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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SATURDAY, JANUARY 1 ,., iviro v o s i; n K L.A M A' T U ' C I VIC 0 -15 X T ir uo WARD' R. ,PERR AN ARTIST'S DREAM IN PERSPECTIVE OF A CIVIC CENTER that someday may be a reality, through the foresight of the City Planning Commission, the efforts of the Park Board, with the cooperation of the City Council. The plan above, drawn by Architect Howard Perrin,, chairman of the Commission, is .a. suggestion of how the Veterans Memorial Park area may be developed as a recreation area, an infor mation and administrative center the hub of the wheel that is Klamath. Northbound motorists arriving on U. S. 97 would be Immediately attracted by the clean, horizontal lines of modern buildings, easily accessible from highways and streets with a large amount of off-street parking space for the hun dreds of drivers who will include Veterans Memorial Park and. f ' ;;ic center in their day's. travelings, either for business or ( measure. Approaching from the south, the drawing shows a chamber of commerce and information building, which could also house interesting exhibits or other propaganda advertis ing the surrounding area. The central large building, if erected HAL L 5... 0 REG O N : ARCH;! T E"C T A in this area, could conceivably be a City Hall or other admin istrative building, or the spot could be landscaped to provide additional park area. Following the curve of Main into Center, the long, low curved building could be used for conventions or any large gathering. A museum is visualized for the day if and when Klamath outgrows that being planned in the county library. On the lakefront is pictured a recreation building, designed to provide space for dancing, eating, loung ing, listening to band concerts and then gliding across Lake Ewauna in a sailboat or canoe, or skimming iti urlJ on water skis behind a motor boat, in the tar right n j tured a swimming pool, with bathhouse and wading pool, the future day when Klamath will have expanded beyond capacities of the new municipal pool. At present the propJ civic center is only a dream, but with the start already J in Veterans Memorial Park proper, the day may not be hi when Klamath rails will boast one et the most impi civic centers in the Pacific Northwest. frank Jenkins bill jenkins l Editor Managing Editor Entered as second class matter at the post office of. Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 30, 1906 under act or Congress, March 8, 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use lor publication of a", the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP newa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL ' BV CARRIER 1 month $ 1.35 1 month 1.3S 6 months $ 0.60 , 6 months 8.10 1 year $11.00 1 year $10.20 BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS A letter from Mrs. Mlna Edsell. of Macdoel sheds a. little light on the picture of "Old Blue" that was published in this paper last week. She says: "I was surprised to see the pic ture In last week's paper and am sure the man who Is standing in lront of the engine Is the engineer1, Harry Ryan, who drove CI Blue for several years hauling logs .'rom Horn's Camp to the chute carry ing the logs to Klamnth River above Shovel Creek hotel. "I was 10 years old at the time and worked for my brother Jim who ran the boarding house in the old log cookhouse at Old Snow, better known as Pokcgamn. "Harry boarded with my brother and later bocamo my first boy friend. His whereabouts have been . unknown to me lor many years." Thank you, Mrs. Edsell. It Is n long stride ahead any thno we can Identify men and women In the old picture's. Through your letter, an other page has been added to the hook of history in the Klamath Ba sin. ; Notice In a few press releases lately that our scientists arc on the trail of a so-called cobalt bomb which may be so powcrlul as to use the H-bomb as a trigger. It still seems strange. to us Hint with scores of people dying dally of cancer and polio and oilier dread diseases that our nalion should spend billions on weapons of dc8truction and still fall short of quotas In drives for medical re search. ( That's life, I guess. A meeting of the board was hcW yesterday and tliiy Per cent of our . new year's resolutions were can 1 celled. This changing world of ours sees i a lot of things go by the boards. , About the most recent is Hie re- : spect that goes with responsibility. Used to be that a man was broiigni up in the belief that when he grow tip and was willing to assume re- : sponslbility he was on his way to the top of the ladder and success ' was only a few paces away. i Nowadays 1 1 responsibility means is that, you will probably lose your Job If you assume a little and then make a wrong decision. ' And most people don't want any, anvhow. They'd rather have a nice pail In the form of a "higher up to do their worrying for 'em. But no one wants to be the "higher up." ' Spent a fruitless hour yesterday trying to chase down a swan. Hap pened to be looking out the window, watching the storm clouds roll over the lake when a swan came wing ing down from the North. Being an amateur bird watcher I ob served that it was a whopping big thing, but, oddly enough, Us head was black. Not just the bill, the whole head, clear back to the neck. Also black 'eet and a black tip on the tail feathers. It looked like it wanted to sit down somewhere If It could find a spot free of ice, so I piled in the car along with my faithful old binoculars and - chased down to Fremont bridge and Link River In hopes of seeing it again. No soap. Called Jim O'Donnhue, who prob ably knows more about birds than anyone else in this country, and he said that whatever It' was the black head made It a freak. I woe d like to believe it was a trumpeter, but It was probably a whistler with a trcak discoloration of some kind. , Oh well, he's probably In sunny California by now, anyway, so why worry? Bob Bouncy, Klamath's recrea tion director, might be called the hard luck kid. Everytlme he gots the city skating rink in real sharp shape along comes a Chinook and hla ice goes blooey. - But ain't that nice warm wind wonderful? Portland Builder Is Low Bidder SALEM I A. V. Peterson, Portland, submitted a low bid of $399,199 Friday for construction o( Ihe state finance department's new scrvico building here. His bid called for construction in ra worn, ing days. The bid Is well under the MM.' 000 estimated cost. The new build' lng will be on 12th street at the eastern edge of the state capltol group. There were 13 Bids, ranging up to 5434.000. The bids will be submitted to the Stale Emergency Board next Friday for approval. Telling The Editor BIRDS Dear Sir; , An example, at our very door of a bird approacnin- extinction Li the osprey or fishhawk. No one pays much attention to It. When Sutter's Fort was building, and for perhaps two decades thereafter, fishhawks were common on the Sacramento River. The osprey be comes rarer all over U.S.A. On the Pacific Coast, one now must go below San Diego into Bnja, Cali fornia, to find it nesting. Even there it no longer is common. On the Atlantic Coast, it has grown rare even on isolated Florida Keys. The osprey formerly ranged throughout the Middle West. The writer remembers its nesting years arso in Yellowstone National Park. The bird is unsuspicious. This Is one reason why egg hunters have been able to nyproach. then kill nesting birds. This they did to get the eggs lor collectors. Latter would' pay fancy prices for them. . The osprey is almost cosmopoli tan. It is found from siboria across Europo and North America to Alas ka. It ranges South over most of Africa and South America, also to Northern Australia. It is in U.S.A. also Europe where it is diminishing. They return to the same nesting place yearly. They apparently mate for lite. Some stories recorded about them are as poetical and gripping as. those about doves. One cause of their dyinrr. out is (he habit of many to kill any hawk or owl. In their ignorance, these do not grasp that many hawks and owls are real assets. Very earnestly, . U. M. Goethe . BRUCE BIOSSAT There can be no hidfng the gravity of the political situation in Italy. Some of the same timidity which afflicts French politicians seems to hold Italian statesmen in its grip. The recent fall of Premier Pella's government was an unhappy sym bol ,of this affliction. Pella's re gime 'as Intended to be temonrarv with his serving only until a strong er leaner coma De round. But he was unable to hang on even that long. . Pella had succeeded Premier De Oasperi, who was weakened by last summer's general elections, and whose government finally col lapsed. Throughout the postwar period De Gasperi, staunch friend of the West, had kept Italy's center par ties threaded together in reason ably effective coalition. Anticipating trouble in maintaining a working majority in the Italian parliament, De Oasperi had jammed through an election reform under which the center would get 65 per cent of the sents If it got 51 per cent of the vote. In the summer balloting, De Gas perl's Christian Democrats and oth er center groups appeared, how ever, to have garnered only 49 per cent of the total. Without the big extra bulge hoped for in parlia ment, De Gasperi could put to gether only the most fragile coali tion. Not long afterward he gave up. The Irony of this is that it need not have been. For a special elec tion commission has been recount ing 1.300,000 ballots challenged by the Communists. And on the basis of 700,000 recounts so far, it is re ported that the De Gasperi gov ernment and its allies actually won the election with 52 or 63 per cent majority more than enough to gain 65 per cent of parliament's seats. De Gasperi had not pushed the recount at the start, partly be cause It was feared the Commu nists would be the only gainers. Had he been a little less cautions, he would still be presiding today over a fairly strong Italian govern ment. Now the great fear la that a new election will be necessary and that, again, the Communists will be the only real beneficiaries. Both the left and the right gained at the expense of the center in the June voting. . So Italy's moderate leaders find themselves hi a French-style dilem ma. They are afraid to face a new voting test, and evidently they are afraid as well to insist that the real results of last year s election be carried out. The latter fear Is most puzzling of all to outsiders. If a recount had shown greater Communist strength, we can be sure a greaj stir would have followed, with de mands for more seats. But the center leaders have not even, told the Italian people of the recount tabulations. They ought to broadcast the re vised results far and wide, and de mand for themselves the parlia mentary . seats of some 70 Com munist deputies now sitting Illegal ly. Any other course of action should not be necessary. Indeed, anv other course does - not make sense. The Doctor Says They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo W r-WUYl write 2r 'T WAD rnjJ- i .jr MAIL KJm" '"'"SLT MreVvBBEI46TlWWN wwyizziT? STRAW BOSS AT IMC W"r'" BANQUET GIVES . mTN, a-ti i lire ALGER SUCCESS RV STEP- MEADOF A NEW PH TUfcN UrrM pnAwwuj RAtf-WsMORTLY I WHEN IMCKi-""' V MR.H0FI4A61-EPIS7 But the head MAM-THE Par-, SHOT-SPENDS HIS SPEECH TOLLIWf ncc ALL THE TIMES HE fciOT FIRED-. TUPIJ r crcr -v - ON AtV kICVT. lQ.- r-XX- DEODFn Tn can I ucj ioili-,. wi n-wowV? UEUUCU IO WAW.SO t GOTA JOB L4yiN6 SEWER PIPE--WELL, i rao IHE r-UKEMAN DIDN'T LIKE UJiFERSsir NEXT 1 TRIED FMGFOLE SimMS-BUT I DIDNT WMT TO START AT TUP tTrniu...-rite1.i r' CAtlE WITH THIS OUTFIT" ThUNX ANDATTPOP TUB HATLO HAT TO TRUDGE Howard. t inseEuAigp Ave., By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. In winter, particularly, large numbers of people complain of ex cessive mucus In the nose with dripping back in the t h r o a t, causing coughing and spitting. Some people call this condition ca tarrh; it was formerly known as defluxation or rheum. Today doc tors usually speak of it as "post nasal drip' or rhinitis, but these names are not much better than the old ones. ' No matter how named, this cer tainly is a disagreeable condition. The irritating effects of this mucus result in constant nose blowing, sneezing, clearing of the throat, and bringing up of small quantities of mucus with a cough. Apparently, many different con ditions are at least partly to blame. Excessive dampness is undoubtedly a factor in many cases. Other things which have been blamed are smoking, central heating, dust, ir ritating fumes, germs, rapid chang es in external temperatures of the air, foreign bodies, emotional disturbances. and abnormalities in the structure of the nose or si nuses. Central heating, which causes extremely dry rooms, combined with excessive moisture in the air outside, must be an irritating fac tor to many people. The dryness of centrally heated houses or rooms causes increased evaporation of moisture from the nasal passages which thickens the mucus and makes the normal process of re moval less satisfactory. , Some ask whether swallowing the nasal secretions will harm the stomach. So far as is known of the nature of the mucus and the ability of the stomach to han dle It, most people do not suffer. The danger to the lower part of the breathing apparatus is or dinarily slight unless mucus causes such constant coughing as to overstrain the breathing tubes or bronchi, and the lungs. A chronic postnasal drip of mu cus Is ordinarily harmless, al though annoying. It is the result of one or more Irritations which can be overcome only by re moving the cause or causes, which is often impossible without a com plete change ot residence. A post nasal drip alone is hardly enough to make that necessary. ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL By KEN McLEOD Tn Ihio carlao nt actiniae am ha subject of pollution I have tried to i-iupnusize me lack uiai uie wora "pollution" can have many shades nf tnoanlntr Vntn. rhlMhAnrf n.n have been educated to consider pol lution and contamination by poten tial disease carrying germs to be nnp. nnri iha coma Ihtnn. Umii.m. ill our modern concept of human reiationisnip to water tills form of contamination is but a part of the pollution picture. In the case of contamination by possible disease carrying organ isms, there is but one measure, the water is contaminated or it isn't. In the broader field of the subject of pollution, however, we find the experts placing a measure upon the degree of pollution exist ing in water: their measure is governed by Ihe amount of oxygen contained in the water and the load of organic Material it carries Water that is completely polluted as measured by its oxygen con tent, which would be "zero," Is a nuisance. It is unsatisfactory f o r home and Industrial use as well as for recreation, fish life or agricul ture. If such water Is treated so that 40 per cent of the pollution load has been removed we find that the water would still be "poor" for home and Industrial use as well as for recreation, fish life and agriculture. The water dis charged from a primary munici pal sewage system can be consid ered in about this position. When normal treatment Is applied remov niii 60 per cent of the pollution load, the water discharged from the system is "fit" for home use and fit for most Industrial uses, recreation, fish life and agricul ture. Pure water is considered to have five per cent or less of pol lution and when such water is to be found then the sanitary experts say the water is "good" for home use. Below this figure they use the word "fit." ITie point I wish to make clear is that this pure water with a very minimum amount of pollution as measured on the oxygen scale of the expert can be deadly if con taminated by some disease carry. Carsrens Packing Company Sold ' SEATTLE 'ft Tom and Philip Carstens. owners r s.e Carstens Packing Co. of Taxoma, Friday announced tha of their firm to the Hy-On de Food Products Co. of Detre"., Mich. The sale price w3 not an nounced but it was reported to be about 3 ij million dollars. Cars tens, which has plants In Tacoma and Spokane, had an annual gross business of 30 million dollars. Hy Orade does 317 million dollars worth of business annually. The Carstens brand name will continue. Store Smashed In By Runway Truck PORTLAND The front of a Portland grocery store was demol ished Friday when a truck, knocked out of control by a colli sion with a car, smashed into the building. A passerby, Mrs. Raymond Ous tafson said she had been struck by one of the vehicles. She was taken to a hospital lor treatment of knee and ankle injuries. Police entimated damage to the store at S.t.000. MEETING ' PORTLAND IA Tha ttnkll- can State Central Committee meet ing nere Saturday was expected to elect Ed Boehnke of Eugene as chairman. , He would succeed Robert Elliott, Medford, who Is leaving the post to devote more time to his buslnes ing- bacteria. Whereas, I free from such contanunitloe become fairly heavily polluted still to be considered lit to or even "poor." Howaver, could be consumed by nu The determination ot oxygen tent is primarily a chemical ! sis, whereas the determlailic contamination by human w becomes a bacteriological anii;i wnen ones desires to have i examined, he should mate clear the type of examlmlin desires. This fact was' imM on one woman In Raveoda!e,0 on the Madaline Plains in Cie: ia a few years back. On our trips between Bisf Palls and Nevada we have btd the habit of stopping at Rivtn lor a bite to eat beiore nm into the wide-open spaces o( Pyramid Lake country, on mj these occasions, we found ihe IJ who ran the restaurant quiil turbed because she hail Jf sample of the town's water P In for analysis and the report") it was perfectly good forw consumption. She was sow off on how dumb the expert get. No one in. town could W water because it was poUuw"! the flavor of oil. ) The town's water supplf from the railroad's water which is filled by water P from a local well. The WW' always been good but one W country was shaken liy an quake. As a result for some closed reason the water w' flnvnrarl wllh nil til the eXte the human pallet rebelled it. ing It. The water oew badly flavored that the to" - 4.-.4. -InVlnlT WIRT use Its regular supply w,ir J hni.l.nll vant.lramant... TV "I sent a sample of the wate' 1 for analysis. She wanlslJJJl if It was oil that was v" "Afft nn.. fA tha water. TO ter sample Instead of ' cnemist went 10 a omi1'-'" . stead. The expert could J germs and so as tar " concerned the water was human consumption. Tha nail. .Man nrnbleill i the most Important Prl)bjJ uig us in tne iieiu u. v" ,Mltt4 TOa finA hat hv nrOOer W1 of water and with the reino! IIS pollution loan, i. v- j. over and over again. t"J important iac. w a-,- a hn th. oreat Cities Stan Ti ing on our door and asBJ ,J halanff to ip waier mat snuuiu i-nlid have a perfect right to W the great cities are oest use or tne wave, if th.u .r. st ng huae w titles of water to the ; '",, tney could oe usms properly. le The re-us of sewage one of the most Important , we must consider tM'7 should be Interested m the advances being mJ?f'(fc! made ny we re which r always cryms " thev need more ,er'2L4 mule ana u,c, - , im i get in virtual rivers
