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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1954
FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS
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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.
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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.
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A warning to parents and tcen
ase younasters Is contained in a let
ter recently received from Mrs. 8.
She asks whether anything can be
done for her 15-year-old daughter
who has dark-bluish coloration ol
the skin on her face.
The parents thought it was her
heart but have been told by their
doctor that it has come from us
ing nose drops containing sil
ver nitrate.
Deposits of silver stains in the
skin do arise from using silver
preparations over loo long a per
iod. The long-term u.-.e of such
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Two mothers are faced with sim
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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 !
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to surround Uie youngster with i
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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.
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