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11 PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1954 FRANK JENKINS Editor BILL JENKINS Managing Editor ' filtered as second class matter it the post office of Klamath Falls. Ore., i on August 30, 1908 under tct of Congress, March t, 1878 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PKtbS ' Th Associated Preaa is entitled exclusively to the use (or publication of all tlie local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP newe. MAIL 1 month . t month 1 year SUBSCRIPTION BATES BY CAURIEB I month I 135 I (.10 aie.ao f 1.35 a 0.60 111.00 6 months . 1 year BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS ; I notice in the paper yesterday that Portland's mayor Fred Peter son is trying to gel another ele phant lor tiio zoo up there. A com panion lor Rosy, the little elephant that they Just acquired. ; Fred's scheme is to have the school children write Prime Min 'ister Nehru of India and ask him lor one. In return he suggests that Or, 'gon send Nehru a typical Paciilc Northwest bird or animal, t Trie only typical animal I cm think of at the moment that wouiu equal the gift on an clep.iunt, pound lor pound, would be a lull ' grown grizzly. And I doubt il we'll lind many volunteers to go out and bring ono back alive. ; In view of the lact that he 'has asked for suggestions, how ever, we might toss in a few from this end ol the state. How about a native Klamath Basin jackrabblt? Or, since we seem to be having a little trouble convincing the Indian people that Communism Isn't the best thing in the world, why not work on the native animals there and send them an old fashioned prospector's burro? Maybe he could teach the native donkeys we see in Nation al Geographic, loaded down with huge bundles of wood and other gear, that there is a way to get around this. There Isn't anything much smarter than a burro. - Or, since England seems to' have given them a line reception, how about a crate of pelicans? Or perhaps It would be best for Portland to contact any one of a ii!.lf a rinzpn annd animal imnoru I ing concerns and just buy an ele- pliant for their zoo. I According to the AP Oregon has I lost another prospective resident, i deems that a fellow named Jack l-ttodgers had sold out his Indiana I cafe and was on his way to Ore I gon to start over. He stopped to push a stalled car in the slate of Oklahoma and was handed a booster lecture by the car owner, Dave Kerr, on the beauties of Oklahoma. In the end he up and bought himself a restaurant in Oklahoma City and stayed there. Our loss. Oklahoma's gain. But, at that, I guess there are enough restaurants In Oregon already and we don't need to worry too much. In fact, Oregon is getting too many people already. Pretty soon we'll all bp migrating east to find a spot where we can get out in the hills without bumping into a town every four hundred yards. j They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo I I THE OUTRAeei.NEVtK A " WHO SCONBERRyS ARE It I IH APT. 3D, THE AW HOT WffERi'TME . J WANTS ) GRAB IT I OOT OF 4F- I I JOIMT ISNT EVEN I WAUS.ARE &xft I fOK .THEIR tXNQ- Slg R? H "T I ' I rrAJDACns.. ( IF...?!g,J& f GIVE A LoovT.. VTifc J 1 WNH TWUrsjaniMfa fff " " "S- owi IHCLCAX , - I Grand Jury Re-indicts Bodifiet u Kar..nne a indicted bv the grand jury tmJ , ri,.?- Inrton David H. Van- Idenberg. The time for arraignment of these .three eases; has been set k .iiiriirn vandenberc for Thurs day. April is, at lu a.m. Topping those Indicted was Ray MAn t nAHinit. 3i vear old Port tn mtnnfmarnn - accused Of as- sault- and robbe'ry, being armed with a dangerous weapon, uoainei Ar imlii?ilv in the rjb- 1B iiauwu K - bery of Myrtle's, parlor house on January 8. Anomer romana man was killed in the alleged holdup. Bodinet was previously indicted by the grand jury on muma io. uuv his case was ordered resubmitted to the grand jury by Judge Vanden berg on March 20 after District At torney Frank Alderson admitted Ik. Ire Inrllrtmpnt was faultV and that mistakes had been made in the wording of the document. Bociinci h., Kaon hM In the countv fall since his arrest in lieu of $15,000 bond. Others lnaiciea were: ' Philip Duane Jackson, accused QUICKIES By Kert Reynolds Republican Wins Illinois ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD i In yesterday's column John Muir's views on the old hunter's tale of the ability of mountain sheep to plunge headlong down the faces of sheer precipices and land on their big horns was discussed, an exhibition, he states he never was co fortunate to observe. Mulr, how ever, points out the Impossibility of such a method of progression and finally remarks: "moreover, the ewes follow wherever the rams may lead, although their horns are mere spikes." The old and battered horns often found and pointed to as evidence of the result of this meth od of landing on the head. Mulr states are doubtless a result of fighting. , Mulr, however, was much Inter ested hi the story because moun tain sheep do travel over difficult terrain with the greatest o ease and remarks: "I was particularly interested In the question, after wit nessing the performance of this Ban Joaquin band upon the glaci ated rocks at the foot of the falls: and as soon as I procured speci mens and examined their feet, all the mystery disappeared. The se cret, considered in connection with exceptionally strong muscles, is simply tills: the wide posterior por tion of the bottom of the foot, in stead of wearing down and be coming flat and hard, like the feel of tarn sheep and horses, bulges out in a soft, rubber-like pad or cushion, which not only grips and holds well on smooth rocks, but fits into small cavities, and down upon or against slight protuber ances. Even the hardest portions of the edge of the hoof are compara tively soft and elastic; further more, the toes admit of an extra ordinary amount of both lateral and vertical movement, allowing the foot to accomodate Itself still more perfectly to the irregulari ties of rock surfaces, while at the same time Increasing the gripping power, "At the base of Sheep Rock, just north of Mount Shasta, one of the winter strongholds of the Shasta llocks, there lives a stock-raiser (1874) who has the advantage of observing the movements of wild sheep in winter: and In the course of a conversation with him on the subject of their diving habits, he pointed to the front of a lava head land about 150 feet high, which is only eight to ten degrees out of the perpendicular. 'There,' said he, 'I followed a band of them fellows to the back of that rock yonder, and expected to capture them all, for I thought I had a dead thing on them. I got behind them on a nar row bench that runs along the face of the wall near the top and comes to an end wnere they couldn't get away without falling and being killed; but they jumped off, and landed all right, as if It were the rcgulor thing with them.' "'Whatl' said I, "Jumped 150 feet perpendicular I Did you see them do it?' "No," he replied, "I didn't see them going down, for I was behind them; but 1 saw them go over the brink, and then I went below and found their trcks where they struck on the loose rubbish at the bottom. They just sailed right off, and landed on their feet right side up. That Is the kind of an animal they is beats anything else that goes on four legs. On another occasion, a flock that was pursued by hunters -re. treated to another portion of this same cliff where It Is still higher, and, on being followed, they were seen Jumping down in perfect or der, one behind the other, by two men who happened to be chopping where they had a fair view of them and could watch their progress from top to bottom of the precipice. Both ewes and rams made the frightful descent without evincing any extraordinary concern, hug ging the rock closely, and control ling the velocity of their half IbII Uig, half leaping movements by striking at short intervals and hold ing back with their cushioned, rub ber feet upon small ledges and rouRhened Inclines until near the tiottom, when they 'sailed off Into the free air and alighted on their feet in so nearly a vertical position that they appeared to be diving. "It Appears, therefore, that the methods of this wild mountaineer ing become clearly comprehensible as soon as we make ourselves ac- nimltltfri With thA pnnlra anA Iha kind of feet and muscles brought i to bear upon them" There Is not a sportsman or nat uralist who has sought the moun tain sheep In its native habitat who does not return from the search without some story of amazement By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL CHICAGO MV-Joseph T. Meek, who calls himself a "no-label, un hyphenated Republican," romped off with the Illinois OOP senatorial nomination early today in the na tion's first primary of 1954. The 50-year-old head of an or ganization of 60,000 Illinois mer chants, Meek has said he would support most but not necessarily all of President Eisenhower's pol icies. But he says, too, he is nei ther "a Taft-Republican nor an El senhower-Republican." Yesterdays balloting produced no surprises, no upsets, no real tests on national issues, and prob ably the lightest vote of any Illi nois primary in at least 10 years. All 25 Illinois House members were renominated, including four committee chairmen who overpow ered varying degrees of competition. In next November's Senate race, It will be Meek, a man who never has run for public office, before. against Paul H. Douglas, a lirst term Democrat. Douglas had no opponent in the Democratic primary. Meek easily outdistanced Ed ward A. Hayes and left, seven oth ers in a nine-man field strung out back In the dust. Hayes is a for mer national commander of the American Legion. - Robert B. Chlperfield. chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Com. mlttee, finally beat back the chnl lenge of Atty. Lawrence Stickell and took the Republican Congres sional nomination in a district he has represented 16 years. Harold H. Velde, chairman of the Un-American Affairs Commit tee, had an easier time of it with Robert Allison, a state represen tative for 20 years. Chairman Leo Allen of the Rules Committee pushed past three op ponents with no trouble, and Chair man Chauncey Reed of the Judi ciary Committee took a pair of VISIT Mrs. Byron F. . Speece Jr., and small son, Michael Alan, ol Mid land, Michigan, are visiting at the home of Mrs. Speece's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Brown, Crystal Route, Fort Klamath. After an extended visit In Klamath County Mrs. Speece will rejoin her hus band who is employed by Dow Chemical Company. at the mountaineering abilities of the sheep in scaling mused cliffs and plunging over precipices with anility and confidence, there is lit tle question why the mountain sheep has been called the chamois of our western mountains. contestants Into camp. All four chairmen were expected to win. And their victories prob ably will result in Republican claims that they offer an endorse ment of the administration pro gram and the way it Is being handled in Congress. While the senatorial and. congres sional scraps commanded a meas ure of national Interest, Illinois ra ters were more concerned with lo cal races and Issues. The vote In Chicago Was the lowest in some 20 years. Low vote and all, this was one primary that went off strictly ac cording to the dope in the form sheets. Meek was the favorite in the OOP senatorial sweepstakes on the basis of strength outside Chicago and support of 33 of the 34 state senators. Hayes was figured in sec ond place because of popularity in Chicago and among legionnaires and veterans. Austin L. Wyman, former chair man of the Chicago Crime Comis slon, and Park Livingston, former president of the Illinois University Board of Trustees, looked like the next best bets. They ran third and fourth. . With Chicago votes coming in first as usual, Hayes pulled away to a brief, thin lead. Meek over took him when downstate returns plied in, and led by a few hundred votes three hours after the ballot counting started. From then on, It was Meek all the way, building up a steadily In creasing lead. In the end, he even passed Hayes hi Chicago and Cook County and headed for a victory margin of around 100,000 votes. Even so, Hayes refused to admit defeat, "I will not concede," he said, "until the final count." At 5 a.m., EST, with counts In from 8.482 of the state's 9.805 pre cincts, the standings were: Meek 237,852, Hayes 150.310, Wy man 85,768, and Livingston 60,918. For the state as a whole, It looked as If the final figure for the primary would be little more than 1,400.000 roughly the total In 1944. In the 1950 off-year primary, the turnout was 1,789,787. In the presidential primary two years ago it was 2,292.347. Illinois has around five million registered vo ters. Meek wants cuts in taxes and In foreign economic aid, and no Americans fighting In Indochina. I!e considers investigations pointed at Communists, such as those of Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis), necessary but he says. "The technique Is not always perfection." He has said he would "enthusi astically support Mr. Eisenhower ill every effort to forward basic principles of the Republican party as in the party platform." I i i i J w'l . I ' 1 Primary; Voting Very ; light MMM tioodness me! I'll have to use an other Herald News Want-Ad I've lost my wallet again!" - SAVE 112 NOW ON THIS SET OF 3 ield Steak Knives Gf orrfer tonk foefoy of your hltri, Inillili m4 raMna Mm Mai Mw 4 harMnliii. Mlir.,. 11,1,1, wu'l lanilik, rvu w 4lMtf, !omrMf InilllM tmH,u Oncii .,k hid fVi hnhtt. . 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