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r PAGE TEN HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY, JANUARY 1. mm IKKk. FRAME JXNXim BILL JENKINS BdHor Managing Mllor ' Entered u sawond clau matter at the put office ot Klamath Palls, Ore., ea August 30, 1M6 under act ot Congress, March I, in) MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS '1 The Aaeeolated Preae u entitled exclusively to the use for public) !a of all the local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP newt. 1 month months 1 year SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL BX CAKJMM 1 month i $ l.SS Jjj, $ 6.50 tu.oo t months 1 year S 1.10 16.N BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS Another New Year's day has rolled around, and on all sides pcgple are silting around either making good resolutions or already regretting the ones they have made and advertised to their iriends. This department, for once, is pretty short in the field. The only major resolutions being to cut a Jew inches off the waistline during . the coming month and to clean out the drawers in the desk without even looking to see what we are throwing away. It's the only way. Along that general line we're wondering if mass wishing can get the world anywhere. You know, like staring at someone until their sixth sense is affected and they turn around? Well, maybe if we all sat down and wished and hoped real hard we could get the same results on a major scale. Perhaps if we all wished for a lit tle more cheerful news and little less murder, sudden death and mayhem the world would look a lot brighter. It's worth a try any way. So we're going to wish for peace and happiness and good cheer and understanding among men. We'll also wish for a few side items, like a decent duck sea son In '54, a warm spring and sum mer, a victory for the Dodgers and the return of the horse nd buggy. And," after all, there Is some ' good news in the world. Like a letter this morning from Larry Bowler of 1705 Michigan Boulevard' in West Sacramento. Larry is president of the newly formed '. House Brothers Fan Club. Formed as a measure of appreciation for the sweet music of our own House brothers. Says Larry: "we feel that the world needs more of the sweet, wonderful music that only the House Brothers can sing. We want to help more people hear these singers." Good for you Larry. And much luck in your campaign to further the work of Bonanza's famous brothers. We always like to hear of praise being given where it is so well due. And we agree with you about their abilities. Might also interest you to know thnt there is a telephone exchange in New York City called ORegon. Ain't it wonderful how this state gets around? But let's hope that we don't go metropolitan Just be cause of that. We agree heartily with Governor Patterson that this is now and should stny largely an agricultural economy. One of the most cheerful sights of the holiday season has been the throngs of children skating on the smooth expanse of the ice out along the shores of the Upper Lake. With almost unlimited expanses of ice the past few days there have been shinny games all over the place, couples coasting along hand in hand and at least on one oc casion a smiling youth skating swiftly along towing his exuber ently happy young brother behind him on a miniature sled. It all looks like fun. Wish we didn't have a pair of ankles that act like stalks of limp celery when it comes to skating. Happy New Year to all our friends. All the best for the com ing year. And all we have to do is try a little to make it one of the very best. ! They'll Do It Every Time iM . By Jimmy Hatlo CAUGHT IN THE ROUNDS By DEB ADDISON IT 13 OUR WONT, as the old guy with whiskers and scythe makes his exit just ahead of the lusty infant In diapers, to look back briefly on the happenings of the past 52 weeks and then quick ly look ahead again. It Is our wont, personally, to take a quick, haphazard gander in retrospect and then make a,wards to certain citizens for meritorious service and eifort beyond the call to duty. Now, then, leather medals go to: EEX DYE and his many, many fellows who, through pride in their community and in the free, voluntary way of doing things, pitched in and put over the 1953 Un ited Fund-Red Cross program in grand style. That act puts Klamath again at the front as one of the lead ing communities In our part of the world, GEORGE DAVIS lor not only doing a good job as president of the Klamath County Chamber of Com merce but for accepting the post again In 1954 on the grounds that it will be a year of decision and mat the organization has unfinished 1953 business to button up in '54 and also for being the voice cry ing in the wilderness, lo these many years, that Klamath Falls is the natural distributive, center of the West. RALPH MACARTNEY for his hand In the 27 years progress of Weyerhaeuser, from timber holdings to industrial backbone of the Basin and to Weyerhaeuser it self for turning the reins over to Hugh Campbell. ELMER BALSIGER and the Ore gon state Game Commission for giving us the good long season that enabled us to make the most of the hunting that the ducks and geese, with their eccentricities, provided and lor giving us sep arate opening days for waterfowl and upland birds for once. ANDY LONEY for being the top flight music educator that he is; for enticing such excellent fel low Instructors to the public school music education staff; and for the final result of inspiring our youth ful musicians to do their very best all the time. RAY HOBSON and the other Klam ath Basin Grade A producers for voluntarily reducing the price of milk when increased efficiency made it possible, which is evi dence of their constructive view that offering the best possible pro duct at the best possible price is the way to promote their business. (Other farm groups take note.) CHARLEY WIESE and the Tule lake Growers for attacking their problems by hiring a real fine manager in the person of Cliff Jenkins, and for planning in '54 to go right on from there. THE DOCTORS of Klamath Falls for establishing an emergency off-hour cnll service through Klam ath Valley Hospital, so that you can always get a doctor If you really need one. THE WEATHER MAN. last but not least, for giving us the most enjoyable fall and winter that any one can remember, mere have been others just like it but what he's dished out the last four years has blotted them from mind. SAM DAWSON NEW YORK UP) A few reso lutions lor the new year: Everyone might resolve lo stop ynk-ynklng- so much and start do ing a Utile more. Economists could stop forecast ing especially since each predic tion must slur l with "depending on what Russia docs" and end up "provided the consumer doesn't decide Lo save his money." Politicians could stop frighten ing people by being so grimly re assuring. This notion never yet has had a recession it was "talked into" the man in the street is usually the last person to notice that business has slowed down. By the same token, this nalion has never had a period of prosperity it was "talked into," either. But too much talk about how things will always go on being bigger and better can make people stop I and wonder. Auto makers could resolve to stop calling everything an acces sory and charging extra for It. Please, boys, at least leave us the wheels as standard equipment. You might slop talking about the pood old days as if you thought they would return. Housewives could stop dreaming about a re turn to prewar prices, it's most unlikely. Some factory owners could stop harping on the days when labor cost much less than now, a return to 1930 levels is most unlikely. Businessmen might recognize that times are changing. The Iran- AnV IS SO SWEET WDTHOU6T..VVUBJ SUE SMIPS 'EM- r,i.i wai piACfi rUEl-l- HtHW ''i- ,Ck,n J'. r couuun i www ----" THEM THE CMEAKta i .1 . nr , ti But wwem twe stuff arrives-tme old gal is not so sweet amd the OLD JUNK IS All- OBJETS O'ARTf 4 JUST LOmt' AT WUAT U-M I Dcx-rx a rr 7.7. T . ' 'wwrt-fcci MY HF A NT CI II TUIklCC I tkJ "2kis exi-osmoN parasol aoc vEL . TORN WHAT RAI CXJINS TO DO cku r it ? I LL SUE :VNriirTr. 1." . Tha Klamath Sportsmen's Association and the Her ald and News are cooperating in offering a "Sportsman of the Year" and a "Landowner of the Year" award this year, both categories to receive $25 for top place and honorable mention for second. The Sportsmen prizes will be awarded for the outstanding example of sports manship displayed by a hunter during the current deer and migratory bird season. The Herald and News award will go to the landowner voted as showing the greatest cooperation and understanding toward the hunting pub lic. Your nominations are asked in deciding the win ners of these two awards. Just fill in the blank below and mail to HERALD and NEWS, marked SPORTSMEN'S CONTEST, before midnight, Jan. 10. Final choice will be made by a panel of judges from the Sportsmen's As sociation and will be announced, with pictures, in the Herald and News one week later. I nominate who lives at for the (check one) Sportsman Landowner award because (If you wish to give detailed information a post card may be sent.) Bruce Biossat James Marlow HAL BOYLE tic postwar years when people would pay almost anything for what Ihey wanted are going, going, gone. If your profits don't set new records year after year, It will be a pity. But as long as you stay in the black, you won't become an object of universal pity. The ad men who write commer cials tor the radio and TV might resolve to take things a little easier. Do commercials have to be thai long? And that numerous? and the pressure on the public that feverish? Too much is enough, boys. , The weatherman could resolve to cut down on the tricks he played on Us in 1953. Farmers could get along without the droughts and the Hoods. Utilities and railroads could get along without the unheralded snowstorms. All but the air-conditioning men and the soda pop sel lers could get along without the heat waves. And the postman might resolve to forget to deliver all those new year bills. SLEUTHS SHAWNEE. Okla. Trooper C. A. Morris has two dogs to thank lor uncovering 166 pints and six firths of contraband liquor. - The hunting dogs, in the back scat of an automobile he stopped lor speeding, began playing around while he wrote a ticket for the driver and uncovered the liquor under blankets. KEW YORK U "A happy new , year!" This fine old greeting will be said billions of times today. Some will bellow it merrily; some will whisper it through the filter of the dark brown taste of the morn ing after the night before: some will mumble it with the profession al solemnity of a hired pallbearer at a cut-rate funeral. 'A happy new year!" The words have a leaping sound to some, a doleful significance to otners. For many a man now is caught in a valley of despond the peak of Christmas joy is be hind him, and before him he sees a new year mountain of bills and duties and doubts. 'How will I ever make it through Ihis one," he groans, thinking of his past mistakes. And whenever a friend says "Happy new years he feels more like breaking out In tears than cheers. How can such a wight be com forted in his woe? Well? How bet ter than by reading what some wise men oi the past have said on the subject of time and the prob lems it brings? So. if the new year" thrcatenr. to get you down, here are a few famous sayings to paste in your heart and head and help you wea ther this difficult time; "I will not let the years run over me like a juggernaut car." Thoreau. "Years have hardier tasks than listening to a whisper or a sigh." Stephen Vincent Benct. "From each of us each passing year takes something." Horace. "All sorts of things and weather must be taken in together, to make up a year." Emerson. "We spend our years as a tale that is told." Old Testament. 'A thousand years In Thy sight are but as yesterday when il is past, and as a watch in the night." Old Testament. "In masks outrageous and aus tere "The years go by in single file; "But none has merited my fear, "And none has quite escaped my smile." Elinor Wylie. "The good old year is with the past, O be the new as kind!" Bryant. "New year comes but once a twelvemonth." W. E. Henley. "Yesterday's errors let yester day cover. Sarah C. Woolsey. "Ring out the old, ring in the new." Tenneyson. "A man should never be ashamed" to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." swill. "Never tell your resolution be forehand." John Snlden. "Be as a tower, that, firmly set. shakes not Its top for any blast mat oiows. ' Dante. "Resolve, and thou are free." Longfellow. "There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full re solve either for good or evil, ex cept at the very moment of exe cution." Hawthorne. "Hast thou attempted greatness? Then go on; back-turning slackens resolution." Robert Herrick. "The road to resolution lies by doubt." Francis Qua lies. "Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood can't. J. G. Holland. "When a man does not know what harbor he is making for. no wind is the right wind." seneca. "All things are what you make them." Plautus. Not too many weeks ago the topic of Britain's trade with Red China was much in the news. What was at issue was not trade In strategic materials, since this had been cut off long before, but traffic in non strategic goods. The Eisenhower administration did not spell out at that particular time its attitude toward such trade. But there is no secret about it. This government believes that some trade in nonstrategic mater ials between the free West and the Communist East is not only inevi table but desirable. The reasons for this view are numerous. In the first place, West ern nations get products like tim ber and grain and some metals from, behind the Iron Curtain. These cannot be obtained at any thing like so advantageous a price outside the Soviet orbit. Indeed, they cannot be obtained at all in many regions. Secondly, the trading Western na tions have been cut off from natur al and complementary trading re lations with the East. When the Iron Curtain dropped, it threw these relations into chaos. Our government recognizes the neces sity of these countries finding mar kets for their substantial output of exportable manufactured goods. If new markets are not avail able in America and elsewhere, it is understandable that these trad ing powers will seek to restore at least some of their East-West trade without giving aid to Com munist military effort or prepara tion. Thirdly, to cut off all trade with the East is to force the Chinese and all the European satellites fur ther and further into Russia's clutches. A complete trade barrier would make them helpless pawns of Moscow, whereas it is declared American policy to woo the satel lites gradually away from Russia. In this connection, Warren Lee Pierson, chairman of the U.S. Council of the International Cham ber of Commerce, pointed out re cently that some experts feel we have already shut off too much trade with the East. He said we have rejected political containment the idea of merely nolding Rus sia to its present territorial gains in favor of a goal of ultimate liberation. But in squeezing East West trade so severely, we appear to be still practicing "economic' containment. It is an old axiom that trade opens the way to wider exchange of ideas, cultural practices, even political ways of doing. Even If American could absorb all the products the rest of the West could export, there still would thus be solid argument for maintaining trade with the East as a lever against the crushing weight of Communist tyranny. These are some of, the thing we ought to bear in mind when any one makes the seemingly attrac tive point that we should have no dealings at all with anyone inside the Red domain. wAcwTwrvmN i7P Young and earnest Sen. Knowland is not noted as a humorist, wmcn is iuurw.j . well What he faces in 1954 is enough to keep any man serious all ye&r. The 48-year-old California Re publican has Uie double job. which is really onlv one and the same job, of trying to fill the shoes of the late Sen. Robert A. Tail and steering President Eisenhower s program through the Senate. Knowiana sueiiia uic , i h. . nihher stamn for the White House but to speak his mind in disagreement with Eisen hower whenever he sees fit. This is strictly in tne toi u-uumuu. But Knowland has yet to demon strate that he can be as outspoken as fait and still keep his fellow Republicans in the Senate from taking this as a cue to run off in all directions themselves. The dark-haired Knowland had been in the Senate only seven vpnrs when he succeeded Taft as majority leader. He worked hard at his new responsibility through the closing weeks of Congress. But his task then was mild compared with the one confronting him now. Rising above any personal bitter ness he may have felt because the Republican party wanted Eisen hower In the White House Instead of him, Taft labored hard both for the party and the President. Because of his great prestige and Influence. Taft was able to disa gree openly with Eisenhower on some points but still shepherd the Senate Republican votes regularly for the administration. Knowland, If only because of his comparative newness and youthful ness, lacks the Senate influence of Taft, yet it is upon him Eisenhower must depend for the progress of his program through the Senate in 1954. And Knowland's task is even a little more difficult than Taft's, for the Ohio Republican enjoyed an other advantage, although small, which Knowland doesn't have. When the 83rd Congress conj vened last Jan. 3 the Senate had 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and 1 Independent. Sen. Morse of Ore gon, who had been elected as a Republican. Now the Senate has 48 Democrats, 47 tfepuoucans ana Morse. Even with that small edge last vear Eisenhower had to depend on Democratic votes to bail him out on some major issues. So Knowland will, perhaps more limes than once, have to woo some Democrats, a predicament which may Increase nis sensitivity to Democratic attitudes and impel him to some compromises on Ei senhower programs. When Eisenhower this week an nounced a policy of placing defense contracts in unemployment areas, some Democrats, but particularly Southern Democrats who could en- areas of work, protested loudly, vision this policy depriving their Shortly afterwards Knowland called this Eisenhower policy a disappointment and said he would support legislation, after Congress comes back next Wednesday, to modify it. Not long ago, after Eisenhower said he hoped Communists in gov ernment would not be a 1954 elec tion issue, sen. McCarthy said it would be a main one. Knowland said it would be an issue. For the Eisenhower adininistra Hon 1953 was a period of getting ready for 1954. Eisenhower will unveil Thursday a program expected to be full of hot controversy on agricunure, social security, taxes, foreign af fairs, military aid. Knowland's ability as successor to 'Taft will get a full test and the full treatment. American Economy Winds Up Boom Year; Leveling Of f Period May Be Next By L. A. BROPHY General Business Editor NEW YORK 11 The Ameri- can economy has ended a super colossal year. As they say In the movies, 1954 may be only colossal. The years of long boom scaled the heights in 1953. Outpouring of goods and services topped all reo ords. So did national income. So did employment. So, what do the legion of busi ness seers, professional and ma teur see ahead for the new year? "Levelling off" is a pet expres sion of many. They see a return to more normal business condi tions; a possible drop in produc tion. maybe 6 per cent. Here are some of the reasons whv a gentle decline Is seen: Production has caught up with demand. Government spending has topped and is declining. Lay-offs are cropping up in many industries. It's getting much tougher to sell things. The rate of production of the na lion's basic industry, steel, is de clining. Whv will there be no abrupt fall? Here are a few reasons: Individual income taxes will be cut 10 per cent In January. That means more money for many peo ple to spend. In some brackets, however, the proposed increase in social security taxes will cancel out the saving. The excess profits tax expires. Consumers have money to spend. It's up to business by better sales manship and the development of more attractive products to go out and get it. The public has 24 billion in mutual savings banks alone. That's $1,800,000,000 more than a year ago. Business will continue to spend record sums for new plants and equipment in the first quarter of 1954. While government spending, another prop to business, has reached its peak, it will still be tremendous in the new year by any ordinary standards. Government economists general ly incline to the opinion that 1954 will be a mighty prosperous year. However, the government will take any steps needed to shore up the economy, if that seems necessary, In such circumstances, credit may be expanded, interest rates lowered, the money supply in creased. Perhaps consideration of further tax cuts and tax revisions aimed to spur business expansion and consumer credit. Public works are another possibility. One hundred corporation execu tives, reporting to the Commerce Department, predicted productini. George M. Humphrey, senr.i.-. of the Treasury, is optimistic, n't general conoilions, he said "Should be good. I don't expect personal Income to be down cor poratlon earnlngB may be smaller' but not much." ' Edwin O. Nourse, who was chair man of the President's economic council under' former President Truman, is not so happy lbou, things. He said: "Conditions that make for the end of a boom and the coming of a period of consid. erable readjustment are clearlv discernible. There is a tough eco. nomlc campaign ahead a Dsia, for the business world." However, adding up the bad with the good predictions any way ton want to, you will findUio general thought is that 1954 will not hit the levels of 1953, but it win be very good year. In effect, it now is up to bus. ness to take the ball. Government expenditures are tapering off and that Immense stimulus to the economy must be countered. Business is going to have to n harder than it has since the war The lush days are over, ' It's up to the consumer, too. Will he spend his money as freely? 4e has It to spend, that is a mighty iau, jjufjuuuciuuii; in we picture. When 1963 started, some woni. thought the boom would not con tinue as It had. But it did, and topped all records. It was a year of big develon. ments. price controls were taken off the economy. The Korean War ended. Inflation levelled o(f. Goods became more plentiful than Ihey had been since the war. The key indices showed the ta. mense power of the American economy in 1953. The total of all goods and sen. ices will come to 368 billion, 32 bil lion over 1952. Personal income should be KS billion. Last year it was 2SS oil- tc lion. Employment reached an all- high, topping out in August t,40B,WD Americans in jobs. Hourly factory wages reacM $1.73, the highest on record. In the first ten months, dividend! I increased by 4 per cent from tin same 1952 period, reaching a toul il of $6,600,000,000. One fretful note concerned tb;. farmers. Farm income is runnkj about 6 per ceni oenlnd last yen If the majority of predictions an . right, most peopU are not m to have to worry about their Job& " their ability to p&y their bills, n the state of business in lf 55 bi- K ll-llmt f t Witt I t THE DOCTOR SA Guerrillas Fight Russian Battle WASHINGTON Wl An under ground spokesman says about 100, 000 guerrillas are fighting a coor dinated battle against communism f0,.clbiy restrained from plungim Four Die In Flaming Home POCATELLO, Idaho Wl Pour children, the oldest 5, died Thurs day when fire swept their home here. The two boys and two girls were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Cornwall. They are: Jeffery, 4; sherry. 3. Ronnie Ted. 2, and Sandra Kay, 1-month. Mrs. Cornwall was In the house with the children when the flames broke out. she was awakened when a neighbor. Mrs. Annie Cooper, noticed the fire and pounded on the door. The mother ran from the house, in the confusion thinkintr hpr child ren had been saved. When she ! "le operation? Wil) found they still were in the flam- ing frame structure, she had to be By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D. As the seasons roll around, the nature of some of the questions sent to this column change. To day's first is one which comes much more often in cold weather, Q Please tell me what causes me to have a great deal of static electricity? Is there any physical cause and what can I do about It? A. D. A There does not seem to be any physical reason why some people show more static electrical phenomena than others. The type of clothing, the footwear, the at mospheric conditions, and the moisture of the skin may make these static effects more noticeable in some people. Some "fear" the effect of the little spark more than others. The only practical sugges tion is to change the fabric of shoes or clothing, but in any event the accumulation of static elec tricity has no serious signtfica,nce. Q My nose, which is long to begin with, is getting purple lines and red blotches on It. A room which is pretty warm causes it to get worse. Is there anything I can possibly do? C. S. A The condition described could be a skin disorder, or at least m part an allergic reaction. A der matologist might be able to help you. Q I understand that holds will be cured ori' gery, but I want to lr will come back a certe disappear whollj rhoidectomyf A Surgery is invariably, the bt hemorrhoids. New. veins may enlarge ft cessful operation, but always occur. The hemorrhoidectomy d constipation, which ly a causative factor . rholds and which treated by other me. Q Is it true that b ents can only have bit dren? A Blue eyes are coi. be a recessive charactei. editarily speaking. This mined by what are ki genes, and it is true tnat I eyed parents will have i eyed children, though ijs follow for brown-eyed p- Q When a broken Wp properly, is it custom! the pin in place or toj in due time? A If a pin has been us to aid in the treatment hip. it would ' place and r DATES SET MEDFORD '.fl Sept. 12-13 have been picked as dates for ihe an nual state meet ins of the Order of the Arrow, a senior Boy Scout or ganization. Med ford was selected as the site at the last meeting, at Silver Creek Palls, and a group here Wednes day named the dates. inside Russia and her subject na tions. A young Slovak, who claims he has made 20 trips back and forth across the Iron Curtain, told this to reporters yesterday. The spokesman, who uses the pseudonym "Michael Baar, said the campaign is directed from se cret headquarters in eastern Czechoslovakia. Baar said he hurdles frontier barriers with the help of a vault er's pole. He said he expects to re turn "at the first opportunity." into the fire. STREAMLINED TRAGEDY MIAMI, Fla. ijione of life's darkest moments came last night to the Florida Power and Light Co. All the lights on the company's float went out just as it passed the courthouse during the annual King Orange Jamboree Parade in down town Miami. COLUMBUS, Ohio iffi Mer chants at the nearby village ol i Groveport no longer need to pro-1 vide hitching posts for customers. ' And residents there may no longer be arrested if they decide to light the gas street lamps themselves. Officials of this village of 1,052 have decided to streamline city or dinances for 1954. J ifai'i only, ew I I RUB nam IT0PS IN QUALITY!! OOPS! SHAWNEE, Okla. IPi Dr. K. W. Kevin, director ot the Pottawa tomie Health Department, says the county has never had a year free of a diphtheria case. Just a few hours before estab lishing a record, what happens? A diphtheria case the first In 1953. 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