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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON MONDAY. MARCH 90 FRANK JENKINS . Editor . - , BILL JENKINS Managing Editor Intend ai second class matter at the post office of Klamath Pli, ore., od August m. ivus under act or congress, Marco 8, 187 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use (or publication 01 an we local news primea in mis newspaper as well as all ap news. MAIL 1 month SUBSCRIPTION RATES BI CARRIER ' t 1.35 j 1 month , t 135 g months L $ (.50 months t 3.10 1 year tUM '. I year 116.30 BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS With the advent of spring bunch of dedicated men get to gether, lock themselves in . smoky room and start hashing ' out plans ,lor the Basin's biggest show of tqe year the roundup. Already the directors are ham--, merlng away at their problems, : signing up stock, clowns, bull . fgbters we may have a local boy in there this year and getting a hundred and one other details tak en care of. Perhaps the community doesn't know it, but these directors are doing a job that benefits not only the rodeo, but the community as a , whole. And all for nothing. They , are strictly volunteers who donate then- time and effort. But in the past eight years, since 1946, the Klamath Basin Roundup Association has spent a total of 145.588 at the fairgrounds, most of It In the form of improvements. They have added, through their ' efforts, lights which are generally ' credited by the cowboys who work ths show as being among - the best on the Pacific Coast. " New grandstands have been added, the old ones improved, fences re paired and built, chutes main tained and a hundred and one other minor items. This year an attempt is being made to cover a larger area of the grandstand to afford shade and protection to the spectators. The fair board has benefited i to the tune of 811,500, the armory commission has gained some 81657 In rentals on the big building for roundup dances, 88204 has been spent for labor. All in all a rather impressible figure. I think a vote of thanks is due the fellows who put in their time to provide the bomefolks with a show. A show, incidental ly, which is ranked among the top ten In the nation. Nothing to be sneeied at. And this year's will be bigger and better than ever before. Speaking of rodeos reminds us that the gang down In Red Bluff will be staging their show, anoth er dandy one, come April 17 and 18. Charlie Stover Is the boss down thataway and he promises a crackerjack performance for both days. It has always been a splen did show in the past and we hope them every success this year. After all, their early show is the one that kloks off the sawdust and leather season here in the West. Nature note: Frank Sexton, the CK majordomo, called the other day to report that a woodpecker with a determined bent of mind and a strong bill has been work ing on a steel smokestack out at the roundhouse for the past week, but without making any noticeable dents in the big tube. The fellows out there have been keeping a close watch on the stub born cnap ana mere Is a rumor going the rounds that they are considering taking him into the Boilermakers Union. I'd say he deserves it. The closed season on the use of fire on some 29 million acres of private an public forest lands In the state will get under way Aprl first, according to the state board of forestry. That's a sure sign that fishing season Isn't far away and that we'd better start remembering tnat we can't throw matches, cig. aret butts and pipe ashes around recklessly like we can in the win ter when there is a cover of snow on the ground. In everything from lumber camps and woods operations to summer homes and fishing camps lets remember "a gallon of pre vention is a better thing- than 810,000 worth of fire fighting." TheyTl Do It Every Time I&MTERS 84TT PLEASN6 OL'MAM STUB8SPunTrMC3 CANVAS "-- ; , By Jinmy Hatlo THE JOB IS RMI. WUAYS THAT HIS BUSHES ALMOST TD THE GROUND.' t I BASIN BUILDERS ii ; 1 i HAL BOYLE , NEW YORK Wl Once upon a time a tadpole named El win lived In a small pond away out In the sticks. . - v Elwln was different from the oth er little tadpoles. All they wanted to do was grow up and be big bullfrogs and sit on a Illy pad and aing "jug-o-rum . . '. iug-o-rum" all night long. But not Elwln. He wanted to make his mark in the world. One day a strong wind blew a tattered old circus poster Into the pond. The ether tadpoles swam up and laughed at the pictures of the elephants on the poster. But not Elwln. "That is the life for me," he decided. "I want to go places and see things. I'm going to be an elephant." Elwln made the "mistake of con fiding his ambition to the other little tadpoles. And did they Jeer at him! "Elwln's going to be an elephant," they chanted. "Elwln's going to be an elephant," Then they swam away laughing. All the residents of the small pond laughed at Elwln except his mother, Matilda, and his father, Oswald J. Frog. "I don't care what you become, Elwln," said his mother, comfort ingly. "Just so you are good, and don't do anything to hurt your health." But Oswald J. Prog was out raged. He was extremely pompous about his family tree, and his an cestor had been smuggled over on the Mayflower by a young Pur itan lad. . "You are making us the laugh ing stock of the cnllre nonrt Im told his son coldly. "There hasn't been a scandal like this in tne family since your, great, great frrandlather on your mother's ilde, naturally ran away with a toad. I forbid you to be an ele phant. Get that nonsense out of your head." But Elwln was determined to be an elephant, when he began to change from a tadpole Into a young frog, he kept pulling on his nose to make it longer and learned to blow water through it. He fig tired that to become an elephant he would have to eat like a horse so he ate all he could. At night he hopped into town o the public library and read every book he could find on elephants All day long he took elephant, building exercises. Little Elwln ate and he ate . . and he grew and he grew , , . until finally, at last, he woke up one morning and found he was an elephant. At first Elwln was happy. ms mother was proud of him, too. But his father told him angrily, "Y0 are nothing but a freak." The other frogs, his former plav mates, cut him dead. Finally one told him frankly, "with all your Dig ideas, Elwln, don't you find this pond ft little small?" Elwln brooded and brooded Then one night he packed all his belongings In a small bundle, put uver nis snouiaer, nopped si lently in and kissed his sleeping mother goodbye, and ran away to juui u circus. He thought the other elephants would welcome him. But they snubbed him. "You have a strange accent." they told him. "And whv rant vmi Just trudge along like a decent elephant? Why do you have to hop all the time?" "If I can't Join your troupe," said Elwln stubbornly. "I'll be. come a star In my own rleht." And he did. He hired a smart manager and overnight "Elwln. the world's only hopping elephant" became world famous. The cli max of his act camp uhin h. slid down a short slide, hopped over twelve barrels to each of which was fastened a pretty girl singing "Dixie" and landed on his back feet, bowing gracefully. wnen Elwln had become ih wealthiest elephant in history, he received a telegram saylne: 'Your old friends and nrlahhnrt Join me In asking you, our pond's imiau ious son, to return and be the main speaker at a hn. quel to klckoff our annual com munity charity drive for aged am- imiuians. oorry we can't offer in pay your expenses. (Signed) May or Frog." dee, It would be fun in u ih. old home pond again, even though mother is dead," Elwln told his manager. "Charter me a Diane." Everbodv In the hand to welcome Elwlp. His wrink led old father reached up and patted him on the back of his leg and said fondly, "That's my boy Son, I'm proud of vou." Cheers rose on everv hanrf tuhn Elwln got up to speak that night at the banauct. "It is Indeed a oleasure " m. win began, then went "Harrumph. har-r-r-rumph." ;oot a cold?" asked the mayor. 'Oh. no." Elwln lanohari then told the audience, "ic'.pii.. me , , . just a frocr in mi A frog?" crieit th m.'. looking around to see If any of his constituents were missing Panic spcead through the crowd Lady frogs gathered their children about them and hopped away. The b uu.i.niBa ocgan nuriing mud bVckwS. they hoppti iw" '''1'?ve. re,t(d n assassin," cried his father. Then h hi.. appeared. ' Look. It's all a mUl.v. ..1.1 Elwln. No answer. He ' looked around wistfully and crn.H RAY BIGGER ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT Haele hw end 3 phttt Pimp Motor naalis. motor rtpoiri. Motor rowindlnf. New and Uiod Soloi on. Sonic SHOSHONE... 3223 Imara my fion . , . MM 4M1-.M77 ' ; aV-WI ML The Doctor Says By RUTH KING P. D. REEDER Gl's In England Behaving Well NORWICH, England I.H-U. s. Ambassador Wlnthron Aldrlch said last night unpleasant Incidents between Britons and the thousands of American troops stationed In the iirnisn isles "have been remark ably few." The U.S. forces have had "no more community-relations nrob. lems than they would at our bases at home," Aldrlch said, addlno- he Is well satisfied with their behav ior. Speaking before the Chambers of commerce of Southern England's East Anglia District, the ambas sador said It is entirely under standable "that the presence of alien troops may occasionally be come somewhat irritating.". The troubles that have arisen, he said, have been "due more to unfamll iarity with the ways of your coun try than to malice or evil Intent." CRASH ADDIS ABABA. Ethiopia Ifl Col. John C. Robinson, a veteran American Negro aviator who flew for Ethiopia for several years, died Saturday from Injuries re ceived in a plane crash two weeks ago. Robinson, an old friend of Em peror Halle Selassie, had long ser vice with the Ethiopian govern ment. He fought against the Ital ians when they invaded Ethiopia in 1935 end flew personal missions for the emperor. , "Jug-o-rum, Jug-o-rum." But there was no reply. The pond was emp ty. Heart-broken, Elwln returned to the circus, made a farewell tri umphal tour, then retired and bought an apartment on Park Ave nue. He spent the rest of his life In It alone as a hermit elephant, reading his press clippings. Moral: In this world a big heart Is rarely understood by small minds. QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds ". . . . one more round like that - and all of ui will be looklni In he Herald 4k Newa Want Ads for Jobs!" KLAMATH POWDER & EQUIPMENT Inc. 330 Spring . 2.31S1 RENTALS-STORAGE-SALES & SERVICE Pneumatic tools Macwhyte wire rope Pumpi DuPoht cxplotivet The flying sparks from his father's forge,, the redhot glow of meiai, tne "ping" of a wagon tire against stone, and the swinging bodies of five horse thieves, in a grove of trees at dusk, are among the earliest memories of one of Southern Oregon's .early settlers. Plesant Detroit Reeder, '(P.D.) to folks- in Klamath- Palls, born March 29, 1881, on the plains- of Texas, was brought north in a box car, In the fall ow 1884, when immi grating families were seeking new homes in a new country, Indians, in those days, trying to stem the flow of civilization to their hunting grounds, tore up railroad traces, ana pnea debris upon the rails, limiting travel over the route in tne daytime hours. The young Reeders, their father ana mother. John a Bood block, smith and gentle Mary, wintered at -neaaing wnere father Reeder re paired wagons, put shoes on horses wonting on the railroad nushino- northward, made plows, and other wise neiped with "the opening of the West. Spring came. A wagon train took the future Klamathite to Lakevlew, later to Sliver Lake, where his father ranched and raised live stock. Lakevlew .was 100 miles away, but the family trekked back when snow fell, to school the children. i "P.D.", grew up, and with his brother "U.E." who later earned the right to tack the title "Judge" before his name, ranched on the old home place. "U.E." married, moved away. 'I November 6, 1902, Plesant Reed er lea a laughing lassie to the anar, and Corlnna Howard Reeder went back to the ranch from the little town of Silver Lake. "P.D." was plunged soon Into the business of keeping law and order on the range. He served for more than 30 years as constable and deputy sheriff in Lake County. He looked down the gun barrel of an angry woman and "stared" her out of shooting. The path of no officer is smooth, but "P.D." kept to the straight and narrow, exer cised his authority in pinches, gave the culprits a fair deal. He served as land commissioner for 15 years, as a director on the school board. He played the violin for dances and danced a bit him self. He caught a cow thief for the Z X Cattle Company ' with the "goods" and pocketed a 11,000 re ward from the cattle association for his deed. He helped with the arrival of his first son Dick and paced the floor "like crajy", as do tamers or today. When college aee for the srntu. ing family rolled around, thev trekked to Corvallls and lived near campus. In 1928 the Reeders rvifh.il Klamath Falls by the Texas, Lake view, Corvallls route, and went Into the grocery business. For many years they operated their own business. For several mom. P.D. has been rleht hand man In Dick Reeder's Store for Men on Main Street. He and Mrs. Reeder am nni-nnl. of five children, a son Dick in Klamath Falls; four daughters, Mrs. Connie Whltemore and Mrs. Noma Brlggs, both of this city, Mrs. Eula Helm, Myrtle Creek, arid Mrs. June Dickey, Redding, Thev are grandparents of nine, great grandparents of one. Mr. Reeder is a member of the First Baptist church, Ives at 312 Michigan. , Hans Norland Phone t-2515. Aulo Insurance. One of the most complicated question about which I , re ceive inquiries comes from par- ents who are concerned about the size or rate of growth of their children. One such question came from worried mother who writes that she has an eight-year-old daughter who Is about the same size as 10 or 11-year-old. Both father and mother, -she writes, are of -medium build, and the families are not notably large. The girl is neither overweight nor underweight, and seems normal in every way except her size. Sometimes questions come hi concerning undersize, particu larly in boys, and this causes an equal amount of distress. Growth and, development in children has had a good deal of study, , but there Is still consider able dlfterence of opinion. What should be said at the start, how- ever, is that as yet there Is no specal injection, or exercise or food, which can be definitely rec ommended either to speed or slow the growth of children. Furthermore, It should be un derstood that the rate of growth varies from one youngster to an other, and it docs not proceed at the same rate of speed all the time in any growing child. It Is quite likely, therefore, that the eight-year-old girl mentioned at the beginning or this column will grow less rapidly In the next few years, and her contempora ries will catch up to her, though this cannot be guaranteed. It appears that there Is a more or less normal pattern of growth for each child. Several methods have been proposed for measuring this, but there Is no complete agreement as to what method "-Is the best, though In the United States a device known as the Wetzel grid has been used extensively and is favored by many. - There are many things which influence growth. To some ex tent size runs in families: if the parents are unusually tall the children are likely to be above average in this respect also. Diet undoubtedly plays a part, prob ably In height as well as weight. Climate may have something to do with the picture also. Sex is a factor: boys on the average. when fully grown are taller and heavier than girls, though around 11 or 12 years old girls are often bigger than boys of the same age. An important factor which in fluences growth has been traced to tiny gland caled the pitui tary which lies at the base of the brain. The front or anterior Dart of this gland manufactures a hor mone which greatly influences growth. In some cases It pro duces too much of this hormone with the result that the individ ual develops into a human giant, one of whom has been reported to stand Just over nine feet high and weighs nearly 400 pounds. If too nine oi tne normone is pro duced, the growth may be cor respondingly stunted. James Mar low WASHINGTON Hr-Striklng long shoremen who have all but para lyzed the Port of New York today arranged a march, by bus and auto, . on Washington to demon strate in front of the White House. . What this will accomplish seems to add up to nothing. The stated aim is to protest the government's role In the affairs of their union, the - old International Longshore men's Assn. , .The life of that union, found to be loaded with racketeers and gangsters, is at stake. - The New York strike by the ILA is not for wages or better working conditions. It is the result of a struggle with a rivai AFL union to be recognized as sole union for the port's 40,000 longshoremen. For 40 years ILA represented the New York waterfront's dock wallopers. It was a member of the American Federation of Labor. For 28 of those years its president was Joseph P. Ryan, who became, he thought, its permanent presi dent. He had been elected for life. In 1953 the New York State Crime Commission investigated the, ILA and announced it was racket-ridden. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey stepped in to crush it. The AFL expelled it. It was then the AFL set ud the rival union. Ryan was Indicted on charges of stealing $45,000 from ILA funds. Then AFL began a hard recruiting drive to win awav the ILA's members. 1 Worried about its chance for' survival, the ILA replaced Ryan as president with tugboat captain William V. Bradley but voted Ryan a pension of $10,000 a year for life. But trouble on the New York waterfront, where 200 million tons ot cargo are handled yearly, bubbled and boiled over the qes tion: Which union, the old ILA or the new AFL one, had a right to represent the longshoremen In bar gaining with employers? The National Labor Relations Board last December held an elec tion among the dockers. Was this too soon? Had the new AFL union time to win a majority of the longshoremen to Its side? Secretary of - Labor Mitchell. Gov. Dewey, and New York State Crime Commission and the AFL all said It was too soon and od. posed the election. The NLRB held it anyway. The old ILA won. But its margin of victory was only 1,452, so . surprisingly small that the AFL had visions of win ning if another election could be held a little later. It charged longshoremen voting in the December-election had been intimidated by ILA goon squads and asked the NLRB to set aside the election. Gov. Dewey bncked this. The NLRB began an investiga tion, setting one of its examiners, Arthur Leff, to work on the case. As the weeks passed, the AFL seemed to be gaining strength, the old ILA losing. If this continued the old ILA might wither away. But tf the old ILA struck, it might demonstrate it still had enough strength to force a compromise. 1 The- NLRB got a federal. Judge issue an injunction forbidding U.S. Stand On Indpchina, To Be Aired By Dulles a strike. The ILA struck In defi ance. The strike wasn't started offlcla'ly. The strikers simply said they walked out, although the union gave its endorsement last week. After the strike began 25 days ago, the AFL tried to start a back- to-work movement. ILA strikers gof rough. New York mounted police tried to keep order. But the net result: shipping in the Port of New York stopped cold. Today a federal judge considers contempt charges against the union for strik ing In violation of an Injunction. Last Friday NLRB Examiner Leff recommended results of the December election be thrown out. If the full NLRB In Washington agreed, this would mean there'd be another election. The full NLRB decided to meet tomorrow to consider Left's rec ommendations. Not only relieves coughs cold but... VLoown.l sticky phlegm and thus "'Breaka.up" coughing spells. Contains no narcotics. No wonderso many doctors have prescribed PERTUSSIN for coughs of colds for all the family. r Come Drive h.p 9 Anything less is yesterday's car! n yesterc BALLARD i NO CHARGE FOR PLANS OR ESTIMATES ON New Construction or Remodeling FHA Terms No Down Payment Galloways Building Service Phone 2-2564 Evenings 0469 By EDMOND LE BRETON WASHINGTON tn The- U.S, government's position on keeping Indochina out of Communist hands and holding the door against seat ing of Red China In the United Nations is up for restatement to night, reportedly in tough terms. The spokesman Is Secretary of State Dulles. He will talk to the Overseas Press Club In New York and to the nation by ABC radio and Du Mont television. The broadcast Is scheduled for 9 p.m., EST. The administration has been fo cussing emphasis on this speech which Dulles and President Elsen hower went over together in a long White House conference. A whole series of declarations within the past few days, from administration sources and others, has led up to The United States Is Interested lu maintaining stiff resistance against any deals on Indochina with which the Reds might try to tempt tne French, some of whom are visibly wearying of the seven- year war. The Reds would be In position to spring such offers at uio Apru zts rar East conference In Geneva to be attended by repre sentatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and Red China. ' Another apparent. U.S. objective Is to take the question of recogni tion of Red China out of the con ference bargaining by making this country's position unmistakable In advance. Some members of Congress, es pecially, nave expressed concern lest support build up for some pro posal to arrange peace In Indo china In return for giving a U.N. seat to the Chinese Communist regime. Sen. H. Alexander Smith R-NJ) said In an interview today he fears the British may back the French in some such proposal and try to exert extreme pressure on uie united states. In New York yesterday Chairman Wiley (R-Wis) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he fears "several of our allies" might hope for such an agreement at Geneva., The President yesterday dis patched an unusual message to the governmental heads of France ard Viet. Nam, the Indochinese state directly concerned with the current fighting.. The- World War II Allied commander expressed for himself and the nation "most pro found admiration for the brave and resourceful fight being waged ... by troops from France, Viet Nam and other parts of the French Union" In the ' battle now raging for the key fortress of Dlen Bien Phu. The President asked his mes sage be conveyed to the garrison commander. Col. Christian De Castries, whom he had already singled out for praise at his news conference Wednesday. The President's gesture under lined a Defense Department an nouncement it Is sending 25 more B26 bombers and other supplies to the defenders of Indochina. k I A House . Foreign Affairs i committee on Saturday dit. that any Allied attempt to iS trues . in Indochina would Hi "appeasement equivalent t Indochinese Munich." it caliSi i accelerated U.S. military i3 the French and tadochlneaTJ! for continuing the ennm-. the United Nations as an hf national one a policy the PrS have opposed. Indochinese was necessary tor.? them. ' w tul The congressional group l " saio. a gruaJ l II, vocated maintaining opposite k recoenitlon or Rii rhi. " recognition of Red Chin. Dulles is expected to say torn, that the United States win1! vigorously at places andi! means not disclosecr-agalnst u? direct Intervention by Red S nese troops In Indochina. He has the opportunity, w t. wishes, to speak ud aiain h planatlon and defense ot the u. ministration's diplomatic 'muiti, "new look" program. , ' Dulles' predecessor as secretin of state, Dean Acheson. assu the "massive retaliation" 12 of the program yesterday tal V 7,r. -"""-a arucie. Dula has said this retaliation could ul, ditferent forms. m Acheson wrote that sible, certainly no democratic m. -ernment" would use stra telle atomic bombing on anv lmawV caslon than an all-out aiii.v against Itself. He said it I. w our first but our last resort." ,' l? Federal Job List - Shows Decline :' WASHINGTON Pi Th. ? her of federal jobholders decline! i 6,125 hi February as comparrti with the preceding month, a 8m. ate-House committee reported 8it- urday. ' j This was the 19th coiuemnh. I month that the number of govern. 1 ment workers decreased. Th sturted in the summer of 1952 m. j der the Truman administration S and has continued In everv mnitih 1 of the Elsenhower regime, The Joint committee on rediic V tion of non-essential federal expes- i dltures said there were 2.340.WH persons on the federal payroll Id ) February as against 2.346.893 In ' January. . . .. . I : I '' 'Af -' ' "V Jk -if Compute Uai 1 C i" " ' 9 tf Uutruroanli arte maraaa Four bildwln diah loss Uala HIGH SCHOOL How do you expect , To gel- a job?- " To get a better job? To get a promotion? To make more money? To go to college? If you havtn'r completed your High School Education? You quit school! The odds are you won't go bock ... 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