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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX ITERAU) AND NEWS, KI-AMATH TMAS, OREGON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2fl, 11M4 PRANK JENKINS Editor Entered u second class matter it the post office of Klamath Falls, Ore., on August to, 190 under act of Congress. March S, 187 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all Uie local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL BY CARRIER 1 month ( months 1 jrear t 1 35 i a.to tu.oo BILLBOARD Br BILL JENKINS While the controversy over whether or not clgarets cause lung cancer rages I'd like to toss anotk r stone on the pile of present day problems. Tension I Everywhere you turn you find that In this mad, mad modern world of ours even the dogs and cats are cracking up because of the trrrific tension that we have built up as a companion piece -to civili zation at Its highest peak. The head shrinkers and other great thinkers have outlined many reasons for this. Crowded cities, noise, worry over the future, war and its dread aftermath, and on and on. . We disagree. We think that ninety per cent of the tension In the world of today Is caused by the coffee break. This modern Innovation has added a burden to our already heavy load that Is practically In supportable, i . - You get to work In the morning breathless because you had to gulp your last cup of coffee and then run like the devil to make the oflice on time. No sooner are you settled at your desk and the shackles of trade adjusted to your wrists than you start worrying about the morning coffee break. When will it be convenient for you to go? Will they still nave plenty of glased deugnuts at the shop? Who were you lying to yes terday about that vacation fishing trip and what did you say? Then on top of that there is al ways the fear that a customer might drop In at the wrong time and delay your going. And you can't afford to stay too long or it'll cut Into your lunch hour. And no sooner do you finish lunch than you face the same problems all over again. With the afternoon break. We look on the whole thing as little less than a world-wide plot to wreck civilization as we know it Along with our nerves. Prob ably more hrarmful than the H bomb in many ways. , And I suppose that as soon as CAUGHT IN By DEB ADDISON ' RETAIL MEMO: A last minute sboDDina- snlurse before Easter saved Easter busi ness from continuing behind last year's volume, according to a "Business Week" roundup. . ' - The' big thing everywhere this Easter was children's apparel. Business in adult apparel was spot ty. Dresses seemed to do best. Men's wear results were mixed. In appliances, sales were slow. Home furnishings business struck a buoyant note. Auto sales sug- - gested there has been a genuine upturn all along the nation's auto lows. From this picture emerges a profile of today's customer. He's buying close to the time of need. He's cautious, has money, but Isn't rushing to spend u, He still wants quality merchandise. Is that your profile? Another kind of a turn was found in auto sales here last Sun day by Balsiger Motor Company. For several years It has been the practice of a number of Klam ath auto dealers to wholesale used cars to independent used car deal ers In larger towns in Oregon and California. New car sales have been proportionately better here than some of these other towns, and the Klamath dealers used this means of openine up the final used car bottleneck. More recently the picture has changed and this outside whole sale market has pretty largely dis appeared. To answer this prob lem, Balsiger held a used car auc tionand sold 30 cars In about an hour and a half. The auctioneer said it was one of the best used car sales ever held anywhere. Farmers always have used the auction to dispose of equipment and miscellaneous farm goods. - Now this age-old means of ex change is successfully used again on one of our most modern kinds of goods. The business of satisfying the appetites of the nation's army of household pets is big and grow ing, says the New York Times. Companies catering to the food It's PATTERSON'S for Price WEEK-END SPECIAL Patterson Furniture Co. 230 Main Phone 7150 BILL JENKINS Mauaglng Editor month - I 1 35 6 months , 1 year t 8 10 $16.30 we finish the hassle over cignrets maybe we can get started worry ing about Uie coffee break. Until then I guess we'll Just have to struggle along somehow. The only known cure to date Is substituting gin for coffee. And. next to brand)' before breakfast, that is the most dangerous thing in the world. A word from Frank Fleet the other day reminded us that there are a couple of organizations around here doing some pretty good work in the line of cheering people up. The American Legion and the VFW, at least, are still making the rounds of the hospitals every week, visiting every ward and passing out cheery chatter. candy, cigarets and the rest of it. But the main thing is that they are making an effort to relieve the tedium of those who are un fortunate enough to be confined to sick bed. There isn't anything in the world that gets as monot onous as lying in the same room for days or weeks on end. staring at the same four walls and wondering If you're ever going to get out. Any chance visitors are like a drink of water to a thirsty man. Good work, men. Hope you keep it up. A little item in the current Tax Outlook tells us that a- great many of our hobbies are still going to be expensive due to the excise tax. Not that we didn t already know it. But some of the listings are really out of this world. Under the heading of yachting, for In stance, the only taxable Item named Is "binoculars" at ten per cent. If chap can afford a real yacht I doubt that he'U worry about the tax on a pair of field glasses. Also carried as hobbies are such items as, and I quote: Gambling. Night-clubbing, Pinochle. Poker and Canasta and Tinkering with cars. We. too, have a hobby but 1 guess we better not mention it here. THE ROUNDS tastes of dogs alone number more than a score. Their sales last year were 8200 million about double the .1947 volume. A recent study by the American Can Company showed there were about 49.3 million cats and dogs living with about 28 million fami lies. . Apparently they don't a 1 1 scrounge for themselves like Syl vester Pussycat, that "silly feline" in Bugs Bunny. Instead of the day's repast coming from the alley garbage can, it comes from a leading food store and has been endorsed by "Duncan Hounds" or "St. Bernard McFadden". TIPS AND TRENDS: Do-it-yourself has pushed into adjoining fields. A men's furnish ings maker held a fashion show with 44 sports and work garments available for D-I-Y chores. Too, an ad agency checked suburban ites in 10 cities, and found that 94 percent of the men are Mr. Fixits, 80 own work clothes . , . Travel expenditures by Ameri cans will rise 7 percent by fall, marking 1954 as a top travel year because: more travelers, more vacations with pay, off-season pro motions, faster transportation . . . A gas price war in New Jersey brought a 9 cent markdown. So far. gasoline consumption In the first quarter has run 2.8 percent ahead of a year ago. but compe tition never was so keen. COST OF LIVING MEMO: The Dun & Bradstreet Dally Wholesale Commodity Price In dex of 30 basic commodities was 277.00 on April 22, againr' 277.45 a week before. The Weekly Wholesale Food Price Index, representing the total of the price per pound of 31 foods in general use, rose 6 cents last week to $7.41. This is 16.1 percent above the corresponding level of last year. People Do Read SPOT ADS -you are! on Quality Merchandise Chrome Table and four Chairs Reg.. 79.95 They'll Do It Every , SO THEY STILL i GO POWN ! STAIRS TO :the acrofolis i lunch woa EVERy HOUR OR SO manx and a tip ob tub MATVP MAT TO rZ. MARKET SX TWE FIRM INSTALLED A REFRIGERATOR , AM ' I II I ELECTRIC STOVE AND ALL THE FIXIN6S IN "THE . I RECREATION ROCM SO THE WORKING GALS ' COULD FIX THEMSELVES A COFFEE BREAK- ' "ffT . L- ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD In yesterday's column I saluted the finest piece of "baltlegab" I believe the Bureau of Reclamation has ever produced, the "extended benefit" extended and extended. I wonder how many profits can be made out of a profit? It must be kept in mind that the so-called "benefits" are presented as hypo thetical assets, at least that Is the impression given by the engineers, however, I wonder If even the RFC would loan money upon such hypo thetical assets? ' There is a third hypothetical "benefit" proudly added to the to "benefit" computation by the Bur eau. As compared to the other two hypothetical measures this one is hardly worth mentioning, you can figure It out for yourself from this statement by the Bureau: "The third indirect or utilization , benefit is that realized in the final use of energy for production of goods and services. Electric ener gy must be used in producing these goods and services, so a propor-1 tlonate part ol the profits or Bene-1 fits resulting from them may be ! ascribably to the power utilized. In case of residential power used, I such benefits are not measurable, : but these benefits may be esti- mated for commercial and Indus-: trial use. Studies by the Bureau of Reclamation have led to the con clusion that these benefits may be estimated at about three per cent of the revenue derived from the sale of Bureau energy lor com mercial purposes and about eight per cent of the revenue from its sale for Industrial purposes. When Bureau energy Is trans mitted through an intervening util ity's system, approximately one half of the utilization benefit is con sidered as applying at the point of Bureau delivery. The resulting an nual utilization benefit for condi tions ot full development (on the Trinity Diversion) amounts to $315, 300 annually." I was extremely surprised that the boys were so modest, surely they could do better than this for federal power has qualities that are different tnan that produced oy grasping private power utilities. For example, the customer could use some other form of power like a windmill or one ot those power rigs operated by horses or mules. Surely, electric energy should have "benefits" over these forms of power that could be credited to the total "benefit" of the Bureau. In the case of the Trinity River proposal the Bureau ends up with power benefits to the sum of 114,678,000 of which only $4. 631,100 Is presented as a direct saving to trie consumer ana this estimated saving is obtained by comparing the cost ot power pro duced by the Bureau against the cost of a steam-electric plant oper ated by a private utility not by comparison against actual power rates In the region. Of course there are other "bene fits" to be added in the forms of "benefits" to Fish and Wildlife. Recreation and Irrigation, It is not my intention to go into these other forms of "benefits" though it is reasonable to expect that the hypo thetical assets are Just as nebulous as in the case of power. In the Trinity River report we nave an opportunity to see howl these hypothetical considerations are used In Justification of the pro- ject when the report discussed the "Benefit-Cost Ratio" the report states: "Comparing the annual equiva lent benefits of $35 ,364,500 (the total t Planning to... REMODEL? Ik mates . . . and. now it the ideal time fa install your aleetrie heat. NO DOWN PAYMENT - 36 MONTHS ON FHA B&B Radio & Electric Your RCA Victor TV Dealer 401 So. 6th Phone 6920 Time .''fr-nrr nir V- benefits estimated in the Trinity Diversion) with the annual equiva lent federal costs of $11,509,000, Uie benefits are lound to exceed the costs by a ratio of 3.07 to 1.00. It should be recognized that the benefit-cost ratio compares solely the benefit to the nation to federal cost. The ratio, favorable as it is, cannot be used and is not used herein as a measure of the ability of pro ject bencticiarics to repay reimbur sable costs. However, it Indicates clearly the economic justification and desirability irom the national standpoint ot developing the Trini ty River Diversion." What a sweet bit of "balficgab" that Is. It Is directly admitted that these hypothetical "benefits" cannot be used to purchase bread, nor are they assurance that the project will ever be able to repay its costs. However, in spite of this admission they become "economic Justifies lion" to prove the desirability of the project. Just you try to put two opposing points of view together and make them go in the same direction someday, then you will begin to understand this fine art of bureaucratic writing. I wonder what financial Interests would think of an industry that presented to them such a statement In justifi cation cf obtaining funds for fi nancing the industry's expansion? You and I don't have to be bankers to know what the answer would be! yet when It comes to the acts of government It's something dif ferent or Is It? Telling The Editor NEED DANCES Would you write an editorial about why teen agers cannot have dances in Klamath Falls the same rs in California or other small towns around Klamath? If we had our dances here in town, we wouldn't get in wrecks going to other small towns. As a member of the teen age group I'm inter ested in having dances In Klamath, instead ot going all over the coun try to a dance. All my friends acree that we should have dances held in town. Parents wouldn't be worried about us rather than have them going out of town to a dance. How come we have to go to California to a dance? Jaon Lee Ortis QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds "... I don't get so tired since you slopped using Herald News Want Ads now It's all downhill!" .-B&B Will Take Care of All Your WIRING NEEDS No job too large, no job too mall. We are completely equipped to handle any wiring' , lob. Call en us for Free esti By Jimmy llatlo Northwest History Highlights By DAN K. CLARK Professor fcmcrltua of History University of Oregon Today's question: What Unities were made with Iho Indians during the territorial period? It was was the policy of the United States government Hint no public lands could be thrown open to settlers until the Indian titles to the lands hud been extinguished by treaties. Consequently It was uccessary thnt treaties should be made almost Immediately after the creation of the Territory of Oregon In order that Incoming settlers could legally take up land. This same year the position of superin tendent of Indian Altairs, separate 1 from the governor's office, was es- moilsned. Anson Dart of Wisconsin was appointed to this position In July. 1850. Three commissioners were also appointed to make treat ies, with Instructions to move all the western Indians to the region east ot the Cascade Mountains. During his term of office Anson Dart mode thirteen treaties with various Indian tribes, mostly In the Willamette Valley, around tile mouth of the Columbia and along the coast. By these treaties the In dians gave up approximately 6.UO0 000 acres of land at a price of about three cents an acre. The commissioner also made a few treaties, but their positions were discontinued In 1851. Some of the tribes were so sinnll that In one case only two men were alive to sign a treaty. Although Dart mode a trip to Washington, D.C. none of these treaties was ratified by the Senate, on the ground thnt they did not provide for the removal of the Indians to the east of the moun tains. Anson Dnrt was succeeded as superintendent of Indian Affairs In 18&3 by Joel Palmer, who had come to Oregon with the Barlow party In 1845, and whose home still stands on the southern edge of Dayton, ol which town he was the founder. Palmer served for thrco years and made a number of treaties, by which the Indians title to most of the land In the present stale of Oregon and some In Washington was extinguished. He also estab lished the reservation policy by which a considerable number of Indians were placed on the Grand Rondc Reservation on the upper Yamhill River, and the 8iletz Re servation along the coast north of Yaqulna Bay. The settlers were In dignant when they found that In dians were being placed on reser vations In the midst of settlements. For this reason and because Palmer was accused of belonging to the hated "Know-N o t h I n g Party", petitions for his removal were sent to Washington and he was removed. In 1857 Oregon and Washington territories were In cluded In one superlntendency, to which office James W. Nesmith was appointed. Clip and paste In your history scrapbook. (If you have a question you would like answered, about Oregon or Northwest history, mall It to Dan E. Clark, care of Herald and News. Law Student Wins First Court Case SYRACUSE, N. Y. IK-Maurlce Relchman, a law student at Syra cuse University, has won his first case In court. He was the de fendant. Rcichman, 21. of Pittsburgh. Pa., was charged (n Traffic Court with passing a stop sign. He ar gued the case before Judge Tru man H. Preston, who dismissed It. WANTED LADY MANAGER for Infants and Children's Apparel Store. Must have had experience and be capable of operating a children's store, includ ing managing and selling. Good pay and opportunity to the right person. If you can qualify, write: . BOX 836 co HERALD NEWS i All Replies Will Be Confidential James Marlow WAHIIINOTON HI For three days an elderly, gentle-looking llnslon lawyer, Joseph N. Welch, sat nlniost aprcchloas lit the Sen ate Inquiry lulu Sen. McCarthy's lend with Army oil loin Is. Mild, almost detached In n loom whore emotions were steadily rls. lug, he Iinil a good-humored look In his eye as if he were saying aver and over to himself: "Oh, dear, what u very strange place, " For n good part of three days Secretary of the Army Stevens, who hud hired Welch to bo attor ney lor hint and his Pentagon partners In tho case, was slummed with questions. For the first two days Welch said almost nothing. A couple of limes he asked Kay 11. Jenkins, the Senate subcommit tee's special counsel, to go n Utile slower on the quest loutnu. Several nines ho repealed, but never with excitement, he'd ultimately give tho committee all' evidence re quested. He seemed to enjoy the ellect created by a 'slightly exaggerated phrase as when he told Jenkins the latter could do no wrong and asked the chairman, Sen. Mumlt (R-SDi, to use his "enormous' power to gel him a microphone. Always punctuating his remarks with gracious gestures, Welch seemed at times like a man who had stepped oul of an earlier and courtlier piige In history. Suddenly, yesterday, he turned oul to bo a needier. When ltn M. Cohn, chlel counsel ol Mc Carthy's subcommittee and one of tho principals In Uie case, loon the stand to testily under oath. Welch went to work on him. He asked Colin to look at a photo. Iiraph. Cohn said he had to pull It closer because he was near sighted. Welch, verv sollly and courteously, agreed thai Cohn was uearslglitcd. Implying thut Cohn had displayed Unit tendency be fore. Cohn was stopped cold which was unusual for him. He confessed he couldn't match Welch's quips. If what happened yesterday Is a sample of whal'a to rome, then McCarthy may be In lor an un usual experience when he testifies under oath aud Is cross-examined by Welch. McCarthy has been called a lot ot names since coming to Wash ington In 1M6. He's called a lot of names himself. He's ridiculed others and been ridiculed. He's tried to be humorous. But he's heavy.handrd. So are most of his critics when they try to be lunny at his expense. Welch may turn out to be heavy handed too, but If he keens the light touch he showed yesterday, I ..... . L.I. . 1. . - . 1 ins cuiuumcr wun uie senator may be the highlight of this hearing. McCarthy has shown from time to lime that e too can be needled. Nobody has ever used a llchl needle on htm. So no one. perhups not even McCarthy, can predict how he'd react to that. It's possible the Army may have picked Welch lor the very Qualities he displayed yesterday In the be lief mat, while McCarthy had shown himself a match for the heavy hand, he may be vulnerable to a light one. This Is how tho photograph Welch showed Cohn Ilgures In the dispute before the Investigators McCarthy's stall It turned out to be Roy Colin provided Jenkins with a picture, taken by a serv ice pnotographer. ol Stevens and Pvt. G. David Schlnc standing side by side, by themselves. (The whole McCarthy-Army feud started, Stevens says, when he re fused to let the McCarthy team pressure the Army Into Hiving draftee Schlne special treatment. McCarthy charged Stevens and his aides with trying to "blackmail" him Into calling olf his Investiga tion of alleged communism In the Army.) Jenkins made much ot the pic ture in quizzing Stevens: Whv did 8tevcns have himself photographed aione wun Schlne? Stevens said he couldn't remember doing that. At the. very start of the hearing yesterday Welch produced another picture, which he said was the original, showing Stevens, Schlne and an Air Force colonel standing together. Welch charged the pic ture given Jenkins had been "doc tored" to make Stevens look bad. In a moment, McCarthy was ac cusing Welch df lying. The Mc Carthy team spent most of the morning explaining. MISSIONARIES ' KONO KONO I All French missionaries Imprisoned In Com munist China have been released and are on their, way out, Roman Catholic headquarters In Hong Kong announced Wednesday. WE GIVE , StK GREEN STAMPS KC PAINT STORE S20 Klamath Ave. Newcomer To Klamaih Falls Gives First Impression kllllOlt'S NOTK Al Jiiciibaou, u new iiii'iiiber nl I he lli'i'iild uml News stall mid a newcomer lu I lie Kluiniilli Cuuiily, has been u I veil the assignment ol willing n series of nillilea limn tile standpoint of the ncwniinor, Many recently established cllui'ii will l!iul Hint they have wondered uboiit some ot the tilings Hint Ja cubuou has sought out, and It Is Iho belle! ot the Herald and News Unit old timers can profit liom the outlook ot a newcomer. Following this series, Jiii-obson will work with the advertising stuff. He comes to Kliiiunth from Simkauo and hus been active In newspaper and advertising circles In Washington lor a number ol years, lly Al, J Al OIISON ' Your'ro prubably wondering Just why a "lurrlncr such as luysoll Is wilting this series ol in tides like a columnist. Well, It started tills way. Before uo decided to settle In Klmiiuth 1 was Invited la come down Irom the slnlo of Washington und look the town over. "We ", by the way, means ihe Mrs., our hound dug Midge mot so short for Midget), and yuurs truly. Just between you and me, I Hunk the boss really wanted lo look me- over. Anyway, I strolled around the downtown business district and la ter he, the boss that Is, asked what I thought of Ihe city. I mentioned a lew tilings that hud made a good impression. Of course I layed II jn pretty thick. He gol Hie uiea that It might be a good Hung lor mo to tell our readers the tilings I had told him. Al Uie same lime, with a twinkle In his eye. ho says. "Leave oul Uie hogwash and the blarney", as ho pul It, "and Just put down on paper your honest Impressions, good or bad, of Klamath." So. . dint's how come 1 turned colum nist. Anyway, here I am sticking my neck out right from Uie start on a brand new Jobl The llrst Hung I noticed about Klamath was Uie hurtle and bustle on Uie downtown streets ... Uie new and modern shop fronts ... Uie attractive and. In cost cases, tin an win. duw displays and Uio many, many MISS HELEN G. IRWIN BPW Plans State Meeting Miss Helen O. Irwin of Des Moines. Iowa, president of the Na tional Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., will attend Uie Oregon state feder ation convention to be held In Port land May 14, 16 and 18. A BPW member lor 27 years. Miss Irwin haa served continuously In an official capacity slnco that lime. Including two terms aa sine president. In IMS she was elected the llrst honorary president of the Iowa federation and from lMB-ta) was third vice president lor the National federation, serving as first vice president Irom 18W-53 and be coming president at the llth bien nial convention held In Boston In July, 1961. Several ofllcers and members n! the Klamath Falls Club will attend the atate meeting. UKKENHR PACT TOKYO 01) Tile upper house ol Japan's parliament Wednesday nli'ht approved the Japan-U. 8. Mutual Defense Assistance agree nif.irts by a vote ol 134-68 Thr agreement, designed to help Japan build up her delenso lorce, al ready have passed the lower house. - av jyv- '""" '"J MMIOM'iWr J.I V. f. X.t'f V' I 't.V-..... i AL JACOBSON nli-o things to buy, If you had the tooney to do it with. Apparently a lot ul Inlkit did because they were making the rounds with their arms lull ot bundle, and II wua obvloux Uixy wci'cu't lor Britain. I noticed too, the presence of not only many Hue lonilly owned stores, but also a goodly number Willi well-known niitlonnl and Pa elllo Northwest names. Incldenily, the presence in abundance at the latter sKaks well for any com munity, as they only locate In pin gresslve communities really going places. How do 1 know7 Well, I read It III a newspaper oure and anything printed In a newspaper Is always (well nearly always) Uie truth. In this case I'm sure II is because Uie more X see of your fair city Ihe belter I like II. Later In the day I drove around town a little. I in glad I didn't drive around a lot 'rauso too many cars were dashing around like lack rabbits. One with a Culllonila li cense, of all things, which was parked at Ihe curb on Main street, jumped right oul al me so Inst I till don't know how come I gol around or out ot his way. Then little later going north on south Sixth street and crossing the via duct, I stopped lor a red light. A nice looking car pulled along side us. We were In tho outside Inns and when the light changed color. I started to go straight ahead. It's a lood thing I was alow on the trigger as Una guy made a right turn right smack in trout of uie. believe It or not! Twenty minutes and twn more close shaves later I derided to get out and walk and give my nerves rest, Kven alter Dint I was still In Ihe mood lo start a snlo driving campaign. Oolng bark to that viaduct, and f don't mean driving back. It l so narrow I expected any minute to see a lot ol new business for the body and louder shops In town, While we're dialling about Ira! lio conditions I'd like to say this. II seems to me Uial a couple ot one way streets going north and south, and east and west, would help a lot to Cut Uie downtown congestion. Believe me, they're tar too narrow and there's too many cars lor today's driving. Well so long tor now folks, still got a lot ol things I'd like to sound oil about so maybo we'll be able to get together again soon? irmrieit i V VODKA Op4tW Mcelf from IftOrf. gtainMuifiltpmila Stt. tmit Smirnoff Hi Int .. Hanfnrd.Conn rtO M" aw- So smooth lj4jj it leaves you breathless tJ i