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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 12. lim PAGE FOUR BILL JENKINS FRANK JENKINS Managing Editor Entered second class matter at the post f8' "" on August 10. 1806 under act of Congress, March 8. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRtSS The Associated Press la entiUed exclusively to the um ' ' .fuAB"a" Editor Of all the local news printed In thl; newspaper .,nnln.inv RATES Buai,. By t AKBlER $ 1.35 1 -! l fa MAIL 1 . month 6 months 1 year . ftll.W - BILLBOARD HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON They'll Do It Every Time , w..-- By Jimmy Hatlo f MR. BGDOME FT sjaiI j 'i IS RIPE FOR A NEW WUATWE'HE ) I'M MERE? Iij say SIR ? J d COOUIM6 SYSTEM'- here TOTW m3 EUSTACE PLUNX-WITH MOTLOe Ifi"- , weuSfWaX1 M JSfJRPl I f COCH-IM6 CO.-I KNOW YOU'LL GIVE Lr-S xft 4( juSta W?! Vt HIMEVERycOMSIDEf?AT10N-UM- ; CSV? III, I A- )XJ-fNw v hM'i .''A5 Y.'tv-H w$n) III, k :);f ; By BILL JENKINS The vear of the big wind! n u')iiw much more of what we had a dose of last night that's what 1054 will go down in nistoiy labeled as. I While most people enjoy a good storm of almost any kind, wind storms seem to be way down at the foot of the list. There's nothing really dramatic about a high wind. Just a lot of air in a hurry to get somewhere. Usually there aren't any pyrotechnics in the form of lightning to go with it. And there is always the worry that the shin Hies will blow off the rool. thai a tree will crash down or that the screen door will bust loose una usi ter Itself to splinters against the wall. Nope, wind storms ain't what you'd call really enjoyable. But there's a bright side lo it. Think what would have happened had It snowed as hard as It did a couple of weeks ago while that wind was doing its best. There would be drifts ten feet high all over the county, roads would be blocked, the railroads would even have trouble . setting through. And It didn l rain nara enougn 10 drive it under your roofing and soak Uie celluig until tile paster fell off. In fact, all It did was blow enough lo keep most people half awake. Such is life. Bet down In the Weed, Mt. Shasta area they realty caught it. On my desk is a copy of Popu lar Homes, the homeowner's how-to-do-it magazine. Put out through the courtesy of Long Bell Lumber Company. A very attractive little magazine, but, boy, would It make grandpa spin in his grave. All the emphasis these days Is on "open living." Fewer walls, fewer v obstructions, more windows, more Ixuilt in furniture. And more so cajled rumpus rooms. Tho rumpus room has replaced the basement in tho modern home. And a good I ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD If one should carefully read both Gibson's and Joaquin Miller's ac counts of the battle of Castle Crags he cannot but become impressed with the feeling that neither of these old timers actually told the whole story of the battle of the Crags. Ihe general Impression, the casual reader would gain from me accounts is that this was a battle between the whiles and Uie In dians, however, if one should care fully appraise the stories one fact stands out clear, and, that is, Ihe battle was more an Indian's con flict than a conflict between white man and red. If we consider Uie basic facts re vealed by Gibson: first, he speaks of his "father-in-law, Wlelputus, the chief of . tho Shnslas," this places Gibson as actually being pretty close to the Shasta tribe. Second, Gibson' takes 29 Shasta warriors with him to engage the enemy. There was about an equal number of whites In the group but llttlo Is known of the make-up of this side of the party, some pro bably Just went along for the fun, others, because of Indian relation shins. I cnimot help but feel that the but tle was largely an Indian aflair, assisted by the whites, Joaquin added a lurlher bit of revelation by his statement "Gibson broke us up Into parlies, putting good and bad together, with Indians at the head of each." It is stories such as this that make historical research of Interest when one searches lor the truth, or, "the story behind the story," as the pop ular saying goes. Neither Gibson nor Joaquin are of great help in the matter, how ever, if we turn to Joaquin's other . account of Uie bntlle and wilh what knowledge we already possess we will gain sonic lurlher lnlormntlon not told In the accounts I have recorded In this column. My first buttle." Was the title Joanubi wrote to head a chapter of his book "Life Amongst the Mo docs." Joaquin had become a part ner with Mountain Joe his compan ion and irlcnd, and together they built a cabin near Soda Springs. 'Ihls cabin of Mountain Joe's, was, what In those days was called a "roadhouse," or hotel a stopping place. It was known only as Moun tain Joe's Cabin. Joaquin was nouscmnio, bellboy, cook, dish washer hosller, elc. It was a slop- Mini! place for tho llilrcnlienl Imv. piers tourneying on Ihe trail from Hiuoriim io ureaon In those dav of the early lillu-s. Joaquin's account of the battle ns he wroto it in "Lile Amongst tho Modocs" follows (Joaquui writ ing of his association with Moun tain Joei-' Wc together located and took imssession of the ranch now known as the Soda Springs ana loasy is me nomp of a religious cult. "We employed men, built a house, ploughed, planted, and opened a trailing post, all In the short per iod ol a lew weeks. Sometimes I would ride up into tho Mountains towards Mount Shasta, as if hunt ing for game, and spend a few days with my tawny friends. "Soon the rush of people sub sided, and but few white were found In Ihe country. All up and down Ihe streams their temporary shan ties were left without a foot u thing, too. More sjvjc In It. What wilh electric heal coming in you can throw out the old fashioned fur nace that used up a big chunk of your basement, turn the whole thing Into a rumpus room and there by have the space to store almost vrmiiinir vou want to. from last summers lawn mower down to. the nair of shoes that are too old to wear but too good to throw away. As Ions as we are going all out on new ideas for homes I've gol a few myself. Why not build fire places with built-in lighters? And floors like grates that could be shaken with a hydraulic lever to get rid of dust and dirt? And turn-iBhli-s built Into every garage so you could head in and out both In your garage? oiairs umi vui lite those in an amusement park so vou could pull a lever and turn your steps into a smooth slide when vou had a heavy piece of furniture to take up or down stairs? A bathtub built flush Into the floor with an automatic cover so you didn't have to use so much space along the wall? Why not a home developed "speed bar" such as used in cocktail lounges near your stove, only filled with spices, seasonings, water, milk, etc.? Convertible roofs like the tops on those cars called a landau, so you could have Ihe sun In the summer and be closed In in the winter? Or, if you wanta go real fancy, why not build your home on a round foundation fitted with gears and a driving power of some kind so you could rotate the joint Bround and have the sun coming in any window you wanted? There are so many things that would make life easier. But I sup pose in the long run it's a lot more important to keep our top brains at work on the H-bomb. After all, that'll put an end to more housing problems than anything else. You can do a lot witn a cave u you Just use your Imagination. press the rank grass and abun dant weeds. 'One day when our tame In dians, whom we had employed on the ranch, were out fishing, and Mountain Joe and I had taken our rifles and gone up the nar row valley to look after the horses, a band of hostile Indians living in and about the Devil's Castle some ten miles away on the opposite side of the Sacramento, came in and plundered our camp of all they could lay their hands on. This castle Is the most pic turesque object In all Uie magni ficent scenery of northern Califor nia. It sits on a high mountain and is formed of grey granite blocks and spires, lifting singly and in groups thousands of feet from the summit of the mountain. Most of these are Inaccessible. Here the Indians locate the abode of the devil. Hence its name. "I gathered up some half-tame Indians that could be relied on, while Mountain Joe went down the river ten or twenty miles to the Utile mining camps, and collected a company of whites, r had no connection with these Indians, and was thcrclore plundered and treated as they would have treated any other settler. To have borne with the outrage would have been to tall In disgrace with the others. They would have thought I dared not resent It. "The small command moved up Castle Creek under the guide oi iriewnv Indians. Each man cnrrled his arms, blankets, and three days' rations. All were on foot, as the Castle cannot be an- proached by horse - men. We reached Castle Lake, a sweet. peaceful plare, overhung by moun tain cypress and sweeping cedars. This is a spot the Indians will not "Islt, for fear of evil spirits which they are certain Inhabit the place." vitrri: n.A. KLAMATH FALLS I am writlnu ! thh. imi.. .,.u .. i ...-.,' ...... mm luiiviuiiuii in my heait. that the D A. of this city of Klamath Falls should be supported uy Ihe cilizcns of said city In his campaign to "clean up tne town." Although we are out of the city limits and I really have no voice in the mutter. I am calling upon Uie people of Klamath Falls, especially those who are Chris tians, to ' get behind" vour District Attorney and support him in this "clean-up" campaign, to make Klamath Falls ,a decent place to live ! Are you afraid? i am not. Christ Is my helper! Psalm 56:3. Christians, wrile vour mnvnr write your D A. Do somethlnol We all know these conditions ex- 1st oon t kid yourself! Let your mayor know what kind of govern- llll-llk juu waul' Slncer.iv Nrs. I). E. Rice 476! Alva Avenue Telling The Editor ii i Letter From BV HARRIS ELLSWORTH, M.C 4th DISTRICT, OREGON A few people have taken me to task for sponsoring a bill to author ize the development of a harbor at Gold Beach at the mouth of the Rogue River. I am also work ing as hard as I can toward the development of deep water ship ping facilities in Chetco Cove at Brookings and for other harbor improvements along the Oregon Coast in our Congressional dis trict. Critics of such activity who are well meaning, and as right as they can be in Uieir desire for government economy, should real ize that government expenditures generally fall into two classes one, Uie operating cost of government, and two, expenditures for capital improvement. The first category is where the waste is and where efficiency and economy are so necessary. The second classifica tion, beneficial public works, pay back their cost in benefits and develop our country for the future of our expanding populations. Naturally I am devoted to the idea of stopping waste and cutting costs. On the other hand, I firm ly believe' In the Investment of fed eral funds on projects which are properly in the realm of federal activity and which are probably sound from a pay-back standpoint. Oregon is long on resources but a bit short on transportation. This is especially true In the Oregon coast area. Curry County is a glaring example. The development of the mineral and timber resour ces there, which can only be ac compllshed with water. Iransporta-1 JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (IP) Powerful Re publicans arc talking of President Eisenhower as their candidate ugaln In 1956 although his first White House year is just over and he has three more years of his first term to go. Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin and Gov. Dewey of New York, Repub licans who arc miles apart at letut lieogranhically, in the past few days have expressed belief Eisen hower win run again. He's 63 now. He'll be 66 when the 1056 presidential election ar rives. If he runs and wins he'll be 70 when he finally leaves the White House since, under the Con stitution, he couldn't have more than two terms. McCarthy said yesterday that if ! the elections were being held now Eisenhower would be his candidate and I think ne'll be the candidate In 1!56." Dewey, a two-time loser in his own try lor the White Hou.-e. said ia; nr.ir h. i,nnri ..j n'vnnrin.i ! Elsenhower to be a 1956 candidale ana predicted he'd win. Eisenhower hinvtelf is keeping mum. tie has sidestepped news conference questions about his 1936 I intentions. He probably doesn't know himself what he'll want to do then. It's too far ahead He's still Immensely popular, as public opinion polls show. But this Is something which may grow or dimmish in Ulc fiery furnace oi events. Facing him nre problems, visible and unknown, big enough lo miike or break him. i.. . "t."' """" "r re p Ptt mi But continued lush pros perity would be a big boost. first of all. there's the task nf Republican-run Congress UUs year as a preliminary to the congres sional elections m November. He himself has said that If the Republicans don't pass the pro-,'.n-.in thev don't deserve to win. If tin- Democrats win this year ihpv'H boss Congress for his two reinalulni; years. That by llscll wouldn't slop him Irom runninjT or winning again. Former President Truman had a Republican congress for the last two years of his first term and won in 1948 in a victory that also put the Democrats back In control of Congress. But, if all these weren't prob len s enoush. Elsenhower faces an unknown Inline In foreign affairs. As the Republicans never tire of Washington tion, will be of great benefit to the entire country. In the long run the benefits will equal many times the cost of the projects. You can understand my delight then, in being able lo report to the people of Bandon that the Army engineers plan to spend some $174,000 this year in restoring the south jetty and expect to com plete the job next year. The south jetty at the Port of Bandon has been disintegrating for years. Two serious shipwrecks there recently have been almost directly trace able to the treacherous situation created at Uie entrance of Uie har bor by the broken jetty. It seems likely that postage rates will be raised although the bill has not been reported from committee yet. The talk Is that Uie cost of mailing a letter will go from 3 cents to 4 cents. In view of the fact that the Post Office Department is running in the red to the extent of hundreds of mil lions of dollars annually, and that first class postage has not been advanced for many years while everything else has doubled in price, an Increase would seem to be justified. In a way, though, you will get a little more for your money when you buy a stamp. There is a rumor abroad to the effect that the depart ment is planning to put out stamps which are printed in several col ors. Such stamps will be much prettier but they will cost far less money to print, that is. It Is planned to change from the 107- ycar-old hand engraving method to a modern rotogravure process. pointing out, the shooting war has stopped in Korea. That has helped keep his popu larity up. But he can't predict what would happen if a shooting war. major or minor, broke out somewhere else or If tho Commu nists made gains not dreamed of now. The Republicans may not find it hold to persuade Eisenhower, a men with a high sense of public service, to run again if things go all rinht and particularly If they can't find an alternate thev thln'ic could win. He has expressed no delight whh the chores of the presidency, piled on top of him at an age when other generals are retired, but he mav p"me 10 re''sh them and. like others before him, develop an urge to stay mere. His Job hasn't been unpleasant from the standpoint of public rela- Hons: Democrats, Republicans, and : people generally. He's thrown no mud and no one has smeared him. iici-uuiu iroill inrinsn 15 too much to expect If he stays in poli tics long enough. It happened to George Washington after a while. A"d J1 hPPenod In large doses to Abrnam Lincoln, whose birUiday !fday ,he Republicans have been iiuuui uig lur a wei's. Economic Group Hits Coffee Ban WASHINGTON l.fl Tile Inter American Economic and Social Council voted 15-1 yesterday to give the "widest dissemination" to a resolution condemning anv cof fee boycott campaign in the United States. The one dissenting vote was cast by the United States. FOR SALE 1949 PONTIAC 2-Door SEDAN Radio and hearer, qood rub ber, sear coven. Must sell this car. Can help $QQC arranqe financinq. 079 Phone 7146 after 6 p.m., or Sundays Come in! See how you can stretch vour clothing, dollars! We handle only the beit for all members of the family. Bruce Biossat President Elsenhower campaigned for office on an economy - in -government plank, among others. A year after he assumed office, It is fair to see how he is doing on this score. Twelve months ago there were 2,370,000 civil service workers on the federal payroll. Today there are some 2,170.000. In other words, the Eisenhower administration has reduced the to tal by some 2,000,000, Most of this reduction has not been achieved through firings, but simply through not filling job vacancies as they occur. The normal turn over of government personnel as sures that these openings will be developing steadily. , Predictions are that Mr. Eisen hower will be able to- eliminate possibly another 40,000 In the pres ent year, but prospects for fur ther substantial cuts beyond that are not considered bright. These economies in personnel, amounting to something more than eight per cent, must be accepted as an earnest effort by the Presi dent lo fulfill his pledge. How im pressive you regard it depends part ly, oi course, on now much you may have expected of Uie admin istration. Secretary of Defense Wilson has said that if Uie Elsenhower regime could slash "operating expenses" by 10 per cent that would be an achievement of note. Naturally, operating expenses and personnel totals do not march along In per fect tandem. An eight per cent personnel reduction is not nec essarily an eight per cent operating cut. But the paring down so far moves Uie administration well to ward Its expressed goal. Some citizens, and some poli ticians, may have imagined that reductions In the order of 500,000 persons were not only possible but practical. The hard facts of mod ern day government life do not sup port this rosy vision of the future. Of the citizen's tax dollar, only 22 cents goes for the ordinary ex penses of government the reg ular departments like Agriculture, Commerce, Treasury which are generally unrelated to the broad national defense effort, the pay ment for past wars, and payments on the huge national debt. Mr. Eisenhower's whittling on the regular services has been steady and will continue. But there obviously is a point beyond which It cannot go without serious im pairment of services viewed by citizens themselves as essential to their welfare. , And. of course, to cut heavily into the 78 cents of the tax dol lar which goes for defense and related costs would be to endanger, sooner or later, the national se- curlty. Big Government is something that makes many Americans un happy, for it stands In their minds for unnecessary regulation, waste tul expense, bureaucratic rigidity. The President Is dedicated to pre venting government from get ting any bigger, and to making it n little smaller where he can. But he Is under no illusion that It can be made really small again any more than you could get anywhere trying to peddle a 1925 Cadillac In 1954. BIRTHDAY WASHINGTON i.H John L. Lew- Is, president of the United Mine : over to Shriners' crippled chil Workers, Is 74 today. Neither dren's hospitals when the 3.000 nor the union plans any formal man crew and their fighting ship observance. return to the United states. ONLY 25c Down and 25c A WEEK ! For this BROWNIE HAWKEYE CAMERA complete with FLASH GUN $1120 BOTH for only I I This Brownie Hawktye camera with flash quit attachment brings you just what you need for indoor-outdoor snap shooting . . . a qood outfit at a low, low cost . . . yours for only 25c a week! Come In today! LEO'S CAMERA SHOP dirf6vA'w-ti,T.W A QUIET AFTERNOON in camp was in progress when this picture was taken in 1903. Talking it over at Crater Lake were Captain Oliver Applegate (left) and Joaquin Miller! the colorful poet of the West. The picture was taken during the Will Steel excursion to the lake from M,edford. It was loaned to us by Mrs. Robert Helms of Fort Klamath, The Doctor Says Several readers of this column, including Mrs. C, who says she Is 73 years old, have asked for a discussion of hardening of the ar teries, even though this has been done several times before. I wish that I could report more progress, but arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries is a most difficult problem, and although re search workers are constantly add ing to our knowledge by studying this condition in human beings, in experimental animals, and In the laboratory, Uie cure is not yet in sight. What happens In hardening of the arteries? There is a slow de posit of calcium salts in Uie walls of the arteries which carry blood from the heart to all parts of the body, This is often preceded by deposits of a 'at-related substance known as cholesterol. It should be emphasized that this Is a slow pro cess; there Is always more cal cium in the walls of Uie arteries of a person of 40 than In those of a child. In other words, arteriosclerosis Is a part of normal aging, but it progresses faster in some people than In others, and in some ar teries than in others. Just why this variation In the development of hardening of the arteries should oc cur, no one knows. It is probable that a family or hereditary tenden cy is one element Involved. For ex ample Uicre are some families in which most of the members develop arteriosclerosis at about the same age and in the same arteries, such as those supplying Uie heart, the legs, or the brain. The symptoms from hardening of the arteries depend on what arteries are affected and how badly they have become hardened and Uiickened, The hardened arter ies in general are less elastic than normal ones, and unable to carry as much blood, thus Interfering with the amount of blood which the tissues receive. If the arteries in the legs are Involved, for example, there may be cold feet, bluish spots on the legs, or in the most severe cases gangrene or death of the tissues of a toe or even Uie entire foot. When the blood vessels of the heart are involved, there Is fre quently pain around that organ from climbing stairs or other ex ertion. This is called angina pec toris. Arteriosclerosis Is not an easy thing to discuss because so little is known about its prevention or treatment. It is still one of the great unsolved problems of medi cine which those who have it must learn to live with, and on which study, effort, and money will have to be expanded for a long time to come. Sailors Cavort ' For Shrine Fund TOKYO Ml Traditional Navy discipline was thrown out for 43 days aboard the carrier Yorktown. Chlsf petty officers served break fast In bed to sailors. One chief shlned shoes, And a ship's officer olaved hide and seek with the crew. All for a m-ice. The 525.000 bootv will be turned ,rnV, umiji'riii mi. iSjjfeiarfMtja NEW YORK Ifl Some hus bands get restless In the home after dinner. They stomp and storm around the place, finding fault with every thing and making a general nui sance of themselves to their wives, all because they don't have any thing to do. No, they don't want to go to a movie. No, they don't feel like looking at television. There Isn't a decent murder being shown. No, they don't feel like going down in the basement and working with their new carpentry tools. "I've made so many bookends, I can't even give them away to the neighbors," they brood. A husband on a restless even ing can be as trying as an ailing child on a rainy day. What can a wife do to keep her big bored lummox happy? Some wives pacify their hus bnnds by buying him a goldfish to watch. Whenever he starts rant ing and roaring after being fed his evening meal, the wife tells him soothingly, "Now you're just work ing yourself into an uproar over nothing. There, there. Why don't you run over like a good little husband and watch your pretty goldfish for a while? That'll keep you quiet." The trouble with goldfish watch ing as a pastime is that It cither takes loo much of a hold on a man or else he quickly loses Int erest in It. If goldfish watching gets a real grip on a husband, It can be worse than drinking or gambling. The relaxation becomes a vice. The victim loses interest in his wife, his children, and his job as he becomes more and more absorbed in watching his goldfish. Don't we all know husbands who began goldfish watching Innocent ly enough, then began demanding fish food to cat, Just like their finny pet, and later began sec retly coming down to the goldfish bowl in the dead of night, carry ing a candle so they could watch it some more? The only sure way for a wife to break up a situation like this Is to swallow Uie gold fish herself and blame it on the cat. Other husbands, on the other hand, are simply jnade more nervous and cxasparated than ever by watching a goldfish. They ollen get the Idea the goldfish is beginning to watch them. "What is that gilded baby whale of yours trying to find out about me?" they ask their wife. "Every where I go in the room II follows mo with that cunning, fishy look. Is this a home we live in or an aquarium " My theory is that a wife had better forget all about goldfish watching, buy her husband a bowling ball, and get him to join the nearest bowling league. Bowling has a number of ad vantages over goldfish watching as a way of calming down husbands. It is also cheaper and safer than either hunting or fishing. Few men ever drown on a bowling alley or are shot to death accidentally by someone who mistook them for a deer. wllC trf . Vto Li HAL BOYLE The best thing about bowllnt is that it gets a husband out of the house one night a week, and en ables him to satisfy a man's nor mal desire to destroy things. They show him a shining alley with ten bright wooden pins In perfect pat tern at the end. They hand him hti bowling ball and say, "See If you can smash 'em all down, big fel low." For the rest of the evening he wears himself out crashing tin ball Into the pins, destroying the too-perfect pattern, sending them flying. He Is as happy as a small boy who is given a fistful of rocks In a greenhouse and told to break as many windows as he wants to. Un onmne hnmn tlarl hot .haapful and relaxed. It has been just the kind of evening he needed. But what about the wife? What should she do while her husband is out renewing his youth in s bowling alley? After all, you can't expect her just to sit at home and do notiting, can you? No, Indeed. Many wives have turned to goldfish watching. They now watch the goldfish they once bought their husband before he found it was more fun to go bowl ing. LEE HENDRICKS "Your Neighborhood Druggiit" 2212 So. 6th Ph. 4321 svV V Vu. . -Aft pfcoe itti 1 1 il iTirliwTMTTri Ao The CLOTHES MART 125 9h Open 8:00 'til 1:00 Phono 3364 Exclusively Photography ,pM rpa 36 Main Ph. 2-3331
