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PAGE FOUR FRANK JENKINS ., BIU JEN1HN8 Editor Managing Editor Entered as econd clew nutter at the post office of Klamath Falls. Ore.. , , , on August 20, IMS under act of Contress. March 8. ibi MKMBEB OF THE ASSOCIATED PBES8 ' The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for vublu0m ot aU the local news printed in this newspaper as well as ail AF news. "'. g -"SCBIPTION KATES MAIL BK CAKBIEB 1 month t months 1 year $ 1.35 - $ 6.60 tll.00 BILLBOARD Br BILL JENKINS Identifications are still pouring in on the Dicture of the fish that we carriea in mursaays pai-;. first to call was Lucille Barnes, who passed along the names of some possibilities. O. D. Matthews, - Harry Telfoid and Mike Lavenil:. A shame the picture is so small that the llknesses are not too clear. Mrs. A. J. Thompson, 2316 Main, , called in to say that the young fellow ill the center ' was Hub Wakefield, who passed away here several years ago. He gave he;' j ih niniiiro Kh sold. In nostcard form back in the early thirties. Hub was twenty one years old at the time, which would place the time ih nWni- tairon enmpwhere around 1900 to 1905. Hub was the first man to drive the stage coach , down the Fokegema road, and ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD in mir tttcfc nnlumn T riicplleciirl some points of water policy that the committee on water policy for U. ............. ri(.,l.(nn nt thn Hilt. door Writers Association of Amer ica believed to be basic to any water policy which will be appli cable and 'sound over decades. The last point I mentioned was that water being community wealth, the title to water, there lore must rest in the sovereign etate, which is the people. The stale, acting as and In behalf of the people can convey the right to the use of water, and only this. Ownership as such remains Inevitably in the people. . (7) The right to moke use of water does not automatically con fer the right to abuse or destroy the further usefulness of that por tion which will return to the com munity's water ' bank account." There is an inherent responsibility resting in those who are granted use of this community wealth to preserve within all leasable limits, the Integrity and usability of water returning to the public supply. ' (8) From the point at which the raindrop reaches the earth mass waicr constantly seeKS. 10 rejoin the ocean. Whatever use and scrv- water resource must occur at some point along this Ilne"of travel. . io It follow., that the most com- plete utilization of water to pro- NEW YORK Ufi Follyanna and Cassandra could have quite an argument over sizing up today's quota of business news. The glad girl could point out that a number of tilings look a lit tle better, than they did or at least they aren't getting worse at as fast it rate as they were a short time ago. The original prophet of doom could point out that the day's news mostly shows that the de cline Is still on and It's much too early yet to call the turn. Joblessness Is a case in point. The number out of work continues to rise. But not quite so many are lining up these days to apply for unemployment compensation as a few weeks back. And announce ment ot new layoffs today are pleasantly offset by reports of men going back to work this week in some of the auto plants. Department store sales are run ning about three per cent behind year ago, the Federal Reserve Board reports. But Dun s Brad street thinks that retail trade as a whole Is holding about level with last year. Mall order houses report their February stores well below a year ago. But they take cheer in the fact that the drop was smaller than it was in January. Installment buying had been off sharply so far this year, indicat ing that consumers are wary about taking on more debt. But they go on saving, and that shows they aren't too hard pressed. Sav ings accounts are gaining. And in January sales of life insurance were up 10 per cent over the prev ious year, A number of businessmen feel aure that buying is going to pick up sharply in some presently de flated luxury lines such as furs, Jewelry and entertainment If the excise taxes are cut. And they gleefully poUit at the indications' that Congress seems set on doing It soon. ' Personal Income totals have been Unking, as work weeks were clipped and men laid off. But the latest Department of Commerce figures show that th inm i .m high by comparison with any thing but the peak and is still run ning two billion dollars a year ii was a year ago. Sam Dawson j HAVE YOU EVER SEEN Timber Mountain Inn? On Alturoi Highway On. of ih. 4re.t ,nc btjt eoec,on, of o)j - lm "!n PM rnutic box., ,nd hanging limps in tht west. 1 montn , ' months : 1 1 year - S16.20 drove both stages and freight wag- ! wn han In th onrlv rinvs. j lsn were sxM l0 pe suckers, j And the suns were legal, too. In thor.e days you could shoot prac tically any tune 01 tne year. Ihe weekly report tells us thai hass and yellow perch fishing over on the coast is fair to good. Stur ceon fishine in the Columbia Is good from Hood River to Cascade j Locks. . ! A report frm the secrelaiy ol j state's oltlce says that last Feb- , ruarv was the worst month in Ithc history of Oregon lor traffic j ;dcaths. Forty two pa-sons died in street and highway smashups. ! iThe 1st three days of the bleali : j mouth saw twehe persons killed, Spring is a dangerous season 'all the .way around.. .... duce good can result only from "putting tne raindrop in service" ai every possible point along its line of transit. To disregard this undamenta in Inclusive . water management is to deny the com munity at large some portion - of the productive potentials of the water resource, (10) In the past there has been such an abundance of water that any one use might enjoy a monopo listic claim on the resource, bind ing its segment of the whole to itself alone, without regard to other uses. Other uses could find sufficient additional titer to meet their needs. We have reached the point wnere no one use - or type of use may Impose a priority monopoly on water to meet its needs without seriously affecting the weltare of the community as a whole. (11) The pressure of Increasing demands on such water as we have to support the state and na tion, has caused a wild scramble by all types of users at various places and times, to secure a use of water to meet that user's needs and seal that use to that user. Such pressures will increase, ' A) National' and world popula- uo"s, re increasing; uie nauonni "et. increase per day is 6,000, the. world increase 60.000. The popula tion of the United States is sun- posed to reach the 200,000,000 mark soon after 1970. (B) The swift development of new processes, surely demanding greater volumn of water in their operation, proportionally greater than tile ratio of numerical popu lation Increase, lies in the inv mediate future. (C) If this nation hopes to ex port to other nations, there will nave to be ample water, of use- aoie quality, in excess of that which Is essential to maintain American living standards. uzi wunoui a basic policy of water conservation and use. that will assure the fullest utilization of our water wealth, Its conserva tion, the present patchwork patter of planning for water and Its use win increase and inefficiency in making our water wealth produc tive will mountto the loss of all tne citizenry. mere is a need therefore for a water policy that can reasonably meet all water demands, and through its application, assure the Individual, the community, the slate, the nation, the greatest ag gregate service and wealth deriv able from this resource which Is so essential community property. In bringing a policy statement before the national organization of Outdoor Writers, the western di vision members whose task It was to draft a policy statement, nolnted oui to their eastern members the fact that: "In some measure the viewpoints of the members of this committee are those of westerners In general, however, we believe the broad concepts we have tried to present are possessed of uni versal application. Water scarcity west of the 100th meridian merely accents the problems of water policy and management. And we believe that In fundamentals, iden tical problems exist In every re gion, or will In the comparatively immediate future." A basic water pollcv Is our first imperative need is the subject I attempted to point out to the Ore gon State Water Resources Com mission, we cannot wait for to morrow, we cannot think that the shadow we see upon the horizon is just a bad dream, and. when we wake up tomorrow everything will be all right for the shadow will have vanished. We have a task to do now I We need a basic policy to govern our discussions in order that we need not waste our efforts In futile bickering over methods of handling policy that has not been defined. They'll Do It Every All winter 1HC NEWaOWI MADE MIS THE TRUCKLES JUST TOOK IT , FOR 6RAMTED- HAL By ED CREAGH (For Hal Boyle) WASHINGTON tfi ' Ahhhh...'. Saturday morning. Wonder what time it is. Wish I j was turned over so I could see the alarm clock. Can't be very late don't hear kids. Time for another little snooze. Wonderful thing. Saturday morning. Nuts to the alarm clock. Bet alarm clocks hate Saturdays. Must feel frus trated. Cock of the Walk live days a week, bound and gagged Satur day. Idea there: Alarm clock un burdening its soul to psychiatrist. Must write it someday. Not now, though. zzzzzzzz. (Offstage Voice: "Daddy ' You sleeping, daddy? Come and play with I.") Huh? Oh, yes. Better get up. Ought to play with the little guy. Fathers should play more with their kids. Don't know what they arc missing. Important to the kid, too. Kids spend too much time with women. Shows up in later life. This morning, though, got lots of work to do. Been letting U go lately. Let's see. First thing to do is zzzzzzzz. (Offstage Voice: "Ahoy, up there Shall I keep the coffee hot? It costs money these days, you know!") "Nnnnh? somebody talking to me? No, dreaming, I. guess. Didn't sleep well. Pitching and tossing. Why'd we have to stay out so With 15 months elapsed since thfl) Inauguration of the education a:id training program for Korean vet erans under Public Law 650. the number of veterans in training has Increased from zero to 263,000, a study by Veterans Administra tion shows. . An additional 8,300 veterans re ceiving vocational rehabilitation inner ruDiir. o4 uor me re- habilltation ol wounded end dis' abled) also wore In training by the end of December, 1953. All ihc.ie students, represent slightly more thsn 11 per, cent of nil veterans eligible for training under ther.a laws, VA said. Theft Charge Faces Banker PHILADELPHIA Mn The vice president of a suburban bank is charged today with embezzling H46.000. and the FBI says the thefts date bock almost 35 years. J. Harold Wolf, 57, was arrested last night on a warrant charging he had "purloined and abstracted funds" of the Tellord Nntlonnl Bank "and mode false entries in the bank's records in the amount of $148,000." Wolf was detained in Moyamens ing Prison overnight when advised that ball could not be posted until today. 1 Ray J. Abbatlcrhio Jr.. special agent In charge of the FBI office here, said Wolf arrested at his home in Tellord. a borough of 2.600 residents admitted ill a signed statement he hod taken the mon ey, In amounts varying from $100 to $2,000, almost from the time he started work at the bank. In 1919, as a clerk. Wolf today Is vice president and cashier. Abbaticchio said Wolf said 'he took the money "for general dally living expenses." The bank is protected by federal insurance. Wolf was quoted as saying he concealed the shortage by manip ulating bank records. The shortaHe was discovered in a routine in- l5'"""',7BrTbUr 1VWT-IHE--Tl COVERED EM V"" C-fcyiDA&Ptt:A WITH MY JyME Um RAINS-AMD TODAy -rlrweoWA RETORT THIS!) O T rTfi XXSlSi) the riper is , --K-. rrfeAN . y . Vy SLkSMTLV DAMP.' JtiiOtrnweEjV I ! KKrwV- LISTEN .... JrS& p-v J Jftjjg AwUMMNi M0gm i Vet's Mailbag spection by federal bank examin-107. ers. , DANCE SCHOOL GYM Chiloquin-Oregon SATURDAY, MARCH 6 Dancing 9 till 1-1.50 Couple . 75c Sraq . tax inct. DANCE TO Johnny and the Rhythm Masters HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Time BOYLE late? Not my ldea.: That character who showed up at the Bennetl's. though couldn't let him get. uway with the nonsense he was' spouting. Bullheaded. Kept con tradicting me. Shouldn't have ar gued with him. I suppose. Meant to give up talking about McCar thy lor Lent. Zzzzzzzz. (Offstage Voice: "Daddy! Dad dy I bwoke it. I bwoke my airo plane. You fix it, Daddy?"l Oh, . brother. That airplane. Meant to fix it last Saturday, but got to 'ix that gate, too. Reaily need a winch for that, though. Wonder where I can borrow a winch? Better let that go and paint' ; the picket fence. Not much of a job once I get started. Have to see if there's a brush In half de cent shape, though. Bet there Isn't. uost wen would be to put that screen door stopper on. Wonder where it is. Boy was playing with it. Probably in his toychest. zzzzzzz. (Offstage Voice: "Man from the cleaners. Look, you've COT to let them have that corduroy jacket. You can hardly bend your arms in the sleeves.") Huh? Sleeves? What's this? Al ways a commotion around this place. Man can't even catch an extra 40 winks on a Saturday , morn Hey'l What goes on? Quarter to 12 Why didn't somebody call mel You knew I wanted to get up early this morning had a million things I More than one half of the slu- denis are in colleges and univer sltles;, one fourth are in secondary schools and the remainder In job or farm training programs. ' Of the 263,000 veterans In train ing under Public Law 550 on Do cembf.r 31, 1053, 145,000 were In institutions of higher learning. in me inn 13 months of the nimiram lOnmhpv iihi i v,,.. ber I05;i) VA issued more than 1,576.000 checks amounting to $156.0 million to Korean veteran trainees. These checks met In pan the veterans' expenses for subsls tnce, tuition, supplies, books and equipment. QUESTION OF THE WEEK I'm a disabled Korean veter an, and I'm running a farm in partnership with anotner veteran a fellow who took on-the-farm training under the World War II Ol Bill. Would I be allowed to en roll In farm training under Public Law le, even though the farm is not under my complete con trol? A. Yes, It might be possible for .vou to take Institutional on-farm training under Public Law 16, pro vided thof you meet the basic eligibility requirements of the law; and that your partnership agree ment calls ior equal managerial authority, and that your farm is productive enough lo provide a livelihood for both you and your partner. See your nearest VA of. fice for details about your case. Veterans Office Has Opening Veterans Administration regional office ot Seattle, Washington, has an opening tor a tabulating ma chine operator, GS-4. Entrance sal ary is 3175 per year. Applicants with six months' ex perience wiring plug boards, or setting control pins and who have had either IBM or Remington-Rand training courses will be considered. No written test will be required, but the applicant must be a high scnooi graduate. Qualified applicants should nn. ply to the personnel officer, room VA regional office. 7th k Olive Way, Seattle 1, Washington. jm on v . L A WHAT COeS IT jL.. cOtJTRVo!Dc rfl .iiEgSrJl I By Jimmy Hatlo t ! The Doctor Says ; By EDWIN P. JORDAN, SI.D. ., L response lo several inquiries ihis column is devoted to a dis- cussion ol a condition known us seborrhea or iieborrhcic dermatitis, fills is one of several possible causes for falling hair, but while common it remains a Difficult sub-1 IJect to discuss because its causes are not entirely clear, and Its cure is olten difficult. Seborrhea is often considered to be of two varieties; one, dry sebor rhea, or dandruff, and the other, oily seborrhea. Both of these con ditions are more common in the scalp than elsewhere, but may extend down to the eyebrows, face, and even other parts of the body. In oily seborrhea, the hair and scalp feel greasy and are hard to keep clean because dirt floating in the air sticks and the hair follicles tend to clog up with oil and tiny scale of skin, dirt and the like. This certainly does not make idr neattny scalp or hair. Sometimes a true inflammation of the skin follows or accompanies seborrhea, and then the condition is called dermatitis, and this can be painful as well as annoying. What is responsible for either form of seborrhea is hard to say. No living parasite or germ has been identliled, though there a' reasons to believe that some Vinj of infection may be at least par- uiuiy hi iauji. However, seborrhea, of either kind commonly starts after the gen eral health has been lowered by such things as infection or fatigue. Anemia, constipation, indigestion, lack of fresh air and exercise, and the wearing of stiff and ill-ventilated hats are also claimed to contri bute to the development" of seborr hea. No easy or quick cure for se borrhea Is available. If some chro nic, weakening disease Is present, It should, of course, be treated. Also, such conditions as anemia or constipation should be taken core of. The local treatment of sebor rhea Involves first the removal of the crusts and accumulated fat ty materml and later the use ol stimulating applications. The re moval of the crusts and debris at first may be accompanied by the loss of a good deal of hair. The fatty accumulations are first soaked with some carefully chosen lotion to Kid hi removal. Tills Is followed by thorough and frequent sham pooing, again selected with care. Many chemical preparations have been used In the form of oint ments or lotions after the removal of the scales. The condition resists treatment and tends to come back unless treatment is continued for weeks or months after the skin appears to be normal. Governor Signs Alimony Law LANSING. Mich. tfl-It Is now legal In Michigan for a man, be hind In his alimony, to work at his Job all day and spend the night in Jail. Gov. G. Mennen Williams has signed a legislative bill which makes that possible In cases of an employed man convicted of con tempt of court for failure to pay alimony. , McCarthy Called Just An Actor SAN FRANCISCO Wl Republl can Gov. John S. Fine of Pennsyl vania yesterday described Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) as "Just anoth er actor on the stage," receiving publicity out of all proportion to h!s influence on American opinion. Gov. Fine talked to a news con ference in his hotel suite here. Fine said McCarthy's conduct while questioning Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwlcker recently was outrageous. EVERY SAT. NIGHT South Sixth Street COMMUNITY HALL . Music By BUD MUELLER and Hit VALLEY WRANGLERS Admission J 00 Per Person ' Tax Inc. Broadcast Over KFJI 7:00 ta 7:30 P.M. Hugh Pruett Astronomer. Extension Division Oregon Higher Education System Although St. Paul was not famil iar with oui; modem system of stat ing the apparent brightness ol stars in magnitudes, he truly expressed the same idea when he wrote, "For one star differeth from another in gtory." A few minutes under a clear, moonless sky, far removed from city lights, will show to any one who knows how to "look up" that the dome of heaven Is thickly inlaid with celestial brilliants of greatly varying degrees of luminos ity. We usually state that the dimmest star visible uuder the most favor able conditions is of magnitude six. With increasing brightness we la bel them five, four, thrco, two and one. The Big Dipper stars are most ly of magnitude two. There are about a dozen stars that rate "one." A half dozen slill brighter are of magnitude zero. A difference of one in magnitude means a difference of 2'i times In brightness. There are two glorious stars that are so brilliant that minus mag nitudes have to be assigned to them: Cnnopus 1-0.86; and Slrlus (-1.68.) In whole numbers these would be magnitudes minus one and minus two. Siriun, (pronounced "serious"), the brightest of all, Is visible from all parts of the earth extending from the south pole to northern Alaska. From our part of the world this solendld star is at this time of year energetically flashing well 1 up above the southern horizon be- tween 8 and 9 p.m. There can be no mistaking it for it has no equal in mat part of the sky. The only "starry" object now to exceed it is Jupiter, a little southwest of the zenith, but Jupiter is not a star (dis- tant suni but is a planet which shines only because' the sun il ruminates it. Part of Slrius' brilliance Is due to its relative nearness to us. Only 8.6 years are required for Its light to reach us. Were it as near as our sun (only 8.3 minutes for light to come from it), It would give us 30 times the solar luminosity and heat. (We'd have to move to more genial climes.) Quite different are the conditions relative to Canopus (accent second syllable.) It is so far south in the heavens that Its visibility extends from the south pole northward only to the latitude of southern Colo rado, and it is hardly visible north of there. Canopus is rated as a superglant, 2,000 times the actual luminosity of our sun. But Its dis tance of 100 light-years reduces its apparent brightness to less than that of the nearer Slrius. A few years ago Oregon friends wintering at Death Valley, Californ ia, wrote me to learn the identity oi this "horizon flasher" which was visible almost on the southern sky line for only two or three hours each evening and very spectacular. This star, Canopus, Is almost di rectly below Slrius. Mishap, Kills WITH 1ST MARINE DIVISION, Korea Wi A mortar shell which exploded when dropped accidental ly at a, training lecture killed sK V., 8. Marines and wounded 30 Thursday, it was announced Fri day. The shell presumably was an enemy missile The instructor was showing how an American-made fuse could be adapted to It and ap parently thought it had been made harmless, a division spokesman said. The shell exploded as It hit the floor ot a quonsel hut at the di vision's mine warfare school Just behind the front. The blast ripped out doors and windows and hurled steel fragments through the walls. The Instructor was killed. Four of the wounded were in critical condition. Four others were seriously hurt. Names of all victims were with held. Every helicopter in the division was alerted lo fly the wounded to hospitals and to carry doctors, medicines and whole blood in lhi sne' 'borne of the victims were flown to Marine medical stations. Others were taken directly to a hospital ship anchored In Inchon Harbor. The Marine announcement did not say specifically that the mor tar shell was of Communist ori gin. But It did describe it as an 82 mm missile, a standard Red army type. The comparable Amer ican mortar caliber is 81 mm. McKay May Visit Alaska This Year ANCHORAGE, Alaska Ifl In terior Secretary McKay may vk4t Alasko sometime this summer or early fall, the Anchorage Cham ber of Commerce was notified Fri day. Harold Say. chief ot the Wash ington bureau of the Portland Ch-.mber of Commerce notified the local organization McKay pro bably would visit the territory sometime between mid-Julv and early-September. Water Said Key Resource By CHARLES V. STANTON Roseburf News-Bevlew . ' A Coos Bay oyster cannery has been closed and Its 40 employes are seeking other Jobs, It Is reported by the North Bend News. Three years ago extensive oyster plantings were made in the bay. Tills year was to be the first har vest year and elaborate plans had been made to cash In on the in vestment. The cannery started in Novem ber with every prospect of a suc cessful season. Five days later the season was ended. Three storms filled the bay wilh sill and killed 75 per cent of the crop, the News reports. In the northern part of Doug las County an effort Is being made to sign up enough acreage to ob tain a receiving plant for beans. Some fanners, who would like to join, are afraid to stun contracts because of the possibility there will not be enough water in Elk Creek to Irrigate a bean crop Southern Douglas County is an ticipating a large influx of set tlers, following opening of the Hanna Company smelter at Rid dle, which, coupled with continu ing expansion of the timber indus try, will Increase Job opportunities. Already pressed for adequate wa ter for domestic supply, the com munities ore definitely limited in nbilitv to accommodate the antici pated growth in ' population until nddii tonal water supply can be pro cured. A few years ago an official of the Weyerhaeuser - Timber 'Com pany told us the .company had to abandon plans for a pulp mill at Coos Bay because a sufficient supply of fresh water could not be found. ; Douglas County needs at least two krnft pulp mills as a comple ment to Its timber Industry. Two such mills could be operated from material now going through burn ers in areas from which collection of waste would be financially feas ible. But, unless provision is made to prevent pollution from mill ef fluent, minimum water flow in the Umpqua River is too low to sus tain pulp mill operation without en dangering fish life. Within a few more years the rapidly growing wood chemical in dustry will be moving into Doug las County If it can find sufficient fresh water. The chemical indus State Of Nations Business Blamed On Mental Attitude WASHINGTON W Paul G. Hoff man, head of the Studebaker Corp., says the American people are "distrustful of the future" and this attitude is responsible in large part for the nation's current eco nomic troubles. Hoffman mentioned lagging auto sales as an index. He dlscussqd the nation's economic state of mind yesterday in announcing that the Advertising Council will open April 1 a national campaign designed to neutralize recession talk by playing up the prospects of economic itrowtn, Hoffman is chairman of the council's public policy committee. ' As Hoffman spoke out, there were new reports of layoffs in the auto industry in his own com pany and on the New York Cen tral Railroad, But two auto mak ers, Chrysler and Hudson, issued back to work calls for employes they had laid . off because of dropping car sales. In the general employment pic ture, the Labor Department's Bureau of Employment Security reported last night the number of workers claiming unemployment compensation during the week ended Feb. 20 was 2,168,200 just 10,200 below a week earlier when the total reached the highest level since February, 1950. The bureau also reported -an easing of layoffs ind some recalls of workers during the week ended Feb. 27. Only a little more than half the nation's labor force of roughly 80 million is covered by unemploy ment compensation. President Elsenhower has picked Prize Cattle Sold At Annual Auction SPOKANE Ifl The champion femnlc. sold by W. J. Harrer and Sons of Helena, Mont., brought II, 300, up $200 for the 1953 cham pion female, at the conclusion of the Inland Empire Aberdeen-An gus Assn. auction here Friday. The champion female ' was pur chased by Charles Lunceford of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The grand champion bull, also owned by Har rer and Sons, was sold lo Hlnderir and Slusser of Pullman. Wash., lor $1,550, down $950 from the price paid for the 1953 grand champion. Bulls sold this year brought an average of $699, compared with the 1953 average of $732. Females brought a total of $23,820. 3-Act 11 The Male Animal James Thurber and Elliott Nugent presented by The Orefech Players at .' The Campus Theatre Friday and Saturday March S and 6 Tickets on Sale Frl. and Sat. The Gun Store. Adults, 75c; under 12, 25c. SATURDAY,' MARCH 6, 1954 try needs a large volume of wa- er. v It is quite evident that expan sion of industry and growth of pop. ulalion is definitely limited unless we, do a much-better job of water management. We still have room lor expansion and growth for a number of years but will eventual ly reach all absolute limit unless we develop a water management program in the very near future. .There was no good reason for the disastrous silting of the Coos Bay oyster beds. Had logged-olf slopes been reforested;' had logging roads been properly drained: had culverts been correctly Installed, and had siltation basins been pro! vicied where needed, the oyster in dustry would be flourishing. Had watersheds been protected In Coos County, Coos Bay probably would have a pulp mill In operation to. day. Tfad Elk Creek's watershed been protected from damage, farmers in North Douglas County would not be afraid to plant beans. If incendiar. ists had not ruined the watershed on the South Umpqua River and its tributaries, and had logging op.' era lions been planned to preserve water flow, the communities !s the southern part of the county would not now be worrying about domestic water supply. . We must, in some manner, start repairing the damage that has been done. We must design ia"s to store surplus water In winter to meet needs in summer. We must endeavor to get water Into th. ground instead of sending it speed inir down .silt-laden rivers. , A committee appointed by Gov ernor Paul Patterson now is hold ing a series of meetings throughout the state In an effort to formulate a water conservation program. One of the meetings in that series will be held In Roseburg Wednesday. It is good to know that many local interests, alert to the critical situ ation, are preparing briefs to pre sent to the committee. We can expect no immediate re sults, other than those of a prepar atory nature. , It will take many years to design a water manage ment program. It will cost millions of dollars to build reservoirs, cover bare slopes, repair damage and re store watersheds. But the Job is not impossible. If started at once, and given general cooperation, we can greatly enlarge the boundaries to Industrial and population growth. this month to . Indicate whether business will pick up or the gov ernment may have to step in and give the economy a shot In the arm. Hoffman, former foreign aid head In the administration and the presidency, disagreed. He said he would not expect any signifi cant trends to develop until April. The Studebaker head said sur veys made last year indicated that 5,600,000 people had car buying In mind for this year, but that 1954 sales may be nearer 3,500.000. But another major auto industry .leader, Henry Ford II, was more optimistic than Hoffman. He told newsmen In Louisville, Ky., that prospects are so good he believes the Ford Motor Co. may beat out Chevrolet in the low-priced Held this year. Employment reports from aulo production centers were some what checkered. Chrysler and Hudson announced in Detroit the recall of 9,800 production workers during the week. But Studebaker said it is shutting down Us car production line at south Bend, Ind., at least a week, throwing 11,000 of its 12,000 workers tem porarily out of work. The. New York Central boosted layoffs In three slates to 3,400 Friday night. Worst-hit was Beech Grove, Ind., an Indianapolis sub urb, where the railroad's car and lodomotiye shops were closed, idling about 2,100. Also affected are 1,050 workers in East Buffalo and West Albany, N.Y., and 250 at Avis, Pa. A New York Central spokesman blamed the move en a "decline In business." QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds "B-r-r-r-r! . . . these pearli I got In the Herald an New Want Ada are chilly!" Comedy 8:15 p.m. at First National Bank and All Students, 50c; Children
