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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 ut l GE SK HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS , Editor Managing Editor kd as second class-matter at the post office of Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 20, 1906 under act of Congress, March 8, 1B78 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for publication the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL BY CARRIER month $ 1.35 1 month I 1.35 months - $ 6.60 6 months t 8.10 year . 11.00 1 year 16.20 BILLBOARD They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo GASTRIC IS FOREVER PAWNING MRS.G'S ... ivlA-nU 1M TUE STOVE - LACK ui- ivwwir." . AMD-OVEN t?cr-?isiv&p i i ""Hats. " ' '.z-wrTsm 1 jprs l ' l' a ' By BILL JENKINS Vral Motors, being a, pro ve and aggressive industry, cut on the highways in a hot-rod. the XP-21, experi- with the possibilities of a trbine car. They eay tliat this It test model Is not intended Immcrcinl use. But it doea lot of questions. miggest of which, ns you will loin the picture, is What are lug to do when you get caught one of these babies in kraffic? Can't you just imiig le exhaust coming out of feat whacking nozzle on the pd and washing around ypur held? n the Buick first came out icltWiolc-in-the-icnclcr nwdely years ago the public prints 11 of japes about birds build fets in the ports. With this it will be not only birds fcs, cats, small children and nimals, not to mention your licking a few Items in there ;o get them out ot the way minute." kkly I see little use for curs type. But then, Mr. Harlow i, who is president ot GM and I suppose he knows n Ileal more about enrs than 1 most anyone docs. I don't understand my plain old gas tg horseless buggy. then I suppose we're In for Irt of thing from here on out. is item today tells us that In Dallas, Texas, u cub driv- hauled into court and lined ling 15 miles an hour in a here the minimum was 40. is the thing. le Hcdlund spent the recent s down In Southern Oli- and he tells me that his 'eamlined Oregon license were quite a handicap. bp so much wind resistance fcldn't keep up with the Banio California cars zipping down re Boulevard. led to be the handwriting on 11. Now it's the skid marks highways, I see the end In' Anybody know of a guud bustry whip lactory for sale cheap? Business activity in the Far West as measured by the amount oi money that went through the banks was seven uercent higher in than it . was in 1952. And still we all stand around and howl about a recession. The only city in Oregon that reported a decline was Port land, and, shucks, we all know that Portland Is on the skids. Getting loo big. Eugene just stood still, content with the '52 figures. Brace up, man, the end ain't here yet. More business news from the Par West. Henry Kaiser tells us that more than one third of all the aluminum produced in the United States was made right here in Oregon and Washington. The Pa cific Northwest share was a whopping 043 million pounds, and that was a gain oi 35 percent lrom 1052. Who said we're slipping? In the history books that future generations will have to wade through the present day will be known as the Era of the Great Stall. Used lo bo that people had trouble1 ironing out arguments, Now wo have trouble ironing out arguments over how, when, where and why we're going lo argue. The days of the soil voice and the big stick arc gone, the old shille lagh laid away with such other relics ns the long rifle, the Peace. maker Colt and the line in the dirt thnt you dared the other fellow lo sten across. Nobody goes around with a chip on his shoulder anymore. They r.re all plied up in a huge heap at the United Nations, an organization perfectly fitted for the important work ot culling over the various chips and gelling them classmen And In the meantime, the former owners are out snarling at each other over a discussion table. The; might be talking, but we think that in all probability they arc trying lo hpot whether the other man is carrying a gun or not. Wjght in the rounds BY I) KB ADDISON PULL to the brim with ho talk lrom all kinds of ex like sitting back alter de- b a U.S. No. 1 A Klamath baker the memory lingers Ike having opened the spud frked out a lump of browning, pmory is not one of com- unadulterated satisfaction. ' y remember one thing both in the Inlking and the of potatoes our Russets, r they come from Klamath, .1 Oregon or Idaho, aro the lotatoes in the world, orow- ,ve their ups and downs. subject to rthe vagaries of r, disease and supply on frket, but our Russets are r to all olhcr potatoes. Lere talking about how health fid some mistaken trends in have become a damper on potato consumption. fr) butter wns scarce (it was remember? the Andrews lo the habit of serving their potatoes topped with a liber- ing ot plain, cold cottage in lieu of butter. It's de Ray said. They still eat pwlatocs with cottage clrose. ice to Percy Murray and Bud llii; Here's a way to promote c oi cottage cheese AND po all al once.) lo per .)le here should ap i' the attitude of the Idaho s narj the trouble taken bv ndrrw . He is the head of '.If .id ffice of Botsford, Con ? ' Gardner which is i s'lvrtising agency. 'Jd.Jiu commission took the t) what's good for -po-s l d for Idaho, and so .en i; that Andrews come d i the story from 17 -P" . ice advertising Idaho gnu icant that Andrews, both in Tulelake and Klamath , ited that for tho Inst i" -lnho has promoted the out' ei llrst and the name, . ec "..!. wow . Is perhaps equally significant that after 15 years of continuous advertising, Idaho po tatoes arc so well accepted! that this IS the logical approach. We learned loo that consumption of potatoes through rcstaurnnts, ho tels. Institutions, dining cars and such is as good as ever. It's home consumption that is down, Annual per capita use of h,H tatocs was l'.!u pounds as short a time ago as 1940; now i.'st around 00. The interesting thing is that com mercial establishments, which have to make ends meet and make a profit on their meals, are well aware of what a great food value the potato Is. Housewives, appar ently, are in too big a hurry to cook them, are too lazy, or Just don't give a durn. Speaking of making ends meet It was pointed out at the meet lng salurdHy of the Klamath Grow ers advertising committee how times have changed. It was only a few years ago that the potalo grower could const along for four or five years breaking even or losing a little and then "get well" on one good crop and market. He can't do that any more taxes and wages take it awny from htm. Did you ever henr of taxes nnd wages going down? The history of every civilization is one of con tinuing Intlation. Inflation may be stopped for a time iwc hope we're entering such1 ft period now but it never goes back the other way. That's why it's essential to mar ket the crop lo best advantage every year. That's why Tulelnke and Klamath growers both have given the green light to developing long range advertising programs, LOSS BEVERLY HILL. Calif. I. Mrs. Mervyn Leroy, wife of (he movie producer, reported yester day that she lost nn envelope con taining Jewels valued at more than $5,000 yesterday. It fell from her purse after she left a bank. THEM ONCE N A BLUE LUNA WUEhl . JOIMTINTOWM. i SMOW SOME IMAGINATIONS ll "' HAMBURGER i ""Jy -sA CAT WE EVER M AVE U I STEAK, WASHED U J4 fif SOME OfT-THE-BEATEK- M I POTATOES AND J tgh T 11 ' T&Aae aeaus? dontt you , peas S 5?T''-JV4t"V II 1 waMYTwa else BUT Jjsr-T lk8& IS ' V MEAT AMD POgTOES V 1fitfTTT? SJsE37J III b?! . HAL BOYLE ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL By KEN McLEOD Our portion of the Khinulh Riv er between Keno unci Klumalii is one o the recognized navigable rivers ol Oregon and though today It may be Utile more than a mill pond It Is a river that has its mem ories of days of the steamboat. When the horseless carriage came into the picture the steamboat vanished from the picture and lor a number of decades the river has been forgotten and neglected. With the coming of the railroad, navigation was lurther curtailed when the roadbed of the Iron horse shut off travel to Lower 'Klamath Lake and its numerous historic landings. Die Iron horse completed the demise ot the boating era but with the railroad entrance into the scene the lumber industry expanded mjgnilly ana Its nulls began to line the shores of the placid river. The river offered ample oppor- lumues to float logs to the mills and storage for logs and likewise some troublesome waste. The lum ber Industry opened, the era of industrial pollution of tho river, and for a lime tio one paid uny attention to the mounting tide of debris that wns the result. The population of tho vnllcv In creased, paved roads began to reach every corner of the area and the horseless' carriage multiplied. The pressure of population growth is starling to become a problem lor us, roads are becoming con jested with traffic, places for rec reation lor our people arc being overcrowded lo the point that ninny people are beginnlng.lo turn Dane to mo water ns a place lor recreation. The river, so long for gotten will once again be discov ered nnd trallic again will start to flow upon Its waters, not for com merce but for rccrentlon. The decades of use of the river by industry has left Its mark In hazards to recreation, sunken logs, dend-henris and the discarded chunks lhat were so ensy to gel nn oi by lioniing down the r ve: Then Micro Is the trcnienduous quantities of bark lhat come from the logs. For yenrs the Industry found It n very simple expedient to merely open the boom when the Sam Dawson NEW YORK (!') Sleelmcn are beginning to wonder if that expect ed order pickup is going to come In February alter all. Or will it be put oil until March? Their customers seem to have a much fatter inventory of steel than stcclmen had counted upon in their earlier predictions. The steel mills have made this same error of un derestimating their customers' supplies beiore. The big steel strike of 195 showed that. Customers didn't have to shut down their plants for lack of steel, in any such numbers ns the steel companies had supposed when the strike began. Metnl users may have scraped the barrel tor supplies, but most of them kept on going during the strike. Their slocks proved latter than either the mills or the gov ernment control agencies had sup posed. When consumers started living off Inventories late last year, sleel companies widely predicted Unit by now most of Ihem would hnve lo start ordering again. But so far the orders haven't poured in as ex pected. One thing that could change this picture quickly would be n threat of a new steel strike. Most of the steel companies will be negotiat ing a new wage contract before Juno 30. "There may be a fair amount of strike-hedge buying of steel il the bargainers get closo to contract termination without agreement.' the Iron Age, metal trade weekly, notes today. The weekly thinks the present slow pace of steel production w continue' for severnl more weeks nnd then improve mildly. It fore casts a probable high for the first halt of March. But if strike-hedge buying should bo ndded to this hoped-tor sprnu buying upturn, steel business could look pretty good during the ftrdt half. The steel unions are expected this year to Intensify their bid for a guaranteed annual wnge. And the companies are expected to be toucher to deal with tins year, with demand less urgent nnd production nenrer the break-even point. bark became too great within i;, thus the people down the stream could handle the problem the mills created. This abuse of the river lias set up a controversy regarding the influence of mill waste upon fish life and the heavy load of oi'suuic matter wasted from the milh to the river has been suspect of creat ing biological disturbances that are decidedly detrimental. Bottom samples taken in the studies made during 1953 of the river show that 50 per cent of the organic matter Ihere is composed of wood fiber. As this material decomposes it takes oxygen from the water, the oxygen that is needed for the sus- tainancc ol aquatic hie. The problem today is not so much crying over the abuses of, the past but what are we going to do auout the luture. To clean up the river from the hazzards of sunken logs and debris that is dangerous to the recreational use of the river will be a large task and cost consider able money. It is a task that even tually will be done for the basic recreational opportunities pre sented by the river cannot be denied. The biological dislocations th.it have taken place from pollution of the river, by both industry and hu man occupation is another factor and eventually the complex rela tionships will have to be studied be fore they can be understood. There are at present at least four sources of pollution whose effects must be determined before a complete un derstanding of the biological forces at work in the waters of the stream can be placed in their proper order of importance. These sources of pollution are first the waste from lumber mills I using the river for log storage and I transportation. Second the pol lution load discharged to the river from the city of Klamath Falls. Third the pollution load created by decaying algae washed down the river from Upper Klamath Lake. And fourth the pollution problem created by drainage waters from farmlands, of tho Basin. To make the river a safe place for the recreational enjoyment of boating is a much simpler prob lem than the problem to make the stream .into a "fisherman's para dise." There is no reason, how ever, that the river should not be come a good fishing stream for those species of fish its waters are most suitable of supporting. Tho problem of handling mill waste is not a difficult problem the most complicated problem present in this case is to get the mills to recognize their responsibil ities, a subject which they have not cared to look too closely into. Much of the sawmill problem is actually caused by thoughtlessness than by any willful desire to flaunt responsibility the river is such an easy way to dispose of unwanted material. Hugh Pruett Astronomer, Extension Division Oregon Higher K due at ion System Since those supposed to be au-: thoritics tell us that the 20th Cen- ' tury began on January 1, 19U1, we are now starting the fourth year of the second half of this century. The earth was nearest Uie sun for any time this year early in the morning of January 2. It will be most distant 3,000,000 miles farther away on the afternoon of July 3. The earth's orbit is not a circle but is slightly oval with some sections nearer Ihe sun than others. However, since the average distance is 03,000,000 miles, from a very accurate drawing represent ing the orbital shape, one cannot detect that it is not a circle ex cepting by careiully made meas urements. Drawings illustrating the ova)ncs3 arc always greatly exag gerated. There will be a total eclipse of the moon visible wherever the sky is clean in practically all of North and South America on the eve ning of January 18. This will A discussed in considerable detail In this column next week. On July 15 there will be a partial lunar eclipse with 4i per cent of the moon's di ameter in the shadow, but this will occur before moonrise In most of North America. There will be three solar eclipses visible somewhere in the world during 1954. The first of these oc curred January 4 by any United States time standards. (Almanacs giving London time correctly state "January 5.") This was the an nulnr (not "annual",1 or ring type, where the moon was a little too far from us to block out the solar surface completely, A narrow ring of light was left around the outer edge of Old Sol. This eclipse was visible only around the south polar regions. On the morning of June 30 there will be a solar eclipse rated as total. The narrow path of totality will start at about longitude 100 de grees west and extend northeast ward across Minneapolis and on to Europe nnd end . In India. Over most of North America, Europe and Asia, the eclipse will be par tial. On December 25 there will be an other annular solar eclipse, but it wil be visible only in Southern Africa, Australia and the Indian ocean. The brilliant planet Venus, which for some time has been absent from the western early evening sky, will pass almost behind the sun on January 29. After that it will set niter sunset. Then it will be several weeks before this plan et Is far enough from the solar gin re to be seen, but when finally It Is, it will be our splendid "eve ning star almost all year, or un til shortly before Nov. 15. when it wil pass almost between us and the sun and again become a "morn ing star." Since we are now at a time of sunspot minimum, auroras will hardly be very abundant this year. WASHINGTON M What in the world la Washington, D. C? Most great cities of earth you can peel like an orange, and get at the heart and the pulp ol u ,m. They give even the most casual visitor a definite feeling. New York is a tower . . . Paris is a beating pulse and the eyes of a new love telling old lies . . . Naples is a song in the night and bread crumbs on a tablecloth . . , London is stolid courage in a log . . . Shanghai is mystery and pov erty that smiles at its own misery . . . Calcutta is- a naked beggar pleading for alms beneath the shade of a Victorian monument . . . Berlin Is a question mark, saluting itself . . . Bombay Is a tired mongoose fighting a bored cobra, while each waits for the Point Four program to give it a better way of life . . . Athens is a blue sky and antique stones and wine with a resin taste, just as it tasted when Socrates drank it long ago .... Yes, most great cities are a def inite feeling. But what in the world is Washington D. C? I know it is Uie capital of the United States, and that George Washington was able to sleep better near here than at Valley Forge, but what else? I have come here many times, but all Tget from it Is a feeling ol puzzlement. To me It is a vast Jig sew puzzle made up of thousands of sights and impressions, but I never have been able to fit them into a pattern, and I am beginning to doubt if there is a permanent one. This is a political city, and the only permanent thing in Amer ican politics Is the next election. Every once in a while I have a feeling I'd like to go out to the Lincoln Memorial all alone at mid. night, look up at the stalue of the Great Emancipator and ask, "Mr. Lincoln, tell me about this place." But I'm afraid the only answer would be a sigh. After all, they shot Lincoln here. What in the world is Washing ton, D. C? Well, it Isn't America any more than New York is . . .It Is a mass of officials kneeling with their ear to the ground, and each one whis pering nervously to his neighbor, "What are the grass roots saying" ... It is a place where most peo ple come to from somewhere else they still call home ... a camp of transients who have pitched stone tents here for a purpose, and then move on. It is a two-way escalator where politicians pass.eacn other while carrying out the will of the people r.iarik nn the way up . , . wryly on the way down ... It is full of the front-page faces of yes th tnrpx at those who mis took what the grass roots were saying and no longer wain u back home ... and they sit in their clubs and talk with old cronies of forgotten battles the voters no longer caie auuuw What in the world Is Washing ton, D. C? Above all it is to most of those here a job ... a warm desk out of the rain ... a ium;u v tige ... the greatest fulcrum of power the universe has ever known . . . A fellow who comes here and doesn't want anything is a tourist. It is a government girl saying, "Maybe if I'd stayed in Dubuque I'd be looking after a husband now stead of looking forward to a pension." . . . It is a 1 o b b y i s t reaching for the dinner check and saying, "Well, congressman, as I was saying, it is only what the people want" ... But he doesn't say whose people . . . Nothing is done here without invoking the name of that great mystery "The People." ... It Is a small boy turning to his mother in the Senate gallery, and saying, "Mama, are you sure those men down there are It is compromises and pleading and committees. . . It is a place wnere the cockle il party is a weap on, and gossip is not so much a rirr ac an itlfill.slrv. . . It iS P town where everybody wants to feel he's in the real inside, part of "the big know" ... It is a,iorum, a sounamg board ... It is a lonely integrity and private chicanery- . And jet-propelled opportunism . Anrt hihiv mi smceritv. It is museums and monuments and tons of secret documents and scores of busts of famous Amer- ;rnn: incluriimr "Flat-Mouth," the noted Chinnewa chief. . . "Does it. npvpr chantrc?" a visitor asks and a cvnic answers, "Sure. It changes lrom organized chaos to a confused optimism depending on now you iook at u. What in the world is Washington, D.C.? I still don't know. But I do know that the only thing that holds it together are the dreams of 161 mil lion Americans and a small bal lot box. J6nr?es Marlov BRUCE BIOSSAT Surely this ought to be the year of decision on the question of the European Defense Community. Everyone knows that its fate hinges upon what the French do about it. And everyone knows Uiat France's political leaders are ex tremely unenthusia&tic about EDO. Their lack of enthusiasm stems, of course, from their fear that Germany would tend to dominate the six-nation army. To balance lhat fear, the French want assur ances from both Britain and the United States that they will keep armed forces in Western Europe a, long time perhaps 50 years. Beyond this, the French would also like to have the British asso ciated with EDC indeed with all efforts at European unity much more closely than Britain itself wishes. On the question of troops in Europe, both Britain and the U.S. understand the political impor tance as well as the strategic value of contributing forces to the gen eral defense. At the same time, Secretary of State Dulles has warned that American lawmak ers' patience will wear thin if France does nothing and Germany is consequently barred from taking part in its own defense. Apparently the French have im agined that they could wait lor greater assurances from America beiore going ahead. But certainly Dulles has now disabused them of that notion. We expect the French to act first. When they have ap proved EDC, then we may extend to them firmer guarantees of con tinued American military partici pation in Europe. But up to now the French have not moved In response to Dulles' prod. Instead, they are looking more keenly toward Britain, in the hope of finding there the prior as surances that could make EDC pal atable to timid French politicians. Fresh reports from London hint that British leaders are listening politely to these new overtures from France. Jean Monnet, archi tect of European unity efforts in the economic sphere, is trying to link Britain more tightly with the European Coal and Steel Com munity over which he presides. He believes that if he can succeed in that, he will have laid the founda tion for a broader unity including Britain in the political and mili tary fields as well. Even Chancellor Adenauer of West Germany is said to endorse, this attempt, since European minded Germans realize any bid by them for leadership would be viewed with grave suspicion.1 - So, in this first stage of what ought to be EDC's year of decision, Britain seems to hold the key. If the British can overcome their reluctance enough to tie in mofe closely with Western Europe, then the French may at last move to ratify EDC. Without that, the whole enter prise may deteriorate into a wait ing game between France and America. If neither then were willing to act first, the project might collapse, leaving Western Europe's defenses imperiled. For no practical alternative to EDC has yet been proposed by any Western statesman. TICKET DALLAS, Tex. W A cabin crane driver got a ticket yester dny for going 15 miles an hour on an expressway where the mini mum speed is 40. WASHINGTON (fl shows better than events ' past three days the Ban the United States and RujJ " u"" cnance lot ment on their biggest probl, After many speeches he in Moscow about getting i0. exchanges of notes extendi." months, and much mm the two -powers reached th. of sitting down in the 5ar.. 1 to talk. 111 1 Not talk about what ihev I to talk about. Just talk i J ranamir th dm. .K'1 the real talks. m" The three allies United Britain, Prance have ,.' notes with Russia since laj?' mer, trying to set up a ,,,; their foreign ministers. Agreement at last. Thev'i in Berlin, Jan. 25. But ,-t,. Berlin? In Ea6t Berlin, cm. by Russia? Or in West I controlled by the Western " iu settle (jj tails. All this week the, t,l Tito RlKcisnc V,l,l . H the talks to be in East b. una t-uiiuiiy wameu jhq( half ill West Berlin. Last night the four renm lives gave up, dumped ti:. agreement oack in uie h higher officials. r But even if the prelimhiarjt settled, the United States and am mik ui i-uiwpiuie Qlsagrtf; uii uicii iiiajui uiupean pro; ucrinaiiy. Hie United states wants and west uermany united aouoi in ine Deuei that ihe Germans, after eight vear the Russians, would rejoice A ing up with the West Gerird united states allies. What would this mean tj United States? Secretary nf a Dulles made clear in a A muuuity uigiib wnai nopes couniry uas tor uermany, He outlined America's new nary strategy, based on w ropean defense against Russii- tack, backed up by this cod potential lor "massive ' retal; He said Europe cannot t fended unless Germany is in to rearm. He said it can't under the present armistice id nients, although it could m uuiueu jLuiupcan. ainiy II l: agreed to go aiong. But the last thing Russl, is a rearmed Germany, n the past year, by many dnl trying to avoid just that. Dulles could hardly settle the Russians at Berlin for i armed Germany. And Russia hardly yield to him. President Eisenhower and sia's Premier Malenkov speeches during 1953 on reli between the two countries, t comber Eisenhower suggests Thev sit down and talk pooling' some of their atom:! terials for peace. If that sue: he Indicated, maybe they col on to talk about getting rid atom bomb.- - - Russia responded with the plaint that banning the should come first, and rcsfi the right to talk about that two powers sit down to da peaceful use of the atom. This week Dulles and Hi sian ambassador began talis arranging American-Russian on the atom, as Eisenhower gested. But in his Monday night ta4 this country's .new military n gy, Dulles said this couitrfl longer will depend on huge i: forces, matching man -lor with the Communists in tha but will try to prevent any i this way: Standing ready to blast lti tacker with "means of us choosing." What means? didn't say. There's no douS meant atomic weapons. Dulles, therefore, couldn't well agree on banning the bora Oil, STAINS To remove cod-livrr oil stains, stymge with glycerin or carbon tetrachloride; then launder. The Best Buy in Television Is From FYOCK'S Klamath Falls' Pioneer TV Outlet The Store That Has The Experience and Know-How Place Your Order Now for Antenna Installation While the Weather Permits RCA Sets are Priced from 189.95 FY0CR' 1001 MAIN Ph. 2-2518 fo.hiM fit far ! r Cution Huh TRIPLE-THICK non-slip TREADI will outwear RUBBER BOOT'S Vm IOOK fully molded ... no sums to part. Ailc for them by name . . . DEARS,,, firit choice of women ev tr)' $199 gg MAILORDERS fi fjfjt 708 MAIN
