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PAGE SIX Herald ant)IMu.$ FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as ccond class matler at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore , on August 20, 1906, under act of Congress. March , 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PKESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use lor publication ol all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL BY CARRIER - 1 Month ..$ 1.35 1 Month -.... 135 Months 6.50 6 Months 810 1 Year IU.0O 1 Vear 516.20 BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS There are days when you never seem to get much done but sit around your desk and doodle. Tills being one of those days, but still faced with the task of turning out a few words to fill up space on the old time slip, we sat down to a pile of publications that have been stacking up on the desk lor the past several months. One of the first we came to was the new Blue Book, Orenon's book of Information. We found a lot of things in thumbing throuRh it that we weren't aware of bclore. Like lor Instance: Our state bird, the meadowlark, was chosen bv taking a poll of school children In every county In the state. The meadowlark (West ern) was proclaimed state bird by Governor I. L. Patterson in Gary Cozad is still listed as n constable of the district uoun Klamath County. There are 16 foreign consulates In the slate of Oregon, all of them located in Portland. They consist of representatives from Belgium Cuba. Denmark, Dominican Re public, Prance. Orent Britain. Guatemala, Finland, Iceland, Ja pan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru and Paraguay, Sweden and Venezuela. If you want to get hold of the Italian consulate you have to go to Seattle, but he's listed in our book anyway. There are 344 Prohibitionists reg istered in the state. There are 220 Socialists and 359 Progressives. There are 17,109 more Democrats than Republicans in the state and 1253 people who come under n heading of "all others" which must comprise the Communists, the Bolsheviks and the rest of the screwball fringe of politics. There was no Klamath County at the time of the first constitutional convention In Oregon so we aren't on the record. Neither is Lake County. But the papers were signed by several men from Jack ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD There Is a very sober thought In regards the future Increase In population along the Facilic coast, and especially so, as Vardcn Ful ler of the University of California points out, in the current issue of the "California Monthly," it is more than likely that California's population will be doubled or bet ter by 1975. This may not mean it will follow that all the rest of the Pacific Coast will have an equal doubling of population but It does point to the fact that the other states will have very substantial Increases. The basic question, naturally, is where will these people be ab sorbed in our western economy? On this subject, Fuller makes a very cogent statement in respect to agriculture. Perhaps what he has to say will be of , Interest here on account of the present "tea-pot" tempest being created by certain leaders in the Democratic Party seeking to advance their opportun ities of election by attacking the administration's plan to relax the 160 acre limitation on federal rec lamation projects. Under the 160 acre limitation law the federal government has sought the very commendable ob jective of establishing Uie greatest number of people upon the land. Inflation, however, hos struck also in this category as well as in other places in our economy, so that economists of Uie Bureau of Rec lamation, have cut higher produc ing areas into smaller units than 160 acres and have attempted to set up homesteaders upon units as small as 100 acres or even less. Years ago when I was studying agricultural economics in Califor nia I well remember of having to struggle with problems of the eco nomical size of farms in regard to the type of agriculture followed Even In the days bclore ihr last great depression it made a differ, ence on how much land one farmed, the trend was toward an increased intensity of efiort and a possible reduction in the size of the farm unit. This was In the "horse and buggy" days when the present ideas of the federal government regarding acreage limitation was born the government Is slow to change it's ideas even though eco nomics works with a fast and ruth less hand. My own thinking left off where Fuller's begins so let us have him bring us up to dnte. Fuller writes: "Until 19J0. Cahlormu anncul turlsts were building new farms and bringing new lands into culti vation and at Uie sai.ie tune were experimenting with and adjusting to the particular rapacities of the State's agricultural resources. In the past three decades, the num. ber of commercial farms and the total amount of land in farms have The Place For Fun! Th. PONDEROSA ROOM Of Tlit WILLARD HOTEL 2nd and Main St. son County, from which both Lake and Klamath were carved out. Jackson County had earlier been sliced out of Wasco County. Sign ing for Jackson County were L. J. C. Duncan who came from Ten nessee. Daniel Ncwcomb, a farmer from Virginia: a pair of lawyers. P. O. Prim, who came from Ten nessee, and J. H. Reed, originally irom Pennsylvania. Duncan, by the way, was a miner. All of 'em were Demos. Oh well, enough of this. Besides the Blue Book has 450 pages and by now I'm too tired to struggle on any further. Fort Klamath seems to be hav ing a little trouble with someone who is addicted to bretikmg win dows or who has a grudge against the OLCC and its far-flung outlets. Either way it's costing a tidy little sum in glazier's fees for the harassed proprietor. Tnere have been times when we have barely escaped the urge to toss a biick through a plate glass window. Sometimes I think it would be worth the cost just to toss the brick and listen to the resultant crash. And there have also been times when I would cheerfully have tossed a loaded bomb through the window of one of our green Iront groceries. But my real peeve with the shat ters of glass deals with the low down polecat who cheerfully toss es his empty Jug out of his car as he speeds down a city street or a state highway. No punishment could be de vised too severe for dealing with this menace to the happiness of the family car. If they haven't the strength to clear the curb with a bottle they are probably too weak to stand up under 50 lashes with a cat 'o nine tails. But I'm sure it would be adequate punishment to require them to crawl over a mile of broken bottles. not changed materially principal emphasis has been on developing irrigation and'otherwise improving the use and productivity of the land already in farms. This trend will undoubtedly continue, perhaps at a somewhat accelerated rate." Varden Fuller's observation that "tile number of commercial farms and the total amount of land in farms" have not changed material ly In three decades. Is most signif icant, since we know what a tre menduous growth of population California has had within that per iod and is a point I should like to emphasize. Fuller continues. "Even so, the number of commercial farms (ex cluding part-time and residential farms) will probably not increase and may actually decline. In re cent decodes, the smaller farms, (those under 260 acres), have tend ed to decrease while those in the larger size categories, (par ticularly those under 1,000 acres). have greatly increased. The addi tional cropland that has been de veloped in the past two decades is mainly in large farms. Recent trends do not. therefore, suggest opportunities for more formers." An economist with no oxe to grind looks at the record and notes the facts of the trend of economics yet we still cling to the "horse ond buggy" Ideol of a country of small tonus, rilled with happy, contented people. The fire and idealism that motivates one section of our fed eral government's activity and a basic American heritage that every man miRht bo able to look forward to the ownership of s piece of land. Yet other forces within the federal structure have built for Inflation to the extent that the owner of a small piece of land may discover that he Is merely a serf to a piece of renl estate. " As to the demand for agricultur al workers the future is not en couraging the economist stotes: "Similarly, the long-term outlook for employment ef unskilled farm labor docs not Indicate an expan sion but rather, possible contrac tion. This Is true notwithstanding that this category of employment has been rising In the past dec ade." It becomes apparent that the farm will not be the place to ab sorb the great increase of popula tion that is growing like a snow ball rolling down a hill. THANKS HKIDKLBKHU. Germany '.T West German Chancellor Konrncl Adenauer has thanked the U.S. Army in a letter lor "an exem plary peilorniaiice" in rescue work in the recent Bavarian floods. MUST SELL AT ONCE 100 ACRE RANCH - GRADE A DAIRY All in pasture-alfalfa, oats, barley. Dairy cows and farm equipment for sale with ranch or independently. ROUTE 1 BOX 920 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON They'll Do It Everyjrime I a ' wMATTAyAY? ts too mot-the ttcxerv 1 Aj THE OFFICE PICNIC VE4NI,OU'RE ) A WMOWIM JUoTGOKNA T4KE fj HENRy DECIDED GOLF I NOT ) IT EASrj-XXJ GWS CAN GET J m WAS TOO STRENUOUS PLAV V we ifSL Them the ball team -asked ( henry, ) VLUeuy') L. HIM TO PLAY A NINE-INNING fiifUDE-V & f, ?i If CAUGHT IN By DEB ADDISON i RETAIL MEMO-' I A good deal has been said tuid 1 written rrpntiv nbnut fliitns and ' automobile manufacturers how I the big are getting bigger and the small are gelling scarcer. It is a fact that General Mo tors produces arouna nan oi me country's cars and trucks, and i with Ford and Chrysler account for all but about five percent. It also is a fact that there have been consolidations, and that there's talk of more to the point that all auto and truck production might be in the hands of a Big Four. That doesn't prove though that the little fellow can't do business. An example Is at hand, coming authentically from Paul Prusley. Northwest Zone Manager for Nash at Seattle. The Northwest Zone of the Nash Motors Division of American Mo tors was top dog in Nash sales. having attained the highest per centage of Nash business in the United States. The obvious conclusion Is that business is available and to be had by aggressive dealers regard less of factory volume rating. Retailers throughout the coun try, optimistic for the fall and holt day seasons, foresee a definite improvement in business with prospects good that dollar volume will top the comparative 1953 per iod. That is how W. O. McCnrgo. president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, sizes up Uie relail business outlook, re ported the NY Herald Tribune. Retailers are backing their opti mism with their own money, spending to modernize .their plants, put in new fixtures and Install the latest equipment for record-keeping, he said. Moreover, retailers are spend ing their money both to maintain adequate stocks and to promote their wares to the public. With about 60 percent of the year's business due in the last four months of the year, musical instrument retailers expect this year's sales to equal 1953's record volume, according to R. B. Well, president of the National Associa tion of Music Merchants. If 1054 sales are not as high as 1953. he said, they certainly won't be more than three percent less than the prior year's total. A note or plunk from Klamath teenagers this summer is echoed in Well's statements. Mnkers of guitars (geeters), ukuleles and banjos expect to sell 400 thousand instruments this year And wo find it out locally, not from Mr. Well that nylon Is re placing kitty innards as strings for the ukes. Good selling (Northwest Nash) and fads (ukuleles) bring business. So do new gadgets. The versatile, brother-vithac-tlon rotisscrie is breaking sales records in the electric housewares business, reports "Mart" maga zine. Sales of rotisseries jumped from about 125 thousand units in 1952 to 650 thousand in 1953. The 1954 sales arc expected to go ahead of earlier Mart estimates of 800 thousand units. In 1955 the market expects this product to reach a total of 1.85 million units If you don't know what a rotis seric is. don't worry until the ads get you. Just stay old fash ioned like some of the rest of us.) COST OF LIVING MEMO: The Dun & Bradstreet Daily Wholesale Commodity Price In dex of 30 basic commodities was 1172.28 on July 15. against 272.78 a week before. B U L O V A Waterproof - 'iQ Shock Rtjiitont iBsUldu JEWELERS 834 Main Ph. 3493 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THE ROUNDS The Weekly . Wholesale Pood price Idex- representing the to- 1 of the price per pound of 31 foods in general use, rose one cent last week to $7 23. This is 7.3 percent above the corres ponding level of last year. iames Mariow WASHINGTON iM The Com munists have won a clear-cut vic tory in Indochina. It can't be minimized. The French let them have half of Vict Nam. Now the United States faces one of the most important decisions in its history. It Is this: Will this country, to keep the rest of Indochina and Southeast Asia out of Communist hands, be willing to fight if the Communists move any further? Or will the United States just, sit back and express pious hopes that the Southeast Asians won't submit to communism? There is talk until it becomes a reality it will remain talk that this country will try to form ft Southeast Asia treaty Organization (SEATOI to defend the rest of In dochina and Southeast Asia against any further Communist advance. It remains to be seen (A) wheth er the United States can get allies to go along with this plan and B whether Congress, where there has been much divided opinion, will take action which could lead to military involvement someday. There was so much national un- happiness over the Korean War and the. cost in American lives and so much national relief and joy when the Communists agreed to a truce there, that there has been no national enthusiasm for getting involved all over again in Asian fighting. The Communists knew of this feeling. Knowing, they may have gambled that this country wouldn't go to the rescue of the French in Indochina if the Reds stopped up the pressure on the French. If they did bet on that, they won. They will probably sit quietly for a while now. They can afford to. They can sit back and watch what the Western Allies, particularly the United States, are willing to do about agreeing to draw a line in Asia beyond which they won't let the Communists move without massive war. If the West fails to reach agree ment and any such agreement wouldn't be worth much unless the Southeast Asians were willing to be a party to it it will be like a go-ahead light for the Commu nists. If there is agreement, they can siill move without open ag gression across a frontier; They can use economic pres sure to subvert the Southeast Asians, plus the usual political pressure and subversion. If that fails, they can start open revolt bv local Communists as they did in Indochina. But the United States has reached a point where it is going to have to be willing to tight in Asia or stop talking so tough about what lies in store for the CommU' nist if they move one more inch. There's been some tough talk in the Dast venr bv members of President Eisenhower's adminis - iration but when the crisis came, the United States stayed -out ol Indochina. This fact can hardly be lost upon the millions of Southeast Asians. Nor can this fact: The United BUDGET PRICED J By Jimmy-Hatlo State Tax Official Plans Check Walter K. Taylor, records con sultant ot the State Tax Commis- ion of Oregon, is making a spot check of merchandise inventories this week in Klamath and Lake counties. This is part of a state wide program. "Merchant's books will be examined to check upon inventories as declared in tax re turns to county assessors. The spot check will mean that about one in ten merchants in each county will have his inven tory records examined, according to Samuel B. Stewart, state tax commissioner in charge, of assess ment and taxation. A. H. Howells, tax commission director of records, will supervise the "random sampling of stores throughout the state. Stewart said that Uie tax body has authority to direct the county assessor to make a check of all merchants if the spot check turns up conditions which warrant fur ther investigation. True cash value declarations were not checked from 1940 until 1952, explained Stewart. When small sample of books throughout the state was examined in 1952, accountants found returns ranging from 4 to 100 per cent of full value These findings prompted most counties to hire qualified men to check all business inventories. Before 1952, assessors 'used high er ratios on merchandise inventor ies than on real property. That is, the assessed value of inventories was a higher percentage of their true cash value. At the time of the 1952 check, the state tax commission recom mended that inventory ratios be reduced to equal those on real property. Thirty-five counties have lowered their personal property ratios in keeping with this sugges tion. 'Lowering these ratios definitely benefited the merchants. It is now up 'to them to declare their in ventories accurately," Stewart said. States held aloof from the armi stice just agreed to at Geneva, in which the French let the Commu nists take over millions of Indo chine.se. The United States wouldn't approve, but it didn't do anything to stop it. Both the Truman administra tion, for years, and the Eisenhow er administration, for the past 18 months, had time to look at the Indochina war and see what was happening: that the French were losing. Both insisted the French would win. Neither administration made an effort, so far as is publicly known, to form a Southeast Asia alliance to rescue the French if they got into crisis. When the crisis did come. Sec retary of State Dulles rushed to Europe to get ''united action." The British balked, at least then. The United States stood back. The French, left alone, sought an i armistice, Introducing Contour Makeup Contour mokeup is being introduced in our store this week ond we wont to be sure you don't miss it. It's Heleno Rubinstein's marvelous new . technique f 0 r chonging shapes and shadows to hide the years. Her beauty con sultant is introducing this good news to our customers and giving them a compli mentary bottle of Silk-Tone Foundation. Come in today! CURRIN'S for Drugs 9th & Main Phone 2-3475 letter From By CONGKKSSMAN' HARRIS ELLSWORTH As noted In my previous week- ly letter, I took a quick trip to Engiana over - me ra oi u., I , (ministries) can be con TZZlZt ZZl yr!"aitSou,e o, Com. of that week there and in West ern Germany. The purpose of the trip was to find out at first hand irom oflicials ol the British (jov ernment Just how they particular ly parliament go about investi gating irregularities, disloyalty or other "scendals. as they call such things, iri their government. There is a resolution pending be tore the Rules Committee which would amend the rules of the House to set up certain 'additional standards of procedure for com mittees when (hey conduct inves tigations. I wanted to find out if British experience could con tribute any suggestions for im proving that resolution. I knew, of course, that there is really not much similarity be tween the British parliamentary system and our own. We have, however, two basic things in com mon. Both systems are truly rep resentative governments and both countries have internal problems and troubles of about the same kind. Obviously we could borrow nothing much in the way of iden tical procedure but It seemed like ly that there might be a common ground of basic thinking on the subject. Alter talking nt some length with highly placed officials in the legislative, Judicial and executive branches of the British' Govern ment, including, by the way, a half hour with former Prime Min ister Clement Atlee, I came away with the conclusion that even with whatever faults it may have, our way of conducting In quiries through Congressional com mittees is better adapted to the needs of our vast country. Our problem, then, is to reduce the ialilts and dangers of our pro cedure to an absolute minimum which, in essence, is the purpose of the resolution mentioned above. Our government under the Con stitution is divided into three sep arate and Independent branches the-executive, judicial and legisla tive. In Britain the three are in termingled. Cabinet members must be members of Parliament and there is a close relationship be- QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds "If the Herald & News Want Ad said her name was Elmer then H was a typographical error!" Just Arrived. Another Carload REFRIGERATORS to be sold on our METER-ICE P Cascade 124 No. 4th Washington itween Pailiament-particularly the House of Lords, and the judiciary. inquiries by Parliament into the con(iucl 0f the various executive I mons during the question period. The ministers being members ol the House nre present to answer questions. Their Parliament has nothing which could be reasonably compared with the committee sys tem of our Congress. From time to time they have resorted to the devise of select committees to in vestigate specific matters but it seems they have experienced some difficulties and few satisfactory results from such efforts. In an effort to remedy the troub!e-i thus developed Parliament passed the "Tribunals of Inquiry Act of 1921." Prom our point of view it would seem that this law really increases the troubles because the "tribunals" created as the result of the Act are clothed with the authority of a court but are not required to use judicial proce dures. Evidently Uie British meet the situation by seldom resorting to the select committee method of conducting Investigations. In general, the British seem to feel that their daily question hour in the House of Commons just about .meets whatever need they have for investigations. The re mainder of the problem is not actually solved. One well informed member of the House of Lords made this comment: "The truth is that any legislature is driven from time to time to institute en quiries either by Itself or by .oth ers which at least potentially have the power to inflict great in justice on individuals." He offered the further observation that in Britain safeguards are main tained which reduce that hazard to minimum. A discussion of the principles upon which the safe guards are bused revealed a close parallel to t h e provisions of the Scott resolution. Chiloquin, Ore., Old High School Gym MUSIC BY PEE WEE STIDHAM and His Rainbow Melody Boys -fr FEATURING - GENE ST. JOHN Friday Night July 23rd Dancinq Admission 100 7 Till I no money down . . . VERN OWENS' Home Furnishings WEDNESDAY. JULY 21, 1954 GOC Plans ResisJar Meet The GOC will hold Its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, July 21, at 7:33 p.m. in the pilot's lounge at the airport. Major George Manussier, Port land Air Defense Filter Center De tachment Commander, will be pre sent. He will discuss new air de fense developments in the Pacific Northwest and present awards for outstanding achievements In the lo cal GOC organization. Irene Bullard, civilian editor of Contact, a monthly publication of Detachment 3, 4770th Ground Ob server Squadron, Portland, will be present to talk about her work with the Portland Filter Center and oti.er GOC posts of Oregon. A report of the outlying posts in the Klamath Basin will be pre sented by Sgt. Donald Trainer, lo cal USAF-GOC representative. A surprise program to include everyone present will pe presented by the public relations committee. At the conclusion of the meeting Air Force movies will be shown and refreshments will be served by the Airport Cafe for a nominal sum. All GOC members and prospec tive members throughout the Klamath Basin are cordially in vited to attend this evening of ed- ucation and entertainment. Danube River Roods Hungary GYOER. Hungary Wl Danube River floodwaters burst a vital dam near this industrial city of 70,900, forcing the evacuation of 5,000 Inhabitants. Another 25,000 tied their homes in 24 nearby villages. Hungarian and Russian troops are aiding volunteers in the fight to stem the flood and protect dis tricts where some of the most important factories in this coun try are located. CE person i Tax Included . . of. . . Phone 8365 Sim im a
