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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1 ,.,
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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
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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
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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.
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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"
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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