com lee, ht Interior measure ollrred little on. orttmlty for heavy slashing, ft vtas :eheduled fitr iinui m day.- " f 'iMTJi J!!'"'' ,alr Tuesday of I.7S3.2.M bill flnaliclnn Hi, I L--"r vpurtnipnt mid the Federal jt iiv .-wv for the fiscal year IMllrtlnv .into 1 ttl (i.. in,.i ..... thus fur shiihily over a billion doi Jhirs. I Hie l.nhnr.H,.n1 .u.. 1.111 was 1200. 107. 8P3 less than tlie Pres. Ident had requested, and was the third aurceudve budurt measure thr ItriiiMj. liM,n,A,l a,.. free bills has been considered by uir oi;umr. O '3 J03 of the; reduction n ! 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