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Clyde Beatty Bringing
Back The Circus Parade
By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD V-Clyde Bestty
is bringing back a. venerable but
faded American institution the cir
cus parade.- -.
Many Americans can remember
the thrill of sitting on a curb and
watching the -wonderland of the
circus march down the main street
of town. In the .past decade or
two. that experience has-been de
nied youngsters. . r v . . .
"We haven't had a parade for 12
years," said Beatty, circus opera
tor and greatest of the wild animal
trainers. "Bui this year we're go
ing to try it. I got the idea when
we staged a parade whnVwe were
filming 'Ring of Fear' in Tucson.
The people seemed to love it.
.'"I've got some old circus wagons
at our winter quarters in Doming,
I OF KLAMATH SPUDS for Secretary of Agriculture
iijj presented recently when Kiwanis-sponsored
i ling of the nation, Rex Porterfield, went back to
H4!,TWiiiiAMS
tk, lis part to help pfo
Lmfoind activities in
aIish, last year, for
tie Klamath Falls
u axmsored a potato
Sri among 4-H boys.
Hojsjlgnedup to Plant
lie u acre of potatoes
Francis Skinner's
it lads, between the
all followed the
lid conclusion,
i wu assigned two spon
toiofthe Kiwanis club.
n Mowed the activi-
jottto-growmg from
Mgn the summer to
at By the end of the
m sponsors had enlist-
at other Kiwanlans
olire membership was
bill the project,
n tan tie federal ta
mes graded the pota
kennioe the percentage
kTi'sin each acre. This
Id the presence of the
uiiiponsors. The. con-
kite that Just one po-J
Aid, son of Mr, and
ilPorteriield of Dairy,
ihtion of one per cent,
tome & 0. Juckeland
lm.
m m held with the
M their fathers as
at sxmsors. Each bnv
li S-jound sack of po
ps we auctioned off by
of Tulelake and
levied
( Games
IB A vniiiw har.
I tad tlOO Thursday
oollicer said he played
" for an hour in
Jtoera, won lj free
u paid eo cents in
Cusis, 26 whn WArl,-
''Uvern, pleaded inno.
-in ae violated the
p code with "under
F PinbaU navnffc
EWM mach
joed raniiscated and
PJ Judge Gordon Low
P Mlty. It was the
E "ses due in court
Ece raids. , .
i -- u u u iree
M at then asked
ft
l. sui ii. uassis
F" saw rw
M,rir lsB oeiore
j him a warrant
Italic or other.
m LIGHT
f? u!ht bulb npprt.
Morfc .v 0 Dasa
Cfif,Ule dlass. Jan
E1 from the
ra'3
the proceeds returned to the boys.
The enthusiasm was so great
at that time that someone got up
and suggested that we send the
winner back to Washington to pre
sent a sack of Klamath potatoes
to Secretary of Agriculture. Ezra
Benson with the message that they
were to be eaten, and not subsi
dized. ; . . ; . .
Next move was to send five 10-
pound sacks of potatoes to.each Ki
wards club from Los Angeles to Se
attle to be auctioned off for their
youth programs. The' potatoes
brought all the way from (25 to $210
for 60 pounds. The Klamath Pota
to Growers- Association fi
nanced the purchase of the b a g s
and the potatoes lor this 'promo
tion. The response was tremen
dous. Letters were received from
all the Kiwanis clubs and clip
pings of stories, including a front
page story in the Santa Barbara
paper, showed the spirit- in which
the promotion was received.
Arrangements- were made lor
the Washington trip through the
4-H offioe at Corvallis and through
Kepresentauve Bam uoon s omce
in Washington, tnrougn frank Jen-
kins' writing Dim, .and the Kiwanis
International In Chicago. Tickets
to Washington for the potato King
and his escort were paid for
by the potato growers association.
Expense money was put up by the
local Kiwanis club.
Rex's impressions' of his first
plane ride and the trip to Wash'
ington have been pretty well cov
ered by the dally letters he sent
to the Herald and News. He didn't
emphasize, however, the enthusi
asm that was Instilled In him by
the terrific sendoff the trio was
given at the airport the evening
ot January 19 when we departed,
This enthusiasm acted as a stimu
lant for the entire trip.
At Chicago we were met by rep
resentatives of the 4-H Boys ana
Girls Foundation. One man from
the group was with us all our
waking hours and entertainment,
reservations, etc., were beautifully
taxen care or.
In Washington, 8am Coon's office
was our headquarters and every
thing possible was done for us,
Secretary 0f the Interior Douglas
Mcitay and Larry Smyth were
most cordial. The secretary's big
black Cadillac with driver was put
at our disposal for the length of
our stay.
It had been 20 vears since f last
visited Washington. Things have
changed a great deal. The magni
tude of Washington, D. C, was
what impressed me mor than any
thing else. Another thing that im
pressed me can best be described
by example. Out here we read
aoout the darn thing but when
you get to Washington it is magni
fied so much by seeing it that I
think it can be expressed better by
telling about the man who met me
at the Kiwanis club meeting and
said he knew us folks out here on
the West Coast. Said he was buy
ing lumoer from a man in Seattle
and asked me a I knew him.
Their local newsDaners :ive
much more detailed reports than
we receive out here on all of the
activities, but you hear very little
Washington, D.C., and handed them, over personally.1 Here
Rex hands the spuds to Benson while brother Jim and
Bryant Williams, escort, look on. " .: ; , . ... '.'v
about the men who are working
long hours, worrying about our
welfare, - and are , really making
this country click. The ones we
read about are the hot-shots that
are looking-for publicity and wor
rying more about politics than the
welfare of the country.
The one field that I was particu
larly Interested In, of course, was
the agricultural field, and to find
an office building that houses 7,000
people and was as large" as my
farm was staggering.-
One of the. things I have always
been Interested in is soil conserva
tion and the extension service
and their activities. I found that
there were' 50 employes in the ex
tension service, which has been in
existence ver since I can remem
ber. The soil conservation service,
which is a newer organization, a
Roosevelt innovation, has 100 em
ployes. - . - ,
This snowed me now- these new
bureaus had grown - and why our
taxes are as high as they are to
day. The Impressions I received
from. foUt3 tiat. I ..visited Jiiith,.)s
that this administration is trying
to decentralize some of this work
and cut out some of the bureaus
that have grown so' much during
the last 20 years. I was very much
impressed with the sincerity of our
secretary of agriculture and I feel
that if congress and the senate
will go along with the program
which he has outlined, in a few
years we will be out of the chaos
we are. in now.
When the secretary asked me
what our association is thinking
about, I told him that- we were
definitely concerned with the basic
commodities being supported at 80
tier cent of oarity and tne non.
basic commodities competing
against them: that we didn't feel
we could survive as we grow non-
basic commodities in our area, ne
ruffled up very definitely like
a young .rooster and told me
that that had been one of their
hlir worries: that any time a com-
modity was supported to where it
overflowed the storage bins that it
was unsound economy and they
were certainly going to do some
thing about it.
Prom what I could gather from
news articles and other sources,
every commodity is going to have
to stand on its own, I feel that the
administration will put some ais-
aster clauses in Its program so
that we will not be caught -in
diR&ster economy. -
I was very much impressed wiui
the sincerity and activities -of' our
congressman. 8am Coon, and from
the way the fellows came by and
asked him questions while we were
having lunch, I gathered the im
pression -that he had come a long
ways lor a new congressman.,
I would like to say something
now about what has been acoomn-
lished by the program. If eel, that
this 4-H project has done more to
improve the relationship between
tne potato grower and the man on
Main street than any other pro.
ect that we have undertaken. Po
tatoes are our main- cash crop in
tne basin ana i tnink that u the Ki
wanis club continues with the pro
gram, tne 'potato industry wui re
ceive a great deal of benefit from
.their help. In addition. It serves to
teach our 4-H boys more about cost
of production and other, things-that
tney are going to-nave toknow in
order to survive in tne suture.,.
The help, of the -Herald 'and- News
and Frank Jenkins -went -, a-- long
ways toward making this year s
Drolect successful. Plans are going
:lreafitfW f r iieXt yeWs" 6dmpetl-"
tion. .v.".
I want to express my -personal
appreciation for bemg given a part
in the project. : 1 ,
Portrait j
Th. "NASHUA"
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Hqm Ec
Meets Set
Home extension - units of Kla
ath county will meet next week as
follows: February 2, Altamont-unit
will meet at 10 a.m. at tne exhibit
building at the fairgrounds, with
Mrs. E. W. Tichenor and Mrs. C,
M. Larson, 'leading the project on
What to do until. , tne ; Doctor
Comes." The: Malta' unit Will meet
7:30 p.m. in the home "economics
room at tne nigh scnool witn Do
lores Bracken presenting the proj
ect, , "Planning Well-Balanced
Meals." ' : .
February 3, Buena Vista unit will
meet at 10:30 a.m. in the exhibit
building at the fairgrounds with
Hildegard McOlurg and -Alma Ral
ston, leading the subject. "What to
do until the Doctor Comes." Lan-
gell Valley meets the same day at
10 a.m. at tne home oi Mrs. wmie
Mae Schmedll with Dolores Brack
en v explaining, "Planning ' well-
Balanced Meals."
' The Ohlloquln unit meets, -10:30
a.m. February 4, at the home of
Mrs. Edmund Stanton. Mrs. Lois
Haas and Mrs. Ethel Zimmerman,
will give the project, "What to do
until the Doctor Comes."
N. M . and I'm getting them out
and painting them. We'll pull them
with our jeeps or arrange -lor
trucks in each town. The rest of
the show is well equipped for a
parade. We have a calliope and
the animal cages have rubber
wheels. .
Adding the parade will cost
around S500 a day, but I figure it
will be worth it. The publicity will
certainly help, and it's an excuse
to let the kids out of school early
in the afternoon. Merchums of the
towns we play are eager for it,
because it brings In business. In
fact,' some towns in- California
won't grant us a perrnit to play
unless we put on a parade."
The Beatty circus will move out
of winter quarters March 20 for
another season of thrilling children
of all ages. Beatty didn't say
whether it would be his last year
before the big cats, but he did
admit he was thinking about re
tiring. Although he looks.- much
younger, he is 51 and says, that
it will soon be time to quit.
"I'm not as fast as I used to
be," he admitted. "My wife has
been putting the pressure on for
me to get out ot the 'ring. She'd
like me to quit right now.''
' The trouble is in finding a succes
sor. Many brave souls have applied
for the' job, but none seems to
qualify. .- .. , , :
Malin Grange;
Holds- Social Meet
MALIN , The- Malin grange,
no. 7U7, neid a regular social meet
ing, January 26, in the home of
Ray Drake,- lecturer. -
High points were won at pinochle
by Beu Anderson and Dick Kruger.
Potluck was enjoyed in the spa
cious kitchen of' the Drake home
following the games.
Attending were Rev. DeMot, Ter
esa McComb, D. P. Reld, Mr, and
Mrs.. T. E. Weatherby, Mr.- and
Mrs. Cecil Whltemore, Mr., and
Mrs. Dick Kruger, Mr. - and Mrs.
Roy Anderson, ' Mr. and Mrs.
Merler Loosley, Mr. and Mrs. Ar
nold Scott, Mr. and Mrs. 8. M.
Streeter and Mr. and Mrs. Don
Macken. . .
Mrs. James Roosevelt
Names Trio Of Women In
Pasadena Divorce Appeal
PASADENA, Calif. Ml Mrs.
James Roosevelt names three
women as co-respondents in a suit
filed - Thursday seeking separate
maintenance from the son of for
mer President Franklin D. Roose
velt. Two letters filed with the suit
identify nine other women as
having been intimate with her
nusnand.
The letters, ' the suit charges.
were written to tier by him in
1045. . . .
Mrs. Romelle Schneider' Roose
velt, 38, James' former nurse,
seeks $2,000 a month support for
herself and $1,500 monthly tor sup
port of their three children.
Roosevelt, 45, who last week an
nounced he would be a candidate
for Congress from the 26th Cali
fornia District, had filed his own
suit for separate maintenance last
Jan. 18. He asked his wife be
compelled to give him certain per
sonal articles including a cigarette
holder that belonged to his father,
He - claimed she had caused him
'mental and physical anguish and
Roosevelt, an unsuccessful Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of
California In 1050, said through
attorney Samuel B. Picone Fri
day that Mrs. Roosvelt's action Is
"qne obviously aimed at me for
punitive purposes'.
Mrs. ; Roosevelt's - ' complaint
named as co-respondents Gladys
Irene Owens, also known as Irene
uwens, June Nelson, also known
as June Jordan, and Elaine Hilton.
They were not further identified.'
The Roosevelts were married in
1941 after she had been his nurse
when he was in a hospital. It was
his second marriage and her first.
. . ,: ..-.V TV; -.
More than 100,01)0 color tele
vision sets are expected on the
market by the end of 1954. "Tele
vision keeps people at home and
increases the use of furnishings,"
observed Lawrence H. Whiting,
president of the American Furni
ture Mart,, in- expressing belief that
1954 will, be an active buying year
for the American, home.
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HOTEL
"Host of the West end
. Still the Best"
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