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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY, : , " FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS , Editor Managing Editor . Entered M second class matter at the post office of Klamath Falls, Ore, on August 20, 1906 under act of Congress, March I, 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all Uie local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. BUBBUKIFTIUN HA ItS MAIL BY CARRIER 1 month t 1.35 1 month t 1.35 6 months $ 6.50 months 1.10 1 year - , $11.00 . I year $16.20 BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS All the news on the wire today has to do with the budget. A subject which leaves most of us cold ex cept for the heated arguments. There Is also a notice that the Nautilus, the world's first atom powered sub, will be launched soon at a cost of some fifty million dol lars. I wonder how much Cap Nemo had to pay for the original? Or WA3 It a gift from Jules Verne? The high desert is back in the news again. The January 15 issue of the Territorial Enterprise, Ne vada's first newspaper, carried a two column picture of the vener able Pat McCarran, senior senator from the one sound state, showing him posed in back of a station wagon parked near Lake view. The good senator is holding a pair of nice specs and is surrounded with! a few snow geese and other edibles. According to the title he nailed the goosers while hunting near Lake view in company with Oregon's Guy Cordon, who, in case you didn't know, is also a senator. I McCarran is rumored to use .28 gauge, and if he is holding his pet guii in the . picture it is an automatic. Ratner lignt for geese, senator, but then every man to bis own. We notice that in the back of the station wagon there are clearly visible three cases of shells. Who wasn t bitting? Didn't say where they were hunting but we have our suspicions, I hereby renounce the title of Chief Weather Forecaster and free ly offer the crown, minus the few stars I've knocked out, to any one who can better the rather poor recora. Started out by predicting t h e worst winter since '37, followed with three separate prognostica tions on heavy snow storms and ended up by safeguarding the house with a basement fire last night because it was gonna be the coldest night of the year. Our thermometer out there registered a paltry, springlike 22 this morn ing. To heck with forecasting, ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL By KEN McLEOD As communities continue to grow and expand so do their demands for water. Back in Biblical times, the needs of the household was served by the housewife carrying home a water vessel on her head from the community water hole or spring. The old hand pump and a bucket served the needs of rural America for many years. But times today are different and In the modern community it would appear that the demands for water will never reach a limit until the limit of the supply Js reached. Looking over my col lection of notes on useless Informa tion I see that back in 1880, the city of Chicago required only 140 gal lons of water per day per person, and then in contrast, I note that in 1940 the water consumption In that city had risen to 200 gallons per day. Here is an Increase of over 100 per cent in the Intervening per iod of 60 years and the trend was still on the increase. Directly coupled with this In creasing demand for water ' has been the unbelieveable Increase in population and since the individual can only consume a limited amount of this demand, the surplus must be disposed of in some manner. Under these' considerations there Is little question why we have a continuing and mountain problem of the disposal of waste sewage waters; '.-'! When the Klamath Falls system was designed we had a population of 12,000 the design contemplated some . Increase , In population growth but iiothlng on the order of what has taken place. Now we are getting up to around 16,000 people within the city and another 8,000 are to be found just outside the city limits. Perhaps It Is the plight of these people that attracts the at tention of the experts more than the problem of an overloaded city sewage system. When tile early sewage experts designed the present system they little dreamed that population growth would spread so rapidly to the east of the city. It took the depression years to bring on this fast development, a period when people were forced to move Into the country to have more land and to escape the burden of maintain ing a city form of government. This was all tn the benefit of those who moved there first but more and more people had the same Idea, Eventually urban conditions began to develop and with the ur ban conditions came the urban headaches. The major one of course being the disposal of sewage 'wastes. . ; The back yard privy gave place to the septic tank which brought the advances of modern civiliza tion to the country. The septic tank has proven an efficient method of handling the household sewage If it was properly handled and cared for. Unfortunately there are many people who do not know how to care for such a sewage system and many Installations have been in adequate for the demands placed upon them. The septic tank has Its Achilles heel like all sewage dis posal system; lb depends upon the good earth to absorb Its effluent. When houses were sparcely spaced over the landscape this disposal was not much of a problem but when city conditions begin to. pre vail the system breaks down and problems multiply. If the good earth does not provide sufficient opportunity for infiltration of the sewage effluent, from the many dwellings It eventually rebels and we find water tables are raised to tne point where raw and untreated waters begin to low down the open drains and ditches bringing a very potential publlo health menace to the very door o the home. There is only one form of relief for such a situation and the solution must come from community ac tion, mis community action passes through several stages of develop ment first of which Is that of fact finding, then planning and organiz ing and letting the people -know. Getting the facts must come first. The facts on pollution are falrlv well known for practically every community area and region. Much of this material has been gathered by tne State Sanitary Authority and the Federal government. The state agency Is probably the best single source of facts on local pol lution conditions. Seeing Is believ ing and often seeing Is the founda tion of understanding. A competent sanitary engineer can show anyone the problem on the ground. Planning and organizing are the second steps that must be taken to obtain a solution of the community problem. It takes the ability of named engineers to plan tne de tails of a sewage handling facility. Financial experts must help In deciding how the bills will be paid. But there is plenty of planing for citizens to do. They must decide whether or not a sewage treatment Plant is needed and when, a coun ty court or a city council cannot spend money on a protect unless the people tell them to. They'll Do It Every lime . By Jimmy Hatlo HOWCUM? WITH EVERy LIGHT CM Ah THE HELP , ALL OVER THE JOINT-" CUSTOMER WILL SAY-QUOTE- TftlEM THE SAME GUy J WILL PULL UP WHEN HEy.'ARE YOOJ "SV -J rf 4 TalS?- "stjf V OF THE HATLO HAT HAL BOYLE THE DOCTOR SAYS By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D. There are some physical condi tions wntcn are not much of menace to Hie or health, but whlcn certainly exert a tremendous in- lluence on one s outlook toward living. W i am M years old and my face is so terrible I am ashamed to face tlie public. It Is covered with pimples and enlarged pores. Call anything be done? I would ratner be dead as I don't have any fun out of life, Mrs. O. A This certainly sounds like a skin disease which could very well be acno. It should be possible for a skin specialist to make rccoinmen datlons which would help cnor mously in Improving the complex ion. The pyschologlcal effect Is evi dently so serious that it seems that it would be well worth while to make an effort In this direction. ' Q I have what is called Bak er's cyst with fluid gathered In the back of the knees. Can you discuss "us? Mrs. L. A This Is a swelluig behind the knee which is caused by the escape of fluid from the knee Joint and Is enclosed in a kind of sac or membrane. Removal of fluid through a needle Is sometimes helpful. Heat or other measures of physiotherapy are often used. If nothing else helps, surgery Is gen erally considered desirable. Q Will you please explain what Is meant by a trlggor finger? ' ' - - t Mrs, R, P. A This is a peculiar condition In which a finger Is likely to de velop quick motions when it Is bent or straightened, then suddenly snap In the direction one wants to move It, It is the result of an Inflam mation of the tendons going to the finger, and Is sometimes associ ated with pain or soreness. Q Would you please say some thing about Perthes disease as I have a young relative who has it. Mrs. J. M. A This is a rather unusual con dition which Involves the bone and cartilage at the upper end of the upper leg bono (femus) near the hip. Its cuso Is not clearly under stood, mid Its treatment is not too satisfactory, 5 Could exhaust fumes from a plant which processes tetrachlor ide cleaner fluid endanger residents within 200 feet of the plant? C.F. A It would seem unlikely that the fumes would reach as far ns two hundred feet in a heavy enough concentration to cause any harm. This question, however, should be considered by the plant manage ment ana local authorities. Bottle Travels Along Sea Coast BLOCK ISLAND, R. I. W John Phillips found a bottle yesterday which In the past 18 years trav eled from the Mississippi River in Tennessee to this lslnnd 10 miles off the Rfaode Island mainland. The sealed, airtight bottle con tained' a- note saying Eugene S. Nooll of Clayton, Mo., threw It Into tne Mississippi Jan. 15, 1936. The note also said Nocll .would pay the finder 12, so Phillips put the note In the mail last night. WASHINGTON Ml Leaves from a capital visitor's diary: The Republicans took power po litically In the nation s capital a year ago, but socially they haven't been able to knock the Democrats off the ramparts. The Democrats, refused to don sackcloth and ashes after their defeat. This has led to some grumbling that under the Eisen hower regime the minority party members, gay as jaybirds, still rule the social scene. Certainly it is true tnat lew nave retired to hermitages. One disgruntled lady, who ob viously regards Democrats as ir responsible grasshoppers and Re publicans as earnest ants, wrote to a local newspaper: "Why aren't they (the Republi cans) throwing more and better shindigs with gin, orchids, mink and caviar?. . . They have taken over the serious side of running our government and are not so concerned over entertainment and the social whirl. 'Let the Democrats dominate the scene; that's one of the rea sons they were relieved of power." Another lady; perhaps more neutral In her politics, told me: "This should be one of: the most active seasons socially .since be fore the war. The biggest differ ence I have noticed under the present administration Is that the parties are smaller and more formal." But nobodv in a responsible nost foresees an early doom to that famous institution the Washington cocktail party. The recipe for one of these is: Take so assorted politicians, mil itary leaders, diplomats and their wives; garnish well with bourbon, scotch, gin and sherry; season with assorted canapes. Let stand on one foot for two hours In a crowded, smoke-filled living room while airing political views and exchanging inside information on government; host then opens front door, pours tne wnole group Into the night, takes aspirin and goes to bed. - If all has gone well, the host later should receive at least five invitations to attend similar par ties. Hie main thing is not to vary the recipe by introducing ribald old party games such as postof lice or pln-the-tail-on-the-donkey. The exodus of Democrats and the- reduction in the number of federal employes here is solving the Washington housing shortage. . You no longer have to trade a landlord a key to Ft. Knox in or der to get a key to an apartment. One lady told me there .were live vacancies in her building. Be fore he could even move Into an apartment he had leased, a new comer here was given a new lease by his landlord cutting his rent $13 a month. The falling federal payroll ha3 many businessmen: worried. An organization of 100 small firms has started a campaign to lure new Industries 'here in an attempt-to make' the Washington area less de pendent on Uncle Sam's p a y- eneexs. - Hurdles to be cleared' are the lackco( trained factory labor here and antiquated zoning laws. Natur ally, 'many of the older residents don't want the Washington Monu ment to be mistaken for a smoke stack. Best-Anecdote-I-Heard-ln-Wash-ingtn; Xn elderly public servant here retired after 49 years on the same government payroll. . ' , But soon his wife complained she found him underfoot whenever she fried to do. a household chore. "I- told my husband he should .have rounded out a full 60 years before quitting." she confided to a neighbor. "But you know him always so impetuous. "... , JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON frt For a while it seemed President Eisenhower might be able to steer Hawaii into statehood without too much trou ble. Then a- member of his own party, Sen. Dworshak of Idaho, rocked the boat. For more than 15 years congres sional committees have batted around the question of letting the territories of Hawaii and Alaska become states. The Senate has been the bottleneck. Tlie House gave approval for Hawaii three times, in 1947, 1950 and 1953, and for Alaska once, In 1950. The Senate, never for either. Democrats and Republicans have talked about statehood for both ter ritories for years, but most of the lime In such weasel-words In their campnign platlorms as favoring statehood "eventually." In 1948 the Democrats got bold and favored "immediate" state hood for both. But former Presi dent Truman couldn't get the Democratic-controlled Congress to car ry through. In their 1952 platform the Democrats repeated them selves. fn that year, with Eisenhower heading the ticket, the Republi cans come out for "Immediate" statehood for Hawaii but, "for Alaska, admission, presumably not so speedily, under an enabling act. Ironically enough, In the 1952 elections Alaska, Democratic for years, elected a Republican Legis lature while In Hawaii, traditional ly Republican, the Democrats made gains. As soon as ho got Into the White Housse, Elsenhower asked his Republican-controlled Congress to let Hawoll Into the Union. The House okayed a statehood bill for Hawaii. But not the Senate. It was supposed to act this year. Two weeks ago Eisenhower again urged ' Hawaiian statehood, and again passed over Alaska. If the senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee sent up a bill on Hawaii alone, it might get quick action and might even pass the Senate. It then an Alaska bill came up later, or separately, Alaska would probably be pushed aside. But if the committee sent up one bill combining Hawaii and Alaska, neither might get approval, since some senators want statehqod for Alaska and some don t and tliere'd be ft general mixup and maybe stalemate. This week the committee, on which the Republicans have a ma jority, took up the question. Before the voting, this was the outlook: only one Republican, Sen, Malone of Nevada, and all the Democrats except Sen. Long of Louisiana, who had committed himself to Hawaii favored combined Hawaii-Alaska bill; and al the other Republicans would go for a single bill on Hawaii. But the vole when it came it was 8-7 was for a combined bill. Dworshak had voted with Malone and the Democrats. Why? He said later: "To force a show down. This statehood thing has been kicking around since the year one." Unless the full Senate Itself separates the two territories when it gets the bill, Hawaii's chances of statehood this year don't look too good. Alaska this year, as last year, seems to have no chance at all. So Elsenhower, who got his first victory this week with Senate ap proval of the St. Lawrence sea way, got his first real bump of 1954 on the statehood bill. PLEA CLEVELAND Wl Mrs. Mini V Gallagher, 72, wants Common Pleas Court to separate her from her husband Michael, 84, ' whom she married in 1899. She said Gflllncrhpr n rAlli-,.-! funeral director, refuses to support lor associate with her although they live in the same home. ' Sam Dawson NEW YORK Wl Afraid of the big bad wolf of depression? Some folk aren't afraid of the business prospeot on land, on water, or beneath, the surface of the earth. They're betting heavily on business staying good. The outlook's good for surface travel, says the giant General Motors Corp. It announced Tues day it would spend one billion dol lars this year and next in expand ing its plant to meet' the future demand for motors. That will mean doubling the annual rate of spending it has kept up from 1946 to the present. The National Assn. of Engine & Boat Manufacturers reports today its members are confident of mak ing and selling 30 per cent more pleasure craft this year than last. They expect the ever-growing mul titude of -boat enthusiasts, now es timated at 16 million in this coun try, to find the money to buy them. And the oil industry is thumbing Us nose at the present over-supply of oil in the world. It says that this year it will spend just about as much as last a record 2 bil lion dollars in looking and drilling for new oil reserves. Steadily growing world demand will take up any slack in time, oilmen are confident. Americans are taking to the water as never before, whether it's in a power cruiser or a putt putt. . The boat-builders president, John W. Mulford, says his association's survey of builders show that boat sales last year topped 1952 by 32 per cent. Eighteen boat builders and this is only a segment of the entire industry report combined dollar sales of $8,737,730 last year, which they expect to top by;30 per cent this year. The 14 reporting unit sales to taled 24,602 crnft last year, com pared to 20,694 the year before, and say they expect to build and sell 29,665 in 1054. ill lions Plan Meeting MERRILL Merrill's "Citizen of the Year" will be 'announced at a dinner meeting for Lions and their guests Feb. 15. Nominations for the award were made by members of the Lions Club at Monday evening's meeting at the Mar-Max Cafe. Fast winners of the award are Dr. F. E. Trot man, Paul Lewis and Clyde Ham mond, and these three make the fuial choice. Two donations from Potato Festi val funds were approved: $250 for tlie Merrill athletic field and $200 to help defray expenses of the an nual community Christmas party. Dr. Robert Wu and R. A. Merlon were welcomed as new members of the club. Places were set for ' 28 members and two guests, Maurice Shelton and William Hill. HISTORY ' HOUSTON I The social secur ity office here got a terse bit of family history from an old Bible brought in yesterday to establish an age claim. The Bibles family record sec tion listed the births of five chil dren, then ended with: 'Maw quit paw June 1923." Spruce Goose Still Biggest Plane Ever Built; And Costli By JAMES BACON HOLLYWOOD 11 I - This i is the story of Howard Hughes and his Spruce Goose, the worlds biggest airplane, and how It flew. Or al most. It's also the story of how Hughes, who keeps making news while seeming to shun the spo"' stepped into Its full glare end proved that he can talk when he has to. His plywood monster, also dubbed the Flying Lumberyard, was begun in 1943 ot a time when aluminum was scarce. So lor n has cost taxpayers 18 million dol lars and, says Hughes, another a million of his own money. In 1943 it was the biggest flying boat ever built and In 1954 it still Is. So far it's just a vast white elephant. It doesn't fly, yet lost fall It cost Hughes an estimated five million dollars in repairs when a broken dike poured 30 feet ol mud on It. . Hughes' contributions to the his tory of aviation speed and round-the-world record flights rank him with outstanding air pioneers. But If this big ship fails to get In the air again, It could easily make a fickle public remember only Hughes' folly. But he's confident that she 11 fly, and with him at the controls, Air men who know him won't bet against it. This boat is an overwhelming thing. An AP reporter who first saw It in 1945 recalls: "At first look, you feel like the fellow who saw. a girafle for the first time there ain't no such ani mal. I thought I was looking at the biggest wing I had ever seen. Then I discovered that I was only lookbig at the aileron, the movable control portion that hinges along the rear edge of the wing. I re member how well the plywood was fitted, as neatly as a mandolin." Hughes, who designed the ship, used high-frequency radio waves to uniformly boil tlie glue in join ing the plywood. - Here are some statistics: Weight 425,000 pounds. Height at tail 2 ',i stories. Wingspan 320 feet, just big enough to touch both goal posts on a football field. HulW-220 feet long, 30 feet high, 25 feet wide. - Engines eight of 3,000 horse power each. Gas load 14,000 gallons, enough to drive your car around the earth more - than eight times if there were a highway at the equator. Pay load 750 soldiers fully equipped or a 60-ton tank. The plane was built at Hushes' Culver City plant. It cost $58,000 just to haul the wings and fuselage 25 miles to Los Angeles harbor. - Tlie press was invited to go along on taxiing tests Nov. 3.: 1947. Tests over, the newsmen disembarked to file their stories. "The last reporter had barely got off the ship," recalls the AP staffer on the scene, "when Hughes revved her up again and took; off across the horbor with about 30 associates aboard. He lifted the plane about 70 feet in the air, skimmed a mile around the harbor and dropped her down again,-' Later Hughes explained: "The buoyancy felt so good that I Just decided to take her up." Earlier Hughes had told report ers he wasn't sure the plane would oet'into the air. "No one can ever be certain that an experimental plane will fly," he said. Six years later, this Is what Hughes says about the big flying b"I was not required under the original contract to put 5 cents into this project, I have Invested millions because I believe in the future of aviation in this country. I have no hope of recouping any of the money I have spent on It." Hughes holds that the big ship is nothing more than a flying labora tory for big-ship construction, "I think its future value, if it is .uviuariil. will lie in the tech nique and engineering information which i nope ii m f'"", said. "History shows that year by year larger and larger airplanes are being built. Since this airplane Is larger than anything heretofore built, I hope it will provide a very definite and important advance in the art and know how of large plane design and construction." In the same experimental ve n, Hughes Aircroft has successful y tested a jet helicopter, the world's Wggest This flying windmill can carry bridge sections, trucks and heavy armament to bolster sag ging Infantry positions in a hurry. Hughes watched recent tests of this craft from a nearby bean field. He declined to pose alone with the ship for photographers. Pointing to a group of engineers and test pilots, he said: "I don't want to appear difficult but there are the men who de signed and flew this ship. I don't deserve any bows." It was the big flying boot that put Hughes so brilliantly In the limelight. That was when he tangled in 1948 with Sen. Owen The invpciin.il. pecadllloso-TlVJ exposed the eonnX'N oen Bennett MeyeTV up In Jail, it .." . rltyof Johnny Su' i Meyer, HughesS pany arranger. The usualiu ., . turned Into hearings and so maSl that the Maine S "J drew from the The commit. . ' the public relation, S tag $169,661 of Huff' entertainment o, Hugnes countered , tertamment follow T tracts and M "So far as I bm fc law again a man money to entertain ins ,g Then, provlnc him..,, of the insinuating i!I "And, incidental!. think It Is so horrible I, to accept my hosnilik uon;t . you tell about tli worth of airplane trh3 requested and occepiedtnj He said that hi. J3 l.h.ri onii -mi . iiiiiiiuiis inu-y. without having to m. , excess profits tax. tw "Do you know whil , oiuv ui niy years in o Dusiness nas been; u rjf been defrauding the gotd (Next: The Inaccesilbli Your 1953 Income Tax EHnr' Note: The following article concerning vour tiuJ hum in file it and necessary regulations has been t'ubiiU the Internal Revenue Service Office to aid the public. An; A concerning your tax should be taken up with the repmJ of that office in room 203, Federal Building (postofllce) dim Ing 4264. . 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