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TTTF.snAY: MARCH 23. 1954 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE ETGHT FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor Entered as second class matter at the post office of Klamath Palls, Ore., on August SO, 1906 under act of Congress, March 8, 1878 ' MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo 1 month t months 1 year SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL B CARRIER , $ 1.35 1 monui . , $ 6.50 6 months 8.10 S11.00 1 year U6.20 BILLBOARD B BILL JENKINS For years and years we have been reading of the troubles of San Francisco people with the pigeons Hiey keep cluttering up the public buildings. But an answer may be In sight. We find now that a house palmer down there by the name of Bteve Bognar, who happens to be presi- dent of the Bird Guardians League in his spare time, has offered to trao and sntD to the country all those puffy pigeons that have been ' eating out of our hands in Union Square, St. Mary's and Washing ton. Bognar claims that ranchers and farmers are eager to get tne birds as an aid in pest control. One fellow, says Bognar, even built housing for 3000 of the big cnestea birds. . . ' If you want any pigeons you might contact him by writing to 1194 Market Street, San Francisco, 3. Note for all those planning to at tend Hart Mountain next July. The middle day of the celebration, July 17, is also the birthday of Fred tricked out in his fancy topped boots and is big old beaver that is now a trademark of the hill. Skinny McMillan was in town not too long ago toting a package la beled Idaho Spud Bar and which proved on Investigation to con tain a candy bar made in the shape of a spud and turned out by the Idaho Candy Company, I think. Anyway, ifs pretty good advertis ing. Major Underwood passes along the information that his boy, George, is now an aerographer's mate 2nd class and is stationed at the U.S. Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, which Is way to heck and gone down in California. At least he picked a fine climate. Hot in the summer and warm In the winter. Ideal, JoMQUlLL, IS AM EXPERT ON TOLABOR AND MAMA6EMEHT WTS, NO RUNS. NO NO-.WIN' H For the benefit of Uiose travel ing highway 68 west we might say that a chap just dropped in and left a card on our desk saying that Omar's will open on April first. Heilbronner. And he'll be there, all I And there you have it. CAUGHT IN THE ROUNDS Hal Boyle JAMES MARLOW By DEB ADDISON RETAIL MEMO: We've Just read some statements by Bernard Gimbel, chairman of the board of Gimbel Brothers, to tne effect that the usual rammer slump In business is fiction, not Uct. j 1 "Consumers need and will buy as much of our merchandise In the summer months as they do in any season if we make the goods ' available and go after that busi ness with strong promotion and selling," he said, and outlined that the economy "will be influenced directly by what retailers ac complish this year. i i "And what they accomplish will depend in large part, on how actively they go after summer business the most neglected, the most underpromoted area in our whole merchandising system. Our lazy summer minds havo tailed to Tccognlze that times have chnnged." Stressing that Department of Commerce figures show that busi ness is there all summer long, Gimbel concludes: "We're going after it." It occurs that we don't have to look clear ahead to next summer to see another "underpromoted area." We've Just, passed out of the official winter season, and a lot of people now are clucking over how dull things are In the winter and how particularly dull they Were this Just past Winer. They were dull but why? Things were dull partly, we suspect, be cause everybody expected that they would be. Evidence is seen In the report from the National Foundation for Consumer Credit, Inc. that there was a reduction of $363 million in outstanding instalment credit in the month of January. In other words, the people of the United States put an extra $363 million into paying off their cur rent Instalment obligations in stead of spending that $363 million on more new things as they'd been doing during the "regular" months. Maybe that's because business didn't ask them to buy the things that normally would appeal to them in January. That brings to mind a Snuffy Smith cartoon that used to hang in this office. It showed Snuffy tucked into his big four-poster with the inevi table Jug of "corn squeezln s " in handy reach on the floor. Mistofcr Google was at the door with an armload of festively wrapped packages. 'iWake him up. Tell him It's Christinas," Barney was saying to Loweezy. "Paw said he wasn't expecting nulfin', was the answer. It further brings to mind the one infallible rule on which we guarantee the results of newspaper advertising: Advertise the right merchandise, at the right price, at the right time. There Is right merchandise for the dead of winter and for the lazy days of mid-summer as well as spring bonnets for Easter, COST OF LIVING MEMO: The Dun Si Uratlstrect Daily Wholesale Commodity Price Index of 30 basic commodities was 278.66 on March 18, against 277.81 a week before. The Weekly Wholesale Food Price Index, representing the to tal of Iho prlco per pound of 31 foods in general use, rose two cents last week to $7.27. Tills was 13.2 percent above the correspond ing level of last year. SAM DAWSON CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Ml The industrial scientist may be whistl ing in the dark but he thinks that . management wilt go right on pick ing up the check. The head of a leading research organization here says that re search thinking has become im bedded in management's mind since world War II. Perhaps that's because research has paid some of industry's lushest dividends in new products nnd new Industries. And when will American business need more of the same than in the months and years lust ahead? So the scientist says he sees lltllo chance ol any sizable Rlasti In research funds by business as a whole, although some little com panies might seize on that as a way to economize. Industry spent 29 million dollars on research in 1920. Today the annual bill Is around three billion Collars. Research officials are Inclined to scoff nt the Idea that the death of the excess prollls tax will seem to mnko research dollars too cost ly, or that a drop in gross sales will do anything but muke the marrlHge of competition and re search the more binding. They admit, however, thot if sales drop enough tn drain the till of cash, that would be a dif ferent slory. Here they do perhaps a sixth of all the nation's scientific re search on which industry draws. And they export Yankee ingenuity literally around the world. Raymond Stevens, vice president of the1 research organization Ar. thur D. Little, Inc., points out tint ! it took! two years before the bi depression ot the '30s aifectcd re search .spending. And almost no one is predicting any such business drop this time. Smaller business cycles since the big one have hud ' practically no clfect on research scnding, he says. His organization, however, hns had some calls in recent months from corporations asking it to ap praise their own research depart ments in the light of a sales drop. Marketing surveys arc increas ing as companies seek to improve their competitive position. Search for new products and for diversi fication ot a company's activities is belntr spurred by the business turndown. The organization also has worked out development pro grams lor whole areas, Including New England alter the textile in dustry sickened. Itlcbnrd S. Morse, president ot the National Research Corp., which has helped develop new products, new companies and new indus tries, sees plenty of work vet to be done, plenty of "adventure money"' around for sound Ideas, and no reason for a letdown In business spending along that line. But ho does feel thnl government a! economy may become a delay ing factor. ARRIVAL NEW YORK Ifl Sometimes a homely girl will say defensively: "I wish I had the portrait of Whistler's mother tatooed on my forehead. That might make me more interesting to look at. Tills attitude is wrong. Patricia Medina, a Britsh act ress, said the other day that home. ly men were much more fun on dates than "the pretty boys." She found they had a better sense of humor, were more attentive, less conceited and put more effort in tneir wooing. This, ' of course, is no news to us homely Joes. We have known It ever since the first caveman grew a wart oh his nose and then by sheer force of character, turned It into a social and busi ness, asset. A man with a wart on his nose is bound to be re membered and being remem bered is the biggest problem in getting ahead in this busy world. What is true of a homely man Is just as true of a homely girl. She stands out from the crowd, and this gives her a chance to demonstrate what real talent she may have. Those who pause to laugh at her for the moment may remain to admire her through the years. A beautiful bachelor girl once asked me, after looking around a roomful, of guests at a party: "Why do so many successful men seem to have such homely wives?" The only tactful Teply I could think of was: "Most successful men are pro bably near-sighted." But I doubt if she heard me. She was studying herself in a wall mirror. That Is the trouble with so many lovely ladles. Being beauti ful is a career with them. But no girl makes a fulf time job of being homely. A homely girl has time to listen to a man tell his dreams, time to help him achieve his dreams, and that is probably why men who are successful so often do have charming wives. A woman who has a face she finds herself unable honestly to fall in love with must, if she is normal, express her human love in other ways and other lives and she generally gets a richer reward, a- bigger payoff. In the end. She will also probably find that her ugly duckling face, that sad dened her as a girl, will mature, as she docs, into something bet ter. Time is the enemy of the merely beautiful; It is the friend ot the homely. Homely faces weather the ruinous years better than beautiful faces, unless they be carved in cameo. The older a homely woman grows the less reason she has to fear her mirror. But to a once beautiful woman a mirror is a tragic reproach. All the arts of the drugstore and the beauty sal on cannot restore the image it once held. And since the mirror has been her life, what has she left? A homely girl today hos one more consolaton in her dour hour. People are living longer now. This makes physical beauty less im portant in a lifetime. It is of real sttmiflcance to a woman from the age of 15 to perhaps 45 at most, less than half the years she lives. At any age a homely woman who has learned how to be at tractive has an edge over a wom an who has beauty and nothing else. Her advantage grows with the years. After 45 a woman who has de pended on beauty alone to carry her through Hie could tatoo the Star Spangled Banner on her fore head and still fall to make men snap to attention. As Cleopatra, reportedly a home- WASHINGTON Wl Sen. Mc Carthy reached his present posi tion of power chairman of a Sen ate subcommittee investigating Communists in the government bv sticking around. No one planned to put him in his present position of power. It happened that way through the seniority system, an ancient Sen. ate custom, which automatically moves a man up to chairman if he outlasts those ahead of him. When the Wisconsin Republican first came to the Senate in 1947, after his election the previous No vember, he was assigned by the older Republicans to what was then the Committee on expendi tures in Executive Departments, as well as to the Banking Com mittee. He was comparatively osscurc then. The expenditures committee post he got ' was no plum. It ranked In importance below such committees as those on foreign re lations, armed services, labor or fnance. McCarthy's chief interest then was housing, handled by the Bank ing Committee. Looking for Com munists doesn't seem to have been even a gleam in his eye in V1W7 ana ne prooaDjy never dreamed the hum-drum expenditures com mittee eventually would afford him the means of making headlines. Five other Republicans were on the committee ahead of McCarthy. One of them. Sen. Aiken of Ver mont, was chairman since the Re publicans had a majority in Congress. The top, or ranking, member among the minority Democrats was Sen. McClellan of Arkansas, patiently waiting to be chairman when the Democrats got a majority. ironically. McCarthy had won his Senate seat from Sen. LaPul lette of Wisconsin, in 1946. LaFol letie was one of the authors of the congressional reorganization act that year. necause of this act the work of the expenditures committee was expanded and, as its investigative arm, it had a subcommittee to study government operations at all levels. Looking for Communists was not wen its mam joo, oui laier De- came so, under McCarthy, McClellan became chairman of the full expenditures committee hi 1949 when the Democrats won congressional majority. By that lime he had moved oy seniority to become ranking member of the now Republican minority. What happened to those other five Republicans who had been ahead of him in 1947? They're all still around but by then had, for one reason or another, moved on to other committees. This left McCarthy in line to be chairman if the Republicans ever got control of Congress again. wnen Mccieuan moved in as chairman he could have made him. self chairman of the Investigating suncommittee. instead, he named Sen. Hoey (D-NC) chairman of it, Hoey won praise for the fairness of his investigations, few or none of which involved Communist-hunt ing. In 1952 the name of the Com mittee on Expenditures in the Ex ecutive Departments was changed to the Committee on Government Operations. Why? Because of some contusion with the work of other committees. For instance, the Appropriations Committee's main task was to ex amine government expenditures. Under the new name McClellan's committee had even broader pow ers man Deiore. It ooul look Into practically any thing that involved government operations. But it was also in 1952, In the November elections, that the Republicans won control of congress again, , So when the Republicans took over In 1953 McCarthy automatical ly became chairman of the Com mittee on Government Operations and also took on the chairman ship of Its investigations subcommittee. By that time he had made a career of Communist-hunting and that's primarily what he used bis subcommittee for. POETS CORNER TO FLEETING FRIENDS By Fillers Ross Sometimes you get to thinking, Nobody really cares. There's nobody to remember. Why, if you fell and got your neck broke They would- probably up and say, "Old Bill .was awfull careless,'' Then, forget you in a day. Then sometimes again your thinking, of the friends you thought you had, of the friends you thought you with, and it makes you kind of sad. Why, before you even know it, Tears come that you can't fight, Just to think those friends, that used to be, forgot you over night. Then all , of a sudden, heii you get laid up in bed, and your almost half unconscious. ly girl herself, probably would put it: "It ain't how a gal looks that's .Important it's who she can get to look after her." WITTODAf ST. joiibk i mm rmi n VENICE, Italy in - Author Er nest Hemingway arrived in his be-' loved Venire Tuesday to rest up ! on "wine and shrimps" from his nearly disastrous hunting trip in Africa. Hemingway and his wife escaped wiin only minor injuries from two successive airplane crashes in Uganda last Januarv. Large Shade and Fruit Trees American Kim. Id I ?A ft. We pirn and Eurnntan Birch, it to II ft. Annr, live variMlti, l 10 ft. Hrdlr-if. IMMardl and Thunder CUud flum. I to 1 ft. Hawthorn and ChintM Kim. tft 1 it ft. Mountain AaJi. 1 t 10 fl. AH lari caliper. Large Kverireena and Flrrlharne, ft. Atk abeut t.ll.A. Plan. XI MAUN NURSERY HOTELS OSBURN HOLLAND EUGENE, ORE. MKDPORD Thoroughly Modern Mrs. J. e. Earley Joe Earley Jr. Proprietors CLAR-LOU DINNERS RE-OPENING - MARCH 30TH Everybody's Doing It! WATCH FOR LUCKY NUMBER and you feel like your halt dead. All those folks you thought forgot you. In all ways proved more than true. . Then your nurse reports "Your better, and will soon be up like new." Results from Joy, . can be rewarding, Try it on some one todoy. Just restore a bit of sunshine, To a friend of yesterday. Soroptimists To Give Award The Soroptimist Club's "Woman of the Year", recogniied for her outstanding service to this com munity, particularly In the field of advancement for women, will oc named and introduced at tonight's Soroptimist banquet In the Willard Hotel. The award will be made by Mrs. Robert A. Thompson. A social hour is planned from 6:30 to 7 p.m. preceding the dinner hour. Mrs. Bessie Campbell of a Eu gene radio staff, widely traveled in uie orient, wui ne tne guest speak er. She will be introduced by Mrs. Charles Larkin, toastmistress, Mrs. Campbell will be an overnight guest of Mrs. J. Frank Adams, club president. Mrs. A. C. Backes. Is general chairman for the banquet. The KUHS girls' sextet- will sing. . Invitations have been extended to presidents of other service groups, their wives and husbands. Places will be marked also for hus bands and guests of members. ' Past reclnients of th award nnH the syears they were' honored in clude; Mrs. Victor E. O'Neill, the first in 1946; Mrs. Harlan Bos worth, 1947; Mrs. Lawrence A. French, 1948; Mrs. B. C. Johnston, 1948; Mrs. E. A. Geary, 1950; Mrs. R. P. EUingson, 1951; Mrs. Don Zumwalt, 1952 and Mrs. J. P. Kerns, 1953. Members of the Soroptimist Club are not eligible for the award. WAGE POLICY BUENOS AIRES, Argentina 1rV President Juan D. Peron has an nounced a new hands-off policy to ward labor-management wage ne gotiations. Speaking over a nation wide rtd'o houkup Monday, Peron urged quick agreement on new contracts between the powerful general confederation of labor and members of the employers' group, ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD "" One of the final points in the discussions of the Outdoor Writers Committee on water policy I find the following quotation: "Finally: Water is basic wealth, it is indispensible, there must be all-use planning, unified, correl ated and in balance. To not achieve such planning, and swiftly, can im peril the future of the individual, community and national life." Throughout this discussion of water nnlirv If vnu have followed t to some extent, there are three essential points developed. Firsts the water belongs to the people. Second: Beneficial use of water must nrevall in its management. And. third: The people of the watershed should have the first de cision as to how the waters of their watershed shall be applied to bene ficial use. In the Outdoor Writers Policy Statement for water the term "ben eficial use" has not been directly used, though we will hear a great deal about this tsrm as the argu ments lor water applications de velop. In general, a great many people look upon the term "bene ficial use" as a sort of priority svstem of management. First In the list of beneficial uses they say, Is the demand for water to sustain human life, our drinking water. Second to this factor comes water for the production of human food. From this point on there is a scramble bv many uses to gain top ratings In priority. Sanitation, hy dro power. Industry, recreation, and so on. In certain instances the term "beneficial use" has been attempt ed to be used to cover "consump tive uses" and establish amounts, by special edict, as to what con stitutes "beneficial use" in the actual management of water ap plied to the sou. one reason me Outdoor Writers did not discuss this special problem Is because thev believe that this Is a manage ment problem and not a basic part of policy. The outdoor writers FRANK TRIPP POLITICAL KILLING PORT LYAUTEY, Morocco m A terrorist Tuesday shot and killed Sheik Boulay Ahmed El Bantouri at the door of his home. The sheik was another In a long list of pro-French Moroccan lead ers who have fallen victim In the lust seven months to the wave of unrest sweeping the French North African protectorate. When bus drivers and plane pi lots shuttle from bus to bus or from plane to plane they carry with them an Identification tab which bears their name. They post it in the passenger compartment where all riders can see it. It is a symbol of competency. Car drivers carry their identifica tion In their purse or pocket. No body save an authorized officer is free to demand proof that a driver is licensed, not until an accident happens and the damage is done. Cars and trucks must carry num bered plates specifically issued to them in the name of the owner. But the catch is that the owner need not always drive his own car. He. may loan it, hire a driver, or it may be stolen. The juvenile llght-of-hls-eye may sneak it out of the garage for a Joy ride. The killer that is tagged so all may see is harmless until a human presides at Its controls. Once there, any incompetent or criminal may wmi it tnrougn traffic for hours, days or weeks until he Is caught. With luck he can cross the conti nent unmolested, unless he has an accident or comes upon a road block. It is the driver, not the car, that ignores traffic laws, destroys pro perty, malms and kills people; yet the states Issue the only visible evidence of right to use the high- ways to a machine rather than to its 'driver. This enables countless Incompetents to conceal their il legal status from the unfortunates who are endangered by their antics. - If it were possible for any citi zen to know on sight that a driver isn't licensed, as readily as he can spot an unlicensed car, the roads could be ridded of many potential maimers and the work of tratflc officers greatly simplified. There Is a way to accomplish this, suppose that, with the driver's license, there was issued a distinc tive thin plastic emblem the size of a playing card which a driver must attach to any vehicle that he Is driving, then carry it away with him, as he should his car keys. The place to display it should be conspicuous and uniform, such as a slot at the lower left hand comer of the windshield. A place where its absence would immediately at tract attention. Obviously such a gimmick would be no cure-all, would not stop car metis nor help a driver who left his label In his car, as some do their keys. Such careless people will always be with us. Still any unauthorized use of a car would necessitate either a cancellable la bel In the possession of the vagrant driver or his theft of both a label and a car. It is appalling how many fatal accidents are caused by unlicensed drivers and by Juveniles who might have been spotted upon their first encounter with a traffic cop, had the officer, or any citizen, only need note the absence of such a telltale device. Junior won't like this idea at all, (hough maybe pop would sleep better with his own label tucked safely under his pillow. Well, there you have the must of an amateur fixer, who also' wonders how come that chickens have well nigh eliminated traffic casualties, and people haven't. - Early motorists seldom took a ride- Into the country that they didn't kill from one to a half dozen chickens. Gradually the slaughter lessened. Fewer and few er chickens were on the highways and the old gag, 'Why does a chick en cross the road? " went into the discard. Mother hens that saw Aunt Jenny ground under the wheels of a pass ing automobile began to teach their chicks bow to cross the road. Until today it Is rare to see a hen on a highway even way back in the sticks. If a chicken could learn not to Jay walk why can't people? point of view was that all uses which contribute- to the good of the community are beneficial and It must be up to the community, to decide the order of Importance and allocation. In their words, "The al location of water to ail uses must be in proportion to the contribution of any one use to the sum-total of all uses combined. No one use or group of uses can be allowed to demand, and get, water beyond a point where that use will result in greater losses to the community than the good it may do as it is monopolized by those demanding and getting that water for their one use. This column might be accused by other interests as being biased in favor of the field of recreation be cause in this discussion of water policy I have used many illustra tions drawn from this field, how ever, the basic point I wish to make is that recreation is not the only factor which must be consid ered in the days ahead. Industry is fast coming into the picture and will make a strong bid in the com munity for its place in the water picture. Industry, unlike recreation, will be a great consumer of water. Agriculture is deeply concerned with this developing picture, in fact I would say that agriculture is becoming alarmed at the speed at which new demands are being placed upon the water supply by industry and far distant municipal- -ities, not to speak of the "dog fight" over water existing within the agricultural fraternity itself. The Klamath Basin is well aware that agricultural Interests of the great Central Valley of California would like to reach out and acquire the water that is being applied to Klamath Basin lands. The mount ing "stairway to the north" upon the program of the Bureau of Re clamation is no mere"bad dream" which will be dispelled with the break of dawn, tomorrow. As a result of our recognized fear of this vital growing menance we seek to pin down a .figure to cover our future demands of water. The chief basis of our claim, as it would appear at the present, will be -based upon our ability to apply water to the land. So many thou sands of acres of soil to be brought under irrigation in addition to what we already have. I really wonder If this is actually the best approach' to meet the oncoming struggle can any estimate of ours, today, based on present agricultural de mands, actually measure our de mands as a community of diverse Interests a couple of decades hence? It Is true we have the land cap able of development But who is going to pay the cost? Already our agricultural industry Is being faced with the problem of water short ages even though ample water sup plies are available, because our supply system is becoming inade quate to meet the demands being placed upon It. Further develop ment and expansion means new systems, or, the enlargement of ex isting facilities, expensive pumping units and so on. Who is to pav the cost? Will we seek to have good old Uncle Sam step in and save the day and then continue to cry about the growth of bureaucracy? 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