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PAGE SIX HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1954 FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered aa second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, .- Ore., on August 20, 1906, under act of Congress, March 8, 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL I Month ;.$ 1.35 6 Months $6.60 1 Vear I $11.00 BY CARKltH 1 Month 1-35 6 Months $ 8.10 1 Year 16.20 BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS The Lucky people, who put out the beer so widely advertised as a Western product, have ' come out with a- 20th anniversary stunt in the form of a newspaper high lights feature covering the pa3t 20 years. And looking back over it brings back a lot of memories. Lots of 'em - bad. Page one of the San Francisco Chronicle was selected to open the series, the edition of July 23rd. I 1934. The1 big news on that dayj was Uie slaying of John Dllllnger. 1941, of course, saw a repro duction of the front page of the Honolulu Star Bulletin to the ef fect that Jap planes had plastered Oahu and the war was on. War news filled the pages of the press for the next four years, and it was not until 1946 that we got hack to domestic affairs on the front pages of the West's news papers. Then the Eugene paper came out wilh the story, on July 1, that there was a fight raging In the senate over extension of OPA controls. The Bikini atom public enemy number one: He lest surveys had just begun, liv was sho. down as he lclt a the- ig c0;its wcrc starling an upswing ater In downtown Chicago. Almo.-i; I sn(i commodities were rocketing all the other news on the page 1 upwards. was baa. A ooy was ameer in a inn from Land's End on the Bay. Fourteen persons died in a flam ing bus In New York and an ele phant went berserk in Dallas, Tex ns, and crippled his keeper. And 278 persons had already died from the heat wave on uie East coast. The next year the August 17tli edition of the Los Angeles Times featured an eight column spread on the death of Will Rogers and Wiley Post In the barren arctic. Other Items included the fact that Mexican warboats had sel2ed the California tuna fleet and that Mussolini hud blocked all peace moves in the Inpending war with Ethiopia. The news was still bad In 1930 when the Long Beach Press Tele gram (where former Herald and News managing editor Mac Ep ley is now a big wheel) bannered the fact that 37,000 ship workers were out In the current West Coast chipping strike, other items In cluded the news that at least 18 children had been killed In Insur gent daylight raids on Madrid, where u Madrid force had Just driven back a Fascist attack. Cap tain James Molllson set a new At lantic plane crossing record by averaging the amazing time of 160 miles per hour In the hop Irom Newfoundland to Croyden air field . Planes were still In the news In 1937 when page one of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat told Its readers that faint radio signals being picked up In Honolulu were believed to come from Amelia Earhart's missing Lockhcad. An ominous note was sounded In the dispatch lrom Moscow stating that soldiers on both sides had been killed In a border clash on the irontler of Manchukuo as Soviet troops slashed down out of SI berla. ' Again we were In an airman's world in 1938 when the Los Angeles Evening News boomed out most of page one on the amazing flight of Wrong Way Corrfgan who had landed in Dub' lln Instead of Los Angeles, where he was headed. We also learned that over Jn Nanchango In China a fleet of Japanese airplanes had landed at the Chinese port, where the pilots climbed out of their planes and set fire to a number of Chinese war planes with match es. They then made their escape In (heir own planes. Up In North ern California 326 forest fires were racing as 1500 CCC workers and forest rangers strove to quench the flames. The news was even worse lu 1939 when the Seattle P-I broke out their 180 point type to tell of Uie torpedoing of the British liner Athcnia by tho Nazis. Franco and England declared war on Oei--many, Hitler took olf on an In spection tour of the Eastern Iront. Polish troops drove Into East Prussia and the puper came out with a page one editorial to the effect that Uie US could stay out of war if we wanted to. Mcnntlme FDR was pledging hliv aelf to work for peace in a tear filled message from Washington. By 1940 the world was pretty well plunged Into war. Uie Ore gon Statesman In Salem telling readers of great naval battles raging lrom Norway down to the Channel. Trondhcnn was under heavy bombardment. Oslo had fallen. National headlines ln lormcd us that, as of April 10. Dewey and FUR were leading their respective parlies, and the auiiual meeting of mayors had taken a close look at Uie relief problem. In 1947 the San Francisco News was so hard up for news that they bannered the fact that Molo tov was boasting that the atomic bomb was no longer secret and that Russia had It too. Roblee Hall, fre-slunan girls' dorm at Stanford University was Invaded by a howling mob of pajama dad frosh men. Three men were treated at a Palo Alio hospital, No injuries to the pretty coeds. The Soviets were stalling Big Four talks and the US was hand ing out more money to France and Italy. Jan Masaryk's leap to death lrom a Russian office in 1948 hit the headlines, along with the story of a Portland soldier being shot in the arm by the Reds in Vlen We also learned that a Mrs. David May was allowed n divorce Los Angeles uitcr telling the Judge that her husband was In the habit of throwing the breakfast eggs at her head if they were the least bit too well done. "I forget to mention, Judge, that them eggs were wrapped in a plate when he threw 'em." Dewey had won in New Hampshire and' the all-Cali fornia council had agreed that life wasn't worth living unless dav light saving time were introduced. There still wasn't much good news by 1949 when the Ogden Standard Examiner told us about air force planes "bombing" cattle with hay to save them, below zero temperatures all over the West and 600 persons being evicted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the land lords shut down their apartments in a protest over rent controls. By 1960, comparatively modern times even for us youngsters, war was back In the news with the yarn of the first American soldiers stepping into battle in Korea. An airman fell out the door of transport plane a mile and a half up in the air and died, natural ly, over Accomac, Virginia, and four were missing in the crash of a private plane In Florida. Douglas MacArlhur was the big splash In 1951 when he was fired by Truman. Bones Remmer gave up on a tax charge In California and movie star Sterling Hayden had Just admitted Joining the Com munist party. Politically the only chestnut was a bitter battle being waged by Britain to get Uie United States to give Formosa to the Chinese Reds. 'Elsenhower Piles Up Greatest US Popular Vote in Election His tory" was the banner given by the Yakima Daily Republic to Its November 8th edition, and that was news enough for 1952. Good news got a little break in 1953 when the Onkland Tribune gave over page one to the end of the war In Korea. And so fnr this year the biggest news has been the H-Bomb, or at least that was the opinion of the San Francisco News. They gave over page one to nothing but pic tures of the blast, stories about It and a two column play on the Bay- Meadows results. Fllbmite came In by u nose in tho first to pay $g.ij0. jocky Longdon up. Big gest winner of the day was June Bloom who romped in to pay off JJ2.70 wilh Hnrnialx up. So I guess on taking a look back over the past 20 years we haven't got much to cry about now. At Irasl we're temporarily at peace, everybody seems to be eat ing and hns a roof over his head. On the whole I think I d rather read tomorrow's paper than go back over Uie past issues. There's too much heartbreak in the years gone by. Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo I mmmW TUB YTWEEOOTE METWJKS THE I flWREMCHED 1 I OFFICE k SLIfitmy WOUNDED- BOSS IS STAYING l "y aZSt I PICNIC IS ( HALFWE ACCOUNTING HOWE WITH A f I'M xHGf diving in the VoJLy oEDAy dcpt; iscxjt wrrvi J fractured skull ; DOWN ID THE ( RXJL-XCANT W A YEAR-BUT lPER&N IVORy A AWS.BGOOWE INFIRMARY" STRAIGHTEN A WE'LL BE HEAP-V ' Qj PlPNT THINK IT THIS SUNBURN ) VT. VP-- S I FROM JME fTVup rJcc uUX WAS JUST GOOD HURTS SOME- -jf ( CASLWLTyUsWEONES WHO WILL WHEN HE , The aaornins after THE OFFICE OUTlKG DO IT EVERY TIME TUAlW AMD A 770 Of TUB. HATH' HAT TO GEO. PlTZSERAlD, ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD In the field of agriculture, the major dependence of the future will rest upon an ever-improving technology to meet the food de mands of a growing population. We have noted the statements of the experts regarding the fact that the field of agriculture will be a small place to absorb the Increas ing population, in fact, there is some degree of anticipation that even the present agriculture pop ulation may show some degree of decline. The use of machinery, of course, will be extended to replace hand labor to a very large extent and crops which some people a few years ago were loudly proclaim ing could never be harvested or handled by mechanical equipment have already fallen under control of the machine. Such difficult tasks as picking cotton and the harvest ing of sugar beets arc typical examples of the application of the engenulty of man in the hanB ling of difficult mechanical as signments. Such mechanical ad vances will be extended and ex panded as time goes on and other difficult farm ta--ks will come un der the control of mechanical monsters. The technological processes aimed at the control of weeds, the spacing of seed in planting and the thinning of fruit all prob lems that require a tremendous amount of hand labor are begin ning lo be developed and undoubt edly forward strides will be taken in such fields in the not too dis tant future. Already mechanical applications have appeared in these fields to some limited degree and the success of such measures will become a spur for further advan ces. The early efforts of farmers In the field of mechanization In Call fornia, at least, were first directed toward the solution of the prob lem of water supply, vast num bers of uie early ' gas ' engines supplanted crude steam equip ment used to drive crude 'centri fugal pumps that Uie farmer might become, in some measure, less nependent upon the varigarlcs ol Nature. Close with this develop ment were the effort's to develop mechanical genius of the agricul tural engineer is directed Into the field of arduous hand and stoop labor. At the present lime the workers at these menial tasks constitute a large portion of the total lann employment picture the prospective reduction lu the demand for laborers In this so called field of "unskilled labor" is going to be a problem of conse quence in looking to the future overall employment picture. The experts contend, however, that while the number of commer cial farmers is not likely to In crease and the employment of "un skilled labor" will decrease the employment picture, might not ap pear too dark since there will be Increasing opportunities for spe cialists and skilled technicians as increased emphasis on technology strives to obtain increasing output from a comparatively fixed land resource base. Varden Fuller of the University of California writing in the 'Cali fornia Monthly" gives this analy sis of agriculture's trend: "Cali fornia's recent trends in farm population and agricultural em ployment have been somewhat dif ferent than national trends. Na tionally, farm population tall the people living on farms regardless of occupation) and agricultural employment (farmers, family workers, and hired laborers wheth er living on or off farms have tended to decline since 1920. Ill contrast, California farm popula tion continued to increase from 1920 until 1940 and has remained stable ever since then. National farm employment has decreased sharply since 1935, whereas in Cal ifornia it has continued to increase slightly in the same period. The California employment picture is explolned mainly by Increased de-i mand arising out of greater in tensity of cultivation more than offsetting the decrease in labor requirements In certain crops by QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds JAMES MARLOW the introduction of labor - saving machinery." t One significant trend that is tak ing place in the farm picture ac cording to Fuller Is the fact that "a substantial proportion of the people living on farms and gain fully employed is not engaged in agricultural pursuits; conversely, many farmers and the majority of farm laborers do not live on farms. The number of farmers and farm laborers who do not live on farms more than doubled in the decade 1940-1950; this would have resulted in a decline In the total farm population of California had It not been offset by a tendency for farm residents to be increas ingly occupied in non-agricultural pursuits. Whereas in 1940 one lourth of the gainfully occupied farm residents were engaged in nonagrlcultural pursuits, by 1950 the nonagricultural proportion had increased to one-third. Thus, the identity between 'farm residence and agricultural occupations is diminishing." Lutheran Church Picnic Planned Klamath Lutheran Church will hold a congregational picnic at Moore Park Sunday, July 25. Morning services will be held at the park at 11 a.m. followed by the pincnic, under the sponsorship of Uie church Brotherhood group. - Church members are asked lo bring their own table service and picnic lunch; the Brotherhood will furnish coffee, punch and Ice cream. Regular 8 a.m. church services Sunday will be held at the church and will be a Holy Communion service. WASHINGTON l Now that the Geneva conference has given Uie Communists half of Viet Nam, the puzzling question remains: Why were the Communists willing to make Uie agreement and end Uie war? They had Uie French on the run in Indochina when Uie Geneva con ference began last April and were continuing to push them up to Uie Ume Uie armistice was signed. They may feel confident they can win control of all Viet Nam in elections to be held In 1956. That would be the first time the Com munists had won new territory through free elecUons. This armistice would seem to signal a shift in Communist tactics, at least temporarily. Their twin goals will remain the same: To subvert where they can and to weaken Western resistance by splitting Uie Allies. Instead of trying to subvert and at the same time split Uie Allies by shooting, as In Korea and Indo china, they may feel they can ac complish both ends better in a peri od of peace, or at least give it a try. So long as shooting continued they were In danger. If, instead of settling for half of Viet Nam, they had tried to take It all from the Flench by force, the United States and Britain eventually might have intervened. The result might have been world war. Just forcing the French to give them half of Viet Nam was a Communist victory over the West, which had been too divided lo agree on a plan for stopping Uiem militarily. This was twice within a year that communism had pushed the West Into a position where it was glad to settle for an armistice in stead of fighting on to a victory, in Korea in 1953 and ' now in In dochina. It was a lesson which . could hardly be lost on the millions of Asians, who for centuries had been forced to regard the West as in vincible when dealing with Asiatics. This realization and the memory of what happened in Korea and In dochina may have a weakening ef fect on Southeast Asians if they have to make a decision on allying themselves with the West against communism. Since French Premier Mendes France had promised to resign this week unless he obtained an Indo china armistice, it might seem that Russian Foreign Minister Molotov would have wanted to prevent an armistice. For resignation by Mendes France would have forced the French to choose a new govern ment,1 perhaps weaker than the present one and more of a push over for Communist pressure. On the surface that might ap pear logical. But Molotov had to take something else into consider ation: That Mendes-France's fail ure, and resultant French exasper ation and frustration, might have produced a strong military leader and bitterness against the Russians. It was a gamble and Molotov apparently chose to take it easy. What Russia wants is to prevent creation of Uie European Defense Community the single European Army urged by the United States. The French have stalled on this plan which would put them in a single army with the West Ger mans. Russia has been anxious to prevent both EDO and German re arming. Now, faced with the pros pect of peace everywhere In the world for an indefinite period, the French may be more reluctant than ever to Join EDO. If the United States and Britain go ahead with reported plans to let the Germans rearm indepen dently if the French won't Join them In EDC, there will be a wedge between the three Allies. The Russians can be depended on to do all they can to drive wedges in here and elsewhere For example, the United states is go. ing to face the problem of trying to keep the Red Chinese out of the United Nations. Then there is the problem of trading with the Red Chinese. The United States Is against It, The British, for Instance, consider this unrealistic. Meanwhile, without starting war Uie Communists can work from within any country they pick a, their next target. And since Uie United States is probably ahead of them in arma. ments, they need a few years of peace to build up their arsenal against the moment they think ripe for a showdown. We reduced Auto Insurance rates, but not the quality. Ham Norland, 637 Pine St. WW)!'! 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The long-term u.-.e of such preparations is therefore to be avoided. When the skin is troubled with such metallic deposits of silver it clears us slowly, at best. Occa sionally, it appears to do so with out treatment, but the only meth od of which I am aware was de scribed in the Jan. 5 issue of Uie Journal of the American Medi cal Association in 1929. EvidenUy good methods of treatment are hard to come by. Two mothers are faced with sim ilar problems. One writes that her 18-year-old daughter pulls out her eyelashes and eyebrows with her fingernails. The other asks what can be used to stop her 13-year-old boy lrom sucking his thumb when he falls asleep at .light. Both of these complaints fall in the class of nervous habits. There ! is a good chance that both of j these teen-aged youngsters are ! somewhat unhappy and suffering ! from some feeling of insecurity. ! Understanding and affection on ! the part of the parents, an attempt j to surround Uie youngster with i calmness and Uie avoidance of too much attention to the nervous : habits should eventually lead both j youngsters to stop their undeslr- I able habits. A reader who signs herself E. B. O. asks the writer's opinion about having an Angora cat sleep in the room with her children. My opinion Is that this is not desir able, and Uie children and their 1 pets should be separated at night, i Mrs. O. says that her 6-month-old : grandson has broken out with a rash which some say is a teeth- . Ing rash and some say is ecsema. j Most physicians do not accept ! teething as a cause for breaking ' out of the skin, and It would seem j more likely that eciema or some ; other condition is at fault. One cannot help but wonder why the irandmoiher Is trying to solve this problem. TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE' 1 .,te-V7?KHTS. X&W. 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