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FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS
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Entered as ccond class matler at the post office at Klamath Falls,
Ore , on August 20, 1906, under act of Congress. March , 1879
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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